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The •fury on I(nlloff deals nllh Isle cull and olio Ih,bu1o:Y .\kirk,
I1re life of Ula ma,.lever front the with.\IPr'I .1 rn\Im nl it,,,
little he came I,. Ineydon W 1842 relne, genre gm�hll
Ill becnare a srla.,,t teacher until Prom Ihml a ,. Will . u per of erinu`
he leas hanpod In 1311"hamlon groly IaPldly. II,• ...., Ilmnd noeoinl
I Years Later After n nelorlone 01,11Y
of crime. Allaasra, n'OI Led ;OII r, �l,l he it,
evils\the
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iitolty J11eaPpanrad man•ol of nil ..un sham he cnnu.
It Was In 18I5, two years after In coning[ tl,•, I,rIIIInnL mind and
he hod nlarrlyd one of his pupils, nbl llllee Won Will ponitlon" of lrllsl
Ffarrlet Schutt, daughter of a Iargo ,ehurover he "pulled and It was lint
and maineetable famlb• of long long hero" he was worItinR under
ale nding hr Dryden, that his WIN several dlirerenl nntnas And In erv-
and baby suddenly disappeared. oral Poall Ions At the anon time,
N'h•a h4 lOfe•s fa.nib• began to keeping hl mselr aupplled with
iluoatlon h/m ciA aly, he left home 'loony through rho rabbet Which
suddaah.- he dtrecled and which Worn ex -
Being of unusual appearance, ccuted by young Jarvis and All-
"hig, al.cong and boarded" and With other dupe.
a heed which nos "rho largest ever Caught In Binghamton
seen In Dryden," he was comity I( was one night when the trio
traced and located In a Cleveland came to Binghamton to Plunder a
hotel. silks eldnbllahmmlt that Rullorrwas
The Cleveland police placed him Apprehended. Hie plans going
under arrest, somewhat amiss, he was obliged I
The Tompkins County prosecutor, to shoot the two attendants who,
however, thought the evidence too wore sleeping In the store, One
sllm for the murder charge.• No was killed and the other seriously
corpus deliett could be shown, al- wounded. From then on, It was
though the lake leas twice dragged Quick work until he was tracked
with the Idea that the missing Rut- down and Identified as Rullelr.
lotrs might be at the bottom. So
Rullod• Was Indicted and convicted $atone he was 871.hanhe In Bing -
on a charge VC abduction. h Jan- to the In murder
o Ills he confessed
nary of 1846 he was sent to Auburn to the murder of his witc and child
prison for 10 years, which he
served.
Prison {Ponder _
In prison, the story relates, 'he
was the wonder of all, convicts
and guards alike,His energy and Library Holds
learning seemeddboundless. Put to
Work to the prison carpet factory,
he designed patterns that were in-
tricate and thought to be highly
artistic. He kept his cell filled with �
books and spent his free hours, of -
which he had maay, studying and years Reports
Icrittng. Often be taught a prison
school class, to which he discoursed
on the origins of language."
During the decade he Was in
prison Tompkins County had been The annual meeting of the Cor-
at work searching for new evidence nell (City) Library held Monday
on which to convict him, but Rul- marked the close of its 75th year.
]off only scoffed at such attempts, The annual report showed that
charging with reason, that he could more than 98,000 persons had vis-
not be tried twice for the same ited the library during the last
crime. year, the largest number ever re -
Conducting his own case from corded.
the start, he petitioned for and ob- The number of boo]cs loaned to
-' children and adults had also in -
Library Lists
Ithacan's Book
I
"Stories for Junior Worship," a'
new book by Mrs. Lincoln D. KeI-
say of Comstock Rd., is now in the
Cornell (City) Library, Miss Helen
1 Ludlow, head librarian, announced
I today.
The stories, based on Biblical and
historical incidents, previously ap-
peared in publications for young
people.
Photos Shown.
At Library
Photographs by members of the
Ithaca Camera Club are on display
at the Cornell (City) Library,
Winter scenes, flower pictures,
twilight photographs, and animal
studies compose the bulk of pic-
tures on display.
Those contributing to the show
include Prof. B. L. Herrington,
Prof. E. F. Walllhan, and Robert
Potter.
The pictures will be shown in the
main room of the library for about
a week.
creased, and the report showed that
more Ithacan are reading non-fic-
tion than ever before. Non-fiction
reading increased 3,200 and there
was a corresponding drop in the
number of books of fiction read.
