The daily gazette., 1879-06-14

could not go up stairs without being very
tired and the Doctor decided to go up
stairs and sleep alone, while his wife oc-
curied the back parlor bedroom. She
said she would not be afraid TO sleep
there, and 1t was not supposed that thel
would be any danger. Whenever the
ID Jctor could not 60 out with her TO ep-
tert innents and parties she frequently
went with our family and Mrs Newton,
sometimes. We could stand on the cor
ner of Sixth avenue, and see that Mrs.
Hull reached her home safely. Her r '.
ceptions we're largely atteWled, and the
one that she gave last winter to the men,
bers Of the Woman's Suffrage Society
was especially brilliant.
DR.. Hull went out of the house yester-
day afternoon and remai ned away seve'-
al hours. He returned before supper
time. Gle Is described as having passed
a sleepless light, and he looked haggard
and pale all day. During his exaniin:-
ton and the post-mOrtem exam nation
on Wednesday afternoon he seemed alb
seni-minded rather than ndiffere nt
Again yesterday he acted as person
would whose thoughts were distracted
from the scenes around him. The per-
sons in the house speak kindly Of him,
but always with a te.e # compassion A
man living In the house, who is one of
the Doctors closest and Oldest friends,
called him an imbecile and childish old
man. A lady, who assum sd high au.
til ,rity in the house, yesterday said that
IL was preposterous to suspect DIR. Hull
of any act that vigorous, abl.-bodied
m IN wouli be likely to perform. He de-
pended upon his wife, she said As
.child would upon its mother; In every
thing relating to himself and the hou' O.
hold generally he sought her advice and
was helpless without her. "He is fee
BILE, broker down old man" she said.
"Why," said another lady, "t0 Illus
trate his condition, let me tell you that a
few minutes ago he came to me and said,
Il was little und cided upon one point
5u t now, and couldn't recall to mind the
facts. aud 1 was coming down stairs to
ask Mrs. Hull about it,"
The snbseQuent use Of the cologne and
| points clearly to some assall liant who had
not meant perhaps to go beyond the
point of preventing an uproar and was
| confounded by the sudden death of IT, e
victim. This is indicated also by the
anxiety to ascertain the exact condition
of the victim after the crime had been
pei petra ed which appears in the SINCE
ing of the eyebrows aud in the .irop of
wax upon the night-dress. Wax is more
costly than sperm or parafline, and nei-
ther the anxiety nor the wax taper points
to discharged domestic nor profess
sional burglar. Then we have an Osten-
tatious attempt to manufacture the ap-
pearances of an ordinary DEglary in the
| breaking open OF the trunk, the tying of
the limbs after death and the obviously
post-mOrtem applicati IN of gag-things
all of them likely enough to have been
suggested by the published accounts 80
common in late years of the gagging and
binding of cashiers and janitors, but ab-
surdly inconsis ent with the taking away
Of marked and peculiar property and the
leaving of valuable silverware which
could easily be melted.
This indicates a person who knew where
t, search for and who did search for
concealed property, while burglar
would C rtainly have taken p, ,operty OF
a sort less easy TO be traced which Law
plainly in sight. After correlating all
these circumstances the Coroner, the
District and the detectives
have field to work upon In the remarks
and admissions already recorded as
made by one or another inmate of the
house. One inmate In particular, and
an inmate deeply interested in the fate
OF the victim. Is recorded as volunteer
ing a suspI cion of some one whom he
would not name. Why should not that
name be given, and whence that suspi-
cion? The same inmate appears to have
heard of the death without surprise and
to have displayed little concern where
much is to be looked for. He was awake
and nervous about the hour when the
murder was probably committed, and al
least three hours after he had retired to
sleep, and this, as he states, on two con-
secutive nights, from which 1t would
seem that there must have been unusua
reasons for this agitation. What were
they? Next comes the domain of mo-
tives. Was any inmate of the house in
want or distressed for money? Had the
dead woman been in annoying and irri-
tating relations with any inmate of tht