New-York tribune., 1871-01-10
RULOFFS CRIMES.
A VETERAN CRININAL-THE STORY OF HIS WIFE
AND CUILD-BREAKING JAIL.

AND COLLABORATING JAIL
R1xGUAMToy. Jan. 9.-The man whose trial
il now exciting so much attention in this vicinity mas
record Of crime which in details is almost unequaed
He &c a, home in the courthouse and In the prison He
has heard the heavy thud guilty" fall upon his head
many times and has he stood under the sentence o
changed by the neck till You dead;' yet here lie Is
to-day the same Edward H. RuloG, with his large head
broad face small black eyes set far apart VINO 70 oar
ago began his work with the murder OF young ana
! ~ wife and innocent babe
Edward Howard RulofsOn Olis known aliases being Ed
ward H. RuloG John Doe james Ii. Rcye, James E Dai
ton L. c. Howard, Ewre Lewis, Charles Augustus anu
George Willams) is of German descent and naive OF
New brunswick, n. j. lie ieit ms native PaSe % eI IHr
doing by aPpropriating the property 9I m m
whose employ he was, and come into Dryden lohpKIls
Comfy N Y, ia 1892. Possessing SupeIoI t'
he engaged in teaching the next Winter, ahd Whe tns
sEnff ssSnftu Teanej and inieeent gentleman The
Schut family consisted Of several sons and dauShters
~feteh who IaEs q theT parents with m
sCfI0w 10 % @ gTf aM6 rro one of the daughters
they were married the last day OF December, ist3.
The first phase Of the true character or Lcf hsD
shown tnordnate and grcuudess jealousy toWad %
Dr. Bull, neighbor and relative OF ie scZ,so Z toV
boarded Ruo having engaged as eier IN cTe s1sS T
Hmle living tere enalseS SJ l rs rage taking tho
share of ndsh violence Once he t1ed 10 n' htT tao &
Pcsos ana a s Ts c@y he renewed lis insults and in
Situations upon his we's character |lE3 , sc @
E e M aS unborn child Of this cruel charge The
brute struck her in the face while yGt On 4er es anu ~
whine at me in that manner when an mad" In spite
OF these cruees she cung TO him. refusing TO go to her
fathers house and endeayOring in every way to hide
fr,. protectors the character of her hus-
few months afterward Rulofr took his wife
FAINT daughter to live IN rented sr1n-hoee about four
miles from Lansing One morning In June uS4), not
two years after the marriage tnou called at the house
Of neiehbor aud borrowed horse and wagon to take
az he alleged, box Of books ana otler articles 10 an
uncle Of his wife, who lives some eight OF ten miles IN
IIarr
10 RulOts house and assisted him III lOadhs tLe poH
The latter said his Wlie had gone on IlS,', ana hhu
taken her child with her. and that he would be back tie
He ket his word and after dlsposng OF the horse went
10 his house but soon came started the direc-
ton Of Ithaca with bundle in his hand The mother
and child have never returned from tha alleged visit
and to this day has rscen them How he ihu-
dercd them and how he disposed of heir bodies viii M
doubtedly ever remain SUBJECT Or conjecture. Ru"i
told his counsel the trial for abduction which fol-
lowed that he stranged his W1e and then toeK up a
board in the house d0or, and opening 1h feIy leC her
bleed To death the blood flowing through the opening in
The floor Hays si & e h chd c ef f e 9dns
! innocently helped him load into tie wagon. lio
put the box into sif and when far ehoue from the
Shore sunk il in tho water This version Oi The deed
latter his death bed few years ago. sAd it here
\ appears in print for the first time
we're missing RulOn, VINO hung around Ithaca for
time, gave conflicting accounts Of their whereabouts
and at last, suspicion thckeung, he was only saved
| from arrest By promising TO have the missing woman
wre to her family ana ncp 6 1e Wc WHeyG I % or G e
H letter Rniof escaped but was followed at once by
and there tool Inc cars Tor Rochester While changing
II the latter place, he discovered RuloG the
/ latter waited tll the train GOT under no
II tion when he apprchended EuOH Finding himself cap
