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SECOND EDITION. ■ !■>> I %m farb: AMERICAN NEWS COMPANY. 1871. ^ Entered .ccordlnK to act of Con^refis 1„ the year 1971 by Edwabd Cbaps.t. .n »>lflH .^t /I -_ .__ . . ***** ••••5';r!s:, SI ^asriinfftOji, I). C. the office of the Llbra- 5*1%=. I c W^Jdl^. WJ THE MAF OF TWO LIVES. CHAPTEE I. BOTH FOKBSHADOWKD * • ma^^r/^" ''^^*''; "'""'' P"^' ^ '^' ^^'^ ^^y °f August, 1870, a acter, of moat exemplary habits, aud of vast attainments in the recondito sciences resided m furnished rooms in the house of Mr. Conrad Jakob. No. 170 Third Avenue. New York. He was occupied during all of tUa period m writing what he claimed would be a most comprehensive and exhaustive work upon Method in the Formation of Language. But vvhile To'do ^ :i "' *h^^^n"'^'^^*^'^"°' ^« -^^-ly ^«?t his home a 8 ocoek, on the morning of the day named, to go to Binghamton in ol tl !" fr 7m' *?\^-S«^ by the neck until he should be dead! on the od day of March then next ensuin^^ \off!^^lT'-'''''^ """^ ''''"'''''• T'^'"'^ "^ philological labors had been nearly near the city of St. John, m the British province of New Brunswick ^ ths man came of most reputable and sterling St for in his veins fl'fd i he blood winch had amazed the world in the last half of the six teen. I Jen ^ tury by those sublime exhibitions of heroism and fortitude whicirshlr J Eulkr empire and founded the Dutch Eepublic. His father, W 1 Im EuUoffsoa was a most respected and valuable citizen; but his eldest oiT l^Jward Howard Rulloffson, early exhibited powers which miglUrTise tl ' family na^e from provincial good repu.e. into honorable a"d worTw d f^ne. 11.3 first years of life were passed at an old homestead, a Nau cT f IW^r ■ f "; 'r' ''''''"^'''' ^^^ ''''^' - ^ -"^»- --that c ty Hero his wonderful prococity was first displayed. He was a boy nho not only devoured, but digested the contents of all books wh ch feU I i' • THE MAN OF TWO LIVES. in his way, and among tliose wero inclu.lod ovory branch of humnn loarn- ingi flo that he early acquired a general knowledge of science and litera- ture. Never being subjecte.l to the mental discipline only obtamed by the ng,d oxpon.nces of a coUogo course, and having the advantages of but httle schooling of any kind, his insatiate thirst for learning, his intui- tive perceptions and wonderful memory almost made amends lor his mis- fortunes, and certainly made him the prodigy of his provincial circle. Be was, moreover, a handsome, stalwart, open-faced boy, of pleasant manners and persuasive address, ruddy with health, and abstemious in his habits. That he was ambitious, and had the vague general yearning of a gifted youth for some high station or calling, where the great powers he instmchvo ly know ho possessed might be used for the advancement of hmjself and his fellow-men, is undoubtedly true. But the straightened circumstances of his father precluded any attempt to begin life in any of the hberal professions, and he consequently commenced his career ag a clerk m the store of Keator & Thome, Prince William street, St. John. Up to this timo there is no evidence that his moral character had been undermined. He had no strong religious convictions of any kind, but Jie had the impressions given by years of careful training by a most ex- emplary mother, and under favorable circumstances these might have npened into convictions that would have absorbed his whole being, and Edward Howard RullofTson in that event would have become a benefactor and honor to his race. But fate threw him when he first emerged from the secui-ity of his boyhood's home into intimate association with a com- pany of scoffers and unbelievers. He naturally imbibed doctrines which emancipated his mind from all moral restraints, and the youth of eighteen became the iconoclast of himself from mere pride in his mental endow- ments. He had no ialierent vices, but he had strong passions, and that secretive nature, wliich made him susceptible of absorbing whatever lie came in contact with large enough to tit snugly among his idiosyn- cracies. For this was to be a man ot marvellous character who would 6liun the potty peccadilloes to which ordinary humanity succumbs, and be great in his vices as he would have been in his virtues had Jiis mind happened at the outset to have been warped in the other direction. A fatality that was to attend him throughout his life became manifc-t at Its opening. He was to bring, or cause misfortune evervwhero He had been but a few months with Keator & Thorne, when their e^tab- lishmont was burned to the ground. He removed with them to a diffi-r.uit part of the city, but the firo shortly followed, and the store was .-ignin - Bwept from the earth. With this conflagration his mercantile career ended, and he became a clerk and writer in the law office of Duncan Eobertson, a noted barrister of St. John. Hero his sponge-hke mind TJnn lonm- and litora- jtamed by intages of , his intui- r his mis- circlo. ' pleasant amious in yearning at powers anooment lightened in any of rear as a St. John, had been kind, but most es- jht have ling, and mofactor fed from \x a com- 38 wliich eighteen . endow- md that i'hatever idiosyn- 3 would lbs, and 18 mind I. rxfinifest i'whero, f e,-tab- iffonnit 3 iigain career Duncan e mind THE MAN OF TWO LIVES. f absorbed thoso rudimentary principles of the common law, and the fun- damental rules of practice, which were to stand him in good stead in aJtei years, when ho was to be his own client in a long and bitter struggle with a law he had violated and a people he had outraged. lie was soon at the verge of urgent personal need for such knowledge, for not long after he entered the law office, robberies of the stores of the town became of frequent occurrence. His old employer, Mr. Thorne, had re-established himself in business in the same building in which the law office was located, and his store being robbed of some valuable goods, he instituted private inquiries which soon satisfied him that liulloffson was the thief. The proof against him became positive when he defied probabilities, as it was to bo hk constant habit through his life, by appearing in a suit of clothes made fr.nn the stolen goods. Mr. Thome had a lingering regard for the lad wliom he thought had been led astray for the moment, and with this evidence before him, told EuUoffson that ho would forgive him if he made an oi>en confession of the whole matter. But the youth instantly mani- festod another of his peculiarities, which was to go with him to the g.d- lows, by insulting his intending benefactor, and telling him that he could do as he pleased in the matter. Mr. Thorne was convinced that mercy would be misplaced, and as a consequence Rulloffson was arrested, tried found guilty, and in the fall of 1839, for the first time was a convicted telon and in the Penitentiary of St. John, where he served a term of two years. When his time had expired, he disappeared from 8t. John, and became as utterly lost to his relatives and to all who had known him up to the tune of his conviction, as though the grave had closed over him With the shadow of voluntary crime upon him, he went away to burrow through tortuous ways to a resurrection of infamy. CHAPTER II. HERE IB THE KOURCB OP ALL TEEIU GRIEFS. foo^sl' ""'"'^ 1-^T ^^'^' " '*™""^'*' y^^"^' '«^'^«*' Vonnlle,,, and the "C: ?T v" f"" *r^ "^ ^^^^^^^' ^^ *^« county of Tompki;s, in the State of New York Then, as now, that prosperous region was n- habited by a sturdy, God-fearing race of primitive virtue, and the stran^r was never turned whether in distress or prosperity, from their doors. °It was not strange that this uafortunate met succor and sympathy, nor that their reverence for labor as the highest estate of ma^ should havl c t THE MAN OF TWO LTVEa compelled him to take the firHt employiiiHnt that off rtjil. by whirh nuHinii it hai>pened thut ho lnt, and rtlthou^jli it was not deemed entirely satisfactory whon a crisis came at a later day, it gained him friends. IIo said that his name was JMwaixl fl. lIullotFi.. that Jo was a native of St. John, Now lirunswick, where he had boeu a clerk of a hardware etoro, but had loft his native town in search of bettor opportunities of success in tho States. In the city of Now York, ns ho said, he had made the ac(iuaintanco of the teucihor of a Comniorcial School, by whom he had boon promised employment; but while waiting in vain ior this, his means had been exhausted, and he had then como out info the country, where he thought ho might have a bettor ( 'uvnco. Tie also claimed, and to the ruHtio people Mhose on'y temples of learning were the log houses at tho oroas-roads, gave overwhelming proof of the possession of the most profound and varied scholastic acquirements. He seemed to thero something liiglior and be.tor than themselves, and very soon became a drug clerk in Itluu^a, instead of a canal laborer in the country. In this now sphere he displayed the same zeal and aptitude that had distinguished him in both of his employments in St. John— for this man was none other than Edward Howard RuUoffson— and rapi^lly acquired a more complete knowledge of drugs than any one in the estab- lishment. But his restlessness was soon upon him again, and quitting the drug business, he was then hoard of as the toachor of a Select School at Dryden, where ho had a largo iiumbor of scholars of both soxes. Among them was a tender, pleasant girl of sixteen, named Ilarriot Schutt, through whom, although she was of most exemplary cliaractor and pleasant temper, ho was to become the execration of four of tho most populous and virtuous counties in tho State of Now York, as she was to be the victim of a murder more cruel and unnatural than any which had yet stained the annals of the State. But during the last months of 1S42, and all of the succeeding year, this interesting girl, standing on tho thres- hold of a promising womanhood, saw no evil in tho mail she loved, and who, it was soon seen, returned or pretended to return tho feeling. Al- most from tho beginning of the school his attentions to Miss Schutt were those of a lover, and were accepted by her as such. In age, the parties were not unequally matched, and in mental acquirements as well as worldly prospects, he seemed far her superior. Even then he had a smat- tering, which passed in tho rural hamlet for profundity of all sciences, even to that of phrenology, unon which he had delivered lectures. He was a bot-anical physician, a druggist, an excellent penman, a classical Bcholar, a mechanist of rare original pov/er, a lawyer, and an earnest, 1 ■£ I ioh iiiorina 111 H])ll«U-C. nititougli liitfir day, I. Uullotr,,.- k(I boon u I of bettor >rlc, ns he 111 School, ig in vain jomo out iico. lie loarning [)f of the nts. lie and vory or in the aptitude ohn — for i rapiilly ho estab- qnitting at School h Boxes. it Schutt, ctor and tlio most was to liich liad of 1842, 10 thres- ved, and Iff- Al- utt were 9 parties well as '. a smat- jciences, OS. lie classical earnest, THE MAN OF TWO LIVES. g flunnt iipflaVer. Thore was apparently nothing ho could not do, or attemnt. an.l bo.ng nu.roover possossod of good address and polished manner., to the^ unlettered rustics he seemed a marvel, armed to dare and do every. ^ Yot the Schutt family instinctively shuddered as they saw this parniron msuhously creeping mto their domestic circle through the affections of the «.stor. She w.is at first remonstrated with, but to no purpose, us she remamod firm to her faith in the man, who was to li-r thi pirfoJtion of all m.n. Next Rul off himself was approached, and Mr Epiraim Schu^ ft brother of Harriet, demanded references as to character from his former ^Z'r.rT^'T ""r,*"^'" ^^ '^' ^^"^^ *" '^^ ^°»"^*' "^-l contemptu- n ivV I' T k"' i"' "'""^'"^ ^"^ ^^"«^*1 '«P"^ i" the commu. nity, where he had been for a year, ought to be enough for the family he proposed to lionor with his alliance. At last, seeing that HaS was dotornuned, and hoping their fears might be unfounded, the opp^s^^ on Jo 81s day of December, 18-13, when the bride was seventoen and the brulogroom twenty-five. ' *^® J^o2Z\T ^T '''' '''''^^'^ ''''^' ^^^"^^ *^« ^"«-^t« associations engendered by such an event, proved to the family how wise had been their distrust of the man who had crept into their drcle. Try soon'S but the devoted infatuated, suffering wife saw that the husb ndTas " TLensX l^l'rrr.^ "^^;^"^? *'^* ^PP^-'-'^^^ fiondlshnerin bitterlrh^' , . *^' ""'^^ ^"^ "^ ^'1 ^«' ^«i'^ti-e8 was soon em- old «nlZ? V'''' ^ ^'- ^^' H- I^"". a respectable practitioner of the "a l^pLTeVoTV' ^ ^^""^^^ ^'^^"^^«' '^'- ^^^ ^-n fo tween his wrea7rBu , ^^ *,'' T'T °"^ '"* '■"""'""'^ >"■ woman who h^L her ZeTt"^^ T^ ^'^ *'^ ^«^^' ^^^--^- actual outrage One nthtsho r^"^' "^"^ ^' ^^^'^ ^"^™^-^-l ^^ irage. Uae night she was pounding peppor in a large iron mor- 10 TIIE MAN OF TWO LIVES. \t^ tar, and he not liking the manner in which she performed that menial household duty, suddenly snatching the pestle from her, with a brutal remark, struck her a blow with the heavy iron which felled her to the floor. When she recovered consciousness she had no word of reproof for the coward who had wantonly stricken down the woman he had sworn to cherish and protect, and her patient endurance seems to have softened the brute into something Uke contiition, for he was gracious enough to .'say that he did not intend to strike her so hard. But he was no kinder to her after this outrage than before, while the remonstrance which it naturally evoked from her relatives made him more rancoious toward them, although in a It^xge degree dependent on them for support. For with all his accomplishments, he seemed incapable of making a practical use of them by earning a subsistence ; he roughly declared that ho would Buflfer no interference by any of them between him and his wife. At last «11 parties became heartily tired of this bickering life, and there was general rejoicing, when, having amassed a few dollars, by means nobody knew of, he announced his intention of taking his wife :o Jive at Lansing, a hamlet five miles from Ithaca, and a mile and a half from Cayurra. Lake! The wife hoped for peace by separation from the disturbing caujo of her I'fe, and her relatives were certain that while matters could be no worse than they had been, there was a chance for improvement. What Eulloff thought, or whether he had any foul design about that time it is impossible to say ; but it is certain that the removal to Lansing was the first act ia a most ehocking tragedy. 1 1 1 ');. CHAPTEE IIL MOST FOUL, STRANGE, AND UNNATURAI,. For a time the hopes of the imperilled household seemed to be well based. Eulloff did seem to be doing better. He was more considerate to his wife, and when, in April, a daughter was born to him he became almost kind. He lived alone with his wife and c> did, and she made no complaints of i'i-usage, nor did the neighbors observe anj'. His home was comfortably provided with the necessaries of life, and he appeared for the first time in his life to be getting forehanded with the world. He had by this time acquired quite a library of books, wliicli in that pl8,ce, at that time, seemed the embodiment of all human wisdom, and he had gained the confidence of a large portion of the community as a skilled botanical physician, and a man of temperate and industrious habits. hat menial h a brutal her to the of reproof had 8 worn fe softened enough to no kinder le which it •us toward port. For a practical ; ho would 3. At last there was ns nobody t Lansing, uga Lake. use of her no worse at Rulloff inpossible irst act in THE MAN OF TWO LIVES. U be well asiderate 1 became made no lis home ippeared e world. in that lom, and aity as a ustrious Among those who thus regarded him was Mr. W. H. Schutt, who re- sided in Ithaca, and whose child being taken sick on the 2d day of June 1845, called Eulloff professionally. It was a simple ailment of infancy' but without exciting the least suspicion of the learned doctor, became rap-' idly worse, and the next day the babe died in convulsions. Nor was con- fidence in him shaken when the mother of the child, who had seemingly been perfectly well when Eulloff was called to attend it, suddenly sick- ened and died in the same way two days afterwards. Thirteen years afterwards her body was exhumed, and the tissues of the stomach being sent to Professor Doremus, oi New York, that eminent analytical chemist found in them distinct traces of copper poison. But the simple and unsus- pecting country-folk who had never been brought in contact with flagrant cnme, thought no ill of the physician who had attended the deceased, and the deaths which w^re attributed, as so many foul murders before them had been, to "the inscrutable ways of a Divine Providence," did not even shake the confidence of Mr. Schutt, or of the grieved public in the skHl of Rulloff in his pretended character of a medical practitioner. He attended the funerals of mother and child without outward manifestation of any consciousness of agency in their untimely end, and returned with his wife to the lonely house at Lansing. ^ There is a gap in this man's life during the next two weeks. It is known, mdeed, that he was at home and pretendinj? to be engaged in those ab- struse studies which he claimed were beyond the comprehension of his neighbors, but he gave no revelations of his inner self during that time which have ever been recorded. The young wife and mother alone knew the secrets if there were any, of that horrible house; but she seldom was seen during this time beyond it, and when she was, neither her tongue or her demeanor betrayed any of them. She appeared contented, a most happy, for the first time, with the man in whose hands she had placed her hfe, and from the casual glances obtained of her bv the neighbors, seemed to be contentedly engaged in her humble household duties. On the evening of the 23d of June, there were some Indian squaws moving from house to house in the little hamlet of Lansing, and Rulloff astonished his neighbor Robertson, who lived almost immediately oppo- site, by askmg that his daughter might go over and stay with Mrs. Rul- loll, as he was obHged to be out for a time, and he was afraid that if the Indians came during his absence she might be frightened. This remark- able consideration for the woman ho had eo often wantonly outraged, did not; seem singular to his neighbors, for at that time the details of his domestic life were little known, and Miss Robertson accordingly went over to the Eulloff house, wnere she found the wife sitting in a low rock- 12 THE MAN OF TWO LIVES. ! ' t Ing-chair and fondly holding her cooing babe. Few details of that last evening in the life of the unfortunate woman have been preserved, al- though the visitor was a chief witness in the exciting judicial investiga- tions vhich followed soon afterwards, and again alter the lapse of eleven years. But she was young, and having no suspicion of the dramatic posi- tion in which she was placed, took no note of trivial details which might have shed the light of truth upon the horrors of that night. All that she could remember, was, that while it was yet early in the evening, Rulloff returned bringing the squaws with him, and took pains to explain ail about tJiem to his wife and her visitor. His conduct in this respect was strange ; but stranger yet, when, after the Indians had left, he mixed some medicine in his mortar and proposed to give it to his child. The wife objected with terrified eagerness, saying the balw was in perfect health ; but the learned and anxious father had detected the seeds of disease in liis offspring, and insisted the dose should be given. For once the wife was resolute, and the husband declaring that siie needed the medicine as much as the baby, she said she might take it, but tlie child should not. At last, however, EuUoff desisted, said he had only been joking, and with this pleasant ending of what seemed for a moment an unpleasant incident of her visit, Miss Robertson at 9 o'clock bid her hosts good night, and left the house. Froiu that hour to tiiis, Harriet Ruiloli and her infant child have never been seen on earth. The next morning, which was the 24th day of June, 1845, it was no- ticed that the blinds of RuUoffs house remained closed, and no one waa seen about the place. But the curiosity natm-ally excited by this circum- stance in the village, was entirely satisfied when RuUolI cume out of thd house about nine o'clock, and going over to Robertson's, asked for the loan of a horse and wagon, saying, that an uncle having called during the night, Mrs. RulIofF and child had gone with him to Mott's Corners, a place between the lakes, and that to make room lor them in his small wagon, the uncle had been obliged to leave behind a large chest, which RullofF desired to take \,^j liim. Robertson had the most implicit faith in his neighbor, and being always glad to do him a favor, the horse and wagon was at once furnished. Rulloff drove over, and backing the wagon up to his door went into the house. Presently Mr. Robertson, who had remained at his house, saw his neighbor drag the chest from the house, and noticing that it was too heavy for him to iiit into the wagon, went over and assisted. He found his end of the chest quite heavy, but the united strength of the two men easily placed it in the wagon, and Rulloff getting in, drove away. Circumstances which cannot lie have testified with increasing direct- ness and emphasis for twenty-six years that the chest contained the bodies i ■I »f thai last served, al- iuvestiga- • of eleven natic posi- lich might U that she ig, Rulloff »xpiain all Dapect was he mixed did. The iu perfect seeds of For once eeded the tlie child only been jment an her hosts et liuiloii t ■was no- I one waa i circum- ut of the i for the d during Corners, lis small it, which ; faith in orso and t le wagon who had e house, on, went , but the I EuUoff P. W. HOPKINS, ESQ., DISTRICT ATTORNEY OF BROOME COUNTY. f direot- e bodies ;i|i m '■) m THE MAN OP TWO LIVES. 