The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-04-29
s1ardsrer,. Career.
From the New York Evening Post /

this, that he possesses an education and
literary capacity very remarkable among
athe criminal cases and yet seems to
have lived not only life of crime, but
one habitual and desperate criminality. I
It would be as unreasonable to argue from
this that culture and knowledge are not
favorable to orderly couduct and honesty, I
as it would be to say, because menof long
tried and trusted character sometimes
commit wrongs, that character is never to t
be trusted or respected. The very shock |
all men feel in learning that q man of I
ability and learning is q murderer proves /
to us that the case is an extraordinary ex-
ception such an exception as, according
to the proverb, prove to the rule. Some
of theincidents connected with Rulloff'
crime and its detection are striking The
STORY OF THE MURDER ~
Has been told at length in this Journal.
The Sun of this morning gives the fol>
lowing account of RulloH examination
sHe gave his name as Smith, and on
his examination repeated the story OF his
unfortunate election from the cars at
s Union. Judge Balcsm, however, after q
sharp scrutiny of the prisoner, stood mp
before him, and in calm, solemn man
ner, pointing with outstretched hand to
his altered but still familiar face, said
You are Edward III. Rulloff! You mur-
dered your wife and only child at Ithaca
over twenty years ago. You escaped the
gaIlowssthen, but / sentenced you tosfour-
teen years in prison for the abduction of
your family !. During the fearful accu~
| sation the face of the prisoner assumed
a stolid and stern expression. Nothing
abashed, however, he changed his tack,
and said he left the cars at Union because
he feared some eone at sHinghampton
might recognize him, and he had good
| reason, as the j udge had stated, for not
| wishing to be known"
He was discharged for want of evil
denee against him, but was arrested again,
when a 49, e #@
SINGULAR SHOE LEFT BY THE MURDERER,
Was identified as his. A long train of
covered and brought against him such
as left no doubt on any impartial mind of
his guilt. The Sun gives remarkable
account of his earlier crimes I'm De-
cember. 1913, he married daughter of
! Dir. Schurt, re6ned and intelligent
gentleman of Dryden, and after his mar
riage he went to Ithaca, Rulloff having
engaged as clerk In drug store. While
here, charges of in6delity were heaped
upon the young wife by her husband, his
rage taking the shape Of iendish violence.
Once he tried to make her take poison,
aud she was only prevented by the arri-
val of witnesses. On this occasion he
renewed his insults and insinuations upon
his wife's character, when she dropped on
her knees and cried, oh. Edward, Ed
ward, [ am as innocent as an unborn child
of this cruel charged The brute struck
her in the face while yet on her knees,
and said, s.Get up, CID d--n you, you
know better than to whine atgme in that
manner when lam mad" In spite of
these crueities she elung to him, refusing
to go to her fathers, and endeavoring in
every way to hide from her natural pro-
tectors the character of her husband A
few months afterward Rulloff took his
wife and infant daughter to live in a
rented farmhouse, four miles from Ian
sing. One morning in June, 1S45 Rul-
loft called ut the house of aneighbor and
borrowedsa horse and wagon to take, as
he alleged, a box of books and other ar
ticles to an uncle of his wife, who lives
some eight or ten miles distant The
neighbors went to Rulloff's house and
assisted him in
LOADING THE BOX.
The latter said his wife had gone on a
visit aud had taken the child with her,
and that he would be back the next day
He kept his word, and after tdisposiug of
the horse went to his house, but soon came
out aud started in the direction Of ithaca
with q bundle in his hand. The mother
aud child have never returned from that
alleged visit, and to this day no. one has
ever seen them. How he m urdereti them
and how he disposed of their bodies will
undoubtedly remain subject for. con-
lecture. Rullof told his counsel on the
trial for abduction which followed, that
he.
.sTRANdLED MS WIFE,
And then took up board in the house
floor, and opening an artery, let her bleed
to death, the blood flowing through the
opening in the floor Having snethered
the child, then nine months old, he put
the bodies into the box, which the neigh
bors innocently helped him to load into
the wagon. He then droye to Ithaca and
Ito the lake shore, where he pnt the
box into skif, aud, when far enough
from the shore sunk it in the water"
He was tried for the offense If abduct-
ing his wife and child, and sentenced to
the Auburn prision for ten years After
serving out his time he was tried at
Ithaca, in August 1856, for the murder
of his child, was convicted and sentenced
to death, but was released By the Court
of Appeals on the ground that consic-
ton for murder could not be sustained
where no murder had been actually
lproved, and the body of the deceased, in
this case, not having been produced, a
i doubt remained as to the fact Of the crime.
In the Ithaca Jail RulIoH is still remem-
bered as diligent.
STUDENT OF CRIMINAL Law