Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-07-02

was found on him and thoroughly lden-
titled. He was not reticent and said in
answer to questions that he had lived
for long time opposite Mrs. Hubs
house, and at the time Of the robbery
! he entered through the lower window
and went upstairs to her room. He
further said that his purpose was rob-
berry alone and he did not intend to kill
her. Private detective Otto, and police
officer Schmitt Berger, of New York,
have arrived here and visited Cox at the
station tonight. He was fully recog-
nized and also gave evidence that he
knew the police officers. Mr.. CORRAL
Coleman, who lived in the house with DR..
and Mrs. Hull, who is also in Boston,
visited the police station tonight, and
recognized the prisoner as the man that
he had seen frequently on the opposite
side from the Hull residence.
The negro has appeared very calm
and Indifferent since his arrest and has
talked without much hesitation
in giving details of his crime.
He went home on the evening of the
night on which Mrs. Hull was murder
ed at o'clock, and remained in the
house where he was employed until 10
o'clock when he went out again. He
had KEY for the door of the Hull
house, but he was unable to make it fit,
and consequently he raised the win
dow in lower story and fastened it up
so as to provide for himself an easy
means of making his escape from the
house. He had candle with him and
on ascending the stairs he heard some
one snore and thought it was man.
He blew the candle out, walked into
the room, and stepped to the side of
the bed. Mrs. Hull, awakening, asked,
"Who is it." "The DOCTOR" replied
the negro. She put her hand up and
touched his face as he was standing
close to the bed. The robber threw her
hand back so she could not touch him,
at the same time laying his hand heav-
lily over her mouth. He then got hold
of the cologne bottle and dashed some
cologne into the face of the struggling
woman, after which he got on the bed
and made a gag of the bed clothing.
She was by this time lii an exhausted
condition and he tied her in the man
ner in which she was found III the
morning after her murder. Afterwards,
Cox relates, he re-lighted the candle
and holding it close to her face the
cologne ignlted which accounts for the
smuggling of the eye brows and other
burns on the person of the woman The
robbery was then committed and the
robber made his escape, soon leaving
New York for Boston.
He reports in his statement that he
had no other motive than robbery In
the assault that he made. The police
authorities here do not think there is
anything of the reckless bravado about
the negro, but on the contrary that be
is very cowardly. He is native of
Powhatten county, Vermont, and is
about 80 years of age. He has been
stopping at No. II Grove street while in
this city, at the house of Mrs. Diggs,
and it was his intention to 60 to Provi-
1ence Immediately and endeavor to get
\ berth as cook in some foreign bound
vessel. There is nothing to indicate he
had an accomplish or confidant in his
crime, but he committed the entire out
rage himself. When Mrs. Hull made
motion as if to rise from her bed he
threw his weight upon her and forced
her down. He is clear and collected in
his statements he has made.
| Balch, Of the staff of the Boston
Herald, was the cause of the arrest OF
| Edwin Stow who, it will be recollected
absconded to Europe some time ago.