Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1879-07-12 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

NEW YORK MURDER.'  The Time of Wednesday glees the following from their Own, Correspondent, under data Philadelphia, June 24:  The city of New York has for ten days past been greatly excited about a mysterious murder which thoroughly baffled all police investigation, and which was not explained until Wednesday, when a Boston newspaper reporter was the means of capturing the murderer. Mrs. Jane L. De Forrest Hull, a well-known lady, residing at 14, West Forty Seoond•street, and the wife of Dr. Alma° Hull, was found 'murdered in her bed on the morning of June 11. She had been suffocated by a pillow or clothing pressed upon her mouth and was bound hand and foot by strips of sheeting to the bed. A trunk alongside the bed had been rifled of its contents, and valuable rings torn from her fingers. There was no clue to the murderer, but many were suspected, even the lady's husband, who slept in another part of the house.  The mime and the failure of the police to find the murderer strongly vide(' the York. The newspapers every day pu pages on e ',abject, giving theory after theory w were worked out with no result, and there was quite a hue and cry raised about the inefficiency of the polio*, when chance led to the detection of the murderer in a man not before suspected. It appear. that last week a negro in Boston disposed of a set of cameo jewelry te a pawnbroker. This was subsequently identified as part of Mrt. Hull's jewelry, and the negro's description being posted at polio, headquarters, Mr. W. B. Balch, a newspaper reporter, while walking along Elhawmut-avenue last night, thought he saw the man walking in front of him. 14 e want up and, accosting the negro, asked a direction. The negro replied that he could not _eve It, as he was a stranger there from New York. This confirmed the impreadon, and following the negro until he entered a negro shuroh, tile reporter informed the police whe arrested him. He rubmitted without resistance, and Mrs. Hull's watch being found in his possession, he at once confessed the crime. Chastine Cox, the negro, said he had lived a long time opposite MIL Hull's house in New York, and conceived the idea ef robbing her, but had no intention of killing her. He entered the house through a window about ten p.m., taking a candle with him. Ascending the stairs he heard some one snoring in a bod-room, and thought it was a man. He blew out the candle, entered, and stepped to the bedside. Mrs. Hull asked, "Who is it?" He replied, "The doctor." She put her hand up and touched his face, whereupon he threw her hand back and laid his hand heavily upon her mouth. She struggled, when be got hold of a Cologne bottle and dashed it over her face, after which he got on the bed and made a gag of the bed clothes. By this time she was exhausted, and he tied her to the bed in the manner in which she was found. Cox then relighted the candle, and holding it close to her face to aacertain her condition, the Cologne Ignited, singeing her eyebrows and burning her face— injuries which, at the time, added to the mystery of the murder. He then robbed the trunk and took her ring.; and, leaving the house, soon afterwards went to Boston.  The negro has been brought to New York for trial. This arrest ends one of the greatest of recent criminal sensations.  The Nottingham Town Council voted by a IhtioritY of one a resolution in favour of closing nubile-houses on Sunday, but, when the names were ordered to be recorded, the mimics item Imsod to be @qua/.