The New York Herald Newspaper, April 30, 1874, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1874—QUADRUPLE SHEET. THE ROCKLAND How Matilda Hujus Was Butchered by an Unknown Assassin. The Fates Lying in Ambush for Six Years. FOOTSTEPS IN THE HYACINTH BED. “Vigilant” Detectives and that Same Old “Clew.” The Brothers Murphy in Jail and Isolated. A MYSTERIOUS, MOURNFUL STORY. NANUET, ROCKLAND CounrTy, N, Y. April 29, 1874, A STRANGE AND BLOODY story, Ten days ago the telegraph wires flashed the news ail over the land that a cowardly murder bad been perpetrated at this little out-ofthe-way place, Nanuet, in the southwestern corner of Rock- land county. The despatches, however, were very Obseure, and, as yel,the myriad readers of the HERALD have not had the vell raised which was seven years ago dropped on the men and women who have been mixed up im one way or another with this most mysterious of murder cases. At fifteen minutes past eight o’clock on Sunday evening, April 19, Matilda Hujus, aged forty years; Rovert Gamble, aged forty-four years, and Kath- rina Bonthomy, a servant, by birth a Bohemian, who can speak German, were. sitting around a stove in the parlor of a two story frame house on the main and only street or road of Nanuet—for it can scarce be called @ street—and were con- versing together. Matilda Hujus was a German woman, and, though married and having a busband living, she bore a very bad character in tne village, which has a population of about 500 souls, Robert Gambie is a native of the North of Ireland, but long resided in New York | city. The gossips of this dull but impertinent little village have, I find, repeatedly asserted that | Gamble has been criminally intimate with Matilda Hujus for the past seven years. During part of those seven years the wife of Gamble, now de- ceased, was alive, and the woman Hujus lived in the same house with her, but against the will of Mrs. Gamble, about two miles further up on the Nanuet road to New City, the county town of Rockland county. And now, to continue my story. These three persons were sitting around the stove and were, I believe, conversing about some thing or another that matters not to us. Suddenly there was a red fash, a loud, vibrating report from the direction of the furthest window, in @ corner of the room, and Matilda Hujus feli forward om the carpeted floor in dying agony, riddled with large squirrel shot. The wrétched woman rose for an instant to her full height, as a person stricken mortally might, her eyes rolling wildly, and, exclaiming “O Jesus!” fell prone, and in an hour was dead. I might have mentioned that there was a male child, Ramed Albert Dwyer, three years of age, in the same room at the time. Thesame charge from the shotgun, as it probably was, also struck Gamble, who was sitting in @ direct line with Mrs. Hujus, | further on in the corner, at rignt angles from the window whence the shot was fired. This window is numbered “s'?in the diagram ‘which I give. Gamble received seven squirrel shot im the face, four of which were in the top of the head, one in the shoulder and some in the face and breast. He also rose, and, bleeding profusely, staggered through a door into the hall and into his own bedroom, terror stricken as he perceived that Mrs. Hujus was in a dying condition. He feared that more shots would be fired, and when in his bearoom leaned for a moment from weakness ana fright against the wall, and, staggering around, slid his hands down the door, and then fell on bis knees to look for his pisvols, which were concealed under the mat at his bedroom door. The girl ran into an adjoming room, and her statements are so confused that but very littie can be gathered from them. She states, however, that the little boy Albert, who is very precocious and large for his age, cried out, in his fright, “Don’t shoot, papa! don’t shoot any more, papal” The neignbors, hearing the shooting and the alarm, ran in and endeavored to assist the dying Mrs. Hujus ana the wounded man Gamble. Gamble states that he crossed the street to the house of a man named Corsa, who occupies rooms, and called him over. A tavern keeper named Kidner also caliea, and this man states that he | found a greasy cap and a red and yellow paper Mask outside of the house and under the window from where the shot came, in a tulip and hyacinth bed. In less than an hour from the time that the assassin fired the shot Mrs. Hujus was a corpse, and Gamble, who is but a shadow of bimsel/—nav- ing at one time weighed in the neighborhood of 210 pounds—bied with great profusion, losing about four quarts of blood in a few hours. Fence. Fy : 512 = sd *la 3 3 ad “uapawy sonpoig Gian erenaeees. 1. Parlor of Gamble's house, 2, Mantelpiece bebind stove. 3. Stove around which the three persons sat. 4 Chair in which Gamble sat. 6. Chair.in which Matilda Hujus sat. 6. Chair in which Katherina Bonthoms, the servant, ont. “S window from which shot was fired. ® Tulip and hyacinthe bed, in which was found a reasy ca) and yellow er mask and deep heel Marky of the assasain, 10. Main entrance and 7 Chair tn which Albert Dwyer, three-year-old child, 19. Doorway leading to Gambie's bedroom. Door trom parlor to hal! and 3 Heiensioa of main cottage tncing tensior hich taces creek. Es Winds ot roar oF Wain cottage and its ywn murderer we ‘tots Brandi | front of cottage vashed away, were found, | nuet main two story frame house, and its front facesina — southerly direction, the end of ita further exten- | sion having a frontage on the Nanuet road. There | is another extension, the end of which looks toward the creek at the rear of the produce gar- den, in which vegetables and potatoes are raised, ‘The parlor m which Robert Gamble and Matiida | Hujus sat ig a smali one and is carpeted. It is jur- nished aiter the manuer of all the country houses | T have seen tn this section of the country, aud bas a few trifling ornaments on the mantelpiece and a plain looking walnut wardrobe in the northwest corner, which is riddled with shot. There are also | a lew chairs and ‘tures. I have travelled con- | sideravly within aiew days in Rockland county, and have found it almost impossible to get uny | truthiul statement from the people here, as 80 many | of them are in one way or another interested 10 the matter, and for reasons which must be guessed do not choose to 5 the trath. The rumor has spread that Gam! when shot had his head re- posing in the lap of Mrs. Hujus, and at any rate | i8 Previous relations with ber for a number of years would warrant a great deal of scandal. I should have stated that two arrests have been made on the bare suspicion merely that those arrested might have some complicity with or knewledge o: the murder. The two men arrested are Michael Murphy, thirty-three years ol age, & blacksmith by trade, and lately employed as a | house mover, and his brother, Thomas Murphy, | & truckman, both of whom reside in Hudson City, | N. J. Michael Murphy is a married man and has a | wile and children, While ‘‘nomas Murphy 1s & bachelor, Both men have excellent and peaceable | characters, and the only possivie reason for which | they could have been arrested is the tact that their | sister, Margaret J. Fulton, who was then a young | and pretty widow of remarkable intelligence, mar- | ried Robert Gamble in 1866, and hved with tim two years. During their residence on the jarm, which was bought for $7,500 of Mrs. Gambie’s money, Gamble tvok Mrs, Matilda Hujus into Mrs. Gamble’s house against the expressed wishes of the latter and the | behavior of the two persons was 30 scandalous | as to become the talk of the entire country side. They were seen riding together and walking to- gether day aiter day, and their intimacy was ob- | served by Mrs. Gamble, the neglected and sorrow. | ful wile, who stayed at home and shed the tears of | disappointment and bitterness. Gamble had rep- resented himself ag a naval oficer retired, and was at that time (before his marriage) & man of good rsunal appearance, and as Mrs. Gamble had in- Reritea property trom her first husband, who was an old man, to the value of $125,000, she speedily | became the wife of Gamble. On August 2, 1868, | she died under most suspicious circumstances, | and while Matilda Hujus was to all fact and ap- | pearance mistress of Gamble’s household, Dying thus suddenly, she Was hurried to ber grave um | Greenwood Cemetery alter sue had laid two days | | in her house dead without the knowledge of the | neighbors. The deat of Mrs, Gam\v'e was con- | cealed from all of her relatives and friends, and | they only knew of it from the New York city news- | | papers. There was no religious ceremony what- ever, and the only persons who stood oy the lonely grave in Greenwoou was Matilda Mujus, the rival | Of the deceased, and Gambie. A will was pro- | duced which purported to be the will of Mrs. Gam- | bie, and on the very same day of the funeral Gain- bie filed this in the’ County Cierk’s office, in the city of New York, 1t was Signed and attested by | two witnesses, who were strangers to the de- ceased. Asa married woman cannot convey her property to her husband except vy third parties, these two witnesses had the property con- veyed to and in forty-eight nours alter the of Mrs. Gamble it | was conveyed by them back to Gamble as | her hasband. This was certainly very quick work. | Some ten days after the burial Henry Daily, Jr., | of your city, Who has since acted as an associate | counsel in the second trial of Eaward S, Stokes for | murder, at the request of Mrs. Gamble’s relatives caused her to be exhumed, An autopsy was held on the remains, Protessor Ogden Doremus and Dr, Shepard making the medical examination. Gambie and Mrs. Hujus were both arrested soon aiter on suspicion of having caused the death of Mrs. Gambie by poisoning. ‘Traces of meconic acid and crude morphia were found in the stomach of the deceased , and the stains on her chemise and bedclothes were pronounced by Dr. Doremus to have been made by opium. But as this case has such peculiar ‘compiioraons, and the tragedy of April 19, 1874, is so Closely connecte? and tndissolu- | bly linked with that of August 2, 1868, I will deter | at this time any special mention of what imme- | | diately ioliowed, excepting that I may state that | Robert Gamble and Matilda Hujus were arraigned | for trial, beiore Justice John A, Bogert, on charge of wilful murder. : NANUET AND ITS DETECTIVES. at Nanuet, aiter having On _arrivi visited several neighboring bamiets, l jound that the all absorbing theme was that Of toe murder of Mrs. | Hujus. At the village tavern, where ihe village | loaers do most congregate to drink bad liquor | and horse, the excitement ran high. ‘nis | section of Kocklana county is to @ great extent | settled by Germans of the Piatt Deutscn breed, ang | as the woman Hujus was ofthat nationaiity the ieel- | ing was running high. The husband of Mrs. Hujusis | @ Rossianized German from the Isiand of Rugen and | has for many years been employed as a collector | of subscriptions and subscribers for a weekly journal, known as the Beletristisches Journal, owned and published bya Mr. Rudolph Lexow. ‘This gentleman is a very respectable as well ai Wealthy citizen, and owns anelegant residence and | park about a mile and a up the Nanuet Inain road, from the house now occupied by Gamble. jujus was in the habit o1 ee ee absent from Nanuet, where he resid at times, The last time he was absent from Nanuet for eight montns, and returned trom Davenport, Iowa., to bury his wife. It was said | that Gamble and Mrs. Hujus had many bitter quar- rels lately, and that it was in relation to tae Ln erty which Mrs, Gamble had Jeit behind ner. It | | seems that this property had been in suitin the | courts ever since the death of Mrs. Gamble, it hav- | | img been contested by the Marpoy brothers, who declared the will to ve a iraud; and, in fact, Gam- | bie hus never been adie to recover one dollar oi | what was left by his wile at her death. The house | in which Mrs. Gaubie lived and died, on | the farm, which she bought or $7,500, | is about’ two miles distant from where | Mrs, Hujus was killed, The oid house, a story and @ bal uigh, was burned down on the 4th of July, | 1873, and the insurance was vaid to Gamble. | The house was insured tur $1,500 and the iurniture | for $1,000, waich was more, it if sald, than tne | real value of the (urniture. The fire started in the | | room of Mrs, Hujus, ‘this house and farm were | heavily mortgaged by Gambie, and itis vehhevea that the latter offered Corneiius Hoffman, his coua- sel when tried jor murder, @ mortgage ior $800 on | the house (of which nothing now stands but the | chimneys) and farm, and Mr, Hofman retused to take the mortgage, as he believed it to be too heav- uy mortgaged airea y. | At Nanuet | discovered that William Pinkerton | and Deteciive Curtin, of Pinkerton's force, nad been scouring the country tor a week, bo oe i | with ali the farmers irom Bear Hill to Kocklau Lake and irom suflerns to Peari Kiver, Ramapo, | | spring Valley, Spark Hili and back agaim to Nyack | and New City. The amount of buggies and horses | iured by Uhese ofticers, who really were working very hard, has been sometuiog astonisuing to think of, A detective in this quarter of the coun- | try, when he visits a farmer aud taiks with him, | | 1s looked upon as @ positive benediction to the house. ‘The cnildren stare at him and the females examine his boots to see if he has cloven leet, vuule the solid old farmer brings out his vottle of applejack. The applejack is usually very strong, | | and uquor up he.e ‘in the mountains is not sup- | posed tv be worth drinking u, alter having been | Poured in at the mouth, it is not immediately felt tingling in the toes. This stuit goes by the | name oi Electric whiskey. The feet impressions | Jettin the clay under the window where the assassin | stood in the tulip and hyacinth bed to take aim has been covered over by a soap box, and caildren | have been allowed to stamp thew ‘eet in the tracks | Of the murderer. Pinkertun’s men are to take a | plaster'cast of the hee! mark, but one can tancy ow absurd such a cast would prove for the pur: | pose o1 identification of the criminal after a delay | Of tem days, when it 1s to be remembered that there have been several mountain snow and rain storms | in this section