The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-04-30

= Doorway leading 70 CANDLES E be. bedroom F',SS.u
| IL Extension OF main cottage facing Manuel main
io "a Second extension end Of which faces creek.
g, Is IS 2s windows u rear OF main cottage ana is
siae pathway from which the unknown murderer 1,
and by Miss Die en- and ~ Louis ntanaS
which shoe trac as since washed away, we're found
The house at which the mlrder took place Ia a
two story frame house, and It's 'front.' faces IN q
southery direction, the end OF its further extern
sion having frontage on the Manuel road. There
is another extension the end OF which looks
toward the creek at the rear OF the produce gar
den, in which vegetables and potatoes are raised.
The parlor III which Robert Gamble and Matilda
Hujus sat Is small one and is carpeted 1t Is iur-
nished alter the manner OF all the country houses
have seen IN tins section OF the country. and has
few trinlng ornaments on the manteptece ana q
plain looking walnut wardrobe in the northwest
corner which Is riddled with shot. There are also
lew chairs and pictures. have travelled con-
sideraDly within Anew days in Rockland county,
and have found 1t almost impossible to get any
truthful statement from the people here. many
OF them are In one way or another interested IN
the matter, and Tor reasons which must be guessed
do not choose TO speak the truth. The rumor mas
spread that Gamble when shot had his head re-
posing in the lap oil Mrs. Hujus, aud at any rate
his previous relations with her Tor number Of
should have stated that two arrests nave been
made on the bare Suspicion merely that those
snswedre ~ S NAVE some The awn men arrested
are Michael Murphy, thrty-three years OF age.
blacksmith by trade, and lately employed i,I as
house mover and his brother. Thomas Murphy,
truckman, both Of whom reside IN Hudson City,
n. J. Michael Murphy rs married man and mas
vile and children. while Thomas Murphy IS .
bachelor. Both men have excellent and peaceable
characters and che only possible reason Tor wnicn
sney coua nave 1een arrested tue au an
and pretty widow OF remarkable Intelligence, mar
RED Robert Gamble in 1863, and hved l,, Win
on the Iarm, which was bought for $1,000
OF Mrs. CANDLES money. Gamble took MRS:
the expressed wishes Of the latter and the
behavior OF the two persons was so scanuaious
70 tue rna oseher and waking TO-
gether day alter day, and their intimacy was Cd
served by Mrs. Gamble, the neglected anu sorrow,
fu wife, who STAYED at home and shed the tears OF
dlsappoin tment and bitterness. Gamble had rep
resented himself as naval officer retired, ana was
at that time (before his marrage) man Of good
personal appearance, and as Mrs. Gamble had In
herited property from her first husband, VINO was
an oid man. 70 tne yaa am hi On Ang ss isss
she died under most suspicious circumstances,
and while Matilda Hujus was to all TACT and ap-
pearance mistress OF CANDLES household. Dying
thus suddenly she was hurried to her grave III
Greenwood Cemetery after sne had laid two days
in her house dead without the knowledge OF the
neighbors. The death of Mrs. GamSle was con-
cealed from all of her relatives and friends, and
they only knew OIL rom Inc new aosm CITY news news
ever, and the only persons who stood oy the lonely
grave IN Greenwood was Matilda hujus, the rival
OF the deceased and Gamble. Will was pro-
duced which purported to be the Will oil Mrs. Gam
bic, and on the very same day OF the funeral Gam
city OF New York II was signed and attested BY
two witnesses. who were strangers TO the de-
ceased AS a married woman cannot convey her
property TO her husband except Dy third parties,
these, two witnesses mad the property con.
veysd to them and in Mo rortye asmna hours
was conveyed By them back to Gamble as
her husband. This was certainly very quick work.
Some ten days after the burial Henry Daily, Jr.,
OF YOUR city, VINO mas since acted as an associate
counsel IN the second trial OF EDWARD s. Stokes for
murder, at the request OF Mrs. Gamblers relatives
held on the remains, Professor Ogden Doremus AMI
DR.. shepard making the medical examination.
