The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-06-28

honest uses" and then took things delipe''
ately He passed to the kitchen, secured
gold watch and chain; returned to Mrs'
Hull's room, secured the rings and jeweriy'
and then noticed that Mrs. Hull was breath
ING very laborously. Alarmed at her con-
dition he seized II bottle of cologne ana
poured il over her face, and then poured
pitcher of water over her body, In close
examination of her face, which he then
made, the flames of the candle set the col
one on fire, and in that way he accounts
for the dcceased's burned eyebrows gesff'
ing, now, that the woman would die, he
blew out bis candle, passed out the front
door and down the steps to his lodging.
In the fore port of the neAt day he learned
that Mrs. Hull wps dead; end having dis
tributed most of his jewelry among his
colored female friends, he resolved to leave
for Boston. He visited Boston, returned
and came in direct contact with New York
detectives who were searching for the
murderer, but seems to have escaped all
suspicion. He then pawned one of the dia
mond rings he had stolen, and returned to
Boston, where he was Spotted" by news
paper reporter, and shortly afterwards ia
ken under arrest He protested most SOL
EMMY that he didn't intend to murder
Mrs. Hull, and had no purpose to seriously
harm her. Neither did he abuse her per
son-his sole object being to possess him
self of her rich jewel ry and her money.
The public has never placed very high
estimate upon the sagacity of New York
policemen; but the police stupidity that
has been developed by this occurrence, alb
solutely borders on idiocy. An elegant
mansion in the most fashionable part Of
the city, where policemen were stationed
at intervals Of two hundred
yards, is entered through the
front window, the burglar remains in the
house with lighted candle, thirty or forty
minutes; leaves the house by way of the
front door; goes abroad next morning and
distributes his stolen goods among half
dozen friends some of them living within
a few hundred yards of the building from
whence they were stolen, yet the New
York police, with sage head shakings, con-
cluded that old DR.. Hull, decrepid old
creature who could scarcely ascend and
descend the stairs without help, and who
for years had been a pauper upon Mrs.
Hull's bounty-the police sagely concluded
that this old man was the murderer. The
fact that it was physical impossibility for
the old Doctor to commit the crime and
the further fact that his support depended
upon her ability to provide for him-this,
and the proof that he was kind hearted
old man, devotedly attached to his wife,
all went for nothing The police owls of
New York decided that he was the muir
derer, and so deciding, kept him under
orosU ana 0O.'os,...v- -----.-:h'-..oui
1t is not probable that the Mayor of
New York would improve matters
by the change; but he owes it to
himself and his administration to
discharge, in disgrace, every policeman
who had any hand in the so-cailed "work-
ing up Of the Hull murder case. From
the moment the murder was discovered I'M
| til the newspaper man furnished the "key'
to the alleged mysteries surrounding it, the
police concerned betrayed an assinlnity-
an inability to deal with commonplace
facts, that better fit them for the lunatic
asylum, than the police force of the me-
tropolis of the nation. Bounce them"
every mothers son Of them