since the nigut of the murder. There | | has been a good deal of gossip in ths gossip-loving | community as to whether Gamble paid the rent for his present residence or Hujus. The rent is | $300 @ year, and it seems that the place has been | rented in the name of Mrs, Hujus, but that Gamble | has paid the ,rent to Kidner, tue landlord, who keeps @ tavern near by, and who loaned a revolver to Gamble some short time previous to the murder, telling him tnat he had heard that the Murphys were going to shoot bim. } IN THE HOUSE OF DRATH. Hearing that Gambie had manifested a desire to « converse with your correspondent I paid him a visit yesterds the house which he now resiues | in ana where Hajasdiea, I walked up tne lonely Nanuet road, Which 18 bounded on one side by a low, marshy tract, tuil of burned stumps of trees, aud tothe eastward by Nanuet Creek. The vicinity ts settied by Germans and descendant’ the oid Duten farmer, who gettlea here 100 and 160 years ago, The es of the people in this locality indicate their origin, for { heard of the | Blauveits, Talimans, Westervelts, Van Houtens, | Wannemachers, Gurnees, Sherwoods, snyde' | Demorests, Duryeas, Vervalens, Polnemuses an | Bogerts. There was in 1812 in this region a cele- | brated Colonet George Vervalen, who Killed six | British soldiers with hisown trasty brand, and one | ot Dis descendants has erected the meanest looking | court house 1 have ever seen at New City. The Hackensack branch of the Erte and the Northern | New Jersey Rutiroads runs throngh here north and | south, and forms a junction at this place. Here in this upland country the April breezes blow with consideravie briskuess down irom the Haverstraw and Nyack mountains, and whistle 2 the murmuring brooks and creeks that come wey. tumbling 4. i" irom which the shot w: ~ own over stones and tree stumps. eet SO ot was | Rockland county is clitefly known for its Drodne: 14, Walnut wardrobe , half an inch thick, pierced 3 pod eaeecmet Osh, game and garden truck, by wen squirrel i ery litte Space seems to be cultivated with ambri of deceased Mrs Gamble. laborious industry. 4 finbrow pe of Uamble, taken at tine of his | ndustry. The German women can be room of Matilda Hajus, in which she died. ered re blood. HA itehen and washroom, to which servant girl ran. Rear anartmant for various uses 16. weet of Robert Gamble, to which he fled, cov- | through the scanty foliage of the trees that skirt | | j | | Seen here working tn the fields as they can be | Seen working in the fat fel { Silesia, bomere. | nia and Westphaita. ‘They are all thick set, | hideously ugly, and look as if they have no hope in | MN Entering the fenged in vortion of the garden. | Murderer ran on the night of the the main door and notice that white sash there are traces of ie uns, es iis re who kitchen to the right of the hali, atin by a table, and he 18 busily @1 in dressing & small but healthy child, who on bis lan, rosy-cneeked | gorous, A loutish | German servant an: | girl is doing chores, and Gamble asks us into tue Pparior, in which mat Hujus was slaip. Taking a look at who has laid the child down, | can see in his sallow cheek, trembling lips, furtive eye and general rance, that this man has some terrible secret ind him, This man is | attenuated almost to 4 shadow, and hesitates and stammers when asked @ question, ag if he were at the bar of justice. He 18 in his shirt sleeves and | wears ed black nsumption has marked bim jor tts prey, and whatever luis secret may be, he will soon tell it to the ad trie bunal. I begin by asking him about his health, ‘and then the conversation flows on with the slug- g.sh monotony oj & swan “It was a cruel, co act to kiliher. They might have kiilea me if ‘wanted to, jor 1 was often e: bh around about the house and tie | village ; and they killed Her instead of me.” His lips trembie violent y, and he looks up and his gaze wanaae u “Have iu suspicion as to the person who dia the dec Pde you or have you Meared any one f” I asked, “on,” said he, “1 have no one to blame but the | Murphys. There is no one else that wouid injure | | me that I know of around here.” “Are you on Iriendly terms With Hajus, the husband of the dead woman ?”” “On, yes. I never had any difficulty with him at all. He was my iriend. He bas ved with me @ long time,” “Did you ever have any business dealings with this man Hujus at any time 1”? I bought a farm from Hujas.'” he satisfied with the relations that his | wife bore to you or the position that she held in this house 7” “On, yes. We were always good iriends.”” “Did ‘you have at any time or times a quarrel or altercation with Hujus about nis wife 1” “No, never. We always lived eably.”? “Way were you alraid that Murphys would harm you ?? “Well, there was a lawsatt and they wanted to get the money. They said she was wort $180,000, (Here a ghastly smile broxe over the face of Gam- bie.) Why, she was not worth half of that, fhey have been Sghung the wiil in the courts. Oh, they are a tough lot, the Murphys. She was not at all like tuem’ (with quivel lip). “Who was not like the Murphys?’ “My wile, Mrs. Gamble. She was nice—she was a nice woman; sie was so pretty and intelligent.’’ Here one o1 Pinkerton’s detectives came 10, bav- ing been sent by the very meddlesome tavern keep- er to watch over the interest of Gamble and Hujus. The detective, who was rather a good tel- low, Knew that he was de trop, and he tried hard to look at his ease. a | lasked Gamble ifhe had any reason to tcar the Murphys again. He answered in a queruious way. “Why, because one night he tried to kill me. I had been out in @ wagon and was coming home and when near the house—the old house that’s burned down—I got out and left the others and somebody ran forward in the dark and pulled a istol on me and fired. 1 know it was Murphy, for e tripped up and fell and that saved me; it was about two years ago.” “You say that Murphy did that. How do you know that it was Murphy who firea the pistol in the dark ? You could not see him, could you—I mean his face ?” “No, I did not see his face or recognize the man that fired at me, bat I know it was him. There was no one else to do it or harm me.” (Weakly). “These Leeper are poor people, as [ under- stand—how did they get money to carry on alaw suit with you for six years; I believe it is not ended yet *” GAMBLE COUGHING HUSKILY. “On, I don’t think they did 1t; it was their sister—Sister Corona, they call her, 1 think—she is & pister of Charity in Brooklyn. She is carrying it on ail the time.” (Here Gamble seemed to break down, and he shifted himself uneasily in the chair, and his lips twitched feverishly.) “Where did you marry your wife, and how dia you first get acquainted with her ?’’ “| think it was early in 1866 when I got acquaint- ed with ber in East Twelith street, in New York. It was not at her mother’s house I saw her first, but at atriend’s. We were married at the Catholic church in East Fourteenth street.’