13 cf his wife and child, who were both in perfect health at 9 o'clock on the previous evening, and had, in the interim, been foully done to death by the husband and fatlier, in some way which human ingenuity has never been able to discover. Yet RuUoff betrayed no emotion of any kind unless It might be a cheerfulness somewhat unusual with him for it wail long the marvel of the country in whioli the beautifully burnished lakes of Western New York are nestled, that he drove that morning along the road at a jog trot, as though his errand was one in no haste for comple- tion More than that, almost two generations of the honeet folk inhabit- ing that region have shuddered at the fact that this n.an, thus carting a n^urdered w. e and child to unchristian burial, presently overtaking a group of dnldren, invited them to ride, and they, accepting the invitation, the road for two miles was made merry by the innocent laughter of the chidren, which was provoked by the funny songs and quaint whistling of the driver. He dropped the children at last, and the wagon went on in more demure fashion, but the face of the driver was that of a man at Veace with his own conscience. At intervals, during that long summer day, glimpses of that ghastly wagon were caught at various places, but its frightful burden was unsus! pec ted, d It IS not strange that trace of it was lost for hourlt^gethe . But by a fortunate chance it happened that these glimpses showed that it tmi 1 fT ?r"'' ^"u ''^ *^^ ^^"^'^^y- ^«-* ^y - 'i-ious road ^Ithaca, and from thence to the inlet of Cayuga lake, where it arriv^ when the sun was yet hours above the horizon. There it remained In parently abandoned until dusk, for Eulloff was not seen or noled by' any one during the time. Murderer never before so laid himself open in every way to the chances of detection ; but this man seems to have feld dnd safely, upon the unsuspecting character of the people about hir^. TW had never been brought face to face with a diabolical crime ; audi is no^ Ijal wa.eve. obtained to .how how tlm man, in tho ili and m ddCw .way ovc. the .i.ent, shudderb, wat;., /iu f htTaoledlrZ^ h.8 pievous mquiries had told him was most suitable ITh ^ and there shot them down into „l,„„.t !„T1. . .,_ 'Z"' ■•'! V^^f^, forever eoncealed from the eyes of men """''"""'"■'''' ''"'»"". ^ «™m fenid En Mstidlath'r '"■'"°''ff '•'''* *° "'' '-^- -''° -'''- urn on ms trial, tliat he so wrapped the bodies of his yictims with 14 THE MAN OP TWO LIVES. 1 111 untempeT«d wire, that they could never become unfastened, and attach- ing a heavy iron mortar to that of his wife, and a fiat iron to that of tha child, threw them overboard in a deep spot of the lake, wliicli ho paiticu- larly described. But there are many who believe that this story was en- tirely false, and who think tlie bodies were sold to the Gonova Medical College, and there dissected. This opinion is based on the fact that about the time of the disappearance of Mrs. RuUolT and her child, two bodies, answering in general description those of the victims, were taken there. One was that of a child of the proper age and sex, while the other was that of a woman, of whom it was specially remembered that she had the very long and beautiful black hair, for which Mrs. Eulloff was remarkable. These bodies were received through the ordinary channels by which subjects came, and having no marks of violence, or signs of unnatural death, they excited no suspicion of foul play. The hypothesis seems too horrible for belief, but Edward H. Eulloff is held in such poor esteem in Tompkins county, that largo numbers of the people believe, that having deftly done murder, he turned his crime to pecuniary account, by selling the bodies of his victims. None but Eulloff knows the secrets of that night, but all tho country side soon knew that about ten o'clock on the 25th day of June he stop- ped before his own door in Lanaing with the same horse, wagon, and chest. There was the same deliberation in all his movements that was so apparent on the previous day, for he was seen to come slowly up, and, although the day was extremely hot, the horse was dry and sleek, thus showing he had not been driven fast enough to start the perspiration. When he stopped, a son of Mr. Eobertson went over to take the horse, and Eulloff, just then taking the chest from the wagon, tho boy ran up just in time to see that Eulloff easily lilted it. He saw that it was the sarae chest, and he knew from the weight that it was empty. For the third time this man of universal learning and genius, who passed into his house easily carrying a chest that the united strength of two men was required to lift on the previous day, had proved himself a bungling mur- derer. The boy took home the horse, the shutters of the Eulloff house re- mained closed, and life in the hamlet drowsed sleepily in the fervid mid- dle of a mid -summer day. The afternoon was nearly gone when Eulloff again emerged from his house, and this time with a large bundle, made up in a shawl well known to belong to his wife, thrown over his shoul- der. He took good care to pass close to Mr. Eobertson who was at work in his g.irden. He even stopped and cheerily called out, " Good-bye, Eobertson ; don't be alarmed if we don't come back in two or three weeks. I and my wife talk of going on a visit between the lakes !" by which he nng that siste it ba betw came that enigi durii) whicl of hia direct he wj Gene^ his pu althoii trace < All flight, some 1 arrivii: Eoberl home i , and attach- ) that of tha I ho paiticu- tory was en- lovti Medical 10 fact that r child, two , were taken X, while the mbered that Mrs. Eulloff le ordinary violence, or play. The iff is held in ' the people pecuniary the country ne he stop- wagon, and its that was k^Iy up, and, sleek, thus erspiration. the horse, 3oy ran up it was the . For the sed into his o men was gling mur- ' house re- i'ervid mid- .en Eulloflf idle, umde his shoul- as at work (jOOu-uy©, ree weeks. r which he THE MAN OF TWO LIVES. 15 was supposed to mean Cayuga and Seneca lakes. Then he added with a pleasant laugh-so far as he ever succeeded in all his life in making his laugh pleasant-" Please don't let any one carry away our house while we are goiie." This joke having left his lips, he ^xudgod away! whistling as ho went, for want of thought." .-^1"J'» CHAPTER IV. " CONFIRMATIONS 8TE0NQ AS PE00F8 OF HOLY WEIT.» No man ever counted more largely on the faith of his fellow-men in his character than did this assassin, trudging that hot afternoon inToBhac^ which he reached at nightfall. He went direct to the house of W H Schutt. where he took tea. His face was flushed, and complHJ' Tf S burning, he asked if it did not look red, and then accounted S'rfppe^ anee, by saying he had walked in the hot sun. After supper heTk^ nng from his pocket, and asking Mr. Schutt if he recogiiked it destd came back about 9 o'clock for a rockine- rhmr K, ^l- Tf " ^® o( hi, wife andVhid^^SdWhtTbS''.* '■-booh and the clothing direct to the stage wCe he commild h7 . '" v '" ^"""'' "'' ^™™ he was well inown te ZTT """ "''^'^''y. although he knew Geneva, as JohnXe BTtUr"' """"^ "' '"'"'''"S ''™'"'' '" his purpose, aa he ^tef^ith hat Z." ^Ilt ^ 'Tt *" """"^ although followed in his devious ^„f„!!' 1 % ^^^ ^'" °°'"""'' ""^ trace of him was there lost rtlTme °°"""' ^"^'^ "'"''■ "^ BOn« articles of househTd T' ,V^ ^""""^ '° ^"^^"'^^ l""-™ "i* Eobe;ts™ orth;Tsence''of r? 'Tl" °'°"'' "'^ ™ ""^o"^ .o.eana«t^rfi':rt^:rc-~^^^^ 16 THE MAN OF TWO LIVES. ii ertson certainly had none, for he was sure there was no guile iu his lenmed noiglibor, and the Schutt family had as little, for although they knew of his violent tempet and great lack of conscience, they thought hira too great a coward to do murder. But after some weeks had elapsed, and the absence of the family yet continuing, knowledge of the facts coming to some citizens of Ithaca, they tnought the affair a most singular one in . many of its aspects. One gentleman was so thoroughly convinced of foul play, that he wont to the house, and, forcing open the doors and shutters, made a minute inspection of the premises. He saw everywliere indubi- table evidence that Mrs. Rulloff had gone away without the slightest preparation lor aiiy journey, howevtr brief; and his suspicions being strengthened by this fact, he hastened to communicate them to the brothers of the absent lady, who were then living in Ithaca. They were still in- credulous, but doubt had at last taken lodgment in all minds, and the disappearance was the common talk of town and village. The Schutta and others also made a personal examination of the deserted house, and could not account for its condition on the hypothesis of the voluntary absence of the wife. The house was in disorder, and articles of clothing which she would undoubtedly have taken with her upon a visit, were strewn everywhere in great confusion. Luring the evening of the day on which this examination was made, two of the brothers sat alone in the store of one of them in Itliuca, brood- ing and talking over the awful mystery which had fallen upon them, when the door was suddenly flung open and Edward H. !■ ulloff stood before them. A great weight was lifted from their hearts, for they thought the mystery solved. They greeted the comer with genuine kindly fervor, one excbiiming, " Doctor ! I'm so glad to see you. Where is your wife ?" "Between the lakes," was the prompt answer in a natural and steady tone. *' How strangely you manage," said the brother ; " why the people here have been talking about your murdering your wile." " Have they?" was the interrogative answer accompanied by a laugh, as though such talk had no other power than to amuse the object of sus- picion. The brother who was thus met was W. H. Schutt who then asked Rulloff up stairs to his room, and the invitation was accepted. There he recurred to the talk about murder, and saying he was surprised that peo- ple should think that he would commit such a deed, asked if it would be safe for him to go into the streets. He then said his wife was near Eiie, Pennsylvania, in the neighborhood of another Schutt brother whom, however, he had not called to see because, as ho said, for lack of time. u his lenrned hey knew of ght him too elapsed, and facts coming i^jular one in nncod of foul and shutters, liere iudubi> the slightest licioiis being the brothers were still in- nds, and the The Schutta 1 house, and le voluntary I of clothing a visit, ■were 1 ^vas made, luioa, brood- upon them, ullofF stood ts, for they ±h genuine and steady people here by a laugh, )ject of 8U3- thon asked There he d that peo- t would be near Eiie, her whom, ck of time. ? THE MAN OP TWO LIVES. jf He did not say with whom Harriet was, and, although liig storios were contradictory to the verge of incoherence, they do not seem to have ex- cited the suspicion of W. H. Schutt, who invited his brother in-law to j share his room for the night. This invitation was also accepted, but he could not sleep, and appearing restless during the night, Sohutt asked the cause, when he said that it troubled him to think the people should iro^ agine that he had killed his wife and child. Schutt told him to be easy, for he could doubtless explain matters satisfactorily, and the night passed without further incident. For the next few days he was a visitor in turn to several of the relatives of his wife, and being everywhere questioned, as a matter of course, as to the whereabouts of his wife, returned evasive answers, but generally asserted that she was between the lukos. After the lapse of about a week he returned to Ithaca and was again the guest of his brother-in-law, W. H. Sohutt. He now placed his family further away, and said they were in Madison, Lake county, Ohio, where he said he had engaged a school and had excellent prospects, while his wife was pleased with the chmate and society. His return, he said, was solely for the purpose of closing his affairs in Tompkins county, and to remove hia household goods to his new abode. Mrs. Hannah Schutt, the mother of the wile, to whom these stories had first been told, with the intuition of a woman and a mother, was the first to detect their falsehood, and tiie ex- pression of her conviction was to drive Eulloff from the house. It 18 not strange, therefore, that the general public of Ithaca coming to hear o these contradictory tales, were convinced that murder had been done Iliere were no detective police in that country, and the work of ferreting out the crime which had been committed, was either to be left undone or voluntarily assumed. In this dilemma a number of gentlemen made a formal call upon Eulloff while he was at the house of his brother- m- law, and demanded that he should satisfy them with positive evidence of the whereabouts of hi. wife and child. He repeated almost verbatim us conduct of years before when charged with the theft in St. John, and became abusive of the self-appointed committee, who, in his view, were oi'lfrTl ' ^'^ T ^"' ^^"^«*^« '^^'''''- ^"* th««« --e the firs citizens of Ithaca, and were determined not to be driven by a few hard words from a duty they considered they owed to the public, and they told Jum plamly that unless he gave some satisfactor/ e.pl.'nation of the where .bouts of his wife, they would cause him t. bo placed under arr st 1 mdmg fi-oai tjieir determined manner that he must do something, turned to the outraged family and asked. "What shall T do'?' thus showing himself, as lie always did, one of the most helples's of rimiins when driven to cover. So long as he was only required to re- cite a tale learned by rote, he was equal to i emergency, and could 'I I 18 THE MAN OP TWO LIVES carry all before him with a braving show of honesty, but he was then, as always, unmanned when confronted with a sudden crisis. "What shall I do ?" cried in his utter helplessness, was one key to his chnracltT, and another was his readiness to catch at any suggestion ofTered, as he did then with that of one of theSchutt brothers to write a letter to his wife asking her to dispel the painful rumors in circulation, by an answer I by return mail, and that meantime he should remain in Ithaca. He pro- |fe8sed his hearty concurrence, and gave his word of honor to remain , where he was until the answer should be received. It being understood that the Schutts would see that the letter was written and mailed the committee was satisfied and withdrew. When they wore gone, Eulloff sat down to write the promised letter, but was apparently suffering from strong mental agitation as he made several attempts before he succeeded in producing one satisfactory to himself. It was shown to the Schutts, and as it was a literal fulfillment ^of his promise, asking the absent wife to send him a Hne as soon as pos- jsible, if it were nothing more than to say that she was alive and well, it was decided to be sufficient. It was directed to " Mrs. Harriet Eulloff, care of N. Dupuy, Madison, Ohio," and was mailed the same evening by one of the Schutts. For a period of twenty minutes Edward H. Eulloff was generally regarded in the town as a man who bad been cruelly wronged by most unjust suspicions. bo any for tricl Viilf trai for ■> true witli CHAPTEE V. FLIGHT AND CAPTURE. Whilb Mr. Schutt was yet at the post-office talking with the citizens, and receiving their congratulations that there was now some reason to believe that his sister was yet alive, another inmate of the house ran breathlessly up to say that Eulloff had just left it, and gone out on the Auburn road at the top of his speed. Instantly there was a revulsion of feeling against him, as this sudden flight, almost at the moment he had given his promise to remain, Avas considered conclusive evidence of guilt. It was at last determined to adopt effective measures with this man Avho had become a public pest, and a warrant being obtained for his arrest, on a charge of murder, several ]iersons started in pursuit. At the edge of the town they met a gcntlomnn coming in, who told them, that a short distance out, he saw a man whom he thought at the first glance was coming rapidly towards him, hut whom, on getting nearer, he found to was thon, as is. "What i« chnracltT, ffeied, as he letter to his y an answer a. lie pro- r to remain understood mailed the mised letter, aa he made itis factory to .1 fulfillment soon as pos- and well, it •riet Eulloflf, I evening by i H. Eulloff •een cruelly ilip citizens, e reason to house ran out on the •evulsion of ent he had ice of guilt. is man Avho his arrest, Lt the edge hat a short glanre was lie found to THE MAN OF TWO LIVES. if bo going toward Ithac.a. After passing him, witliout, however, paying any hoed to hun, the gentleman stopped to water his horse long enough for the man to come up, but yet saw nothing more of })im. This shallow trick d'd not serve to deceive even tlie amateur detectives of a country vilingo, niul it was concluded that Eulloff was aiming to make a certain tram u-cstward from Auburn. Mr. Ephraim Schutt was specially detailed for the pursuit, and he, still thinking that the story of the fugitive was true, detormined to go on to Madison, Ohio, leaving an officer to follow with a requisition for arrest, to be used or not, aa circumstances might require. Being too late for the steamer on Cayuga Lake, he took a horse nn.l wagon, and by dint of liard driving across the country, reached Au- burn m time for the train. Looking through the cars while they wer« standing at the depot, he did not see the fugitive, but lie determined nev- ortholess, to go on. At the next station he was surprised to see Eulloff stop from one of the forward cars, an >t«r. My wife loves me, and I her, and we have concluded to leave her family, and go where they will know nothing of us." This and more to the samo effect was sot so winningly before the officer, and was accompanied with such intense emotion, that the officer was convinced he had a cruelly in- jured man in ouvtx dy, and was about to permit him to go whore ho ploa.sed, when Schutt cam:- n^) uad destroyed this last chance of escape by march- in"" Eulloff off *'.o J ?ii*on?^ room on the boat, in which he was locked up, an 1 not pcriuittt. i lo > inorge from it until the boat was in the middle of Lake Krio. Tlien Schutt took him <»ut Upon the upper dock, ainl sitting down by the pilot house, placed all the facts of the case before him as a uioliniinary to a last demand for some definite information of his sister. th all possible hon tlio <>u:i- iunicnt()d with with a proper as they cunie 1 Schutt ior a But lio know a Hoaroh was dining saloon utt (lisciovored •, who tapi)od :ud him if his legativo, with iif; S(!lmtt, he Evtni lit that n foully dealt inciipablo of of tho law if nod. RuUoff to go buck to oland until a ork. ive Cleveland vhich had so , on which he ind wharf, he arreatod him, layes," a do- wary bird lie i my wife and (! "^.T. wife's 36 I on (, Kvr. re \wv faniilv, 'e to the same mpimied with [ a cruelly iu- ve ho pleased, ,po by march- as locked up, the middle of i, auil sitting fore him as a Qf his sibter. 1 THE MAN OF TWO LIVES. 