The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-06-18

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who killed Mrs. Hull?" is the cues .ior
that the police are struggling with, and, al
far as results 60, they are no nearer an q \.
swer now than they were two days ago. IL
is a question that has gone like a telegssph
dispatch all over the city, and has been asked
by everybody, but nobody has SO far given
satisfactory answer. 1t was wonderful mur.
der,and will be likely to go down to posterity
classed with the great crimes of the mysteri-
GUS metropolis, not only from the view of n
taken by the public, but from the detective
standpoint. Seldom has professional thug
been able to secure his victim and leave be-
hind him so few traces of his identity. The
police are confident the murder was done by
an Impractical hand, by an amateur at
blood-shedding. Yet the only traces left
behind were e swelled and bruised body,
few bits OF rag, some matches, a candle end.
and an open door. The most expert detec.
known criminal from these slight clues,
and, beyond the usual significant looks and
knowing mods, the police are Just as far now
from knowing who killed Mrs. Hull as they
were when they first took possession of the
elegant mansion in Forty-second street on
Wednesday morning. If the police force
lack anything in the conduct of this case, it
is not diligence, for they have been at work
like beavers since the moment of the dis
covery. Fortysecond street bloomed with
detectives yesterday, like clover-field with
pink blossoms. Detectives watched the
tearing up of the suspected pipes
in the house of the murder; detectives at
tended the murdered womanrs funeral; de-
tectives kept strict watch over the murdered
woman's old and broken husband, and de.
tectives followed the funeral train into an
adjoining State, till they reached the very
cd - fko G,r
and Captain Williams were shut up in mys-
ferrous offices with mysterious visitors, the
1000 patrolmen talked OF nothing else, and
sAl the man who held the clothing over
Mrs. HulPs face, and wrenched the rngs
from her fingers, and singed her eyebrows
with lighted candle, is at large
The victim of this mysterious tragedy.
richly attired in silks and laces, was taken
to Plainfield, n. J., yesterday, and laid away
In quiet cemetery by the side of her pa
rents. The curious crowds that collected IN
front of the house on the morning of the
murder stood by it to the last, and not till
some hours after the body bad been remov-
ed and the front of the house completely
closed did they begin to dlsperse. The fu-
neral was as quiet and private as the curl
osity hunters would allow it to ne. Only
relatives and immediate friends OF the FAM
lily were invited to attend at the house, and
hint was given the day before that the
services would be in DIR. Tyng's church. But
when, as the hour drew near, the church
doors we're still closed, the crowd that had
assembled there made its way to the street
in front of'the house, and there braved the
scorching sun for hours for the bare salts
faction of seeing q coffin carried from the
street door to the hearse and the hearse
driven quickly away.
The plumbers who were engaged by the
police to search the pipes in the house, in
the belief that the murder was committed
by some resident in the house, the iewelYy
stolen only to put the police on false
track, and then thrown into sink to get
rid of 1t, were still at work when the clergy
man began to read the burial service. The
sound Of their hammers served to keep the
crowd in the street in a state of excitement.
When the funeral services began the pound
ing ceased, and the plumbers rested till the
ceremony was over; then the noise began
again, and continued until every pipe of
any size in the house had been taken up and
examined; but the search was fruitless, for
nothing was found. The pet dog still lies
buried IN the back yard, safe from the dep
relations of the police, on account of the
expense of having his stomach analy zed; it
remaines with the coroner to say whether
his bones shall be allowed to rest in peace.