? are: Church of the Immaculate Conception, was “Yes, near First or Second avenue, I think; then ‘we came up here to live. She had property {n Fite teenth street and in Cedar and other places. We went to ourown louse after we got married. It was a cowardly thing to kill her, Mrs. Hojus, She never did ner any harm.” “Is that your picture?” said 1, poirting to the ambrotype of a large, powerful and handsome looking man which hung on the wall, “Yes,” answered Gamble, with a feeble smile. “| was quite a big man then; and look at me now. I got heart broken when I was married.” Going to the other side of the room I saw the companion ambrotype of the one that I had just been looking at. It showed the face of a woman Of thirty, dressed in black silk and with a gold watch chain depending from a very lair neck. The face was pure, the brow noble and ample and the eyes 1ull of tenderness and good sense. This was Margaret Gamble, who aied amid strangers and was huddled iuto a grave without a Christian to say a prayer for her. Nemesis sometimes skulks abroad in Rockland as she might have done at Marathon or Salamis, When Matilda Hujus was shot she rose to her | feet, and, looking at the picture of Margaret Gamble, 1t was perhaps the last thing she saw as the film closed over her ezes—the iace of the woman whose place she was said to nave unlaw- Tally usurped, Her body was picked up directly from underneath the picture of Margaret Gamble. Gamble limped over to the picture of mis dead Wile and looked at it steadily as he could, and the detective, with an unieceling interest, surveyed | every article in the little apartment ior the twen- tieth time. What was passing in the mind of Gainble I could not tell, but a spell came over him, and he moved away in a stupor. “Yes,” he repeated, with that feminine quiver of the lip,” she wus @ smart woman, she was. nice Woman she was. Ob, she wasao’t like the Murphys at all, I had to bury her in Calvary Cemevery, and they never gave a cent towards it. Yes, she Was a smart woman.” Then he went over to the walnut wardrobe in | the corner, which was built of haif-inch planks, and with a curious anxiety, as if he were a miser counting his gold, he pointed with pride to the holes torn in its suriace by the squirrel shot, which were tutended for him. “You see there ig thirteen shot in there. If I | had got them I would not be here. I got seven, though, inme. You see some of the snot have gone throvgn the plank clear. And here is the wall where the slug went in, and we had to break the wall open to get 1 out.” | ‘Lhe detective pointed to a hole in the wall over an inca in length and fully an inch in width, which nad been cut out of its suriace aa clearly ag | Possible. The brick had veen broken and the | deadiy slug taken out. “It Was @ dangerous missile to fire at@ man, was it not?’ I said. *@! indeed it was. If Ihad got tI would not have wanted any more. I have enough now now, and I suan’t stay in this house,” Here tue little boy pointed to the writer and ex- claimed, four or five times, “Whois tnat, papa? Who 1s that, papa’ This was tie same cnila wno Was heard to say on the might of the marder, “Don’t shuot, papa! don’t shoot any more, paya!’? Whom the child meant by “papa’’ 1s not ye. known, ba‘ in Rockland county, until the arrest of the Murpbys, Hujus was suspected of having shot his wife and Gamble, out o1 jeatousy and hatred, While others hinted that Hujus bad hired @ man to do it and absented himself purposely at the time of the muraer. Then there are others who | assert that a quarrel arose between the woman Hujus and the man Gamble on the titigation ques- tion about money, and Gambie snot her and then tried to commit suicide, but tailed, Whoever did it must have known the neighborhood aud coun- try, a8 he Jeft no firearms or traces oi himseli and noone got aboard of the train tiat weut out | imsnediately after but a man in a white coat named Hitch, a German shoemaker, who got off at Peari River and was tracke to @ lager beer saloon kept by @ man named Baaaer, He is under urveillance and 0 is Hujus, whose whereabouts in Iowa have been traced, but the particulars are not yet known. It is believed that Pinkerton’s men do not believe in the guilt of the Murphys at all, but are using them as @ blind to catch the real murderer, and this is why they have been so urgent in their visits to all the farmhouses about here. 1t is highly improb- able that the Murphys should have committed the murder, for when all the train conductors on the | Hackensack and Northern Railroads nave been brought up day by day to the jail in New City, | where the brothers are conflued by a Dogberry sheriff, who will not even allow a relative to see them, not one of these men could identify the Murphys as having rode south from Nanuet on the | the gt ' Sunday night when the murder occurred, A TALK WITH THE RUSSIAN HUJUS, Thad some little troubie in inding Mr. Hujus, I | heard that the detectives were \ooking for his | shoes to see if they woulu fit the impressions made in the tulip beds, aod I could not find him at the house of Mr. Lexow, where he is at present resid- ing. Finally Ifound him atthe house of Gamble, strange to say, and &8 usual the meddling tavern Keeper, Who imagines that he was born to be bol an orator and detective, had been there and had counselled Hujus to be very diplomatic and ren: | | cent, as ifnot ne would get into trouble. Hujus was | sitting in Gambie’s parlor where Ins wie was | shot and he had with him a this, stadtous Jooking person, who, I was told, was @ hom«o- fecal phyrician, named Alleyn. This studious looking gentleman wanted to leave the room when 1 entered, but Hujus, who seemed frightened, asked lum, in German, to stay, and he did so, re- luctantly enougn. TI asked Hujus, who is a bulky, | red-whiskered Russo-German, with @ burly | and flery bine eyes, i! he and Gamble were friendly, and he said that they were. He sesd that they never had any trouble, aud the thiu gentleman listened with his ears low down and his spectacies igh up. Hujas, who seemed very much excited, id not like to answer any questions. I asked him | if he paid the rent of the house in which he was, or Gampie; and he said that he did, and that he was the landlord and Gamble the boarder in the house, This was somewhat a different story from what [ had heard, as the housekeeper and his son had both informed me that Gamble paid hun his rent, although his house was rented in the name of Matilda Hujus, On being asked if he was satis- newly inserted in a corner , | le Was perlectly satisfied, and why not? Gambie was 01 @ boarder. then asked him if he had no} hired Pinkerton’s men to track the mur- tit | thew ) Jan a | nouse which he says is his own cabin, he said that aerer of his wife, and he said that he would not answer such questions as it was his own private business, although it was at this moment @ tact notoricus to all the village, as was also the fact that the detectives were also looking tor evidence against himself, He seemed to ve dreadfully troubled, and I left bim gione with the home- opathic siclan. A iew minutes siter I found Gamble walking up the road irom the tavern, where the proprietor had been making a speech to him, eg up in @ heavy overcoat, and leading the little boy Albert by the band. ‘This boy is the chud of an Irishman named Dwyer, Who ig ‘married tothe sister of the late Matilda Hujus, and