21 Eulloff only replied with a proposition to end the matter by jumping overboard ; to which Schutt coolly answt red, that it would be a fitting close to the affair, but tiiat liuUolI wa. too grout a coward to do it. The prlHonor juBtilied the opinion of his captor, by sullenly keeping his seat, and the next moment experienced that popular wrath he was so often to oncouuter alterwards. The captain of the boat who had overheard a portit)n of tho conversation approached, and in a loud voice exclaimed :— •' That wroti li bus murdered your sister ! If it was my case I'd hang him I' I tho yard-arm." The words* wore heard and carried everywhere, and tho story of the crime being passed from lip to lip, the excited passengfr.i would undoubt- . Iiy liavo carried tho hint of tho honest captain into exncution but for tho timely interference of Schutt, who huniod hii prisoner away and looked him up in his room. At JJulfalo a warrant was procured, and Schutt being constituted a special ofFicor, took legal possession of his prisoner. When on tho cars, Schutt produced a pair of hand-cuffs, with which he munaclod his pris- oner, notwithstanding his remonstrance to the indignity; there had been deceptions enough, said Schutt, and ho was (let.)rmIuod that Ilulloff should now go to Ithaca whether ho liked it or not. The prisoner know it not ; but for tho first time in his life ho was about to do the State some service,' and become of some practical account in tho economy of tho world. CHAPTER VI. OOXDBMNATION AND rUNISIIMHNT. Tub jonrney from Buffalo to Itbaca was accomplished without inci- dent, but tho news of his coming preceded him, and when the prisoner arrived at the town where he had been so kindly received three years before, be met one of the most terrible but moat excusable storms of rc.ular indignation which any criminal was ever compelled to face. The whole city met him at the depot, to gaze Avith undisguised horror upon the nj.in who was universally believed to have committed a brutal, unprovoked murder; and although no word oract of insult was offered' him, he stood that hour upon a mine that the least spark would have ignited, and leit no trace of hira upon earth after its explosion. It is chara.>teristic of the man that he proposed to walk to the prison througL these excited crowds and had his proposal been accepted, there is not the least doubt that there would have been no occasion to unlock the prison doors for his reception. But Schutt refuse.!, and the journey being perform. -d in an omnibus, RuUoff was at last in a prison I ■f^- 22 THE MAN OF TWO LIVES. c he had ]oni]^ evaded, and in which he was destined, long yeara after- wards, to bii?ig sorrow and ruin upon another family. But he was to make a partial retribution for the past, before an op- portunity for new crime was to be afforde.l him. The bodies of his iijurdered victims Avero never found, altiiough during all that summer Cayuga Lake was constantly dragged with the most approved appa- ratus, and at an expense, it is said, ot $10,000. The District Attorney therefore determined that the evidence upon an indictment for mur- der would be so defective as to allow the criminal a chance for escape, and therefore determined to try him under a clause of the Revised Statutes ibr the crime of abducting his wife, of which offence the proof was incontrovertible. The trial came on at the January term, 184G, of the Tompkins County Oyer and Terminer, and was attended with the most profound public excitement which had ever marked any criminal trial in Western New York. The character of the criminal, his history so far as it was known, his ac'iuirements, his assumption of superiority to his surroundings, the character and numbers of the family he had desolated, the involving of a helpless babe, of which ho was the father, in an impenetrable catastrophe, and more than all, perhaps, the newness of such turpitude as this crime evinced to the community, all combined to make the trial the great event, not only of a year, but of a generation of rural life. The tacts which have been stated in this narrative having nearly all been placed in evidence, there could of course be but one result, and the prisoner was sentenced to ten years at hard labor, which was the full penalty fixed by the law tor the offence for which he had been tried. In prison, as out of it, Edward II. Ilulloff was a remarkable man. His aptitude in acquiring the outlines of every s-cience or handicraft was never before so signally sliown, and he obtained some general knowledge not only of those mechanical arts at which he was put, but of all whicli he happened to see carried on. He was an enigma to the prifon authorities, who hardly knew how to make the most profitable use of the prodigy which an outraged law had placed in their custody. He was tried in several mechanical departniei«;s, but his cap icity was beyond them all, and his keepers soon became convinced that they must devise some special field of labor for him, in order to make the best use of him. He had a mind which refused to run in the worn grooves of human action, even in the most trivial things. If he was to do nothing more important than the sharpening of a hand-saw, tlXj vtiM tv Iff re " "* J •,"tt«v tt - ,17 if^-rty atfLt lO iiiili ail liiipt I? V CUitrU t U V C'l' LlJO old method. He was constantly advancing new theories, some of f I THE MAN OF TWO LIVES. 23 yeara afler- efore an op* odies of his hat summer roved appa- ct Attorney ?nt for mur- i for escape, ;he Revised le the proof term, 184G, ended with narked any le criminali assumption bers of tho )f which ho re than all, iced to the It, not only 1 have been lence, tliere Mitenced to by the law cable man. handicraft lie general as put, but iinia to the , profitable ir custody. ) icity was that they I make the the worn ?s. If he hand-saw, it OVCf tho , some of # which were flimsy enough, but others were of sufficient coherence to Bt least engage the attention of the skilled and learned. This vein of originality finally determined his field of duty in Auburn Prison, where he became a designer of patterns ; and he made them i'or carpets with a wonderful prodigality of invention and more beautiful than had ever before been produced in the United States. Twenty years afterwards this accomplishment was to be a solaoe in moments of unutterable agony ; but in Auburn Prison it was no less a delight to him than it was a source of profit to the State. _ His d-jineanor during his ten years of service was in keeping with his contradictory character. Generally he was docilely submissive to rules of prison discipline, and gained the favor of the keepers by his readiness to assume any task and his zeal in performing. There was never any occasion to drive him to work, for he was always ready to do all, and even more than all that could possibly be required of him. His anomalous position and character gave him furtive enjoyment, not admissible under a strict enforcement of the rules, chief of which was the gratification to some extent of his insatiable appetite for books. But, notwithstanding all his advantages, the malevolence of his nature would sometimes flame up almost to the point of a flagrant violation of prison rules. Generally these displays were provoked by some trivial act or deed of a fellow convict, for it has always been the fate of this monstrosity to set loose his consuming passion without suffi- cient cause. But while he was at Auburn he seems to have kept bet- ter control of himself than ever before or since ; and he was there known only as a man subject to sudden bursts of passion, but placable if not equable, in his disposition. The wilful malice which is the essen- tial mgredient of the murderer no less than of the crime of murder few believed that he had ; and so the years went on, and he reached the threshold of liberty by the expiration of his term with the general good will of his keepers. His powers of fascination had been exerted to good pirpose, and there were among the oflicials some who believed him to be a man outraged by the vindictiveness of the Schutts. But the feeling against RullofT had been strengthened rather than weukeued by time. As year after year rolled away without discovering the faintest trace of the missing wife and child, the conviction became more general and profound that murder had been done. It had al- ready become so inexorable that at the January term, 1848, of the Tompkins Court of S' jsions, the District AttomRv nhta\poA on ;„4j„^ raent for the murder of Harriet Kullolf against him, and it was filed away to await the expiration of his term of imprisonment, then eight 24 THE MAN OF TWO LIVES. !(' years distant. During those eight years the cause of the Scliutt family became that of the whole cominunity. Wlien RulIofT stood at the bar to answer the charge of abduction, there were some citizens of high character, although few in number, who believed that while there were some good reasons for believing that wrong had in some way been done the missing wife, the solicitude of the Schutts had converted.; conjecture into certainty ; and that while the chance remained that the ■wife would return to give satisfactory account of her absence, wrong would be done this man by punishing him for a crime which might not have been committed by any one. But with the lapse of time this chance was destroyed, and every citizen of Tompkins County be- came as anxious to have RuUoff punished for the crime of murder as the Schutts had ever been. Long before his term expired, he had not a friend or apologist left among the people he had outraged by a black crime ; and while he thouo'ht he was approaching lil»erty, they wei*e determined that he should exchange his cell in Auburn Prison only for a gallows in the yard of Ithaca Jail. There was no geiieral public avowal of that pur- pose, but there was never, probably, such tacit unanimity among a whole people to accomplish an unacknowledged design. That Ed- ward 11. KuUoif was to be hung by the forms of law if possible, but without them if necessary, was a judgment irrevocably entered in the public mind. CTIAPTEll VIL CONDEMNED TO DEATFT. On a bleak day in January, 1856, Edward H. RullofT arose, as he thought, to liberty and renewed life. On that day the penalty exacted by the law for the crime it had been able to prove had been paid to the last minute, and the sentence of confinement at hard labor for ten years had been literally fulfilled. For this decade had been to the convict actually one of hard labor beyonloyed rioga County c excitement I could not bo ng taken thia lake, and tho Terminer, on a. To show if Tompkins, lets from the she was mar» I's wedding ; saw that »\\q I can relate; iiird ; on the that if VVil- aud we were nily;Uulloff about three ^'s atler llu'y Anted him to caru of liur ; Uullolf.snid iiiin wluitlier h: T],ill, and 1 on the way THE MAN OP TWO LIVES. 21 to William's he said it was strange that I had raised so many chil- dren without losmg any, but my gray hairs would yet go down in sorrow to the grave ; he said, William's wife and child have gone • who wdl go next ? he 8»id then Harriet and her babe would ffo next ; this was the 5th of June, 1845 ; said William liad misused him a sliort tmie before he was called to prescribe for the wife •^'^^ ^^'PV.^"' sworn: I kept the boarding-house spoken of : Mr. and Mts ItuUolf were with me off and on; when they first cot back trora .Jefferson it seems that the minister kissed both the brides- he Kulloff, said if he was a woman he would murder a minister bcix^re he would permit him to kiss her; said he didn't believe in such habits : afterwards they went to a shilling party, and the minister kissed his wife again; this was about a week after; he was very angry ; said he would never take her anywhere again; she went witholit a meal tor two days ; about three weeks after the marriacre Dr Bull called- ^TAwr\^i^;'"r^ ^^''- ?"'^^^ ^"^ ^^'- S^hutt; HuUoff g«t up and let the table; he came down stairs and went away ; he didn't come backtodmuer; Bull had then gone; Rulloff came back in a little while and went up stairs ; then came down ; then we, William's r/M"" 4-r"^ "^ ^"^ found her sobbing ; the last of April or first of May, William went to Jefferson and stayed longer than Rulloff wished ; the latter was very angry; Rulloff was determined that the li. fnff / f S^^r!r ^^^.'^ and pushed it towards the stairs; Mrs. Rulloff followed to the stairs; I heard something like a blow ; as I Rnll ff--'-J T^ l^^r^.and she said, Oh, Jane, come up quick l' Mrs. Rul off said, Edward is going to make me take poison and lake it himl T In! ^^^^-^^^^^^-^ «l;"fhed together; he had the bottle in his hand, and I and she tried to take it away ; I took hold of her ; he said. By the hving God, this poison will kill both of us in five niinutes and that would put an end to their troubles ; he saw they .vere g£/ L better ot h.m and he threw it out of the window ; then thtfe crot^over the exctemer^t, aud he began to twit her about Bull, and slfe^dropped he M . rT ^"-^ T,'^' ?''' ^'^'Y'^^ ^ ^"^ ^""«^^«"t a« ^" «"born child ; he struck her in the face, and said. Get away, G-d d-n you • yoj know better than to come near n. when I am angry as iZ \Z he blow knocked her over; she looked very red in the lace- he t^ieu he'v^rsheHrtoToHf;rrV"^^ ^'^N^^*- ^^^''-^^^ ^-^ alUhe'pleas'e She wiMed to, lor he didn't want to live with her any more : he char-^ed her with sexual impropiieties; his language was iLtty I i^ad that was about a that was said ; I advisod'^hinT to go iway an iJav^e her' ief af Ch k 'Sd hi Tif'' rr '2 ^"^^^ ''"^^ '^ ^""*''- he woulAei^'j a Jemh.nnn n 1 ^^ ^u'^'K murdered his wife ; said Clark was K ,. r ' > l'"'^"^^ "^''P ^''' '''' «"^ ^« "^''^^^ '"^-at ; that night he canned them back; two or three days a ftor war-Is h" W--^ v^o til l/ I hrfor f. Iv- r ""T ,'" ^''^"^ ^^^'^^^^ ^t "'^'>t' and sat down ui^T^tZ^u!!^!!!,^'^^ '- '-"!^' -Vl -<^ He sometimes honest m:) wi ieltlike (lestrojnng the whole'fomiiy^kVr then being hung i.Ke an lan, as Clark was ; Clark was hung some twenfy-six ^eaisago! i. ;-!!■ ihI: ■if!; 28 THE MAN OP TWO LIVEa Thomas RoTiertson sworn: Lived in Lansing in 1845, and live there now; knew defendant and family; livp on the middle road, five miles north from Iihaca ; for a few weeks he and I lived near each other a scant mile and a half from the lake ; his house was on the corner op- posite mine; I was on the west side of the road, defendant on the east side, but the width of the road north ; part of the time they, as was* paid, were at Mrs. Rulloff 's father's ; his family consisted of a wife and Jemale child ; in June, '44 or '45, Rulloff called on me for a horse and wagon, between ten or eleven o'clock ; he wanted a wagon to carry a chest of his uncle's to Mottville; think, but am not certirin, that he named his uncle as Boyce; Mottville is eight or ten miles from my place ; I let him have the horse and wagon, but reluctantly, because It was an extreme hot day ; he came for the horse a few minutes after twelve; he took dinner with us; just after dinner my son and he got the horse and went to his, Rulloff 's, door; I saw them there and went over, and just as I got there defendant was pushing a chest towards the door, and took hold of it to put it in the wagon ; I said, shall I help you load it? he said, If you please, sir; I did it, and he went in the house, leaving the door about one-third open ; I moved the horse across the street into the shade; subsequently he drove off; the end of the chest was heavier than if filled with ordinary clothing; my end weighed about sixty or seventy pounds ; a part of the building had been previously used for a store ; the windows had tight shutter.-, fthey were sometimes shut and sometimes open ; the south windows were dosed, and one-half of one towards me was open ; am not positive about this ; he went directly south on the road to Mottville; that road did not communicate with the lake, except by other cross roads that he could have taken; there are woods upon these roads going to the lake ; after I hitched the horse R. came out with a flour sack oi- pillow ease about one-third full, and put it into the wagon ; have not seen the family since; he brought the horse and wagon back about twelve the 'next day; the horse didn't seem to have been driven, wasn't sweaty • ■was as hot a day as the one previous ; he took dinner with us that day • at three or four p.m. I saw Mr. Rulloff going towards Mottville or Ith- aca with a bundle in his hand ; bundle" was tied up in a reddish shawl or handkerchief. Richard K. Swift, sworn, says : I reside in Chicago ; lived there in . 1845; dealt in money, principally in real estate ; think in 1845 my I brother was applied to for a loan by a man ; my brother refused ; heard ^ the man say he hail lost his wife and child, and was out of m«niey ; I fr-Md to brother if he didn't let him have the money I would ; 1 let h'ira have $25 or $30, for which he gave me his noce, signed, 1 believe James H. Revillee ; he left, as security for the payment of his note a brown chest, snuff brown, I think about eighteen inches across ends, three feet or more long ; as near as I can ni.-w remember he said his wife and child died south of Chicago, on the Illinois river, in Illinois* 1 think he said they died about six weeks before; I was at Ithaca in' August last, saw the defendant ; I thought I reco'^nizcd him; I might not have recognized him iu a crowd j he lold me if he didn't return m M .% '"^^Ss nd live there id, iive miles ^ach other, a le corner op- t on the east they, as waf« of a wife and a horse and )n to carry a tirin, that he es from my itly, because ainiites after and he got ire and went i towards the shall I help went in the horse across end of the g; my end )uilding had utters ; they ndows were not positive e ; that road 3 roads that foing to the ck or pillow not seen the t, twelve the n't sweaty ; us that day; iVille or Ith- ddish shawl 'ed there in . in 1845 my | used ; heard ^ f money; I fl ; 1 let him 1, 1 believe, his note, a across ends, he said his in Illinois ; it Ithaca ill m; I mipar. 1 to live the nceforward a Tim MAN OF TWO LIVES. gj ing the country was placarded with posters like this: ""'"^'^^''^^"'^- ed^ol^htU'itr^oVJ^^^^^^^^^ villaj?e. II« was a sis od in 1 r^'^^''' ' ^'^^P*^*^ ^'"""^ '»'« J'"' i'» this Bide of the jaiL SaTd R, lo r ^ IT.^F ?L"^ 'T''^"" ""^ i'^''«»"« O"'- Bhort thick' n ok larS S^"t" 'J««^«J"«'"^« .'"'«''. "tout built, stoops tbrwanl when he walk« «. V^^"'";^^^ '"o^io-'s, and languages, and hi la beard ot-s^mf^f; ^'"?'r?' ^T''''"^ ^^^'^ ^^'^^r he lefCwiMghs about 1 sols, Znur^^^^^^^^ when round the waist 37 or 38 inches wTk T ^u^ ''^''''^ ^^ "'"'^es, hair, rather small, dark bie oi hL?! ^7^" ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^'^'^ l^-own some calh>uses on'hLtwerca^^e'd W ^Jl'k r l£ w '^^^' ^••^'•^^'?^ ieadtoThei^!vi, oV:f'r;:tT,elTo^!?^ ^"^'^ ^•;*--^^-" - «i-n cape of the said Edward H RHlnf? f T'^^?"' who aided in tho as- IruAOA, N. T., May 29, iesV ' •^' ""^ ^'""■^*''"' ^'""""y- Proclamation by John A Tr:»^ n Information haWn, ten o ^^""^^'•''/'^- ^'«^^ ofm.oYorlc: Sheriff of the cortyffT:mpkrird'l?ot/' "^ '^ ^- '' I^* of that county, that Edward II Rulh IK 7 ^^^^'^''/'espectable residents infant daughter, had esca^fed f^;"„^' u e i" V''An^^^'^« •""'•*^«'- "*'l'i« that a reward should be Xed L'J^ u ^''''''^^' ^'"^'^ a request Rulloff in addition to the reward 0^^^^!/?" \\" ^Pl>'-^'''«n«ion of said therefore, hereby offer a rewan of fiv.l 7 '?^ '"''^ ^'^^'-i^"- I do, Led one thousand eig„e hundtS and '^K,' t ^'^"^ °"' II-^NBT I. SbSA ''°™™°''> J^HN A. KING. Private Secretary/. Onlv confiiainr* «.]•■ " • - = hiding f„„„ the la^'Zrr' '"° '"'"'"^ "''"" '"' »''toin<-d dnrina his pect,t,f this r en k"w: .tfnarrd "'t "'"» '■'■'»' """-'"'^ - - ^ lorm, a statement recently made 89 TIIE MAN OF TWO LIVEa by A. B. Richmond, Esq., of Meadvillo, Pa., and published in the Jt*- publican of that town, is now appended : It was in the winter time, about twelve years aero, that 1 was pitting in my office, when a man carae in, dressed in cheap, plain garments, lookin'' like a farmer, and asked if this was Mr. Richmond. 