The daily gazette., 1879-06-28
.ArUnDAY. JUNE ~, ls1e.

Iearnsd they really are. In iac' 'ne
-..,a,, history is filled with incidents
vh,ch NAV be cited to prove that the
nor. learned q man is aud the more
,u,,nious his reasoning faculties the
more dangerous he may be IN csr'Alh
critical times when communities arc
excited upon important matters.
The horrible murder Of Mrs. Dr. num-
in New York, about three weeks ago.
,ssopished and spread alarm over 'ne
whole Of that great city. The apparent
Ailatory conduct of the police, and the
.p,lr. want of any clue to the perpe-
tr.sor, of the horrid deed, led to many
surmises and very naturally to the sus-
,,c,on Of the inmates Of the house.
This suspicion was INDUCED oy tnose
-. husiness 1t was to look after
criminals, and who were expected W
have information which others were mol
able to secure. And not few laid the
charge Of murder upon the husband Oh
n. deceased. DR.. Hull himself. This
suspic,on was given greater weight than
II would otherwise have had from the
EDITORIAL articles of the New York city
.ewspapers, and especially the articles
in the World. Some Of these articles
pointed clearly to the distressed ana
snfeebled old man as the author OF the
awful crime. How utterly false and mis-
taken they were the arrest and confession
ef the negro Cox proves. No doubt these
suspicious were hastened by the num-
bar Of terrible wife murders that OF late
have taken place within the most en-
Nghtened sections Of the Northern
States. We have no doubt at all that
had DR.. Hull been tried he would have
been cleared. But nevertheless the
escape might have been very narrow,
and the case shows how dangerous it Is
to depend upon circumstantial evidence
entirely. Although 1t may be the most
certain and reliable in some cases 1t Is
known to have been the most deceptive
IN othen.
Th. revelations by the police since the
arrest and conressiv.. -s the murderer
are really startling with reference to the
suspicions that rested upon DR.. Hull. 1t
il even charged in so many words that
"the attempt of the New York police to
convict DR.. Hull Of his wife's murder
might have been successful but for the
arrest Of Cox"
1t 10 said that 'just after the tragedy
An abandoned wretch, probably with the
hope of getting money, told Superin
teudent Walling that on the evening o
the murder he met DR.. Hull in the park
and that Hull tried to bribe him to xii
Mrs. Hull. The aim Of the police wa
TO got this corroborated by the admissio
Of DIR. Hull that he was in the park q
the time named. He answered that b
was out that evening, but could not sa
that he was in the park, although h
mentioned other places where he ha
been. The man cannot now be foun
and no one seems to know his name"
Before the Coroner's jury, police ca
tain Williams testified that for days Il
police had their minds on man wi
had offered to testify under oath that [
Hull spoke to him three different tim
about numbering his wife; talked to HI
about the easiest way of committing
murder, and talked at leni
about tho Nathan murder a
other mysterious murders. Villa
said l can't give you the mans nam
but he professed himself willing to 60
the witness stand at the inquest 8
swear to these things, and if this n
Coz hadn't been found, the man wo
have been put on the stand, and his
timony would have sent DIR. Hull to
Tombs, and, likely enough, would h
hanged him. Now, am convinced
the rascal was lying to us. 1 can't
you any more now. We haven't dec
what TO do with this fellow"
The Coroner said the news
brought to the coroner's Office that :
statements had been made. The /
was sent for, and his name was N
asked. He related his story and it
listened to, and the testimony was
produced here for reasons well KIN
to those investigating the case. !
not think it il any part of the case at
1t was not brought here, and canno
brought here, as testimony, or any
OF 1t.
Here Is q case where the public
shut out of the evidence which the p'
have and conceal, on which q hi
educated and respectable mans chs
tor and even life hung for more
two weeks, and nothing can more
clusively prove how dangerous it
the managers Of the public press to
low themselves to be Influenced by l
circumstances when there are so n
instances on record where this kin
evidence has been the most certai
leading to error. We hope the
York papers will be more carefu
future. But II they are not tobe re
a. <ha ;pfarancas thou drou