the couple live in the woods at a short distance from New City, after the manner of wild living on anything they can get. Dwyer sensible old iellow enough, but his wile, whose Oo pame was ing. is an imbecile, and Matilda Hujus adopted the child, and then it was in turn adopted by be ag and by Gamble in the tashion oi a jomt st com| immedi- ately ater the shot had been and bis a M darkness, They did not see any wagu: in the neigbbor- hood, and weut to the house of Mr. Dietch, a mile further up. They know nothing more of the trouble, and could not possibly identify the as- sassin, as they never saw his teatures in the dark- ness which surrounded them. THB ACOUSED IN JaIL. Michael and Thomas Murphy are both closely confined in the City, and the District Attorney, Jonn B, Cole, retused me admission to see them, on the piea that tife Sherif was absent; and I must mz t this gentleman keeps out oF hearing with the most remarkable saccess when te does not wish to be seen, A poor, inoffensive Jellow, and an acquaintance of the Murphys, who may be able, and | believe is able, to testily to the whereabouts of the Murphys on Saturday after- noon ana night before the murder, was entrapped to the cars and taken to Rockland county, and is now confined in the jail at New City as a witness against the brothers. who, I am told, Will be able to give an account of themselves when the trial is calied on the 6th of May at New City. They seem to ve honest, hard working men, and deny tne charge with great mdignation wnich nas been preferred against them by Gambie, who de- nied to me that he had ever made a charge of any kind against the brothers. Henry Daily, of New York, who had been in the Gambie paged case siX years ago, and who defended the suits ever since against the Gamble party, is e! a to de- tend him at the approaching trial, and, it 1 be not mistaken, I think it will prove to be the most ex- citing trial that basever been held in a Hudson River county. THE FUNERAL OF MATILDA HUJUS. On Friday evening Hujus returned to Nanuet and saw his dead wile. The body was kept on ice unul Sunday, when it was buried from the German Presbyterian church, some two miles distant trom | the igri The. Rev. Dominie Von Rosentnal, a very hig! educated Sleresenn of the piace, who ‘Was educated at Wittenburg and is a Prussian gentleman of the old school, officiated and preached a very effective sermon. taking for bis text the third verse and twentieth chapter of tne First Book of tae Prophet Samuel—‘‘iruly, as the Lord liveth and as thy soul liveth, there is butastep between me and death.” The venerabie clergyman was Very ill and suffered greatly, but he spoke sol- emnly and impressively of the dead woman. Mr. xow, the employer of Hujus, and his two | sons occupied & pew as mourners, and Mr. Hujus was also present, as well as bis adopted son, a well built, handsome iad of twenty-three, who has learned a trade at Easton, Pa. There was also another adopted son of Mrs, Hujus, a lad, present; and the Lexow tamily, who have a high opinion of Hujus, sent a handsome cross and other flowers to decorate her coflin, which bore on a plate her name | and age, forty years and ten days. In a blindin; snow storm, the aged pastor, Rosenthal, emerge trom his house adjoming the churchyard, and, with @ few touching prayers, this woman, who in her Ite had been beautilul, reckiess and scornful, was Rajlg ote’ the damp earth Irom which she sprang. Then the mourners and curiosity seekers, eighteen wagon loads of which came to the last rites, Grove or walked in the snow storm to their homes, and the earthly chapter of the life of Matilda Hujus was closed forever. THE MURDERED PJLICEMAN. Funeral of John Gibney—Sketch of His Antecedents—Proceedings at the Coro- ners’ Office—Committed to the Tombs. Yesterday afternoon, at two o’clock, Police Captain W. A. Vandusen, of the New street police station, with thirty-five of his officers j and men, proceeded to No. 59 Mott street, | in the Sixth ward, to pay the last tmbute | of respect to Police Officer John Gibney, who was assassinated by private watchman Jonn Given, of the Department of Docks, shortly before midnight last Saturday. The police officers, who were in full uniform, entered the house of mourning, and viewed the remains of their | brother officer. Much sympathy was shown by ail | present for the unhappy widow and her two | children, aged seven and five years respectively. | All the men spoke in the highest terms of their | dead comrade’s kindness of heart and bravery, and one of them cited the case of his deiending the life of the murderer King, who shot O'Neill in the back of the head, aiter leaving Judge Suther- Jand’s office in Pine street. Alter shaking hands with the widow Captain | Vandusen told off the following officers to escort the remains of Gibney to their last resting place in Calvary Cemetery, and to act as pall bearers, viz.:—Sergeant Tnompson, Roundsman Wilbert, and Patrolmen Corrigan, Pilkington, Kavanagh, Gilmore, Cochrane and Briggs. irs. Gibney and her children also went to the cemetery and wit- hessed the burial. Shewas in a heart-broken con- dition, and her grief was most distressing to be- hold, The en officers returned to this city about six o'clock. The murdered man was a native of Utica, and was a cousin of Alderman James Merri- man, of that place. He was Jor several years | Captajn and owner of the canal boat A. M. Hitch- cock. Subsequentiy he kept a liquor saloon at in prisoner's hand at the time the pistol was atecharged” Delleve the prisoner said, he thought dee i nted to it him. Keates the ler out is the prisoner inet, testified to iy to ine arrest of e clea Senet Meera Dat wero the best of friends; the Sarbor policemen, who had office knew mowing about the ble cominenced, mnie ead. the medical. testt- that the wound of the head was the Cause ‘of death ‘The cuge Was then given to the jury, who found “that deceased came to his death (rom a pistolshot wound of the head, t! istol having been dis- charged at the hands of John Given, at pier No. 1 North River, on the 25th day o1 April, 1874.” “Given is thirty-lour years of age, born in this city, by trade a butcher, ana, lives at No. 449 West ‘Thirty-fiith street, He declined making any state- ment, and Coroner Croker committed mm to the Tombs for trial, THE FIRST WARD TRAGEDY. A Trivial Quarrel and a Fatal Kick— Statements of Three Eyo-Witnesses. There were but few new developments yester- day in the First ward tragedy, which resulted, on ‘Tuesday last, in the death of Henry Mohr, a run- ner for the intelligence oMce kept by Ernest Moller, at No. 96 Greenwich street. The only three witnesses of the affray. Adam Ottenheimer. Carl Kleist and Christina Gerhart, nave made statements, from which it would appear that Mohr brought servants to Mouer’s office and slept Jn the place, Moller heard lately that Mohr had taken servants to some Fival intelligence office and kept the fee of $1, which he received jor every servant thus obtained. Om Tuesday took @ servant ‘irl to this other office, aud when he returo Slier, who is @ hot-tempered man, demande fifty cents as his share in the $1 fee. Mohr refused to give him the flity