1 replied that \i was, when he said that he had heard that 1 had invented a patent machine, and wished to know if I would be willintj to get an acent to sell it for me. He said hia name was James kelson ; that, although a stranger to me, yet ho could jrive me utidoiibti-d rofeiences as to character, &c. There was something peculiar in this man a ap- pearance, lie had a face the most peculiar I ever saw ; a face once seen, never to be forgotten. I saw from the tone of his voice that ho ■was evidently a gentleman of culture and education. I took him into my laboratory to show him the machine. He seemed pleased with it, and wished mo to make him a proposition. As the machine was one that I had invented more as a matter of pastime than for profit, with- out any intention or thought of pt'cuniary recompense, I told him that I would <'ive him the undivided half interest of the United btates tor $500. He said he would take it, that he had a brother who was quite wealthy, and would assist him, and he would get the money when he got the model ready. I asked him if he could construct a model. " Yes," said he, " I am a fine mechanic ;" and with the science of which he seemed thoroughly conversant. We went into my collection room, and first came to a case contain- ing marine shells. The shells had been lying on cards, and some vis- itors who had been examining them had transposed Uiem. He imme- diately stopped and called ray attention to the fact, saying, " Mr. Richmond, that is certainly not correct. That shell is not correctly labelled. That shell is surely not Spondylus Spinosus, but is the Ar- gonauti Argo." I discovered the mistake, perceiving how it had oc- curred. oFcourse I was very much astonished to find that he should knov; anything about them, but I found, upon further conversation, that he was perf-'ctly familiar v,'ith the science of conchology, and also equally well acquainted with the science of mineralogy. My as- tonishment increased, when, a little further along, he picked up the skull of an Indian that had been found on a Western battle field, and remarked, " Ah, that man received a terrible blow upon the right parietal bone. See, it has fractured the temporal bone ;" and remarked further, " He must have been a man of considerable age, as the lamb- doiclal suture is almost obliterated." Upon further con versa! ion with him, I found that he was a fine anatomist, a science to which I had paid some attention. We passed then to the case of insects, and I found that he was likewise acquainted with the science of entomology, nam- ing the insects in my collection as readily as I could. 'Bv this time my surprise was unbounded, as I had had many learned nienvisit my collection, but never found one that seemed to under- stand so well all the sciences connected with the objects in my mil- Beura. Fe passed ariund the collection and repeated a quotation in 1 '4 )d in thoiZtf* I wan sitting ain gannents, [1(1. 1 replied id invented a lini; to get an Nelson ; that, ted referencea this man's ap- ; a face once I voice that ho took him into eased with it, jhino was one •r profit, witli- told him that ted States for ivho was quite oiiey when he met a model. Me science of k ca«e contain- and pome vis- n. He irame- saying, " Mr. not correctly but is the Ar- low it had oc- that he should conversation, ichology, and logy. My as- he picked up rn battle- field, upon the right ' and remarked [?, as the lamb- versation with lich I had paid ,s, and I found amology, nam- l many learned ned to under- lets in my mu- a quotation in 4 THE MAN OF TWO LIVES. $$ Latin, with which, by more chance, I happened to bo fiunillar, nnd I conJiiiu.d the convernation as though he hau .•„x^_. ._ Kill , thus, lor the moment losing sight of the original purpose of the capture m the aggravation of this later and more trivial offence. But I suddenly recollecting that Donnin was on the way back with the nocea- 88 THE MAN OF TWO LIVES. lillH bary papers for the legal reuditiou of the prisoner, he informed RulloflF of the fact and proposed to hiui to go to Ithaca with him voluntarily. It is said Rulloff consented to this strange proposal, and if ho did, it would be no mora singular than many events of his life ; but lunvever it may be, it is certain that he was returned to Iihaca jail, and that Dennin and the constable had the dispute usual in such cases over the division of the reward. The willingness of EuUofT to return to Ithaoa is probably explained by the fact, that he knew that if he escaped mob violence, he was at the threshold of substantial liberty. He had by the power of intrigue and illicit love forced his dungeon bars on the night of the 5th of May, and had ever since been at large ; but the freedom thus gained was precarious and he was exposed every moment to bo seized by any one to whom his identity might become known. While he was thus at large, his case hud been taken to the Court of Appeals, and ho knew it would be argued at the December term, 1858, before Chief Justice Alexander S. Johnson, Judges George P. Comstock, Samuel L. Selden, and Hiram Denio, with Justices Jas. J. Eoosevelt, Ira Harris, Daniel Pratt, and Theron E. Strong, of the Supreme Court as ex-officio members It was in fact so argued, the point involved was exhaustively examined, and the opin on of the Court delivered by the Chief Justice, who discussed the question at great length, but the syllabus of the decision was: — *' To warrant a conviction of murder there must be direct proof of the death, as by the finding and identification of the corpse, or of criminal violence adequate to produce death, and exerted iu such manner as to account for the disappearance of the body. " The corpus delicti in murder has two components ; death as the result and criminal agency of another. It is only where there is direct proof of the one that the other can be established by circumstantial evidence. ** The rule of Lord Hale, forbidding a conviction of murder, or man- elaughter, unless the fact be proved to be done, or at least the body found dead, affirmed." In concluding the opinion of the Court, Chief Justice Johnson said : "The rule is not founded in a denial of the force of circumstantial evi- dence, but in the danger of allowing any but unequivocal and certain proof that some one is dead, to bo the ground on which, by the interpre- tation of circumstances of suspicion, an accused person is to bo convicted of murder." With only Justice Eoosevelt dissenting, the Court reversed tho ju!lgmf>nt below, and ord<>red n new trin,!. This decision, which is fully printed in 4tli Smith's New York Eoports, n-as undoubtedly anticipated by Eulloff, before his enforced return to Tthacu, and there is as little doubt that he was as fully aware of what formed RulloflF /oluntarily. It 10 did, it would [lowever it may lat Dennin and ) division of the ably explained , he was at the af intrigue and ;h of May, and was precarious le to whom his ^e, his case hud d be argued at [er S. Johnson, im. Denio, with Bron R. Strong, fact so argued, opin on of the lostion at great ct proof of the or of criminal 1 manner as to ;h as the result is direct proof itial evidence, lurder, or man- ihe body found Johnson said: umstantial evi- ;al and certain •y the interpre- to bo convicted Court reversed York Reports, irced return to aware of what THE MAN OF TWO LIVES. 89 would be its legal effect. He tlierefore knew that while it was possible lie migiit be again put upon trial for his life, with the law thus estab- lished by the highest tribunal of the State, there was not the least possi- bility of a conviction. He may, and most probably did, anticipate that the District Attorney being also fully informed of this fact, would de- cline to put himself to the trouble, and the people to the exjiense of a second trial, the inevitable result of which would be an acquittal, without the case oven going to the jury. This was in fact the course forced upon the authorities by the decision ; and although not much of a lawyer, he was enough of one to know that he incurred no risk of suffering any further penalties by surrendering himself into the hands of the Tomp- kins county jailer. His later and lesser crimes of burglary and larceny at Warren and Meadville, Pa., miglit demand th 3 forfeiture of his liberty for a time, but liis neck was again in his own keeping. After a struggle of thirteen years, with a whole people determined to omit no lawful means to wrost from him a life they were convinced he had forfeited by his foul deeds, he had triumphed by what the people in their wrath declared was a technicality of the law, but in fact, by his own shallow cunning in the disposal of the bodies of his victims, and by the trustfulness of the peo- ple about him in human nature. Had any one of his neighbors imagined at the time, that crimes so foul as his could be committed by any human being, no earthly power could have saved Edward H. EuLoii' iium ttie gallows in 1845. 4 CHAPTER XL TWO DANGERS PASS^ED. Bur while the law no longer had terrors for this man of ineffable wick- edness, there was a power above the law more hostile to him than any Criminal Act, and of which ho was in mortal dread. That power was the people acting in the primitive capacity of a mob, and that he knew of the feeling against him, as well as the danger that it would be actively employed, is amply shown by his stipulations that he should be piivately delivered to tlie Sheriff of Ithaca. Even hie effrontery did not wi-h, on this second return, to brave the populace by walking through the streets, anven rudi- lon, differ- ■ and faith so plainly srceptions tion to no nous sub- em in the t on year nd mean* the world 1 knowl- DETECTIVE PHIL. REILLEY. , it is not sriminals, ear New i't I THB MAN OF TWO LIVBS. 45 York continuously from mi to August 15, 1870, aud constantly en- gagod m burglanos or larounies. yet they wore utterly unknown to the police, and except by reputation, to all other professional thieves: but the apparent anomaly i. sunceptible of easy explanation. They n. xr lera found m the usual h u.nts of criminals, tJiey were shrewd enough o dTs! pose of thotr stolen property to some one who was not known as a pn . f^sional receiver, but more than all, they nevor-with possibly one C nble exception, to be hereafter noted-committed a Jme in or L th- immediate vicinity of New York city. Actuated by motive, of ^ ude^ee rather than a desire o illustrate the proverb that "It is a vile bird wWch fouls Its own nest," they always went to a distance to commi thrd«nl dations, and generally selected Western New York IntheuZ n7 r; zT ■' '"J- T v'^ T'"^ *^ '""^^ *^-- with all'; tugr"; and robberies which have been perpetrated anywhere in thaTKr, during the past half dozen years. "3 they were'I^ n Ty Z'Tf these cases. It was their habit to never en^aire in nd lr,J - .. driven by actual want. They lived who ly by !telL7b„t ^^^^^^^^^^ T'" wan 8. They had no ambition to accumulate by theft, for Rulloff J„, contmiially proclaiming the good time nearer when tl s derni 1^^^^^ r I^'^TW' '''' *^.7-'^«:^P^y-al life auppliedt alfern^ o?nf« Z; -f 7 "° ''^''^'"'^ *^"* ^" ^«^* '^"y repugnance ta his war of life, and it is almost certain he never expressed any excont tTth^Z^ ZtlTfl' of punishment if detected, b'ut it is aWst e\l J^^^^^^^^^^ that he had by this time really become infatuated with his mentXower. and had recourse to thieving only as a make-shift for therme„nnt.'; Tw^ .1 ?^ ''"?""' "°^ '^^^^ h^« acquisitions. lU ato true however, tb^t he continued to filch his living for v«,« «« .! . ' to earn a aollar by honest labor, and never !n« ZlTJimZl' beginning of 1868, even making a pretenc^ of havLVlny defini^^^^^^^^ which being attained hie dreams would be realities "^ '°^'^'^"^*" ""^^''^ But bis two disciples, unable to comprehend how utter was hi- shallow ness and selfishness, still believed in him s^ole for h m 1 ^'!.'''''"7" not often, with him-and thus the two^t^^^^VrruTyTars o^f misery and infamy, of which the tale must bftold as far a«t h^T ^ 49 THE MAN OF TWO LIYEa CHAPTKR XIII. YEAB8 OF OROVELINO. That the life, even in outline, of this extraordinary criminal, can be given from the date of his discharge from Sing Sing in tlie Spring of 18G'i, until his arrest at Binghamton in August, 1^70, is duo, first to the fact that Broome county is so fortunate as to have in Hon. P. W. Hop- kins, a District Attorney of great ability, untiring energy and resolute determination, to exhaust both himself and the law, rather than permit crime to go unpunished. '^Text, it is due to the skill and industry as po- licemen of Capt. Henry Heddeu and officer Philip Reilley, of the 15th Precinct, New York city, who by the uncertain light of limited informa- tion, led Mr. Hopkins along the twisting and buried paths of outcast lives, to the complete establishment of a conspiracy to do burglary and murder by three men, before unknown, both to metropolitan detectives, and, ex- cept by reputation, to metropolitan criminals. Thus gathered, these facta are precious, and Jarvis and Dexter being dead, they are all that can ever be known of these years, unless, which is highly improbable, Eulloff him- self should come forward and furnish the world with the details of all his infamies. "Without any information from him, it is certainly known that the time of Doxter first expiring at Sing Sing, he announced when he arrived at home, that he had a friend who was book-keeper of the cabinet shop of the prison, whose time would soon be out, and Avhen it was he was to make a visit to the house of Dexter, at No. 10 Graham Street, Brooklyn, E. D. The friend, who was Eulloff, but who was to be known at that house as Jim Howard, was even better than his word, for his visit extended into a residence of many months. The house, which was little better than a barn, belonged to Dexter in common with his mother and brother John, and the family being wretchedly poor, living in the lower part of the house, rented out the two upper floors as a means of adding to the income of the owners of the tenement. Into this family and to this squalor, liuUoff came without bringing a dollar to its aid, and made only the shallowest pretence of doing anything for his own support. True to him- self, he was of course penniless, and nothing was further from his thoughts than to go out into the world and wring a decent support from it by honest labor. His first device for imposing upon himself ai ' others a belief that he was doing something useful, was an attempt to color photo- graphs by a new process, which was of course his owil invention, and inal, can be e Spring of , first to the P. W. Hop. ind resolute than permit ustry as po- of the 15th ;ed informa- )utca8t lives, and murder '63, and, ex- i, these facta liat can ever RuUoff him- ils of all his liat the time e arrived at inet shop of was to make )klyu, E. D. lat house as snded into a 3tter than a rothor John, part of the the income his squalor, ide only the Frue to him- his thoughts from it by L ' others a color photo- v^ention, and THE MAN OF TWO LIVES. 47 was to make his fortune. But only a very few days were sufficient to sliow others, if not himself, that he was a charlatan at this, ps all else and after he had spoiled all the photographs he could beg, borrow or pilfer a sister of Dexter threw his paints into the yard, where they were picked up and devoured by the chicken^ of a German livin. next door and poisoned them all, to the great dismay and anger of that thrifty person. ^ T; 3 next exploit of this man, who was living with a high object, was more creditable to his business acumen, as it consisted in seUing both John Dexter and Wm. T. Dexter into the Army of the Eepublic, which was then on tne eve of its complete triumph over armed treason. As that hat RuUoff made something by the operation, and there is no doubt he kept the affair entirely in his own hands, as the discharge papers of both the recruits were found in his desk when its contents were seized by n^pt Hedden six years later. With this incident of the enhstment and thai of the poisoned chickens the history of 1864 is completed, so far as it is positively knou'n, but it is almost certain that Eulloff and Jarvis were en- gaged during that time in several burglaries. In the spring of 1SG5 as the Nahon joyiully remembers, "Johnnie came marohing\ome," nd among the hundreds of thousands of men changed as if by magi; from armed soldiers into citizens, were the two Dexters. John went back to his trade as a lather, and WiUiam naturally took to thieving This was the most forlorn period in the lives of these outlaws, and it is almost impossible to believe the utter abjectness to which RuUoff, the man of great education and unlimited resources, was at this time reduced. He was usually hungry and naked, and it was no uncommon thing for him and Dext.r, m the fall of that year, to go out at night provided lith bags, and return towards morning with these bags filled with po- bus obtamed, fue was procured in the same way, for they would fill these same bags with coal pilfered from the yards of dealers, or the pave- mont bins of small tradesmen, which they broke open. No petty sneak t liief. who IS the scorn of accomplished outlaws, was ever reduced to such 8 lifts as these, but these facts are absolutely true of the crhninal who de- Clares from the I inghamton jail that no man ever lived with higher ob- jects than himsem So far is this from the truth, that it can be easily shown that his objects were always ignoble, and in no way more vividly. tnan in his treatment of his naanmntc ,-,, .v,;„-.-„ „-,j -• .. ^ ' , '•' '■! -nnory ana -onniu. jjexter was detecte I in one of Ins petty pilferings, was arrested, convicted, and sen- tenced to a term of sixty days in the Kings County Penitentiary. This event gave Eulloff an opportunity for one of those strokes of business 48 THE MAN OF TWO UYES. peculiar to his genius, although he did not himself at first appear person- ully in the transaction. Under pretence that the money was to be used to get him out of prison, Dexter was induced, jointly with his brother and mother, to borrow $500 on the Graham street property, and to give Kul- L*ff a power of attorney to act for them. The money was obtained from Mrs. Arabella Armstrong, through Joseph Fettridge, her attorney, to whom application was made by Jarvis under the name of Charles Thomp- son, by which designation he was always known among the Doxters. A mortgage was given on the property to secure this loan, and the money getting inlo the hands of Rnlloff and Jarvis, its subsequent fate was a mystery. It i^ only certain that none of it was used for the benefit of Dexter, as that unfortunate regained his liberty only by serving out his full time. From that time forward the owners had no control of the small property which belonged to himself, brother, and mother jointly, but which being in the hands of RuUoff as attorney, he was not only able to collect the rents, which he converted to his own use, but to talk elsewhere of his Brooklyn property, and thus add to the petty deceptions of his life. In this mean way the year was eked out, and no certain knowledge of the life of the outlaws has been obtained during the period from the latter part of 1865 until the middle of 1866. But during this time there was a crime committed in the City of New York which has ever since remained a mystery, and which in many respects was the prototype of the Bing- hamton tragedy. During the night of the 14th of February, 1866, the Bilk trimmings manufactory in 35th street, between 8th and 9tli avenues, was entered by burglars, who carried away property valued at $2,000, and who encountered the watchman, Philip Kraemer, on the second floor, beat him so brutally with some heavy blunt implement that he died in a few hours without having recovered couciousness aftev hs was discovered. Inspector Walling, then captain of the 20th Precinct, and 'lis detailed officer, James Irving, now Captain of Detectives, two of the ablest offi(;er3 attached to the New York Police, gave to this terrible crime the fullest investigatit)n, but were unable to ever discover the assassin, or to satisfy themselves of any fact connected with the perpetrators except tliat they were not professional burglars who wore accustomed to do work in the city. The men were seen to leave the building, but the person who saw them was only able to give the general description of two of them, that they were young men, and one of them, who wore a moustache and goatee, «,ao voTnarknhlv cmnA InnkmcT. but of the third mftn hc was unable to say anything whatever. To this identical factory, as Capt. Hedden discovered four years afterward, RuUoff, under the name of R 0. Howard, had taken tk lot of eiik thread to be dyed and thus deprecisited its value $300, THE MAN OF TWO LIVES. ppear person- as to be used 3 brother and I to give Kul- jbtained from r attorney, to larles Thomp- the Doxters. md the money »nt fate was a the benefit of erving out hia control of the lother jointly, was not only e, but to talk tty deceptions knowledge of TOin the latter ine there was lince remained I of the Bing- ary, 18G6, the 1 9th avenuest ,ed at $2,000, e second floor, t he died in a 'as discovered. i 'lis detailed ablest offifjers 