The Potteries Examiner : — 1879-07-12 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

AMERICA.  The T;n s correspondent in Philadelphia writes r,hder date of June 24 :—The city of New York has h days pant been greatly excited about a nygeri ,us murder, which thoroughly battled all ;ulice investigation, and which was not explained yesrerdity, when a Boston newspaper reportek :is the i1,i111,4 of capturing the murderer. MM. J. I. lie Forrest Hull, a well-known lady, residing at 4. ,Vest I,,ty-sceond Street, and the wife of Dr. 11110 Hull, was found murdered in her bed on the r..aning of June 11th. She had been suffocated by flower .Itahiug pressed uptm the mouth, and was 'ad:circl and foot by strips of sheeting to the bed. trunk alongside the bed, had been rifled of its  ...... ...... ontenls, soil vaitiable rings, 'torn from her fingers. I l'l ~0,- N,,t, 110 clue to the murderer, but many were ! •I. i-von the lady's husband, who slept in . •it of the house. The crime and the failure • • eto find the murderer strongly agitated •• , ::. 'Die newspapers every day published .'•'•-ct, giving theory after theory which • : , •:: with no result, and there was quite .••• . .. i • ••• •i about the inefficiency of the police, • • d to the detection of the murder in a .•• • : :. 1:•• sii.pected. It appeared that last week i - .. • : I ~,111 disposed of a set of cameo jewellery , .:. di • •••••'•r.,!,,r. This was subsequently identified 1 , 1001 of hire Hull's jewellery, and the negro's j 1•••• 7 :ption to dog posted at police headquarters, I Mr. \V. It. Ildlch, a newspaper replete'-. edd.i• walk-1 ilei alone, Shawmut Avenue but night, thought he ,:tw ti.e nein walking in front of him. Ile went up iind, scooting the negro, asked a direction. The , negro replied that he could not give it. ache was a I ,tranger ti,dre 10,0 New York. This confirmed the i mpresdon, and. following the negro, until he entered 1 s negro church, the reporter informed the police, who i Arrested him. Ile submitted without res•stance, and ! Nirs. Hull's watch being found in his possession, he :it ones, confessid the crime. Chastine Cox, the , degro, said he hid lived a long time opposite Mrs. Flull'a house in New York, and conceived the idea 1 if robbing her, but had no intention of killing her. , he entered the house through a window about 10 p.m., fisting a candle with him. Ascending the ; itairs he h, rd some one snoring in a bedroom, and thought it was a man, lie blew out the candle, nitered, and stepped to the bedside' Mrs. Hull asked, u Who is it F" He replied, "The doctor." She put tier hand up and touched his face' whereupon he ' threw her hand back and laid his hand heavily upon ' ! her mouth. She struggled, when he got hold of a ' • Cologne bottle and dashed it over her face, after which he trot on the bed and made a gag of the bedclothes. 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 ascertain her condition the Cologne ignited, singeing her eyebrows and burning her face—injuries which, at the time, added to the mystery of the =trier Ile then robbed the trunk and 1....di her rings; Ind, leaving the house, soon afterwards went to Boston. The negro has been brought to New York for trdsl. This arrest ends one of the greeted el recent criminal sensations.