II tured he proposed TO Schut to go on to Ohio with him
H and get the missing wife and child. Az Buffalo they
H stopped at the Mansion House where Inoh was kopt
locked IN room That was before the Lake shole Road
was built, and the two next morning took steamer for
csvnp I'M tg sSh on the Al
Sshnt waited F TIC arrival OF other steamers from
1t seems always to have been weakness OF this vii
lain TO undervalue the guardianship of his legs. He might
have escaped at this tme as he could have done last
August lie however came straight on 10 Cleveland, on
the next steamer was arrested PUT in irons and taken
ductng his wife and child found guilty and sentenced
TO Auburn for years. This he served out
knowledge in light occupations, chie among which
the craving OF patterns ior carpets and aln crediby
terms are the results OF Ruots prison labor On being
charge Of numbering his infant daughter. at
! Coart Of Sessions held in Ithaca, in
m on TINS last charge, and IN August following the trial
began in Ithaca but i was found impossible TO inpannel
jury g. hlgh ran the excitement the even
| then. The cause then removed to the Supreme
Court and The place Of trial changed to Owego Tfoca
S. Dickinson as counsel for the people Joshua A.
Spencer counsel for the prisoner The was YER
Dict OF ghty. VIII OF error carried the case 10 Bng
hamon where, IN the very where the present trial
Is holding arguments were heard and the verdict sus-
tanned RulO then taken W Delhi where at last he
received his sentence Of death. But law again wared
the whole proceedings reversed and the murderer
OF his wife and child received his order for discharge
While waiting for the execution of the order kuO
taken 70 Ithaca and lodged IN jail Public indignation at
the result OF the legal process ran nigh In Tompkins
County The public verdict was guilty OF murder IN the
first degree. Feeling that justice had been grossly vo
lated, printed calls iOr an Indignation meeting III Ithaca,
:or the purpose OF forcby taking RulOh from Jail Gnd
lynchng him. were candestiney circulated through the
county The day arrived in March, 1883, and larger or
mere ieocons mob was never seen in any inland town
Of New York State Every appliance had been prepared
even 70 the ropes and batterng ram with which TO
d
sNe up the victim Tie Sheriff. however, OH the morn
t tsg before & the appointed day. quietly removed Rnof
Ca5 uea County JAN, Mt Auburn. Here ho rested in
peace Till his discharge came.
Most Of the time from 1862 Ruloh was lodged in
Jsii IN itlaca lie spent the time wholly In studying
criminal law and In teaching the languages. He received
students IN JAIL and at times would have number Of
jser, whose name was Jarvis, had SON. AbcrtJaryis-
ad OF ialr Promlse-who WIS allowed TO associate with
lao Pllsonel VI the Influence OF tho latter became
s9Preme over tae young man In The latter part Of the
RuIofy escaped was at once adyeTtsed and Sna
traced as lar as Emra, where the team and carriage
taken to Ithaca and no owner has ever ,SIid9
for them. RqoG wag gone Leariy year when
IN charge OF tho business Of ferretng out his hiding
place He wrote 70 the Postmaster at ST. Johns New
Kuion and told that there was q family there Of
that name, and that said 10 live near Ei
New-York state. Jhns IL was learned that Edward
Howard had dropped the son aud become plain RIloT'
" Pennsylvania, Mr. Holmes proceeded TO TIE neighbor-
Ood OF the brothers residence learned that such man
li td there and then "wOfked up his case" He called
on one brother under PretenGe Of buying land. Sue
ceed In getting on track OF Rul0h. he traced him into
Ohio .,Dd finally 70 Columbus, whoro he learned that
other pNtes had Just effected an arrest aud had started
for New NO,k state. Tho bird safely returned u hs
in Ithaca where IN less susceptible Ia uds than those
which opened bis cage door, he once more found rest
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CURLING
npI nt fro1 u.