110 tlie fullest a, or to satisfy jept tliat they 3 work in the jrson who saw of them, that lie and goatee, ; unable to say len discovered ard, had taken ■M value $300, 49 BO as io make it manifest that it was stolen property. Tliis fact joined with the other, and the description of one of the young men was in general that of Jarvis, has latterly led to the belief that the EulloflF Irio committed the crime. It is not intended to lay this murder positively at the door of a man who has enough without it to answer for, but the jmrpose of the writer is merely to state the truth, that there is now a conviction in the minds of many who have carefully considered the deed in the light of recent developments, that he and his dead comrades were the guilty parties. But this is the only crime they are even suspected of ever committing in the city. CHAPTER XIV. ' DOMESTIC LIFE WITH IN T B E BU PTI N& The lapse of time and steady additions to the long catalogue of their outrages upon property made no improvement in the fortunes of these outlaws. In the middle of 1866 Eulloff and Jarvis were living in the two front rooms on the second floor of No. 19 Delancey street. New York, which they had furnished themselves in a cheap way. Somotimr s they cooked their food themselves, but often er obtained their meals h. the low restaurants of the neighborhood. In this abode they were enigmas, and for the only time during these shadowed years were objects ot° suspicion to the other inmates of the house. Eulloff was known by his favorite alias of E. 0. Howard, and pretended to be a teacher of languages by profession, while his companion Jarvis, who was styled Charles Thompson, never took the trouble to state his means of livelihood, and occupied his time when at home, in studying German under the direction of his com- panion. The writer has a friend who occupied rooms on the same floor with these men, who was in daily intercourse with them for several months, and whose knowledge of their true character has been gained by the re- velations of the Binglmmton murder. From this source, which is entirely reliable, many interesting facts have been gained of the domestic habits of bufglnra and assassins when resting from their labors. It was noticed during all of their protracted residence in this house, that both of them would frequently be absent for days together, and when they returned would always have plenty of money, whereas their purses were romarka- 50 THE MAN OF TWO LIVES. i ble only for emptiness just prior to their departure. Once the other ten- ant of tlie floor remarking upon this singuhirity, asked them if they were travelling agents, and both answered in the affirmative with suspicious alacrity. But with the exception of these strange departures and re- turns, there was nothing to awaken distrust of the lodgers. They wera . men of the most quiet, inoflFensive habits, and addicted in a remarkable ^ degree to sedentary pursuits. They always, when in the city, spent their evenings at home in reading or study, and their frivolities were bounded I by occasional games of whist or euchre, in both which games RuUoff was proficient. Sometimes, but still more rarely, liquor of the milder sorts would be brought into the room, and sparingly drank by both, but in this respect both were abstemious far beyond the average of reputable men. If they had any liaisons with frail women, they managed to keep the fact concealed from those who saw almost hourly into their domestic life. They appeared to be model lodgers who were averse to dissipation of all kinds, and certainly never brought their home into disrepute by X'eeling into it drunk at unseemly hours. After they had been some months in the house, their domestic circle was increased by the arrival of a one-eyed iuan, and still later by the coming of two women, to whom the rear rooms on the second floor were given, and who were announced as a sister of EuUofFand her daughter, which they were not. The identity of this man and the elder of these women has since been fully established, but as it was never discovered that the iivat was ever engaged in any crime, and the other has since re- formed, and is reputably married, cruel wrong would be done by dragging them into an unnecessary publicity. After these additions there was lit- tle if any change in the daily life of tho outlaws, and no improprieties in the conduct of any of the inhabitants of the second floor were ever de- tected. But Rulloff and Jarvis at last suddenly disappeared from the house, as they always did in the end, from all their homes, and soon after the others going, the second floor was tenantless, but still held by Rulloff', as his furniture remained in the front room. When his absence had been protracted for several weeks, and it was not only reported but believed in the^ house that he had been arrested for frauds of some kind upon the United States Government, the landlord entered upon the premises and eizing the furniture, sold some of it to pay the - irs of rent. But just ifterwards the one-eyed man reappeared, claimed the furniture in the name of Rulloff, and carted it away. Neither Rulloff nor his quiet, gen- tlemanly companion were ever afterwards seen in the house. "•'l-e fact was, however, that instead of being arrested for frauds, he had be^a traveling in the one path of crime in which he always trod, and had been detected and arrested in the commission of a burglarj' upon a THE MAN OF TWO LIVES. fi| the other ten- ri if they were ith suspicious tures and re- I. They were a remarkable ty, spent their lyere bounded 5s Rullo£f was I milder sorts both, but in of reputable aged to keep leir domestic to dissipation disrepute by )mestic oircle . later by the nd floor were ev daughter, Ider of these )r discovered has since re- by dragging iliere was lit- )roprieties in 'ere ever de- •ed from the id soon after dbyRuIloflP, Qce had been it believed in nd upon the remises and it. But just liture in the s quiet, gen- auds, he had ys trod, and jlarj' upon a store in one of the interior towns of Massachusetts. In this instance ho has 80 successfully concealed his history, that the writer has been unable in the limited time at his disposal to learn the details of his offence, or the manner in which he finally evaded the full measure of its penalty, as he undoubtedly did, for he was only lost in the labyrinths of the law for a few weeks, when another glimpse of the man who was "living with a high object," was obtained in Western New York. He appeared in Monticello, the shire town of Sullivan county, where he took lodging at the Mansion House, under his alias of Jas. Nelson, and almost imme- diately upon his arrival nmde a deposit of a small atnount in the National Union Bank of Sullivan county, which is the leading financial institution of the town. After becoming a depositor he made frequejit visits to the bank for the purpose of drawing small amounts, as was then supposed, but as is now known, to acquire an intimate knowledge of the interior of the banking house. His next movement was to obtain lodgings at the boarding-house where George E. Bennett, the teller, lived; and he soon made decided advances in his usual persuasive manner toward an inti- macy with that gentleman. While his plans were thus slowly, but suc- cessfully maturing, and he was yet entirely unsuspected, he suddenly decamped, leaving about $200 on deposit in the bank, which he has never returned to claim. Soon after his departure a set of burglar's tools, ad- mirably adapted to bank work, was found concealed in the hay-mow of a iarmer, in the outskirts of the village. So vivid was the impression he made upon the bank officials that long afterwards, when he was under arrest at Bingliamton, Israel P. Tremaine, the cashier, had no difficulty in swearing to his identity with the man having an unclaimed balance in their vaults. It was not then known, nor has it since been learned why he left without claiming his assets ; but his presence in the town was then, and has over since been coupled with the concealed instruments of his calling. It is probable that he was not only meditating, but cautiously approaching a bank burglary for the first and only time in his life. On all other occasions he was satisfied with rifling a store, and neither he nor his confederates were ever known in any other case to rise abov +he lower di'gi-ees of robbery. The ijroceeiings of the outlaws during the year 18G8 are not known, beyond the fact that Rulloff was once in trouble, but where, or for what oftenoe, or how ho regained his liberty, are circumstances the detectives have been unable to unearth. There is no record of Jarvis having been detected in any of hi.s f^nt^rnvisc", during that year, and that outlaw, who was so refined in liis tastes and habits as to be almost finical, generally had better fortune than his seuior. Indeed, one who knew of all their operations, but stoutly resisted every attempt to cajole any revelations out £2 THE MAN OF TWO LIYES. i!' of her, in her rage at the final catastrophe declared that they always were caught when that clumsy Doctor, with his lame foot, thereby meaning KuUoff, was along, but when Billy and Charley, meaning Dexter and Jarvis, were alone, they always siiceeeilod. But this declaration being based on her admiration of the handsome Jurvis, was without value except OS tending to show the frequency of the depredations in which they were engaged. The close of 1868 marked a new era in the lives of these three outlaws. Then for the first time there is proof that the dreams of EuUoff took their last and philological shape with sufficient distinctness for him to buoy up his deluded followers with some tangible proof that the long promised time of plenty and peace was at hand. Living then somewhere in Hoboken or Hudson City, New Jersey, lie began his work upon Method in the Formation of Language, upon which he was to expend vast labor as well as much time, and in which he was himself to sincerely believe to the last. The beginning of this epoch is proved to have been about tliis time by the f ict that his confederates were then first heard to speak of liia work, although it is probable that he had himself conceived the idea, and expended many hours in his " searches" for examples prior to that date. But it was certainly not until a very recent day, comparatively, that he began to occupy the time spared from burglary with those philo- logical labors, which were in the end to be so startlingly interrupted. M'. IP I ~^H ^'^ ^B P'* gH th; ^B tcr ^H ^^'* ^H ^''" ^H ^^^ ^H an( ^H 8tU ^H anc ^^K ten ^H tna ■jH hav J par 1 THE MAN OF TWO LIVES. they always were thereby meaning .ning Dexter and declaration being hout value except , which they were )8e three outlaws. IS of EuUoff took .ctness for him to )of that the long ; then somewhere ork upon Method )xpend vast labor ncerely believe to i been about tliis rd to speak of liia iceived the idea, pies prior to that y, comparatively, with those philo- Y interrupted. 03 CHAPTER XV. FROM rSJILOLOGY TO MUUTVER. TNthebeginninjj of 1869, Rulloff and J«rvis to„k up th.h la,t rosi dence .n New York at No. 270 Third Avenue, renting two oIh . 625 per month on the second floor, from Mr. Conrad Jakob At thh time tl.e frowns of fortune were unusually severe, for t 'ey Lltan " .on. m.eri. modi«catio... U.^^^^!^::^ Z^^^;:^!; catio., but Charles G. Curtiss, o^J!:^:,^'".;;:':;;':^- ">a,.ne.tT nppeared on the scene but one of t „ '^''^ language af.d some rare lexicons. vamabJe work8 upon bright example to the voutr^r^l ■ f'"^'"r """"' '"' «'<""«'» » -s eitea in L houLlhChe" iv' ^ "' jIT ^' '""' "« Plary la,ly, „„t o„ly bade her son f7J. , . ^°^- " """" «™- that of (he excellent oh1„,i '" P"""'" •■" "'-araoter by .er p»un„e, ri^elf; rp^,-::;^^^- i.e,. dang,:: after day at the fp«.t «f fi • * f^^oc^ous gul of fourteen, to sit day ping, o Ar::!:d::?„^; r "t: iir::r ■ --"-^ '"? ^-^^ = osleemod. Quiet almct to aedatenel, s „p .Z^:™ rhil^'"' and attn-e, ff vintr his nJo-hfo «« i ' "pu»ou8iy neat m his habits paragons ehe had secured Tbel hi f ^ Possession of the two seemed. They had no company, no carouses j they S4 THE AIAN OF TWO LIVES. I HI '• 11 ■' :i;: were never out at night, were never noisy or troublesome, were prompt in their payraenia, and Rulloff showed hia careful training and strict business habits by always taking receipts whenever he paid out any sums of money, however trivial. ' The days became weeks and the weeks months, only to add to the coiilSdence and esteem with which these two men were regarded in a most estimable family. RuUotf during all this time was one of the most hard-working of men, as he often sat steadily writing at hia desk all day and f:ir into the night upon that great work which was to bring him good repute and fortune in the evening of an infamous md wrelchod life. Wlien not in the house during the day, he was generally to be found in the Eclectic Library in Irving Place, poring over old volumes of forgotten learning, and digging from the accumu- lated erudition of all the centuries those five thousand examples which were to illustrate his work and prove the correctness and value of his discovery of "Method in the Formation of Language." At the libiiry the character of his investigations was well known, and the librarian, who esteemed him as a most unobtrusive and industrious gentleman, to some extent sympathizsid with his labors. "While hesi- tating in the inchoate state of the tasic from giving it his unqualified approbation, he could easily see that this professor, whose French name but German aspect declared that he probably came from the debata- ble land of the Rhine, was doing a work of some value in the system- ization of language, and making clear the pathway of future laborers in a most thankless field of human learning. He was the pioneer who hiid gone out into a wilderness that might never repay cultivation, and was clearing away the debris of centuries of neglect upon the chance that when the field was fully developed, it might repay the labor that had been bestowed upon its preparation for intelligent and easy cultivation. To the librarian, a man thus engaged was an enthusiast in philology, some of whose ideas might be seemingly absurd, and whose scheme might in many respects be faulty, but who was nevertheless entitled to sympathy and respect, as enthusiasts generally are. Therefore, this philological burglar and assassin, dur- ing the many weeks of his constant resort to the library, met with the kindliest reception and received such aid as the librarian had time to give him. The meagre needs of b'iS abstemious life were meantime supplied by VllVftl Kiirrrlarioo orttxm'.ttaA \\tt Jaftria anA Tin-vt-rxf . -fV.;. 4^1. ^...^ i^ ^r\ - — -— £3'*~ ^^-....-.5... * --j --.vt r !»:» «*tl»« J'v.-tLfVl , l\ji ttl^lTJ 13 XIV evidence that Lullofi" was engaged personally in any crimes during 1869, or in 1870,. until August. His two young confederates never esome, were training and ' he paid out ;o add to the egarded in a ,8 one of the i^iiting at hia k which waH an infamous day, he was 'lace, poring 1 the accunm- mples which value of his je." At the 3wn, and the i industrious While heei- 8 unqualified French name 1 the debata- 1 the system- ture laborers pioneer who r cultivation, ct upon the ht repay the telligent and iged was an je seemingly e faulty, but s enthusiasts assassin, dur- met with the had time to 3 supplied by •imes during [erates never THE MAN OF TWO LIVES. u desired his company on their lawless expeditions, because of his olum- » einess and the fatality of detection which seemed to attend him every- where. There was therefore an agreement mutually satisfactory, that J they should do the stealing necessary for the subsistence of all, while '" he should devote himself uninterruptedly to the philological depart- ment of their mutual labors, excepting such demands as should be A made upon his time by the disposal of the booty. For RuUoff I was suspicious even of his devoted disciples, and always in- f Bisting upon himself turning their stolen goods, into money f thereby kept the finances within his own control. But to * make amends for this distrust, he was always ready to aid them in any one of the many ways in which he believed himself to be irresist- ible ; and afterwards when upon his trial, by the testimony of Isaac W. Brown, late Sheriff of Cortland County, this man of multiform names and aspects appeared in yet another capacity and with still j another cognomen. A man calling himself Davenport, but who was shown to be the same person as Wm. T. Dexter, spent nine months of the year 1869 m charge of Brown, in the Cortland jail. During his : mcarceration a letter was received by one of the Deputy Sheriffs from a person signing himself James E. Dalton, who claimed to be an attorney, and made inquiries in relation to the case of Davenport Shortly afterward a man whom the witness recognized as RuUoff I presented himself to the Sheriff as James E. Dalton, and at one of his imterviewswiththat official attempted to bribe him by the offer of 1500 to permit Dexter, alias Davenport, to escape from prison, rhe attempt to mtroduce this e/idence brought Rulloff to his feet to object to it as irrelevant. He w^s strangely excited by this revivor of one of the facts of his tortuou. life ; for when Mr Ilopkms said that his object was to show that the prisoner took more interest in Davenport than attorneys usually do in c lents as he was ready to spend money for him, Rulloff testily re- phed, I would do as much for my client as you, provided I had the I money of a county at my command," and he ended the episode bv remarking, sotto voce « D-n such evidence." The testimony as to the Identity of the Cortland prisoner Davenport with the burglar i \C^! T fguage '» at the expense of those merchants in the interior towns whose stores should offer the best inducements and facilities for burglarious entrance. Events are often strangely produced, but there is perhaps nothing in human his- tory more strange than iliat a trivial incident in the proceedings of a Philological Convention should result in many burglaries, and'at las'i clmiuate in murder. Baffled in his endeavors in the realms of abstruse learaing, as he ha-i I THE MAN OF TWO LIV18. nnjformly been in his orimcH Riillnff" i.n»-,-„„i * u- t. Third AvcTiue, dlKlieartened b„ tw, ? *"" ^""""^ ** ^^- ^^^ purnofle The olZntZi , ^'' ""^ intention of abandoning hi. out to him the iullLt re/Z " 1 ^'^^^^ ^T"« ^^'■^"g- Pouring -Method." The ah Jnce of j! v^^^^^ h.B labors upon hi. their crimes were occrrirf 1 h ^ " "^7' ^'■'^"*"'' «'^«^'"S that during the litter pan 71^0/ Thus the days pawed when'the man of twl 1 ves wa^ " th^ v" ^^l^ noontide of 1870. CHAPTER XVX TilB HALBBRT HO«KOB. at No. 170 Third avemie New Y V f^ ?'^"^' ""^"« '"'^'''^^^7 i" the dilapidated te„em;n?^^ '' ''"" ^"^^^^^« ^— "'^ store of DM & E G H^ih!^^ ^^ ^''"^"'" «^'"««^' Brooklyn, that the was in a very insecure condition, o^nrto Yhe tt thaf f "^ r •'"' bomg ad led, the rear wall had been taL out iJ^i l''''"''^" r'otection was such as wonl^LtTi ' ^ ^^^ substituted burglary five mTnutes Tn^n" ^f^^^^^^" "^^P^Jtes in the art of knew furthJr fW .1 "O'^e.