cents, upon which Moller ordered him to leave at once, hr got his old trank and satchel together and ietched his dinner. While cutting his meat Mdller stepped up from behind and struck bim om the hea’. Mohr fell to the floor, upon which Miler kicked him in the abdo- men and went away. On his way to hts house in Brooklyn he drank heavily, and when Moller was arrested in his rooms he was completely intoxi- cated. The police say now that MUlier did not try to escape, but ghey believe he was quite unconscious of having caused Mobr’s death. Moller, when uestioned in regard to the affray, said he took thonr by the throat because he said defiantly that he wouid leave when he pleased; but denied hav- ing kicked him. “Perhaps I gave him a slap,” he said. Drs. Sands and Merrill, who examined Mohr’s injuries, said he was badly ruptured long belore this affray, and would otherwise not have died from the injuries inflicted by Mdller. The neighbors give both men a iair character, but seem to agree that MOller was addicted to drink and of an excitable temperament. He has a wiie and five children, Mohr is represented as having been a quiet, inoffensive old man, much the smaller and weaker of the two, and had no relatives in this country. Mdller came from Hanover and Mohr from Hamvurg (Germany). Action of the Coroner. Yesterday morning Coroner Woltman proceeded to the Twenty-seventh precinct station house and empanelled a jury. After viewing the remains the jury was discharged till eleven o’clock on Sat- urday morning, when the investigation will take place at the Twenty-seventa precinct station house. Coroner Woltman committed three witnesses to the House of Detention and sent Miller to the Tombs to await the resuit of the inquisition. The accused, who had been suffering irom a drunken devauch, was in @leariul state of mind yesterday morning, when restored to his proper senses and | could comprehend the awiul position in which he | had placed himself by his act. The wile of tne prisoner spoke of giving deceased a decent burial. By the violence received to his chest or abdomen loubtiess some of the internal organs were rup- tured, but that will be determined by a post- mortem examination to be hela. SINGULAR OAMAOF HYDROPHOBIA, About five weeks ago a little girl named Meggie Smith Lowerhill, living in Vidham, near Paterson, was bitten by a dog. Jt was at first feared that | the dog was mad and ili results were apprehended; but, no evil. effects appearing, tears were finally abandoned and danger thought to ne over, until a day or so since, when the little girl sud- denly began to go into convulsions every time she came in sight of water. Dr. Neer, of Paterson, was sent for, and, although when he arrived the child, who was about eigat years old, appeared to be periectly well, he pronounced it an unmistakable e Of rabies, which would undoubtedly piers tal, He so told the tittle girl’s mother, and was about going out of the yard when the little girl ran to the door and catled?—“Doctor, come back !’? He walked a little way back and she accosted nim, “Doctor, did you tell mother 1am going to die? | The Doctor was grieved to pain the bright little thing before him and said, in reply, ‘Oh, my cnild, | I hope you will not aie.” “But,” maple the doomed little one, “You must have told mother thatlam going to die, for she is cry- ing just as nard as she can.” The doctor turned his face from the little girl and the latter ran back into the house. She was shortly aiterwards seized with the convulsions consequent upon the awful disease and soon afterwarus died. She will be buried in the Cedar Lawn Cemetery, at Paterson, to-day. The singular circumstances in connection with her death huve excited a good deal of com- ment. LORD WALTER OAMPBELL'S MARRIAGE, {From the Manchester Guardian.) ‘The marriage of Lord Walter Campbell, third son ot the Duke of Argyl, and Miss Olivia Mulns, only daughter o! Mr. John Ularkson Milns, of the Oaxs, Radcliffe, Lancashire, and of Asoryhouse, Bute, was celebrated on Tuesday at St. George’s church, Nottinghill, The bride was attended to the altar pH fheae ladies Elizabeth, Victoria, Evelyn, Frances, -y and Constance Campbell, sisters of the bride- Franklin and West streets for a short period, and then became part proprietor of the tugboat | Davenport (which subsequently exploded at | ier 18 North River), with Mr. Jeremiah | urply, of West street, and Mr. Peter U. | Darling as partners. His steamboat venture | turned out unsuccessfully, as did likewise that of | starting a produce store in Greenwich street, | and, all bis money being lost, he entered the police | force. It was his intention to resign on the Ist of | May and to commence business ot some kind with | $80,000 which @ wealthy relative at Rondout had | promised to advance him. When he died 1t is re- ported that he was absolutely without money. lis wife will receive, however, the sum of $1,200 from the Police Mutual Aid Society, of which her husband was a member. The Investigation Before Coroner Croker. Yesterday afternoon Coroner Croker held an in- quest in the above case. Mr. William F. Howe appeared for the prisoner, who seems to be avery respectable man. Below will be found a copy of the testimony of the only important witness to the tragic occurrence :— Adam Halk, a private watchman, living No. 636 Pearl street, deposed that about hait-past nine o'clock on Saturday evening deceased entered the office on pler No. 1 North River, very wet; he asked the witness for a tal about that time John Given came in, and gave deceased 4 woollen jacket; the officer said he wasin a burry, and, putting his band in his pocket, gave the risoner $5, as, “John, you get something for it;" the took the money an. pitcher of beer’ and rought it to the office, with so me hot bread; when the ‘witness returned the policeman wax gone and the pris- oner was alone; in about three-quarters of &n hour the policeman came back and sat down; he was laughing ‘about being so wet and sat down by the stove; the witness gave him a glass of beer ‘and something deceased and prisoner talked friendly together an hour, atter which there was a kuock at the loor, aud one of the Harbor Police was admitted, and, sitting down, had a drink; deceased commenced talking about politics with the harbor policeman; the latter fave the witness nitty cents to Ket some more beer, which e did, leaving deceased and the harbor policeman together with another oliceman; when the witness re- | turned they had a drink; the’ pitcher again be. coming empty, the witness went for more beer, but only w smail quanity was drunk; deceased wanted pimoner to have a glass ot beer, but he retused, saying e, did not want it; but deceased insisted, and ‘said to prisoner, “Don't get mad," Prisoner, pustied deceased away and spilled a portion of the beer, which fell on them ; the lamp was also put out; deceased soon looked at the clock, said it was twenty minutes to twelve o'clock; at the sume time there was another knock at and anoiher harbor policeman was letin: he e remained but a few moments and said to thé other har- bor policeman. me, let us go,” and they went away together: they had been gone bus & few