At the annual election during
the meeting, the following were
elected officers of the board of
trustees: President, Charles E.
Cornell; vlcepresidents, Eben T.
Turner and Louis P. Smith; secre-
tary, the Rev. R. E. Charles; treas-
urer, Paul Bradford; and librarian,
Harry G. Stutz. Mrs. T. J. Barker
was again named chairman of the
library committee.
New members of the association
include Miss Clara Apgar, John
Brooks, and William B. Cornell,
grandson of Charles E, Cornell,
president of the board of trustees.
New members of the library
committee include the Revs. Ed-
ward L. Christie and Edward Horn.
Renamed to the committee are
Mrs. Barker, Mr. Stutz, and the
Rev. Mr. Charles.
J'' (ores to Be
t�r•iN�� tC
+,xlaibiled
I'oi ,ular Pho-
cxhiblt include all t[hetlfull color
Tho second annual
melon will be
on
prize winners, wbile
➢
the seen, second,
togrnphy traveling
VIA Como (City)
Photo•d11finclude
winners. All
disPlny at
from Friday, Jan.
to
to
treed, and ntth
Inch
prize
P There
beery of,
Thursday, Jan. 29, and 104 of
Thursday,to
the
the
are 16x20
Woro more than
35,000 entriefrom
95,
prize-winning Pletm•es
be
state and
ma ry foreign court-
magaslne's 1040 contest will
the P
le
[very
by the
shown. One of
This salon is
sponsored
shown above. rents In
The black -and -white p
the
Ithaca Camera
Club.
a
Talks, Exhibits`,
To SPur
Sale of Seals
Talks and exhibits are plane
for this week and next in connec
tion with the 35th annual Christen
seal sale.
At the Cornell (City) Library,
Miss Helen M. Ludlow, librariag
is arranging an exhibit table ifs
connection with the Christmas
seal lighthouse poster. Books abou
lighthouses and those pertaining t
the sea will be featured.
Children between the ages of
and 10 are invited to a story tel
Ing hour to be held in the Chi,
dren's Room of the library at 11
m. Saturday. Miss Florence Curt;
executive secretary of the Tom
loins County Tuberculosis and Pu�
lie Health Association, will tq
stories. She will relate "The Stod
of the Christmas Seal" and oth
stories of the holiday season.
Elementary school c It 11 d r el
throughout the county have be
awarded a double barred cross p
if they knew the location of h
lighthouses and planned an ad
quate diet for the lighthouse (fee
er. The Tompkins County Nut
tion Committee co-operated in a
ranging this educational and pii
motional idea.
The Art Department. of the I
aca High School under Miss Marion
Leary, director, and Raymond Ar-
nold,instructor, is preparing a 1
Christmas seal display window.
The New York State Electric and!
Gas Corporation, 123 S. Cayuga St.,'
will show the exhibit beginning
Monday, Dec, 15.
Service Men s
Pools Pile
t c1
5(
Grows higher ;i
Books for men in the service are 1
ontinuing to Pour into the Cornell I
c1
(City) Library, Miss Eelcn Ludlow, i
librarian and chairman of the Ian
aca book collection drive, an
pounced today. s,
A contribution of 122 books from 1
the Cayuga Heights school haal
swelled the total in the library i
alone to more than 1,000 books.
Other 'collections are being made
in the public schools.
Books most needed for the serv-
ice men are fiction, principally avi-
ation stories, adventure, mystery,
and humorous stories. Books on
accounting, shorthand, photoplay,I
lette'ring, and mechanical drawing
are also desired.
In answer to several questions
as to the contribution of rna,A
zines, Miss Ludlow said that while
the victory book campaign 1s not l
requesting unbound magazines, tho �
American Merchant Marine Library'i
Association announced that It can i
use certain magazines issued dur
ing the last 18 months. The de-
sired magazines include .the Ameri-
can, Atlantic, Colliers, Cosmapoli-'
tan, Esquire, Fortune, Tlarpers,"
Liberty, Life, National Gen-,rapllte,,
New Yorker, News Week, Pic,
Click, Look, pulp fiction, Reader's'
Digest, P,edbook, Saturday Eve
ring Post, Time, and U.S. News.
If free transportation can be Be-,
cured for magazines to deliver'
them to the nearest receiving sta-
tion, they will be sent on from ;
i there. Persons interested in con- t
tributing magazines are asked to t
call Miss Ludlow at the Cornell
(City) Library-2052, for further!
information.
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