^esly effecting an entrance. They ml tcludinl a , ''T T'''''^ ^ S""^^^' ^^^'^^-^ of d y ti.erefbre both tcUhv^^n^ ^^. '"^^^ ''P'^ '^^ expedition. Having n... -i;,, - - '^'^y ^"'^ inducement for the entern..;«« tl,«^ «,.J! <4 0S TflE MAN OF TWO LIVES. m they coul(\ ^ain the bedside of tlic hleeping eentinels without awakou- ing theru, and their subseqiu'iit unooiisciouBness during the lime ueceii- Baiy to complete the robbery eould l>e made certain by the uho of chh)roform. There was tlK'i.'fore no risk to be incurred, and it being determined that the Messrs. llalbtrt sliould contribute to the philolog. ical publication fund, the three oulhiws left New York by one of the morning trains on the Erie Railway to collect that quota. They reached Binghamtoa early in the evening, but after dark, and during that night and most of the next day kept hidden some- where m the city. It is believed that they hud a confederate who re- Bided there, and all the circumstances make it certain, not only that such was the case, but that ho lived on the side of the Chenango river opposite from the Ilalbert store. liut this narrative, dealing only with thoroughly established facts, must be resumed with the lirsL Lour of Wednesday, August 17th, which was between midnigla and one o'clock in the morning. The three men then stole up unseen, us they easily could at that hour, in a town which has only five policemen, through the open lots in the rear of the store which extend down to the Chenango river. One hundred foot from the place where the en- trance was to be effected, they were entirely concealed by the unfin- ished walls of the new extension of the store, and being several feet below Court street, with which the salesroom was Level, it will be seen they were approaching the basement of the premises, and not the floor on which the two clerks wjre sleeping. The slight noise they made in boring the holes necessary for them to reach and force back the bolts which secured the door would not therefore, as it did not, awaken the clerks, and they gained the basement, from which a broad flight of stairs led straight up to the salesroom ; and near the head of these Btairs, at the then rear of the store, was the bed of the clerks. Pausing m the bast ment, the burglars prepared themselves in the manner of ex- perienced professionals for the work in hand. Jarvis, more thoughtful than his companions, was properly accoutred inrubbers; but Dexter took off his patched and well-worn shoes, and his example was followed by the man than whom none was "living with a higher object" than him- self, who removed his patent leather Oxford ties. Noiseless movement being thus secured, the three burglars, putting on masks, glided up the stairs and to the bedside of the sleeping guardians of the premises, with- out making the slightest sound. The first thing to be done was to ad. minister chloroform to the clerks, and their continued unconsciousness being thus secured, the wort nf BnAilofi'/^r^ «^,v.^«^~.-;i i , .i^ 01 the store at the rear end was one of those small pens common in dry THE MAN OF TWO LIVES. 59 poodH rtorc, which ar« called officf*, aud a j;a8 jet half turnod 0,. Wina burning m this, afforded ihe .poilerH all nfct.88:iry li-rht. They care fully Holected those «ilk9 which would have the moat value with the loant bulk, and carrying them ir.to the basement close to the open door made them up into bundles convenient for removal, until they had thuj prepared property valued at about ll.r.OO, and of con«ideral,le bulk This must have occupied from Homo cause more time than was neces^ sary for the burglars were yet engaged in the work when they were startled by a sudden movement on the bed of one of the clerks. Thev hastened to the bedside to administer another dose of chloroform aad saw the two young men staring at them with scarcely opened ey'es. Thus far the story has been based on what must, from all the cir- cum«tances have been the facts, but thenceforward it has the positive bas s of the narrative of Gilbert S. Durroughs, one of the two survivors of the terrible scene which followed. For an instant the two prostrate. guardians and the three erect sufficed for Burroughs to see that all were maske»alton, or some one of his aliases Jarvis had long before been foi-gottenin that portion of the State and Dexter had never been heard of, except in the previous summer as •i THE MAN OF TWO LIVES. I Wm. Davenport in the Cortland Jail. These men were therefore en- tirely unknown and unsuspected, and the people who had been Bhocked by this terrible crime had at tirst only a few flimsy shreds of circumstantial evidence by which to discover the perpetrators ; but in the end these became, from the singular coincidence of the case, irre- futable testimony. The scene of the tragedy being examined, it was found that the burglars had fled in such haste that they had left behind them not only the goods which had been the object of the entrance, but several masks, a brace, one pair of common gaiter shoes, a pair of patent leather Oxford ties, with a singular depression at the toe of the left foot, and some other articles which were not of subsequent interest. It was further found that two of the burglars had retreated down toward the Chenango, for the footprints of a man in his stocking feet, and of an- other who wore rubbers or moccasins, could be plainly seen in some fresh earth which had been thrown up for a roadway along the bank of the stream ; tl: se tracks pointed to the river, but could not be traced into it, because of a space of hard earth over which the men had to pass before reaching the watei*. There was no sign anywhere of the third man, and conjecture was at fault even in the case of those whose tracks were seen, for they led only to the river, and there the puzzled law could only sniff" the empty air. To go out into the whole world and search for the owners of a pair of ordinary gaiters and a pair of Oxford ties was a hopeless task, so that during all vof Wednes- day there was a general ieeling in the community that this crime would be added to the long catalogue of impenetrable and unpunished murders. But that no chance might be neglected that would offer a clue to the perpetrators, during that day Mr. Flynn, Chief of Police, kept large squads of special police constantly patrolling the city and stationed at every outlet, so that no stranger could enter or leave or pass anywliere, even a hundred yards, without interception and inves- tigation. It was thought possible, although not probable, that the burglars might have tarried in the town, and it was determined that if they had they should not escape. During the day very many persons were halted and examined, but being able to give a satisfactory account of themselves were permitted to go their several ways, and as the night came on the hope which had been founded on the possible stupidity of the assassins grew fainter. But about midnight, Cyrus A. Stockwell being, with others, upon guard at the point where the bridge of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad crosses i THE MAN OF TWO LIVES. 68 therefore en- 10 had been usy shreds of •ators ; but in the case, irrc- ind that the lind them not e, but several patent leather left foot, and rest. It was ^u toward the it, and of an- seen in some ong the bank could not be the men had anywhere of ease of those nd there the ito the whole gaiters and a 1 vof Wednes- it this crime d unpunished )ffer a clue to f of Police, : the city and iv or leave or on and invea- iblo, that the ermined that r very many i satisfactory al ways, and 1 the possible night, Cyrus it where the [road crosses Court street at the outskirts of the city, saw a man walking* on the track, and called to him to halt, which he refused to do, uraking no answer. Before Stockwell could reach the man, a long coal train rushed between them, and when it had passed the man had disappear- ed. He and his comrades began a protracted search for the man which was finally ended by the call of Chauncey Livingstone, whose house was near by, that he had the man. They then went back to the house, near where the man had been first seen, and Living- stone delivered to them a prisoner, who was taken to Chief Flynn. Chauncey Livingstone explained how he was awakened by the noise of the Stockwell party, and, believing they were intent upon stealing his fruit, sat down on his back porch to watch them. lie sat there a long time, an hour or more, smoking. It was a clear night, and surrounding objects were distinctly visible. For a long time he saw' nothing, heard nothing whicl attracted his especial attention. As he sat on his porch, the outhouse in his yard was in plain view, the door being toward him, and open, for, had it been shut, he would have sup- posed some one to be in there, and would have gone to it at once. At last he imagined the shadow on the inside of the outhouse was too dark to be natural. He looked and wondered for some moments, and the longer he looked the more that shadow troubled him* until at last he got up and walked to the outhouse, pistol in hand*, and there in the corner, crouching in the smallest possible space, and* scarcely breathing, in which almost unendurable position he had 'been without moving for more than an hour, was Ed,ward H. Rulloff. He came forth at the command of Livingstone, enforced as it was with a pistol, and in answer to the natural demand for his name was unpre- pared as in all crises of his life with an answer ; so he replied at random and happened to say Charles Augustus, which was too manifest an absurdity to impose even upon rustics. He carried a small satchel in his hand and, having an umbrella, besides being respectably dressed if he had not refused to stop when first challenged, had not hidden away or even had not been so incoherent when first arrested, he mio-ht have been permitted to pass. For the story he told while being t^ken into the town for delivery to Chief Flynn was not intrinsically improbable and told at first would have been a passport to liberty and life.' When it was too late, he said that he had been visiting friends at Union, a small town above, and having missed the train, w'^is walking a| to save time, as he desired to call on otlu ..-.«r;->„ « ..I i. distance east before going on to New York. But even this story he could not adhere to, as he contradicted it in several important particulars even before his delivery to Chief Flynn. * I 64 tub: MAur of two lites. Bat the people did not know the prize that incorrlgiblo stupidity bad placed in their hands. This man was an entire stranger, who wa« evidently disconcerted for some reason, but it seemed absurd to sup- joso that an aged man of such reputable appearance could be the burglar. Calling hintself George Williams, and at last stoutly adher- ing to the Union stoiy, he seemed safe, althongh encompassed by his old familiars in the shape of prison walls ; for Burroughs, who thought he looked something like the burglar with the straggling gray whiskers would not swear positively to his identity, and there" was' no proof whatever against him ; yet he was detained for a chance, and Friday morning the seetliing city had a new and more startling sensation. Early in the morning two dead bodies were seen lodged against the piers of the Court str-et bridge over the Chenango river, only a few feet distant from the Halbert store. They were fished out from the stream, the eye of the larger one being torn out with a grappling hook in the process, and had haiv.ly been five minutes on shore when it was certain that these were two of the men who had been engaged in the burglary. Burroughs recognized the smaller as the man with whom he had struggled, and there could be no doubt of the fact, for the corpse had a recent gash above the eye, in the precise position and of the exact shape which Burroughs had described. The larger of the drowned men had in his pocket a bit which exactly fitted the holes in the bored door, so that it was evident tkat the outraged law had, by some most singular accident, been cheated of two of the perpetrators of a horrible crime. It was never known positively how these men met their death, but it is supposed they were attempting to ford the river which they could easily have done, as it was aiaiost everywhere only two or three feet deep, had they not got into a very deep hole just at the point whei-e they wouW naturally have entei*ed the stream, of which they must have been ignorant. Suddenly and unexpectedly finding themselves under water, the fact that they would naturally clutch each other, and that the smaller was almost helpless from the wound over the eye, was sufficient to account for their failure to get out of the hole, as they might have done with one strong sensible effort. The possession of the bodies not only corroborated the story of Bur- roughs, but placed many additional links of evidence in the ar- ticles found on them in the hands of the authorities. The search was moreover, now narrowed to one man, and the bodies, having been' photographed, were removed lo the basement of the Comt-house where Rnlioff was confi-onied with them. In that most awfnl moment ©f his life he displayed more of uerve and sense than he had ever done lo stiipiditf er, who waa turd to sup - uld be the •ntly adher- ssed by his ho thought ly whiskers, 8 no proof iud Friday ', sensation, igainst the only a few it from the pling hook 7hen it was iged in the mth whom ict, for the ion and of ger of the lie holes in kW had, by jrpetrator9 le men met the river, v^hero only 3le just at 1, of which lly finding lutch each ound over out of the t. ry of Bur- n the ar* sarch was, Ing been int-house, si moment ivet done THE MAN OF TWO LIVES. «t before. There lay the bloated bodies of the only two associates ho had had for years, one of whom he had lured from the paths of recti- tudo a dozen years before, and who, he afterwards asserted, was the only human being he had ever loved. This most have been the first intimation he had received of the fate which had overtaken these part- TitTH in his crimes and hopes; yet, standing at their feet, he gazed stead- lly at them without the quivering of a single nerve, so far as the closest obnervor could discern, and then said, in a perfectly natural voice, that he had never seen either of them before. But to guard against the possibility of mistake, he asked permission for a view from another pomt, and going around to the h-ads looked equally long and stead- fastly, but with the same result ; for he again declared \hat he had never, to his knowledge, seen either of these men in life. He was taken back to jail, but tfie confidence of the authorities in their ability to lawfully detain him any longer was greatly shaken. For the first time in his life Edward H. Rullolf had shown that he had iu him some thing of the 8tufi*of which great criminals are made. CHAPTER XVIII. 1 TKHBIBLK MI8TAKB. But he was to neutralize the good he had done his cause, and dc Bcend again to his natural level of transparent artifice. That e venine being taken before Coroner Worthing and District Attorney Hopkins he was subjected to a long and tedious examination. Both officials thought they were dealing with a r.iral preacher or teacher, and asked question after question, more with anundefinec' idea that it was their duty to do something than from a belief that the time was bein- profitably spent There he sat readily answering all questions, bu° persistmg in holding his hat, which was a silk one in good condition npon Ins knee rim down, although requested by the Coroner to place' 1 on the table. He also kept his coat buttoned to the throat, although the weather was sultry. Next morning this hat was cat away to near the crown thus making it a nondescript cap, and all the front of his shirt had been torn out, and it was learned from his own statements to Mr. Martin, Sheriff of Broome County, that he had cut up the mlssinc. parts o both hat and .hirt into such small fragments that they had gone through the waste pipe of his cell into the sewer. It seems ainaziug that even this conduct at the time made no impression of his guilt, and alter a protracted examination on Saiurday muniin- before B?^ 6G THE MAN OF TWO LIVES. the CoroTior, lie wns diticharged under highly sensational circuraHtances. Just fcH he was about to leave the room as Mr. George Williams, Judge IJalcom, before whom he had argued the writ of habean corpus yaars before, happened to enter, instantly recognized him, and promptly declared him to be Edward II. RuUoff. For a second time, the man of two lives was equal to an emergency, and seized his own f infamy as a shield against this new danger. Turning back into the j room, he said with a most convincing manner : " There, gentlemen, t you have an explanation of my strange conduct. Knowing of my mis- fortunes in this portion of New York, you can understand why I v/as anxious, ding here accidentally when a murder was committed, to pass through the city without my identity being known. You know the proverb, gentlemen, about the results of giving a dog a bad name." There was a revulsion of feeling in his favor, which was very stupid, but perhaps natural also, and both Coroner and Uietrict At- torney shaking his hand cordially as a tacit apology for liis brief detention, the discharge was ratified and he left the room. Stepping across the street, he purchased a cap, which was the last article of dress he was ever to buy, and then walked rapidly away. But suddenly some one remembered that the feet of RuUoff had been fozen when he committed the Warren burglary, and that having lost the great toe of his left foot, the singular depression at the point of the left Oxford tie was fully accounted for. Here was evidence no one appears to h.ive thought of when the prisoner was in custody, and all haste was made to repair the terrible mistake of his discharge. Per- sons were sent in pursuit of him in all directions, and among them Robert Brown, Deputy Sheriff, who succeeded in rearresting him an hour later on the Erie Railway track, four miles east of Binghamton. He saw him for some time before he came within hailing distance, and saw that he was walking very fast, about 110 steps to the minute having his coat off, carrying it on his arm, and his cap off occasionally. When he called to him to halt the fugitive obeyed readily, answering when Brown said, " Mr. Rulloff^ we've concluded not to let you go just yet," with '* What's up now ? What new discoveries have been made?" Brown only replied by requiring him to take off his left boot and sock, and exhibit his deformed foot, which he did without remonstrance. When taken to the jail he was required to try on the shoes found in the store, which were found to be a perfect fit, even to the protuberances f n the left foot. Rulloff said that he seldom wore shoes, and had worn the boots he had on when captured all summer, and also called attention to the fact that there was no depression al the THE l\rAN^ OF TWO LIVES. rcuraHtances. ;o WillianiB, abeait corpus i him, and second time, ized his own lack into the , gentlemen, g of my mis- i why I v/as )m mi tied, to lown. You a dog a bad ch was very Dietrict At- )r Iiis brief . Stepping Jt article of off had been having lost point of the ence no one ody, and all arge. Per- raong tliem ing him an •ingliamton. stance, and the minute iccaBionallv. answering let you go s have been off his left lid without • try on the fit, even to Idom wore ill summer, ssiun al the 9f toe of the loft foot, but the officers discovered that he had filled up tho epaco left voiil by tlie want of n large toe, with cotton. But thesd boots, it was noticod, were almost entirely new, and it was further noticed that when requested to put on the jhoes, he laced t'lein with the same peculiar over-lapping observable in the lower holes of the shoes where the strings had not been unfastened. Here was something tangible, and Riilloff being securely held in prison, ]\tr. Peter W. Hopkins, the keen District Attorney, started for New York on the search for evidence. It was his first necessity to prove the identity of the drowned men, and his second to show their acquaintance and companionship with Rulloff prior to the burglary By the fortunate fact that upon his arrival in New York ho secured the services of Captain Iledden and Detective Phil Roilley, of the Fif- teenth Police Precinct, he succeeded in both objects beyond his needs or expectations. There was perhaps to all the parties a fascination in this gradual approach to the secrets of shadowed lives which fully re- compensed the irksome labor and frequent disappointments which fol- lowed, when they were finally crowned with complete success CHAPTER XIX. PKOM DARKNESS INTO LIGHT. Captatn ITedden and Detective Reilley, beginning with most slen- der clues, worked patiently and shrewdly for many weeks upon this case until they at last unravelled many mysteries and laid bare lives of' crime cloaked by assumed respectability. Snch signal success aa crowned their efforts rarely falls to the lot of detective experience, because such patience and common sense in dealing with isolated facts is rarely displayed, and it resulted in evidence to prove who the dead men were, to trace them, step by step, for months prior to the tra^redy • to show how Ed ward II. Rulloff was for years the confidential-associate of Albtrt T. Jarvis, cdias Curtis, and William T. Dexter, who were drowned in th» Chenango river on the night of the 17th of August one of whom had the tell-tale mark of the iron bar on his forehead' and the other the condemnatory bit in his pocket, and both of whom' had been recognized as two of those engaged in the crime. Crime has rarely been more completely cloaked or more patiently unmasked then in this remarkable case. When Mr. Hopkins went to New York he had nothing but six keys, a drop letter addressed to C8 THE MAN OF TWO LIVES. k one Henry Wilson, and a scrap of paper bearing the name of William Thornton, attor ev, « i liiwoklyn, m cluea by which thp identity of his pririoner and the dead men