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SUICIDE OF RUTLEDGE, ‘ THE BANK ROBBER, June 6â€"Jones, one of burglars, dies "ét wounrds received in struggle to HbCope._. . .o llcclll uc + * + JOBd 7â€"Fred Lee Rice and Frank Rutledge charged with murde. of ‘Constable Boydâ€"are sentenced to 21 tyears‘ penitentiary ior Auror@& robâ€" Iberiesâ€"Rutledge commits suicide by jumping from a gallery to jail floor. _ Toronto, June 8.â€"Boyd dead, Jones dead, Rutledge dead. A Desperate Man‘s Desperate Deedâ€"â€"Cheated the Gallows But Met a HMorrible Endâ€"â€"tlis Death Deliberately Plannedâ€"â€"Broken Down by the Charge of Murder Hanging Over HMis Head, He Lost Heart and Committed Suicideâ€"â€"A Guard Called to Him Not to Jumpâ€"â€"Rice, the Only Remaining Prisoner, Much Affected by His Deathâ€"â€"More About the Women. * Sprang From _ June 5â€"Found guiity of burglary in Auroraâ€"inquest opened on murâ€" der of Constable Boyd.. May 28, 1900â€"Rice, Rutledge, Jones, leave Canada for Chicago. Dates in the Bank Burglars‘ Tragedy May 22, 1900â€"(Giang begin operaâ€" Ktions in Canada. Standard Bank, Parkdale, entered. 5 HIS SKULL CRUSHED BY THF FALL May 24, 1900â€"Double burglary at Aurora. June 1, 1900â€"Gang arrested Chicago. Extradition proceedings _ April 3, 1901â€"Prisoners handed over to Canadian authorities at Chiâ€" Hale bank robbery cise. June 3.â€"Trial for robbing Postâ€"of[â€" fice at Aurora commenced. June 4â€"Rice, Rutledge and Jones, Iip attempt to escape, shoot down Constable Boyd, and are recap These are the grim results of the most dramatic tragedy that Toronto ‘has ever witnessed, and the end is mmot yet, for the shadow of the galâ€" UNows hangs over Rice, the last of the three desperate men who for the past week have been the chief theme of conversation in the city. Yesterday, in a moment of frenzy, Rutledge, after his return to the jail ifrom the preliminary hearing of the \charge of murdering Constable Boyd \laid against him and Rice, feeling [.that wherever he turned the blackâ€" ‘mess of despair was about him, leapâ€" ed from the upper corridor of the inâ€" {terior court to the paved floor beâ€" low, and alighting upon his head, susâ€" tained injuries from which he died an hour later. To escape the gallowsâ€"â€" the ignominious end of his terrible fight against public ordarâ€"Rutledge took his ow n life without a moment‘s hesitation by the ouly means at his disposal. During yesterday Rutledge and Rice had not only received sentences of imprisonment for twentyâ€"one years but had heard the first evidence in & practically impregnable charge of murder. For almost a week the men had been dragged about from eourt to inquest, and inquest to court and at every step their chances A freedom or even of life had lessenâ€" ‘ed. Yesterday the spirit of Rutâ€" ledge failed. He had hoped to escape the charge of _ murder and the chances of being hanged, for he beâ€" lieved Constable Stewart‘s evidence that it was Rice who fired the shot which killed Constable Boyd would save him. â€" When he discovered that the law would hold him equally guilty he broke down. He came from {the Jail silent and downhearted, and heard the sentence of the court proâ€" nounced on him for burglary without m show of emotion, and when Judge McDougall asked him if he had anyâ€" ‘ithing to say why such sentence should not be pronounced, he answerâ€" ed, "Nothing, nothing," as if it were a matter of little concern. It was in the prisoner‘a cell at the City Hall that kutleigo betrayed to ‘the officere who were watching him his great uneasiness of mind. A few .weekse ago, when the three friends, \Jone@, Rice and Rutledge, were locked im that cell they would pace elowly up amd down the floor, arm in arm, awl talk ame old and tried friends would talk. Yesterday â€"Rutledge avoided Rice and acted like a caged amimal. He almost ran from one end of the cell to the other, and when he had tired himself he would sit downr on the floor in, the corner, and with hig elbows on his knees and his chin reating on his hands brood over the «ituation to which his own actions had brought him. Rice, the young man, the man who wase unknown as a criminal outaide of his own little naâ€" itive town before the pregent case beâ€" gan, the man against whom the eviâ€" dence on the charge of murder had been epecially direcled, retained his volatile epirits. . He wanted tobacco amd a good meal before he was sent back to the jail. The officers to whom he made thie@ request endeavored to arouse the interest of Rutledge, and Neither the meal nor the tobacco were forthecoming, and at 2.30 o‘clock the prison van came to take the prisâ€" ?r- back to the jail. There were ven men in all in the great cell, aMd before they were taken out Rutâ€" Redge and Rice were handculfed to gwo minor offenders, and then they jwere all crowded into the van, and pp an extra guard Detective Forrest, 23.