minutes, when deceased and prisoner talked about wall and soon they grappled together and wrestled, it Dut were separated by the witness, when Geceased said, | Johnny it vou are not satisfed, T will pat one haud be: hind my bu ‘ow you in,” witness then said | y ag to prisoner, ist sake, Johnny, stop wrestling in here, a you will smash everything in the room: again rushed at each other, and deceased the prisoner again, when the latter np and was asked by tne prisoner if he mad, deceased then said,“ must go, a8 my rehiet will be at the post; decoased and prisoner then Weut out together, and in a iew moments prisoner opened the door. rushed in ana threw off his coat: the witness urged him to keep quiet or he would be sorr Gibney was then standing ontside, close to the door; | prisoner went out again, and soon'they both came in, elmened, and dece: Was thrown on the tal the 3 & took a six shooter, a Coit’s revolver, and was request to let the pisio! aione or he would get into ditfeulty ; at the same time the door oven t side the door about a yard; ashe did so the prisoner tired; he was standing about three teet from de- geased when he fired, and deceased fell on the floor with bead just outside, his feet apd body beiny in the the witness said, ‘Johnny, Johnuy, for Christ's sake, You have killed the policeman,” to which the pri- soner replied, “he shot himselr,” the witness said, “Oh, no, Johnny; you did it.” iness examined the 7 saw > joking: the witness alarmed called the police; nd placed a pillow under his pistol | witness parted them, and they both rushed ‘out, | shoving each other; in a “couple of nites | the Witness | heard ‘the prisoner squeal, | aiter | which he returned, and pulling ont. a ‘drawer | and deceased came in- | 3 i used by the ter the shooting the Police ;” officers then ess and the prisoner; don’t fied to have Gamble and his wile living tn the varties ever had any trouble vetore: saw | the Dean of Chester groom, Lord Waiter’s groomsman being Mr, J. C. Milns, brother of toe bride. The Very Rev. perlormed the ceremony, assisted by the Rev. W. D. Carter, M. A., of Stand- lane, Lancashire, and the Rev. C. Leveson, B. A., Vicar of St. George’s. Aiter the ceremony the wed- | ding party and triends breakfasted at the resi- | dence of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, Argyll Lodge, Campdenhill, where upwards of fifty guests | assembled, aimong whom were the Princess Louise | ana the Marquis of Lorne, the Duke of West- | minster, the Duchess of Sutherland, &c. Early in | the afternoon Lord Walter and his bride left town tor Dornden, the Marquis of Lorne’s residence at Tunbridge Wells, to spend the honeymoon. THROUGH THE 8ULZ OANAL, The steamer Atalanta, Captain Mangelsen, ar- rived at this port early yesterday morning from Yokohama, via the Suez Canal. She Jeft Yokohama on the 28th of January, arrived at Hioga on the 29th, stopped there until the 4th of February, ar- rived at Singapore on the 17th of that month, left there on the 19th, passed Aden on the 9th of March and entered the Canal on the 17th, reaching Port Said on the 19th and salling thereirom on the 22d of that month. Gibraltar was reached on the 2d of April, when, alter three days’ detention, the Atulanta sailed for New York. This steamer is of 700 tons burden, and is owned the German Steamship Company of Hamburg, which maintains monthly service to India, China and Japan. She 1g laden With tea, coffee, fang, tin and curtosities, | Her crew, all told, number twenty-seven per: Captain Mangelsen reports nothing of interest during the voyage. DEATH UNDER SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES, About six o’clock yesterday morning, Alice Ma- her, a woman thirty-five years of age, and born in Ireland, who lived 1n a shanty in Forty-fifth street, between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, was found dead in bed by her husband. Owing to reports cir- culated by the neighbors that Maher been i the habit of beating and abusing bis wife, the ‘T'wenty-second precinct police arreste him on suspicion of inflicting the violence which caused her death; but that must be determined by a post-mortem examination tu be made by Deputy Coroner Leo, Coroner Kessler has charge of the case, and will huld an inquest, The accused made no effort to escape. and evidently there 1s not much importance attached to the case. ACADEMY MOUNT 8, VINOENT, ON THE HUDSON, NEW YORK. There is to be a reunion of the former pupils at this institution on Friday, May 1. The interest of the eecaston will be enhanced by a grand ramie, | the object of which will be taen announced, KILLED BY A RAILROAD TRAIN. PHILADELPHIA, April 20, 1874. An accident occurred this morning near Cresson, twelve miles west of Altoona, Pa, Five raftemen waiking on the track towards Cresson were met by a freight train going cast. They stepped on the other track, When the Pacific express were struck them, killing four instantly and serious: PEE tt og Watnew"secob Bowaer and ward Pardee, Amos Pardee, ¢ , S. Irwin, William Irwin was injured. ‘They lived at Cherry Tree, Indiana county, Pa. THE ORUSADERS AND LOJAL OPTION. HARRispoR6, Pa., April 29, 1874, Advices have been received from Altoona, Pitts- burg and Williamsport stating that the crusaders | intend vistting the State Capitol en to pre- | veot the paeee of the bill repealing the Local Option laws. ¢ date of ther visit will devend upon the thme when the bill is considered. | you EXECUTION IN OHIO. Hanging of the Colored Murderer, Ste~ phen Hood, in Cleveland. His Heartless Butchery of a De- fenceless Nephew. aaa SCENES ON THE SCAFFOLD. ———-+—_—_ A Criminal Unmoved by Prayer or Ap- CLEVELAND, April 20, 1874 Stephen Hood, colored, was executed in the County Jail here to-day for the murder of his nephew, Greenberry Hood, aged fourteen years, ‘There was scarcely a ripple of excitement over the matter, every particle of whatever might have been regarded as palliative or romantic having been re- moved by the cruel, cold determination of the criminal to destroy the life of the poor lad, whose support bad failen upon him. Every effort nad been used by his counsel to secure a commutation of the sentence to imprisonment for life, but the Governor appears to have regarded the crime in the same light as the public generally; and seeing that there was not one extenuating circumstance. wisely refused to interiere with tne verdict of tne jury. Since his conviction nis behavior had been remarkable only for the coolness and persistency with which he denied his gailt, and the tact that the Governor was not likely to prevent the exe- cution seemed to trouble him but little. He was neither aifected by the prayers of his spiritual ‘advisers nor the approach of the terrible fat? that awaited him. Coarse and uneducated, stolid and contemptuous, he met all argument with a aul- ness almost incredible, and appeared utterly be- yond the reach of moral assistance. HISTORY OF THE MURDER, At half-past three o’clock on the morning of July 17, 1873, Hood arose, awoke his nephew, Frea- erick Hocd, also his wife's adopted son, Greenberry Hood, whom he was supporting, and instructed them to go to the lately vacated