The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-01-13


New York he secured the services of
Capt. Heddcn and Detective Phil. Reil-
ly, of the Fifteenth Police Precinct, he
succeeded in both objects beyond his
needs or expectations.
A CHAIN-woRK OF CIRCUMSTANCES.
Capt. Hedden and Detective Reilly,
beginning with most slender clue work
ed patiently and shrewdly for many
weeks upon this case, until they at last
unraveled many mysteries and laid bare
lives of crime cloaked by assumed re-
spectability. Such signal success as
crowned their efforts rarely falls to the
lot of detective experience, because such
patience and common sense in dealing
with isolated facts is rarely displayed.
1t is not proper to state exactly how the
information received was obtained by
Hedden and Reilly, and the reader must
be content with knowing that by the
aid of these officers MIR. Hopkins is
about to present an almost impregnable
case to the Jury Just empanneled. He
is prepared to prove who the dead men
were, and to trace them, step by step,
for months prior to this tragedy, and to
show how Edward Rullof was for years
the confidential associate Of Charles n.
Jarvis, alias Curtis, and VIM. j. Dex-
ter, who were drowned in the Susque
hannah river, on the night of the 18th
Of August, one Of whom had the tell
tale mark Of the iron bar on his fore
head, and the other the condemnatory
bit IN his pocket, aud both of whom had
been recognized as two of those engaged
in the crime.
Mr.. Hopkins will show that for eight
cen months prior to the Binghampton
murder, Rulloff under the name of
Leuro, and Jarvis, under that of Curtis,
held possession of furnished room at
No. 10 Third Avenue, rented Of a
family named Jacobs, during which
time they were several weeks, and upon
their return gave out that they had been
engaged in real estate operations in the
West. But during all this time the os.
tensible regular business of Rulloff
was teacher of languages, of several OF
which he was master aud it was also
understood that he was preparing a
comprehensive and exhaustive work up
on language, which was indeed the fact.
Mr.. Hopkins will further show that the
mother of Dexter owes a house in
Brooklyn, and that for some time Rul
loft, under the name of Edward 9. How
ard, collected the rents to satisfy NOR
gage. lie will also show that Curtis
was confined in a Pennsylvania prison
for a robbery of silk thread IN Philadel
phia, and that, shortly after that crime
was committed, Rullof, under the name
of Howard, had lot of silk thread
dyed in Thirty fifth street, by which its
value was deprecated $500. Having
thus established the former acquaintance
Of the prisoner with the lad men, il
will be further shown tina, Rulloff left
the house in Third avenue at S O'Clock
on the morng Of Monday, Aug. 10, aud
! Curtis an hour earlier, since which time
nelhcr Of them have been seen there
But, still more important, two Of the
shoes found in the sore will be positively
identified as having been worn by these
two men when they left that house on
that morning. But, not content with
this array of damuing proof, the prose
cution will prove that one of the old
mans feet is malformed SO that one oil
the shoe9 found in the store will lit that
foot, and no other in the world. Further
the two carpet bags will be positively
identified in Court as the property OF
Rulloif and Curtis, which they had with
them when they left No 10 Third av-
nue. on their last predatory expedition.
THE ONLY CLUE, AND HOW IT WAS Fol.
LOWED.
Crime hasrarely been more completely
cloaked or more patiently unmasked
than in this remarkable case. When
Mr.. Hopkins went to New York he had
nothing but six keys, drop letter ad
dressed to one Henery Wilson, and q
scrap of paper bearing the name Of VIM
Thornton, attorney, ut No. 9 Court
street, BROOKLYN, as clues by which the
identity of his prisoner and the dead
men were to be established. With De
tective Kelley he first tried the Wilson
letter, but it ended in utter failure as it
led only into the lybriuths of illicit
love, anu the parties to it were in nc
way connected with the dark tragedy t.
be unravclcd. The Thornton clue was
next worked with much greater success
as it proved the key which unlocked the
mystery. Mr.. Hopkins had learned
before he left here that Dexter, one OF
the dead men, had once been tried for a
criminal offense, in Tomkins county and
had been defended by the lawyer whose
name was found on scrap of paper III
his pocket But Mr.. Thornton denied
that he had ever been in Tompklns
county in his life, and it will be shown
that he was personated in the Dexter
trial there by BuIlof, who defended the