were to he estab Jished. With Dftcctivo RoiHey he first tried the Wilson letter, but it taded in utter failure, as il led only into th i labyrinths of illicit lovo, and the parties 'o it were in no way connected with the dark traijedy to be uiiravelltd. The Thornton clue was next worked with much greater Biiccess, as it proved the key which unlocked the rayHtery. Mr. Hop- kins had learned before he left that Dexter, one of the dead men, had once been confined for a criminal offense in Cortland County, and i.:\d called upon the lawyer whose name was found on a scrap of paper in his pocket, to aid him. But Mr. Thornton denied that he had ever been in Cortland County in his life, and it will be shown that he was per- sonated by Rulloff; and from this starting point, Mr. Hopkins and Detective Reilley by the aid of a good deal of patience and shrewd- ness, finally found the tumbledown Dexter house in the suburbs of Brooklyn. No one was there but a woman, who unsuspectingly an- Bwered tie careless questions put to her until the oflScors learned that Billy Des ter was the putative owner, but that she paid the rent <» Edward C Howard, agent, who had, unaccountably, not appeared for two mont-'S to claim it. Groping still in the dark, Mr. Hopkins asked her how il happened Howard was agent for the property, and re- ceived the important answer that Billy Dexter was all the time get- ting into s irapes, and Howard was a shrewd lawyer who had got him out of ther i. The picture of Rulloff, taken after his capture, was then shown, ana she instantly exclaimed, " Why, that's the agent." The id«. ity of Rulloff with Howard, and his acquaintance with Dexter, was thus discovered, and the overjoyed but also overworked District Attorney Hopkins went back to his office, leaving the further workin-^ of the case in New York to Capt. Heddeu and Detective Rielley, with whom he left two keys fitting doors in some house in Third Avenue. During an interview with John Dexter, brother of the drowned burglar, forced upon that pei-son at tie tumble-down house at the dawn of an October morning, Reilley drew from hin, the ad- dress of a woman known as Maggie, living at No. 15 Carmine street, who had been housekeeper for Rulloff, and knew where he lived. Capt. Hedden and lleilley instantly visited her, and failing by sub- lirliige to get any information from her, as she was then aware of the mnrder, finally declared tiieir true cliaracter, and demanded the important fact, which she then gave by lelliiig them that Kniloff' nnd Jai vl^, al as Curtis, lived at No. 170 Tiiird Avenue. TJio oCicers in- Almost the nin bornly up in til not, the Jii'lge i riciici'd, to do hi did belt he mame of I by whi«h to he cstab 1 letter, but it licit lovo, and k tragedy to much greater f. Mr. Hop- i?are, be likely to b. lukcw.rm in his^^C;.!." ':.:^:^ • Judge and jury that hi. life has been free from st.in. Shrewd ere- ^ need, m a certa.n way, and to some extent learned, he wa- evSd d b^ r '' ''' '" ""^ ''^" ^"^ ^"^'^^^^ bui^ar-murde™ 70 THE MAN OF TWO LIVES. CriAPTEU XX. THB BKailfHINa OF TUBS EVD Wrrn the proof of all those facts fully prepared, the trial of the pri« Boner becjan on Tliursday, January 6, 1871, in the Court-house of the city of Binghamton, betoro Hon. Henry Hogoboom, Justice of the Supremo Court, silting in Oyer and Terminer. lion. M. iJ. Champlain, Aitorney General of the State, and Peter W". Hopkins, Di«lrict Attorney of Broome County, appeared for the puople, while Hon. Charles F. Bcales, of Hudson, and George Becker, Esq., of Binghamton, were counsel for the prisoner. When the prisoner that morning emerged from the obscurity of the jail, where ho had been hidden for the past four months, hundreds eagerly sought to catch even a pausing glimpse of him as he walked over the few rods of ground between his prison and the Court-room, where he was to be ou trial for his life. Even in that room he was throughout tlie day the centn* of hundreds of curious eyes, for the room was densely crowded during every moment of the protracted proceedings. Those who achieved the felicity of an entrance into the room, to which many hundreds failed to obtain admission, saw a man far advanced in life, but one who, thanks to art and the remarkablo kindness af Sheriff Martin, showed few outward signs of age. When dragged from that out-house in the suburbs of the city, in the gray dawn of an August morning, RullofF was not of a pleasing aspect. He was, indeed, fully dressed, but his clothes bore marks of rough usage, and his demeanor was so disturbed that he looked fully sixiy years of age. Now, however, he might be supposed a man of forty-live in ex- cellent preservation. Then his beard was full, straggling, and mixed wiih gray ; but now it was upon the cheeks only, was closely cut, aud of a dull brown color. Then his hair was long and unkempt, but now it was of proper length and arrange 1 with scrupulous care. Then his clothes were soiled with recent rough usage, and now the damages in- flicted during that desperate epoch in his life h:irow9, hazel eya*, singular complexion, and large head squarely and firmly set upon his shoulders by a short thick neck. Tlmw was uolhiug diabolical ia *M % al of the pri« house of the iistice of the e, and Peter ^ared for the orge Becker, curity of the ,h8, hundreds a he walked I Court-room, room he was eyes, for tho le protracted ance iiito the 1, saw a man ^ reniarkahio acre. When , in the gray [ aspect. He rough usage, ixiy years of •ty-live in ex- 5, and mixed 'Sely cut, and ipt, but now e. Tlien his 1 damages in- •epaired, and 'Sely adhered Ein's face, his langed since County. He short face, brows, hazel nly set upon diabolical in THE MAN OF TWO LIVES. i^j his cxpre^ion, but a great deal that was furtive and Bnggestive. To the casual observer this man of an extraordinary career seemed only a man of weak character, but of proper motives. Keen scrutiny how- ever, d.sooverod something painfully unpleasant in that massive face There was not villany in it, but the possibility of villany was in the lines of tho mouth and the secretive, inquiring eyes. Seen in the ordi- nary affin. of hfe, Edward H. Rulloff would be taken for a cunninjr lawyer m small practice, but seen as he was, there was nothing u * natural m his position. ° ^ His demeanor throughout the preliminary proceeding, of his triil justified the general opinion of his natural shrewdness, and unmistak- ably showed the strong interest he took in his case. He was taken into Court at nine o'clock, and to..k his seat with his back to the larcre , audience, but without having been in the least cowed by tho concj;,. tratcd gaze of the multitude during his walk to it. When he had sat [ down he looked anxiously around. When Judge Hogeboom and as- Bociates entered, a look of d smay overspread his features, which was a moment later intensified when District Attorney Hopkins and Attor. noy General Champlain came in and took their seats. But the next moment a sudden change swept over his face, which was at once ill-.mincd with hope and confidence, as his counsel, Mr. George Becker entered, accompanied by Hon. Charles F. Beales, of Hudson^ who had been secured to assist in his defence. With the appearance of these gentlemen the wearisome duties of the day began. The first task was of course the selection of a jury, and owing to the great excitement the case ad caused through all that region, it was^one involving * gieatdealof time. Everybody had heard and read of the case had formed and expressed an opinion, so tlie rigid rule was not adhered to. Judge Ilogeboom sensibly remarked that in this age of the world it i« impossible to find men of any intelligence who hav°e not read the news! pap rs and learned something of any important case. Juries worth anythmg must be got from such classes or not at all, and the r, herefore, must be that when anyone summoned as a ji ror is found o have no settled opinion of the merits of the case, and believes h mse nin?r :"' r ^^P^^J"*^^-' ^- - --Petent, notwithstanding any opinio,, he may have previously formed or expressed. Thanks to the adop,.onof this sensible rule, to which the defence took no ex^ i m, yny was completed without the prisoner's exhausting hi rH of pereniptorvo.hnll.Jtirro K,r fl.,„ „>^i^_i- i ., , . o '" n^noui Ln», • -----i-f.^- o^ .=vc -.J ciOeA, uy the selection of the followinr' gentlemen: Hiram A. Mosher, Emory Truesdale, John C RTiik' ^: oT%f 7 ^tfi,^^^^^^^ ^^^"^'^' ^^- «-'^^-«> John li '; Ldgar O. Smith, Frank Phmkett, Isaac W. Heath, Johi W. TravU. It THE MAN OF TWO LIVES. During the seven hours of monotonous labor consumed in- tins task, the audience^ which was largely composed of ladies, waited with unwea- ried patience for the more interesting aspects oftheca.se. But the pro- ceedings were occasionally enlivened by outre replies of jurors, and the strong wit of Judge Hogeboom, provoked by more than usua!ly dense Biypidity. For instance, a juror having answered the question, " Has what you iiave heard or read left any bias for or against the prisoner?" with "I don't kiunv that it has," Judge Hogeboom instantly rattled , out, " I don't know that it has, but has ic ? " and under tliis terse put- ing of his indecision the juror became contused and was rejected. The panel was exhausted wlien eleven of the jury had been secured, and ih© twelith man waa obtained with the summoniug of three taiesuiea. CnAPTER XXI. THE P£ »PLE ALLEGE. J"cDaE IIoGEBooM having a primitive idea that the time of public ser- vants belongs to the pul lie, altliough it was 5 o'clock wlieu the twolftli juror was sworn, Mr. Ilopkins was rei^uirod to proceed with the opei)ing of the case for the prosecution, and .nost thorouglily did ho ])erfurm that duty. Beginning with a tew general remarks usual on such occa- sions, regarding the saoredness of the duty resting upon the jury, ho rapidly pi-eseuted the facts of the murder, as they have been given to the reader, and passed to the circumstantial evidence against Eu'lolF. Fir-st, ho detailed the capture of the prisoner, under most suspicious circuin- Btances, in the out-house, where ho had crouched for two hours after ho was seen Avalking, at the deathor articles w York, and [o. 170 Third f a column iu 1870, which id as belong- )fouud seusa- slixi found in article. One s established the scene of ad been mu- ^enue, by the desk of the Capt. Henry 1 how he had )cured all the the witnesses prisoner as a Third Ave- n him identi- with Leurio ortant pointa a the identity e prisoner he 1 at the scene n in the pris- it ia reported, oe, he would of that opin- vitness. His he had worn 3 the witness, he person ad- 3t3 when you he could not cript book on lim as iu the Kn.(l Rpian him THE MAN OF TWO LIVES. 79 engaged for ft long time whUe in the house, and, tj-ith the conclusion of this evidence, the Court adjourned after a session of five hours, making the labor of the day nme hours. During the examination of the last witnesses, EuhoS steadily i.dhered to his practice of letting his counsel, Mr. Becker and Mr. Beales, rest iu idleness while he conducted hia ovvu defence. He several times again insisted on the point of law he had presented, and was as often overruled by Judge Hogeboom, when he would enter an exception and go oa Twice he produced a decided sensation; once by exclaiming, when Capt' lJ«ddon left the stand, after identifying the large and complete assortment of [jurglar's tools found in his desk :-'« The next witness will be one who knows me nmoty-nine days in a hundred," in which, however, he was dis- appointed, as the witness knew no good whatever of him. The second sensation was his cat-like approach and whispering question to young Jakob, when the vaat audience rose and boat forward as one man to see and hear. ii CHAPTEE XXIII. PROOF OP THE PEOPLE FBRFBCTBD. ^ As the next rivet in the chain of circumstantial evidence the State was ^ I^^rgmg around the prisoner, Edward Jakob was recalled to prove that -, tJio watch and spectacles found upon the larger drowned man, belonged to • Charles G. Curtiss, alias Albert T. Jarvis, who had lived at 170 Third Ave- : nuo, with Rulloff, alias Leurio. The watch, he swore to, to the best of his I knowledge, and the spectacles he swore to positively, as he idenlified them I ^^^^7;^ ^'''^ f t^« gl^««««- Mrs. Brady was the next witness, and I tostified she rented the two upper floors of the house No. 10 Graham Avenue, Wilhamsburgh, which belonged to the Dexter family-Mrs. Dex- ter, Wm T. Dexter, and John N. Dexter. She paid her rent always to T a man Uiey knew as Jim Howard, and pointed out the prisoner as the ^H:m. He always came to the house on the first of the month for the r, ut, and came last on the 7th of August, since which time she had never ^cou him until she saw him in Court. She then paid him for August and sinoe that time no one had oaUed to collect the rent. She last saw ^r "■ I' f'^^'", '''' *^^ ^*^ ^^ ^^^^'* ' ^' ^^^ ^* ^^^^ «^ ^^^ ^d, went ^^awaj lor lour days, when he eun).e back, and having changed lus clothee, so THE MAN OP TWO LIVES. wont away, sinco which time she had never seen him. Miss Pauline Ja^ob, fifteen years of age, was next sworn, and testified that sue lived with her parents at No. 170 Third Av«nue, and knew that the prisoner, aa Edouard Leurio, rented a floor iii the house, which he occupied with a man her family know as Charles G. Curtiss, but who is proved to be Albert T. Jarvis, the drowned burglar. She identified the prisoner ns L«urio, and the picture of Jarvis as that of the man Cuvti^s who had lived with the prisoner. She was shown several pairs of drawers which were in the valise found in the swamp, and identified them all by tho mark J. A. in indelible ink, which she had seen Jarvis put on them, and wondered at the time why he did it, as his name was Curtiss. John N. Dextor, a brother of one of the d' owned men, was sworn, and testified that he know the prisoner, as Jim H(»ward, and knew that he was ac- quainted with his brother, William T. Dexter, whom he recognized as the smaller of the two men in the photograph of the drowned burglars. He had frequently seen his brother in company with the prisoner, and once saw both of them with Jurvis. Mrs. Helen Ward well, a sister of Albert T. Jarvis, who lives at Heart's Falls, twelve miles from Trt)y, identified a letter directed to "Albert T. Jarvis, No. 170 Tliird Avenue, New York City," which arrived at that place the next day after Leurio and Curtiss left the house, as testified to by Miss Jakob, who had received the letter and kept it in charge unopened until Capt. Hedden seized all the articles in the room on the evening of October 15. Mrs. Wardwell testified she wrote the letter on the 14th of August, mailed it (as was shown by tao post-mark of August 15), and that she had never received an answer to it nor heard of her brother alive since that date. The time of the de- parture of the prisoner and Jarvis, alias Curtiss, from the house of No. 170 Third Avenue, was thus fixed by this lettar, and the testimony of Pauline and Edward Jakob as Monday, August 15. Miss Jakob swore they loft in the morning. From this point forward the case dragged for two hours, and by means of several witnesses through facts before adduced in evidence and familiar to the public, only relieved by the testimony of Mr. S. H. Sweet, a shoe- maker, who had tried the shoes found in the store on the feet of Eulloff, and found that they fitted him precisely. His left foot is deformed by three large proturberances on the out.side, and the large toe being gone ; the left shoe of the Oxford ties found in the store had a raised surface to fit these protuberances, and a depression which would have naturally been made by want of a large toe to hold it up. This evidence was strongly corroborated by Mr. Fish, another person of large experience in shoes, who also testified that at the present time there are very few patent leather Oxford ties, such as those found in the store, made or worn. The next iuline Jaiob, e lived with priaoner, aa ipied with a proved to be prisoner ns ti.s8 who had awors which a all by the )n them, and 13. John N. and testified ; he was ao- ^nized as the irglars. He Br, and once :er of Albert )y, identified >, NoAV York and Curtisa ed the letter I the articles testified sho liown by tae m answer to e of the de- louse of No. testimony of Fakob swore nd by means and familiar veot, a shoe- it of Eulloff, deformed by being gone; 3d surface to iturally been vas strongly ice in shoes, a tent leather I. The next THE MAN OF TWO LiVEg. n important witness was Mr. E. 8. Spaulding, who testified that on tho af* tornoon of Tuesday, August 10, between two and four o'clock, while cross- ing the bridge of the Erie Eailway over the Clienango river in Bingliam- tou, he mot a man to whom his atteuiion was particularly attracted by tlie singularity of his gait, caused by his favoring his left foot. As th« man got near him he stepped upon the stringers to allow tho man to pass, and as lie got abreast, Mr. Spaulding said " Good-day, sir ; " the man stared liim in the face, made no reply, and passed on. Tho man had on « silk hat, dark coat and pants, white socks, low shoos, and carried an umbrella and a satchel, and he then swore positively that the man he thus met near tlie scene of the tragedy, a few hours before tho occurr<*nce, was tlie prisoner, Edward II. Kulloff, who, when captured a few hours ttfterward, was dressed, and had the articles described. On cross-exam- ination Mr. Spaulding said he first knew Eulloff twenty-five years ago, before his marriage, when he was a clerk in a drug store in Ithaca, and there knew him well, because he did business with him. EuKoff next was a school teacher at Caroline, Tompkins county, and he did not see him after that, until he saw Lim twelve or thirteen years ago in the State's Prison, after which he never met him again until he met him on the bridge. The witness was subjected to the most rigid cross-examination by Mr. Beales and Mr. Becker, but he unflinchingly adhered to his story, and resolutely maintained that the man with the halting stop and of sin. giilar silence, whom he met on the Chenango bridge on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 16, was, and could be no other than the prisoner, Ed- ward II. RuUofr. Public curiosity increased with feeding, and although tlio main portion of the evidence of the State had been produced, and the facts bearing against t!ie prisoner fully known, there was no diminution in the crowds demanding admission to witness the proceedings of the fifth day, when Piiilip Eeilley being sworn, said: — Tliat he resides in Now York, and is a Police Olficer attached to the Fifteenth Police Precinct. Being shown a bunch of small keys, taken from the body of the smaller of the two drowned burglars, he said on finding and visiting the house No. 10 Gra- ham Avenue, Brooklyn, E D., occupied by Mrs. Brady and the Dexter family, he found the larger of the thiee keys to unlock a bureau drawer, the next largest unlocked a small trunk in the drawer, aad tho smallest a portfolio, also in the drawer. In the trunk he found a letter, which lias been identified as in the hand-writing of the prisoner, and addressed to William T. Dexter. The State offered the letter in evidence to prove the former acquaintance of Eulloff with one of the burghxrs, whom ho had said he had never seen, and the defence objected because it waa I 82 THE MAN OP TWO LIVES. dated in 1805, but the If-tter was admitted by Judge ITogebnnm. Drlcc- live lloilloy then went on to state that he had visited the house No 170 Third Avonuo with Capt. Iledden, unlocking the street door of the house with a key given him by District-Attornoy Hopkins, and the door of the room with another key, also given him l)y that gontlonian. On searching tho desk in the room of RuUolT, alias Louvio, lie found in the middle drawer a ratchet drill, two skeleton keys, three lock picks, a dark lantern, a box-opener, and other articles for a felonious pur[)ose. i Upon cross-examination, EuUofF himself fastened upori Roilley to ex- plain that ratchet drill, and tho witness said it had tho general appear- ance of that implement, although without teeth, and the prisoner Ihon with permission explained that the instrument wag valuable and inte- resting as tho model of a new invention, but it appeared upon redirect that in tho same drawer were two dozen bits which fitted this "model." Mr. Reilloy further testified, on cross-oxaiuination, that he know a great many thieves and their haunts in Now York, but had never heard of either RuUoff or Jarvis, and tho place where they Uvod, No. 170 Third Avenue, was a highly respectable neighborhood, and the Jakob family, from whom they rented their rooms, are of the very best repute, and held their lodgers ia the highest esteem as men of pure lives and doTnestio habits. Mr. Reilley, however, said that h« did not pratend to know all the thieves in New York. CHAPTER XXIV. THE 8TBUQGLB OF THB PEI80NEB. With the examination of numerous other witnesses on points less im- portant, the prosecution closed, and George Becker, Esq., opened tho oase for the defence, in a sp *ech wliinh made the best of a very bad case. In the beginning he referred to tlie great It araing, ability and industry of his client, the prisoner, whom, he said, had, during his career, met every sorrow and calamity. He referred to the great activity of tho District- Attorney in gathering witnesses, to do which he had had the treasury of the County of Broome at his disposal. His client, he said, has not only to encounter the energy of Mr. Hopkins, backed with money, but also the highest legal authority in the State, Attorney -General Champlain having been nn; pri.soiur. II n rtl and gt'noriil tli ai Bcckor tli« n went o inolFins'ivt' eld man, ing in tlu* boHOm of ties of tho defeiu't', < pel, having been en niDiiy for the State, done, was not murd or thinl dngroo, bet mission of a felony, fol(»n, and that tho i daring what the do tliat it was nlinost v Coroner that tiie pri that on tlio evening his store and asked man ho held to be I lofl' has been in jail, to be a drover from bo able to sliow whi Batavia, Buffalo, anc have biH'u in the Citj Several witnesses ■ not answer. Francii ceeding the trac^ody, '. tify either of the burj and his inability to g Chirk was sworn, w' Amoricrm Hotel, a fc from Halbort's stort cession; he got up, a after Avh.ich BiuTii.ig heard tho cry " niun is uiiini'iiurtant. until store a moment or t\\ to go around to the li door was locked; Ch iroiit door and knew opua and they went i M niE MAN OF TWO L1VE3. 