show grounds, on Superior street, in this city, which P. T. Barnum haa occupied with his caravans, and see what they could pick up. The boys arose and opeyed his instructions. About five o’clock Hood followed them to the grounds and told them he was going after fish, as all his felLow workmen had gone off on the same occupation. He then took the boys, who were ‘respectively fourteen and fifteen ears of age, by the way of Woodland and Wilison avenues to a secluded place in the woods between Newburg and Cleveiand, | and to the east of the Cleveland and Newburgh Railway tracks. Here Hood sat down on a log and produced irom his pocket a pop bottle filled with whiskey, which he frre to the boys. The elder boy retused, but Greenberry, the subse- quently murdered one, drank from the bottie, and his little companion claims that he was con- siderably affected thereby. They then went on farther and at last stop) then sent Fred, the elder, to a saloon which he said was near, and ordered him to have the bottle filled with whiskey. The boy obeyed and was gone some time. When he retarned Greenberry was missing and Hood would not allow any search to be le for him. With some evasive answer as to his whereabouts, the man took Fred. with him to his home on Webster street. Suspicions of foul play were aroused in the minds of the boy and his aunt, Hood’s wife, and the police were informed. After inquiries and ques- tionings, Sergeant Morse made up his mind that the suspicions of the boy were col or dered Hood’s arrest and with Fred and an o! went in search of the missing boy. After a long search through bush and thicket, mud and swamp land, they at last reached the spot where Hood had remained while Fred was away after the whiskey. FINDING THE DEAD BODY. The ground had been lately disturbed and it did not require much searching to find the dead b of the boy buried under filteen or twenty inches of dirt and with the mound covered with dead leaves and pieces of wood. ‘The body lay with its face to the ground, tne right arm twisted around behind,. the hair of the head and the garments on the body being com- Netely saturated with bicod. Subsequent exam- fnatioh reveuled the fact that ddach was caused by vlows received upon the nead from some jagged or rough tnstrument, provably a piece of board or @rough, wooden club, At the Coroner's inquest Hood made a statement averring that while Fred was absent he had met a man named John Lane, to whom he had given Green- bury. Lane was to take him to Pittsburg and take care of him. The story toid b risoner was clearly invented and could not be be- leved, and being satisfied on this point the jury returned @ verdict that the boy had been killed by Hood, on which the Grand Jury indicted him for murder in the first degree. HIS TRIAL AND CONVICTION. On the 15th of December last the prisoner waa tried in the Court of Common Pleas, beiore Judge Paine. The State was well represented bs counsel, ‘a8 was also the prisover, the deenders of the latter Cla:ming that none but an insane man would so openly and heartiessly butcher @ lonely, defence- lesa boy in the broad light of day Within the possible hearing of residents of the neighborhood. The trial lasted five days, ending with a verdict of wiltul murder, as charged in the indictment. As usual in ali cases of the kind nowadays, notice was given for anew trial,on technical grounds, which in this instance were to the effect that while the jury were outin consultation they had access to law books, and had construed the meaning of the statutes ior them- selves, without having had instructions in a proper manner from the Judge. The motion for a new trial was accordingly argued, but was denied on the ground that @ juror cuuid not impeach bis own verdict, The casé was accordingly carried to | the State Supreme Court, and alter a tong delay 1¢ was decided that the tacts did not warrant the granting of a new trial, THE EXECUTION. Sherif Smith had veen literally besieged by curiors citizens asking jor passes to witness the death scene, ut he decided to allow but_ the ordi- nary quota, Cousisting of physicians, officiais and Teportera ui the press, in addition to # few iriends, to be present. Consequently but a very few were in the jail yard his morning. There was not much formality indulgeu in by the Sheriff, and aiter the pinioning in the cell the condemned man looked the very picture of insensibulity. When the death warrant was being read he quietly glanced around &t the 1aces of those present and exhibited not the slightest emotion. @ Sheruf said, ‘Hood, ha’ anything to say? bat the simply shook his head and repli sir. The religions services were and affecting. Portions of Scripture were re followed by a fervent prayer by the minister wi had attended Hood in prison. The culprit shook hands with all those standing on the scaffold, and then retired to the trap, which he geieny tested by.a kind of jump, coming dow’ on the fatal door with a pecuiar thud, During the process of ad- justing the rope Hood took & final survey of the scene, id occasionally turned his head ia obedience to the desire of the Sherif, alter the fashion of a man being shaved. e final farewell of the officers being taken the trap was 8] a few minutes belore twelve o'clock. Tne felt being broken hanging @ distance of about six feet, the neck Fe oerateahcye and was cut down after wenty minutes. inh ig the first execution carried out on & Wednesday in this State for several years. OASE OF NANOY B OLEM. INDIANAPOLIS, April29, 1874, ‘The motion made yesterday by the prosecuting attorney at Lebanon, Ind., to enter @ nolle proge- qui in the case of Mra. Nancy E. Clem on ber fifth trial for the murder of Jacob T. Young and wife has been sustained by Judge Palmer. Mrs. Clem . is now at liverty. . THE LATEST FOOL'S ERRAND, [From the Pall Mall Gazette.) An interesting cavalcade will pass through the Continent this summer. Sergeant Bates, itis sad, will on May 10 leave the United States for Europe with two ex-soldiers o1 France and Germany, and alter passing through London will proceed to Calais, In London arrangements are to be made with an ex-soldier of each of the other countries of Europe to join him in the “Grand International March of the Nineteenth Ventury.” The sergeant and the ex-soldiers each bearing the standard of tus own country, are to march irom Calais ta St. Petersburg through all the capitals of the Continent, Negowations are in progress to rauade an irish home ruler to carry the green flag of Erin. A white siik banner, with the motto “Peace on Earth,” is also to be carried—if possible by a negro, The progress of these standard bearers will be a magnificent spec tacie and will be watched with the deepest inter- eat by the civilized world; but to render t! “Grand International March of the Nineteenth Cenvury” a really striking success, Sergeant Bates and his companions should pay a visit wich thett fags to some regular bloodthirsty barbarians. Whi hot land on the west coast of Africa and marc stYaignt to Coomassie, taking Hurope on the re- turn journey—King Koffee bringing up the proces sion with his umbrella, lent by the South Kensing- ton Museum tor the occasion? s