The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-06-26
a leetlc afraid Of the watch on count Of de en-

No, sah." the prisoner answered: Il didn't
wouldn't know one paper from another" Turn
ing to tho reporter, he added: was alter
watch | didn't Know what Kind Of . watch
but but supposed sup i must be good ore; and knew knew
dshs dis "1 and 6nss ba ddn want SVer
Capt williams opened the bundle containing
the things found in Cox's pocket, md all of the
was described us having mink in the centre
which j. has not. This nenrly foiled the detec-
| dancing girl was said to have missing pearl.
| 1t did not bear that bemish.
STORY ABOUT TWO RINGS.
Capt. Williams told q story about that ring
| ists in New York. II seems that spirit in full
! Highland costume told n medium named Mrs.
| and that both are exactly alike One is in a
bank in, SCOTLAND The other is the one Mrs:
! enccs-to bc stolen, lost. pawned-perhaps
broken but attho end Of n century its possessor
Tns MTs from @ GS The scottish VE SsnE TRS spfu0sts
were convinced that Mrs Hull was murdered
century is Just completed Among the things
| found on CoX's person were two cord watch
guards. a pair Of blue glass spccacles, blank
| book. n pocketboOk, n pencil a pistol, a letter
| from the murdercr's mother. in Richmond, nd
dressed to her darling boy" and many odds
smallest sort. and could only Kill u man by nc
cident 1t was loaded with blank cartridges.
| Cox said he bought Il for dollar In second
| hand store in Broadway. above Thrty-second
street. He left it in his trunk at home on the
night Of the murder.
AGAIN TELLING THE STORY OF HIS CRIME.
sun r~porer rs s@ @ G m coS had You beeh
| doing on TUESDAY. the 10th instP"
| With apparent good humor the colored man
| began the lonx story
u had boon TO work" said he; II had been
| doing Il little carpenter work. and had been lay
| ing carpets. One place whore did Job WAS in
| Fifteenth street. No. -. think anyway made
az and went home at G o'clock tired out. laid
| "a silent about
| rhtn | got up and walked in sixth avenue
whore saw Ohiccr Sehmitocrger talking toa
| man on the corner of Thirty-sncond street. ana
| | also ramhled along in Madison avenue. Fifth
avenue. and ut last got 10 Forty second street
| and Broadway and from there reached DR. Hul's
house. The street was quiet. Acker. Merrnn
and Condit's watchman was not in sight Then
time | ran ~ the front stoop and tried u Key
that had. hut il would not work in tho lock. II
broke and flung II away. right in the street in
front Of the door. disrememner Nck when
/ found that key or how 20, II. hut thought
may he IL would 1T the door. We'll. | give UP Hll
idea Of rolhing the house. but as | como down
the steps ! seen tho light from the street was
shining strong on me window, ana seen TINT
the cnt'h on the window was lying alongside oi
the glus instid OF sticking ont. as It should. !
climbed over the railing 81 the sioop and tried
III" window. First pulled the upper part down.
Then pushed 1t up again, anu pulled up the
Tho prisoner as he told this tale talked ossi-
ly. uronouncng each word deliberately and
with the manner OF person ANXIOUS that his
hearcr should gain exact Information. and
should understand il thoroughly as the story
proceeded. All the time lac was polite and mod
5" when pushed up the window" he contin.
ucd. " first loosed around, and seeing no one
in the street stepped m hastily md pulling
down the window. | 10 'ked Il. There WAS a
stand and in that big yase in the window and
these pushed aside. | stepped right into the
fSRilm Sil two anu minutes euAs Is stood O' there s
heard heavy breathing u grew on me, me as 1,.i !
listened until elt sure II was man. Mnd That
| that man was right in the next room. wasn't
bit afraid. What had | TO be afraid oit !
tbe n,en ewrTy v'l and d. 20 richt away. did good
deal Of thinking know Mrs. Hun us"nt TO
seep, down stairs oui l. seemed SoG TO- me- ! ,i RAJ
time. / crept softly TO the sliding doors be-
tween the front room nnd the dinins room
the distance Of three inches. liz a match, and
! It's first fare lighted up tho dining room,
the breathing was there. | closed the sliding
doors softly walked back 10 the parlor door.
opened the front doors such little ways that no
one could see they wns open, and went to the
dining room hall door. l openeI @ mat lit a a
little hnck room. / began tl look for what !
