The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-18

who decided that no person could be either
convicted or acquitted on trial which was an
application for discharge on habeas corpus as
was the case in the old trial. The prisoner here
appeared as counsel for himself, as he had done
before. He was sent back TO JAIL from which
he finally freed himself, and started ANEW ON
his mysterious and guilty career.
During the trial for murder, a man named r.
Richard X. Swift, of Chicago, came to Ithaca
as witness. By this man it was ascertained
that Rulof had been in Chicago in 1S45. andjX
had left some important evidence OF his crime
behind. 1t appeared that Rulloff had got short|
of money while in that city, and had pawned
his trunk, the one he took from Ithaca. He got
$25 the trunk, and as he did not return II
was opened In IL was found lot of books
one of them being o Hoopers Dictionary
marked e. II. Rulloff. There were also lecture
on phrenology and a lock of brown hair Rul-
l1h gave his name as John II. Revile to the +
pawnbroker. This testimony was afterwards
very important in Identifying the prisoner on F.
the subsequent trial for the second murder.
HIS PURSUITS AFTER LEAVING THE PRISON.
After freeing himself from prison Rullofsr
appears to have devoted himself both to science )
and crime with renewed energy. While serving
his sentence in prison he had such an inHuenceN
over the iailers that be was allowed 10 take
pupils, and one of them, the head jailer's son,
crimes. The poor boy was led away by the ma
ture scoundrel, and finished his earthly coursev
while aiding in the preparation of the robbery
which led 10 the murder for which Rulloff isl
now seDleuCeu On leaVlOg the prison he Orpap-
lied a band of thieves and robbers, which ope-
rated very successfully for a time. He also5
pursued his pathological studies, and in June.
1869, be appeared before an chronological societyI
in New ork Tor the purpose of explaining a /
theory of language which he had invented andv
which he claimed was the royal road to philo-
logical learning. He offered his manuscript to0
the society if he should receive in return the1
sum OF S5OO,OOO. No purchaser, however, ap-}
peared.
THE FINAL ACT. /
A portion OF the robber band which Rulloff{
had organized commenced operations in Bing-J
bamton, N Y, about August, 1869. This is +
small inland city of about Is 600 inhabitants
with no public patrol either by night or day.
Here three of the band, Rulloff, a man named
Dexter and young Jarvis, the jailer's son, att
tempted to rob dry goods store on Court street !
between Water street and the Chenango river
and in the attempt murdered one of the twoI
clerks there employed, who slept upon and were1
guarding the premises
At about 230 o'clock in the morning oil
August II the night clerk of the Americana
Hotel heard the cry of murder, and ran into1
the street, meeting almost at the door one of the
clerks in the employ of Halbert Brothers, named
Gilbert 5. Burrows, who was frightened or eX-I
cited half out of his wit, and said that his
fellow clerk, Frederick A. Mirick had been|
murdered. The man was so greatly disturbed
that hardly anything coherent could be learnedl
from him. AS 1t happened, the Chief of Policei
"a leader with no fOllowers) was sleeping at the
hotel, and was instantly aroused. What was heY
to do? Here it was o'clock in the morningJ
there was no regular police to be called out,I
men were all in bed, so he ran to Firemans1
Hall, near by, and set the bells ringing.
The bells rang and rang, and soon men starteR
from their beds and gathered at the hall, won-(
dering what all the racket was about. ThereI
they learned the news, and instantly formedI
themselves into bands and went as pckets all
| about the nelghborhood to prevent the escaped
| of the villains who had done the helish andl
almost unheard-of deed. Others went over to]
| the store and there found the body of the mur-l
! dered boy Che was hardly more than eighteen
| years old) lying on the floor, shot through the
head, and weltering in blood. The room showed
signs of most terrible struggle; the tops of
stools which had been torn from their stands in
the desperate fight were scattered about the
| floor. There were marks of four bullets in the
walls and upon the stairs leading TO the place
where the boys had slept; the back door was
| open and cut through with centre-bts. Silks
and goods lay strewn upon the floor; but
nothing was found of the villains save some
bits, and shoe peculiarly formed.
Throughout the night they searched. The
| rear of the store ad joined the Chenango river
and it was suppo ed that the murderers had,
entered and attempted to ford it, for 1t was
shallow. But here there was no trace of them
| Morning dawned, and never was there a more.
frightened village than Binghamton when the}
women and children heard the dreadful news.
Business was forgotten, and save for the gather
ing crowds in the streets, where terrified women
with pale lips whispered to each other of the
dreadful nights work, where children cried and,
boys tried to look unterrifed, one might almos@
! have thought that the day was the Sabbath Z
| The search continued for three days, traces
being found here and there, but nothing more
| till at last the bodies of two drowned men were
found in the shallow river. The faces and
| bodies of both were battered and MANNED
| so that they were hardly distinguishable as
| those of human beings. The boys
had dealt them many and heavy blows, and
made as good fight as ever men trained to yeo-
man battle had done. On these bodies were
found burglar tools and various other articles,
| showing plainly enough that they had done the
work. The two were taken from the stream
and laid on boards in a vacant lot little below
the sidewalk so that everybody might see Them
That morbid curiosity, born of terror and hor-
TO crowd to such scenes, brought all the inhabi-
tants of the city to the spot. Women crowded
men and lifted their children in their arms, that
they, too, might have 1t to tell that they had
seen the murderers, whose fight from justice
! justice itself had arrested.
THE ARREST.
While the coroner's jurywa sitting on the
case of these bodies thus found, man was ar
rested under most suspicious circumstancesl
While one section of the guards who had been
stationed about the city were watching at night
they saw this man lurking behind a train of
cars, but when the train had passed they were
! unable to find him. A man who had seen the
intent on robbDg him of fruit, was sitting at his
door at night watching them. He noticed sha-
dow more deep than was explaina6le under
| ordinary circumstances near some outhouses.
He approached, pistol in hand, and dragged out
| an abject object crouching there. This man was
| Rulloff. Being summoned before the coro-
ner's Jury, he said that he had never seen the
bodies of the drowned men before, nor had he
the slightest notion who they were. He had
adopted the plan OF appearing as simple, half