83 ni bnving; booTi -dti onod to Bssist 'n hurrvinu: on a Tenlkt rj^ainst th« pri.soiur. lie rfluT lias to fncotmtcr a j^jiuliir projudiijo more intense and general tli, ms prisoner ovi wns ' -lUcd . • ^ confront boforo, Mr. IJockor tli« u went on l<' dnnv a llnttfri ,f his client as a mild, inolFt-ns^ive old man, of Rtndiuus and vaiU , live habitw, npondinjif hia evon- ing in thn bunoiu of the Jakob fauiiiy, reading unu writing. Tho difficul- ties of tho d(>fen(<>, owi.ig to *' absonoo of witnesHt-s and additional coun- Pfil, havinj,' l^oon enuii ratoi \Ir. lU'(;lliter in the second or third dn{,pee, because Mirrick himself, when killed, was in the com- niissiou of a Iclony, in using unnecoss iry violence upon an iiiterneptod felon, and that tho slaying was done to ness thai violence. In de- claring what the dofeuoo expected to be .lolo to prove, ]Mr. Becker eaid that it was almost wholly upon the testimony of J. B. Lewis hofore tho Coroner that the prisoner was hold On that occasion IS'. . Lewis swore that on the evening of the IGth August, a man in labcning dress entered his store and asked for tho best whiskey, without reg ird to price, which man ho held to bo Edward II. RuUoff. Sinco that time, and while Eul- loff has been in jail, tho same man has appeared in his store, and proves to be a drover from tho West. Further, Mr. Becker said that they would bo able to show when tho prisoner left Now York, and that he went to Batavia, Bud'alo, and other places, so that it is inipos.siblo that ho should have biK'n in the City of Binghamton on tho night of the IGth of August. Several witnesses were then called for the dofenc^e, most of whom did not answer. Francis L. Farnham testified tliat during the morning suc- ceeding tho trajrody, Burroughs had told him in tho store he could not iden- tify either of the burglars. Further to show the confusion of Burroughs and his inability to give an intelligent account of what happened, Lyman Clark was sworn, who testified that ho was sitting at the door of the Aniorican Ilotel, a few doors above and on the opposite side of the street from llalbert's stine, when ho heart two pistol-shots fired in quick suc- cession ; he got lip, walk(Kl down tho street, and heard another shot, just after v^liich BiuToaghs opened tho front door of the etoro, came out, and heard the cry " murder." He gave an acccmnt of what followed, which is unimportant, uulil Chief Flynn and Clark were about to go into the store a moment or two later, when Burroughs told them they would have to go around to the back door, as he had come out that Avay, and the front door was locked; Clark said he had just scon Burroughs come out tha Iront door and knew it was open, wliereupon tho front door was pushed opuu and they went iu; after tUoy went iu, Biirruughs remembered that IMAGE EVALUAT30N TEST TARGET (MT-S) /. ^/ i > /^ <.% •^ % i/.i % ^ 1.0 I.I 1.25 1^ i^ IM K£ 1^ 2.2 1^ ^ 11° 1^ {||2.0 1^ ,_ UUi.. lllim U ill 1.6 Pm (? /J ^> 'm s ''W .^.^ > > /A €<.V# Photographic Sciences Corpoiation 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. 14580 (716) 872-4503 V '/. . That work m«y now have to be pablUhed without being completed. It contains in the form of a regular treatise most of the leading principles cannected with the formation of methodical language Its daiiga was at om» to lumiri. 5.000 iUustmtlw examples. But the examples not being a. yst n aat multitude, on the 3d day the first time n who had for }ctriDe of total writ of error 1 Judicial Dia« ny on the 7th te as a stay of ned Id this ap- egree, and ba- w that this re ) long missing ber infant, the imprisonment 8 frightful life >een, this man ead, sat down his Method in of these pub- stem and the », Jan. 18, wri. 1 circulated by the jfor, if it BO please, « ilander, reproach th has lived with a Though laboring may be iiaid by way best energies of my ION OF LANonioa, IB in the form of • ithodical language. !S not being aa jut THE MAN OP TWO LIVES. vntgta, iU appIlMtlra of tha prineiplca wifhoat th« txamplea mity sot tM satfly atm, »nd to prtTcat Um r^eeUoB «f tb« work oa tba^ or any aimilar acMunt, ia Um »bi««t of tk« loUowinf ruMrkat F«ndameatal faata ia ralatloa to tha rabjeot ai« tbaaa i— from the four and twenty lattera of a& ordinary alphab«rt. without aoine special method, anoh elegant, copious and suphonious languagea as are now in use cannot possibly be formed. At a very remote period the want* of advancing eiviHiaUon begettiag the neoeirity fbr such a Unfnage a «,r.e.pondlng method was deviant That method wa. in th. highest degree elegant, ph.loeophi- eal and artistic. Admittiiig of atinieroua applioaUont, and being the only true by philoaophie method of which the subjeet is susceptible, aU tha leading langnagaa of the human race hara since been formed npon it ; aa th. ancient Greek, Latin, Sancrit, Hebrew, Arabic, CelUc, German, French. KnglUh, *c- kti. The knowledge of the aethod was tor a long time preserved aa a secret It waa peculiarly in pos«)ssion of the priests. It was known only to the Initiated, aud never taught to th. people at large. X/nless still prewrved in som. secret order it ia now ratirsly unknown. My man- .script ia probably the only work in exUtenee which oonUins anything like a connected atatement of iu leading principles. The knowledge of these principles is of the utmost ImporUnoe to the cause of education, entirely changing the oUraoter of philological.study aa a meana of menUl dia. oipline. In languages formed upon this plan, words are not merely arbitrary signsi They are sign., each of wbich is specially and appropriately significant. Their significance dependa upon certain arti.tio relations, everywhere pervading their structure. The possibility of such a structure dependa upon rooU susceptable of change, without loss of identity. Such rooU and the mode of their manlpula- tion are certainly unknown to the modern philologist. Bopp and others merely observe the pwsenoe of similar forms in different languages, or they merely trace the course of such forms fh,m one Ian- guage to another. They do not show their origin in any. By the knowledge of the.e rooU the very origin of particular words ia rendered aa perfectly plain and famUiar aa if we had made them our- selves. Vowel sounds are the sonorous portion, the basis of all spoken language. The sounds expressed by other letters are merely modiflcationa of the vowel sound, or additions to It, dividing each sound Into syllable, and words, and distinguishing one word from another. Mutes and aspiratea (except S and Z) have only a limited power of combination with other consonants. The liquids, aa a general rule, possess thU power in a high degree, and may be placed in almost any position between a vowel and a consonant ; as .cclp, plac, ; part, trap. The freedom with which liquid, combine in thia way depends upon the relative position of the organ, with which they a« spoken, that position being generally such a. easily to precede, or easily to foUow the position required in speaking other letters I prepares them for an important part in the formation of methodical language, and in the manip- ulat^on of such roots a. are here described :-" Each of the liquids, L, M, N and R, being taken as the bas« of a root, a vowel expre«,ed or understood is necessarily joined with it, and a root of three elements is completed by the addition of another letter ; suoh other letter to be chosen at wUl to be different in different words, and to be susceptible of any modification expediency may augges't •• Such roots consisting of three elements, a liquid, a vowel, and a mutable, abound in all cultivated languages, and may at once be recognised In such syllables as the following :-oo», com, bun sum PAR, PE«, PLi, ALP. ALB, PRO, PR., lEP, eto. At an eariy period In the formation of language, only rtmple forms of these root, were ever employed, the resulting words rarely presenting two, or more than two consonants in immediate connection with each other, aa, minutho, minco ; dihikuo b,, >.«iSH. At a later period, the pleasure of producing complex forms, and of joining several conso- aanta to each other without an Intervening vowel, became one of the strongest incentives to the cul- tivafon of letters. Compare dwikbl. -dimmmh, ftecom. m««. The«, words being modification. Of each other.and theM and the L being in them all tHe sa,^ UlUr. In ancient times, the .ech«ion Of sacred temples and the leisure of an intellectual priesthood were devoted to .upplying the vari- i « THE MAN OF TWO LIVES ooa nttlnni of tJi« itrth with UniruMrM formsd upon thit pUn. Th« IntorMt Ofl«««lon»llr UkM h tb« work, and tha advanUK** multiDg flrom it an prored by tb« bUtorr ot sfM and 0/ nftttoiui ta which Utten wera aotivoJy oultivaUd. With tha dooline of learninf In tha miJdla ante* all knowl. e>lga of tha method waa probably loat. It haa baan raaervad in our day to* a man ol aorrowa ami acquainted with gntt alona to paneUata thia moat intrfcata portion of tha myatnry of anolent art - to rtatora tlio long-loat tiecrat- and again to plaoe philological study upon tha tame exalted footing M when it ilourinhed in tha aohoula of Qraeca and Roma. M and N ara taken aa tha same latter: that ia, being both naaal aouudi, they ara aaaigned to tha same root, and ara made freely inter- obangvable with each other; aa in uuttcb, • low iwum; mvit«i<, bring toffHJitr ; tmukoek, a loud on* ; auNOKH, upartiU. The four llquida, L, M, N and B, therefore, give rise to but tlirou rooU. But theie are roota of great jiower, and from thom alone all the Tarioua word* of oultivatod lauguugta have been formed. Taken linKly, tha great power of theie rooU may, at once, be briefly Uluitratcd. Regarding either of tha liquid* ai the baaU of a root, it may be foUowed or preceded by either of the Towele, o, t, i, o, or u; aa in la, le, li, lo, lu ; al, el, 11, ol, ul. Before or after any of theae form* may then be added, the muuble or third letter already mentioned, and that mutable being in each oaae euaooptiblo of many changoa,.it ia obvioua that the reiiultiu« ' irrnn are numeroua. It ia a(juaUy obviout that when two roota are taken together and tha yarioua forma of each are combined with the variou* forms of the other, the number of the resulting oompounda will be greatly increased, In fact, each mutable may in turn be taken in connection with aacb Toweland each liquid, as above aht^n ; and in thia way all possible oombinationa of the four and twenty letterh rendered aTaUabIs in the mutliodicttl employment ol three small roota. Any aontonant whioh ia uot u liquid is regarded ■a a mutable ; aa p, b, e, g, t, d, f, v, a, a, etc., eto. Each root conaisting of three eKmenta, whea two roots are manipulated in conneotion with each other, alx elements are either expressed or im. plied ; that la, two liquids, two vowels, and two mutablea. By varioua modillcation, interchange, employment and rejection of these kindred and oorrolative words are made from the aame root*, and with euch regard to form that they may be always freely and euphoniously employed in immediate conneotion with each other. Most words are made by joint manipulation of two roots, and by the addition of prefixes and of terminations. The thorough intermingling of atruotural elemeuU re- •ulting from this mode of formation, aided by a Ju.lioious use of particles, insures to apokon Ian- guage an agreeable succession of sounds. Uow much attention this portion of the subject requires, and how much it has r«ceived in the formation of tha languages now in use, will be appreciated only by those whose investigations are thorough. One great object ia to obtain everywhere a due ad- mixture of liquid and of mutable. The alternations of a liquid and mutable are invariably pleas- ing. The judicious dUtribution of these letters amoDjf words frequently employed in immediate conneotion with each other ia an indispensable requUite in the formation of euphonioua language. Buch dUtribution is, in general, effeotsd by plaoing part of the elemenU of a root in one word, and part of them in some other word of like or of opposite meaning, as on, ovr; dom, doff ; ih, out; «1N, Aus ; IN, EX 5 III, IK, etc., etc., analagoua to a large olaaa of formations in which one of two liquids is placed in one word, the other in some other word of like or of opposite meaning; aa ri»t>, L08K J BIND, loosi : -fliNDB, LOSS ; - viNcio, 80LV0 ; - sPHiRoo. LDO. I'remising that in general words are not independent fomations ; that in general the form of each his reference to the form of some other, and that in general their differences are produced by variously distributing the six elemenU of two roots taken together, a few examples may now be given showing the origin of particular words and the mode of their formation. Gam and bbh are two full roota extensively employed in the sense of together or apart. From these rooU remembering that M - N ; that tlia liquid la a consonant letter; and that each vowel and each mutable may at any time ba changed for any other, a great variety of words may be formed with the general signittoation of ama. together, or ANA, opart. GiMBRiDo,me. To sow is to ,caUer,:to habv.st i. to galhtr. Observe the equivalent elementa in tcaturior, tcatltr, gather, gamer, and gam ber. The foregoing examples are here unavoidably presented in a detached form, but they show tht \ great fact of »remarkabU recurrence of the ,am, eUmenU in numerou» M,ord* of analogou, meaning. AVhen mature consideration ha. convinced that the etymology of thee. word, is precisely as here stated, and that we do in this way attain to the very origin even of such words a. are here given, the mystery of the formation of language is at once and forever dispelled. And when it is reali.ed that these »me word, are on every hand connectod with others by artistic relations dMnctly auign. able, and that these relaUon. are everywhere in harmony with logical relations in the worid around us profound admiration U felt for the union of philosophical propriety and of artistic elegance } ph.lolog.cal study is placed in a new light; and the restored art is seen to be capable, now, at in day, gone by, of exciting the deepest interest even in the youthful mind, and henoe, of .ubwrvin. I the highest purposes in the cause of education. Bespeotfully, ^ H. BUIXOFA e woida, and diffu> I u THE MAN OF TWO LIVES. CHAPTER XXVIL WAITING POR THB END. In the prosecution of these labors of a most singular character In a thief of thirty years' standing, he was subjected to i'avr of the dis- comforts of prison life. His cell had a comfortable bed, was alwavs clean and supplied with wholesome air, was contracted in space cer- tainly, bnt had abundant light, and contained all tho articles ol" furni- ture absolutely essential to his comfort His food was ngulated in a great degree by his own desires, and all his whims were consulted m the treat ment he received. And no prisoner was ever so strange in son.e of iiis caprices as this dual man, who, even in this last stage oi an infamous career, wlien the whole world knew how total was his depravity, yet had the power of securing the favor of his keepers. Most prominent, but least vexatious to others, among his oddities, wa^ his habit of omitting to wear any of his clothing except his shirr almost from the first hour of his incurceratioi;. The curiosity of his jailer was excited by thw co-.iduct, and inquiry was at last ma.lu whether his motive was a desire to preserve his apparel m that he wouM present a dpcent appearance at his trial. The man who had been ad- dieted to burglary and murder in the interest of philology, was amaztd at the littleness of mind displayed by such an inquiry"; and answered that his conduct was due to a much higher motive. He was accus- tomed, he said, to prison life— which was one of the few truths he ever uttered, for two-fifths of his entire life had been passed in jail— and knew that when in confinement and deprived of exercise, nudity was essential to the preservation of bodily health. Lest his statement might be doubted, he took the trouble to call attention to his fully developed as well as normally perfect muscular system, and hard com- pact flesh, as conclusive evidence of the correctness of his theory. The only trouble this habit gave his keepers was the necessity of giving him notice to dress himself when strangers desired an inter- view with him. But none of these were forced upon him, and he gen- erally refused to see any one but his counsel. He furnished the key to unlock the mystery of his double life by his answer to these re- quests for interviews. A lady desiring to visit him for the purpose of administering the consolations of religion, he returned a peremptory refusal ; and many newspaper correspondents wishing details of his lile were excluded from nis presence with equal decision. But one £rei,- tleman had made a study of this prisoner to such advantage that he not ouly obtained an interview^ but forced his subiect to become one haracter In a V of the di.s- , was always in space ctr- cles o'i furiii- 'gulated in a re consulted so strange in iast stage oi Dtal was 1)19 his keepers. 3ddities, wa;) ?pt his shirt, •iosity of his t last madu iat he wouM bad been ad- was aniazfd id answered e was accus- •uths heeviT in jail— and nudity was s statement to his fnlly d hard com- * theory, necessity of ed an inter- and he gen- led the key to these re- 5 purpose of peremptory ilsof his life ut one gen- age that he become one " THE MAN OF TWO LIVES. 99 of the most garrulous of mankind. The device was simple when the character of the man was understood, for the correspondent had but to profess an interest in the philological work and a desire to speak on that subject alone, to unlock both the prison doors and the tongue of the prisoner, llulloff freely and boastingly spoke of his achievements but admitted that while a master of Latin, Greek, German, French' and English, with some knowledge of Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian' together with a smattering of Hebrew and Sanscrit, he had been too busy with these and other matters to ever come to any definite reli- gious convictions, notwithstanding his parents were zealous members of the Episcopalian church, and had endeavored to carefully train him in that faith. This anomaly further claimed that, being a phrenologist also, he was so thoroughly acquainted with himself that he knew con- centration was the leading organ of his brain, and constructiveness the next; for he averred that he was skilful at carpenterin, and wheth- ry to the fact ilf. It is not ! affirmed by ken in April eral Term. ' the natural , to total de- justifies, and ivilization is decree, "He ieath," when >n, a smirch less apostro- ■J