Wuntcd In the bureaus, but didnt nnd anything.
heard tho lady moving IN he'd. | lit the candle
hnJ win me- and held il in tho doorway, so
that all ts light went on TO the bed ana n9ne OF
, It went on TO my ia'e. seen me iady ana kn9Yy
r seen she WIS going to wake up. sprang ON
{ the bed and pinionrd her"
I Then followed the story that hns already been
published. Close questioning led Ia IN elabora-
ion of some parts ot it, H. opened the little
. one stirred IN the house. When she talked he
o rlosed this door TO tho position in which he
ioPbGq ba1. bbrTg said iW MO Wpp Is Il = He reped'
a Tho Dortor." She dressed her hHnd on his
: | fnre and screamed. He stif"d the scream and
b it ended in u Eronn. In n low voice she man
aged 10 say; Take what you IKE; & DHt don /
murder me-" Ne Pni NJ ms mouth .nHs ey9n nr@T1r a,
. voice." " uin't agoing to hurt you; MADAME
K Cox SAYS h., was in the house i'ui thirty ilve
$ minutes. and he thinks he entered at midnight.
r, The police have witnesses that place the time
S more accurately, Mr-. flizpiricS wrote ia
= some one in DR.. IIull's household that she was
5 his? HIS: s6s-aeari MI Hull serram and h'-r
+ thn moaning that followed. The nurse said it
= was n cnt. aud advised Mrs Fitzpptrlck 70 take
, her medicine. she looked at tho clock. IL was
Ii lust IN the morning A Doctor overhead. and
p n prr-on that had returned late from the the
y atre. corrObornte this.
= HIS VICTIM TOO QUIET.
n Cox declares that when he was rhing the
d trunk he thought Mrs. HUI WINS too quiet.
lie feared she was going INTO another III ol
faint ng, and he says fhe tainted when m he
q ilo in The dining room. He hathed her fore
IS head with cologne, took the bhndnge on hcI
I. eyes. AMI lighted match to look nt her The
= cologne famed w, and he put ont the fire with
q his open hand. He poured Ice water on hri
:, neck aud rubbed it with his hands. She was
II breathing slowly and very peculiarly; heI
Q heart WIS beating rapidly; her limbs moved
;: He carried no arms OF any sort ana had
!. murder. He did not leave the front doors open
e neither did he shut, them tSht. That would
|
u ing and as he thought, coming TO-" he lel
n the house rapidly. bringing the front doors TO-
e gether gently behind him. He supposes tha
" the wind blew them open. He went to hii
o home in Thirty-sixth street. wearing his over
= Hlls and common clothes. but attracting no at
: tention. He laid the piunder on his bed ant
@ looked at il over and over again. He thinks
that he spent hall an hour thus employed
night" The next day he walked around town
Il ana during the day he bought the. shoes h'
II now wears They cost so. At night-this wai
d Wednesday, the llth--he was at the Bleeckkel
street houae were Bella Johnson lives. lie
I has known Bella n long while, and at first use'
10 caution her to be good girl; but he alter
X ward took her to the house Of DR.. Rich, wher'
. She passed rs his wife,
! seldom go down in the nolghborhood o
10 the Blocker street house said Cox, bGcaus'
the colorrd people there are violent, rough peo
pla ana don't want nothing to do with sucl
n people | went to bed, Bella was going out
She seen the mdy's watch ana long chain, an'
n asked nn Tor them. | toli her | couldn't giy
d them TO her. but would lend them to her Sh
q put them and the rings on, and went out IN,
Il visited round in the nclghborhood, She dldh
Y know what the things WIS, or how got 'em.
u told her bought em second hand staye'
y till morning.