The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-03-31


Then in an outburst of desperation he
twice drove the dagger up to the hilt in the
door. He then went out. Mrs. Bruder
was found almost senseless with terror in
the other room. Even with such an op-
portunity to apprise her husband of Liv-
ingston's repeated outrages, fear for his
and her children's lives kept her silent, and
she professed to be able to give no expla-
nation whatever Of the intrusion.
The recurrence of the outrage on the
following Wednesday inspired Mrs Bruder
with determination to stop the trouble.
She called upon Chief Matsell and told him
the story, The Chief cross-examined her
minutely and satisfied himself that her
story was true. He learned that she had
not disclosed the facts to her husband for
fear that he might misconstrue them, and
moreover, that Livingston might kill not
only herself and her husband but her chill
dren also. The Superintendent instructed
Detective John Dunn to tell the story to
Bruder. The step resulted in unexpected
aid for the detective. Bruder had been
watching Livingston closely for some time,
he said, and was satisfied that he belonged
to gang of burglars,
He had seen him bring into the house
tools that looked to him like burglars
tools. He had also ascertained that Liv-
ingston had served term of imprisonment
in the penitentiary. Dunn decided to use
Mrs. Bruder as a stool pigeon, hoping to
secure his prisoner on as many charges as
possible. The opportunity occurred that
same evening, when Livingston again ap-
preached Mrs. Bruder and told her that
she must prepare to abandon her lawful
husband. She says that he told her of
81 900 which her husband had in bank, and
said that they must get it before they
started Dunn laid his plans according to
this new development. The Livingston
house is constructed with as many traps
and outlets as theatre floor, and he feared
that Livingston might escape il he attempt
ed to arrest him there. He therefore told
Mrs. Bruder to consent to draw the money
from the bank, taking Livingston with
her. The plan worked WELL and the arrest
was made Dunn lodged his prisoner in the
Central Office, and then returned to Liv-
| ingstOns house to make further search.
The room occupied by the prisoner is fur
nished with bed, chair or two, and sew
eral, trunks. Livingston's mother was in
the room when the search was made. The
trunks were too light to warrant a hope of
finding any evidence in them, and the
search was not satisfactory until Dunn
picked up an ordinary leather covered va
| lise.
! 1t was very heavy, and when shaken the
sound Of gathering iron was heard. Mrs
Livingston, saying, "That's my sons, !"
snatched the valise to take it away, but
Dunn restrained her. She then said that
it was not her sons. The lock was.filed
open, and a full kit of burglars tools
found in it. They consisted of several
lunches of skeleton keys, wooden safe
mallet, jimmy, several fuses wedges and
chisels, flask of powder, dark lantern,
two masks, two revolvers, bottle of chlo-
roform, and sandbag slungshot. A large
ledger and two memorandum books con-
tanning Livingston's name were also in the
valise. One of the memorandum books
contains the draft of one of the tools. In
the ledger are memoranda that looks sus-
picious. One is a long list of household
articles, plate, and wearing apparel. Under
II
it is cipher memorandum, beginning with
the word May. 1t is believed to be list
of the booty taken in burglary. Liv-
ingston seems to have been of literary
turn, as is indicated by number of short
stories of the dime novel class written in
the ledger, "by w. ]. Livingston" He
says that the tools were put into the valise,
whose ownership he acknowledges, by some
malevolent enemy, and he thinks Bruder is
the man. The marriage, he says, was
purely a case of young man being en-
trapped into an entangling alliance by n
middle-aged woman. Dunn hunted in
yaIn for the marriage certificate FOR long
time, but at length found it fastened under
the lapel of Livingston's vest.
The seeming improbability Of the story
told by the Bruders was puzzle to Justice
Morgan at FIRST. Still, as oross-examina-
tiOn only confirmed it, he decided to hold
Livingston for examination; first, for
shooting at Mrs Bruder for refusing to
marry him, $1,000 bail and secondly for
compelling her to marry him by threats,
$1,000 bail. Bondsmen were found, and
he was liberated. The house in which the