Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-07-02
MRS. l. MURDER.
The Mysterious Crime at Last Solved by
a Boston Journalistic The Assassin, a
Negro, Caught aud Fully Identified.

York city, in n OF the prominent
residences. 1t will be remembered
that Mrs. DIR. Hull was found dea in
her bed, the surroundings showing that
she had been a~ssassinated for n
The whole city was thrown into great
excitement and suspicion unfortunately
and unjustly attached to the husband of
the murdered m The whole
mystery was finally solved or June 23rd
by the detection and arrest OF the real
murderer, under circumstances fully
detailed in the following Boston dispatch
of that date:
The murderer of Mrs. Hull, of New
York, was arrested in this city tonight,
and is now in custody of the police au-
thorities. His name is Chastine Cox,
a copper-colored negro, who has been
employed as waiter for a year and a
half in the neighborhood of Hull's resi-
dence in New York city. This negro
made his appearance in Boston a week
ago to-day, as is o known, went
into a pawn-broker's shop where he dis
posed of the cameo set of jewehy.
About the same time the superintendent
~ pawn ploNSi iVSNlNCN Iol1l ANCN
York a description of the property and
this set was found by the officer IN a
pawn brokers shop in this city. The
pawn-broker then furnished the Off
GERS with a description of the party
who pawned it. The search which
was then commenced recalled the fact
that the negro Cox, after getting rid of
the iewelry, went to New York and re-
manned there two Or three days. In
the meantime he made some alteration
in the character and color of his cloth
ing. Mr.. w. r. Balch, a newspaper re-
porter in this city, had obtained a de-
scrlptlon OF this man, and this evening
while walking along the shownmute, he
observed n coloTed man in front of him
in company with another man, and the
appearance of the negro impressed
Balch as very much in accord with the
description which had been given by the
pawnbroker of the nan who pledged
the cameo set. After careful observ-
ance of the party Balch approached him
and inquired If he could direct him to
Bunker Hill street, and to this inquiry
the negro responded that he could not
as he was Il stranger here from New
York. This tending to confirm the I'M
preston that he was the person wanted,
Balch watched until he saw him enter
a colored church and then FASTENED TO
inform the police authorities, who sent
detail of officers and who made the
important arrest.
Cox made no resistance but went
quietly to the police station where he
was searched, and Mrs. HulPs watch
was found on him and thoroughly iden-
titled. He was not reticent and said in
answer to questions that he had lived
for a long time opposite Mrs. Hull's
house, and at the time of the robbery
he entered. through the lower window
and went upstairs to her room. He
further said that his purpose was rob-
berry alone and he did not intend to kill
her. Private detective Otto, and police
officer Schmitt Berger, of New York,
have arrived here and visited Cox at the
station tonight. He was fully recog-
nized and also gave evidence that he
knew the police officers. Mr.. Corral
Coleman, who lived IN the house with DR..
and Mrs. Hull, who is also in Boston,
visited the police station tonight, and
recognized the prisoner as the man that
he had seen frequently on The opposite
side from the Hull residence.
The negro mas appeared very calm
and indifferent since his arrest and has
talked without much hesitation
in giving details of his crime.
He went home on the evening Of the
night on which Mrs. Hull was murder
ed at 6 o'clock, and remained in the
house where he was employed until 10
O'Clock when he went out again. He
had a KEY for the door of the Hull
house, but he was unable to make it fit,
and consequently he raised the win
dow in a lower story and fastened it up
so as to provide Tor himself an easy
means Of making his escape from the
house. He had a candle with him and
on ascending the stairs be heard some
one snore and thought it was a man.
He blew the candle out, walked into
the room, and stepped to the side of
the bed. Mrs. Hull, awakening, asked,
Who is it," "The DOCTOR" replied
the negro. She put her hand up and
touched his face as he WAS standing
close to the bed. The robber threw her
hand back 90 she could not touch him,
at the same time laying his hand heav-
lily over her mouth. He then got hold
of the cologne bottle and dashed some
cologne into the face of the struggling
woman, after which he got on the bed
and made a gag of the bed clothing.
She was by this time in an exhausted
condition and he tied her in the man
ner in which she was found in the
morning after her murder. Att, + yards,
Cox relates, he re-lighted the candle
and hnIHipp II oloSa tp b.r tooa tho