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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... THE GREAT RULOFF TRIAL! THE ECCENTRIC MURDERER--HISTORY OP A VETERAN OUT? LAW--MYSTERY OP FELONY BACKED BY ASSASSINATION --RULOPP THE PERPETRATOR OP EIGHT MURDERS-- PEARPUL CHAIN OP CIRCUMSTANCES. The old and usually quiet borough of Binghamton, N. Y., was greatly excited with the dawn of the new year, by a murder trial that had in it enough of the terribly dramatic to move even a community accustomed as New York to such horrors from the even tenor of its daily life. It is not strange, therefore, that the Binghamton .court-house should have been the centre of attraction to all classes, luring the farmer from his fields, the lawyer from his briefs, the physician from his patients, the artizan from his bench, and the scholar from his studies. No more cruel crime than this was ver committed, and no criminal was ever surrounded with more of the tragically romantic than Edward Ruloff, alias Edward C. Howard, alias Edward Lenrio, the .culprit lately put on trial. 'WOHKING TTP THE CASE. Captain Hedden and Detective Keilley beginning with most slender 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. Such signal success as 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. It is not proper to state exactly how the information received was obtained by Hedden and Keilley, and the re'ader must be content with knowing that by the aid 'of these officers Mr. Hopkins was enabled to present an almost impregnable case to the jury. He was prepared to prove who the dead men were, and to trace.them, step by step, for
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Life, trial and execution of Edward H. Ruloff; the perpetrator of eight murders, numerous burglaries and other crimes; who was recently hanged at Binghamton, N.Y
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