Gamble and Mrs. Hujus were both arrested soon
alter on suspicion OF having caused the death OF
Mrs. Gamble Dy poisoning. Traces Of meconic
Of the deceased lazy and the STAINS on her chemise
and bedclOthes were pronounced by DR.. DoremuS
70 have been made by opium. But as TINS case mas
such peculiar complications, and the tragedy OF
April 10 1874 Ia so closely connected and indissOln
bly, linked with that OF August 2, 1858, VIII defer
diaseIy followed Excepting That NAV state that
Robert Gamble and Matilda Hujus were arralgned
for trial, before Justice John A. Bogert on charge
OF wlllul murder.
MANUEL AND IT'S DETECTIVES.
On arriving at Manuel, alter having visited
absorbing theme was that Of the murder OF Mrs.
Hujus. Al the village tavern, where me village
/ and talk horse, the excitement ran high Tnis
sectlon OF Rockland county il to great extent
settled by Germans the Piatt Deutscn breed, ana
as the woman Hujus was Of that nationality the eel-
ing was running nigh me husband OF Mrs. Hujus Is
Russianized German from the Island OF kuRen and
has for many years been employed as collector
OF subscriptions and subscribers for weekly
Journal known as the Behetrisftsches Journal,
| owned and published BY Mr.. Rudolph LexOw.
| This gentleman Is q very respectable as well as
wealthy cltzen and owns an elegant residence and
main road, from the house now occupied BY
Gamble. Hujus was In the habit OF being very long
om The ss. time e wss om
Manuel for eight months, and returned from
Davenport, Iowa. to bury his wife. Il was said
rels lately, and that IL was in relation TO the prop
erty which Mrs. Gamble had lett behind ner. 1t
seems that this properly had been in suit in the
courts ever since the death OF Mrs. Gamble 1t hav-
ing been contested by the Murphy brothers, who
declared the Will to be fraud; and. In fact Gam
bic has never been aOle to recover one dollar OF
what was left by MS vile at her death. The house
in which Mrs. Gamble lived and died, on
is Is about bout two miles distant from where
Mrs. Hujus was killed. The OLD house, story and
1873, and the insurance was paid to Gamble.
The house insured Tor $1.500 and the furniture
for $1,000, watch was more, Il is said than the
room OF Mrs. HuJus. This house and iarm were
heavily mortRaged By Gamble, and 1t is believed
that the latter offered Cornelius Hoffman, hts c0un
sci wnen tried Tor murder, mortgage Tor $500 on
the house (of which nothing now stands but the
take the mortgage as he believed 1T TO be too heav
At Nannet discovered that william Pinkerton
and Detective Curtin. OF Pinkerton's force, mad
been securing the country ior week, talking
with all the farmers IRON Bear Hill to Rockand
Lake and from ourerns TO Pearl River, RamapO,
/ Spring valley, spark Hill and back again to Nyack
and New City. The amount oil buggies and horses
! hired by these officers, who really were working
i very hard, has been something astonishing to
think OF. A detective In this quarter OF the c0un-
4 try, when he visits a farmer and talks with him,
/ Is looked upon as positive Denedctlon TO the
\ house. The children stare at HIM and the females
4 examine his boots to see If he has cloven leet,
/ while the solid Old farmer brings out his bottle OF
/ appejack. The applejack Is usually very strong
! and liquor up he, e in the mountains Is not sup
| posed TO be worth drinking II, alter having been
/ poured In at the mouth, 1t Is not Immediately
/ iet tlngllng in the toes. This stun goes by the
name Electric whiskey. The feet Impressions
lett in the clay under the window where the assassin
stood in the tulip and hyaclnth bed to take aim
has been covered over by a soap box, and children
have been allowed to stamp their leet In the tracks
OF the murderer Pnkertun'5 men are to take a
plaster cast OF the heel mark, but one can fancy
how absurd such cast would prove for the pur-
pose Oh Identification OF the criminal after delay