â€"Jury disagree in â€" Parkâ€" His Spirits Failed The Suicide Planned. Toronto Jail. ami Policemen Steele and Wileon, acâ€" companied Driver Bloodworth. Durâ€" ing the trip to the jail Rutiedge and Rice had opportunity to converse but #aid little to each other, the younger man being unable to raise Rutledge from his fit of despondency. When the van drew up in front of the jail the meven prisoners were marche | into the main hall, and then taken separately into the ‘"searching room," where the clothing of each man was examined. This completed, the line etarted for the diningâ€"room, and then Rutledge put into execution the plan for hie gelfâ€"destruction, which prob ably all the morning he had been conâ€" ceiving. 3 ‘The corridors of the jail centre in a rotunda, round which balconies run on each story. It is lit from the roof, and access to each floor is gained by a spiral stairway of iron, which conâ€" nects the basement with the top floor. ‘This court is in the form of a semiâ€"circle, and from it a view can be had of almost every corridor in the jail. On the secong, just at the landing of the spiral stairway, is the entrance to the corridor in which the convicts receive their meals, and winding on upwards is the stairway leading to the second balcony and the chapel. When the march through this rotunda and up the stairway to the diningâ€"room on the second floor began Jail Guard George Grove led the way, and after him came the seven convicts, Guard John Norris bringing up the rear. Rice was the second prisoner in line and Rutledge the fourth. When the landing was reached Guard Grove led the way into the diningâ€"room and three prisoners followed. The _ fourth, _ Rutledge, wheeled and darted three steps at a time up the second stairway. The line halted for a moment, and Guard Norâ€" ris, whose way was blocked by the men ahead of him, shouted for help. Rutledge, however, was plainly not attempting to escape, for every leap up the twisting stairway sent him farther away from the single means of exit from the rotunda. In a moâ€" ment the prisoner had gained the upper balcony and had dashed around it until midway between the stairâ€" way and the wall. No one but a single sentry, Guard Thomas Lonergan, was on the floor with the desperate man, and Lonâ€" ergan stood on the opposite side of the gallery. The chasm was _ beâ€" tween them, and the guard could do nothing. The balcony has a railing three feet four inches high, conâ€" structed of iron scroll work in the shape of panels. Over this railing Rutledge climbed until he stood with his feet on the lowest bar, his hand clutching the upper rail and his face to the wall. It was as i a man intended to take a back.dive into waâ€" ter. Lonergan across the rotunda knew what Rutledge was about to do, and ho shouted, "Don‘t, Frank, don‘t do that." The convict, with his hands still clinging to the rail and feet now braced against the flooring of the balcony, turned his head and looked at the guard. He did not speak, but looked steadily at the last face he would see in life, and then turned his head back, lowered his arms so that his knees were bent almost to his chin, and loosening his grip on the rail, threw himself out into the air. His body shot diagonally to the paving below. The impetus which he gave himgel{ carried him outward. and in a fraction of a sgecond his head _crashed upon the floor. He had acâ€" complished his death in the way he had planned it. The height of the balcony is 24 feet, but the backward spring which Rutledge gave sent his body out fiftesn feet towards the centre, and ho fell 28 feset. His head narrowly migsed the stone flagging with which the rotunda is paved, and struck the glass of a floor light near the enâ€" trance to the room. The inchâ€"thick glass of the light was broken, and the head shot over it as the tboly atruck. i Medical Ald Powerless. Governor Van Zant had been suâ€" perintending the movements of the prisoners, and he was in the main hall of the jail when Rutledge made his leap. Guard Lonergan had rung the alarm, and guards and trusted prisoners employed around the jail swarmed about in a moment and. assisted the Governor in lifting the body and carrying it back into the searching room. Drs. Richardson and Sneath came in response to urgent calls for them, but they could do nothing. The man was laid on the floor of the little room, with its grated window, a pile of bags unâ€" der his shattered head and convicts wiping away the blood which cozed from his one great wound. . His skull had been so terribly fractured that there was no hope of the reâ€" turn of consciousness. To anticipate any chance of a dying statement, Crown Attorney Curry and Mr. Alex. Downey, the official stenographer, came and waited by the side of the dying man, and the Rev. Francis C. C. Heathcote, of St. Clement‘s Church, stayed with them, in the hope that the life which was ebbing away might be revived. The minutes dragâ€" ged along, and the -tungez-u- sorted group of olW-an. officiale and prisoners wai and watched the troubled body, until 4.27 o‘clock 58 A Leap to Death. in ‘The prisoner Rice, being the second in the line of prisoners, had entered the doorway leading to the diningâ€" dead?" This was taken to mean that Rutledge had communicated his plan of suicide to Rice while the pris era were in the police van, but later in the day Rice denied that he had any previous knowledge of this inâ€" tention. The young prisoner broke down completely when he was taken back to his cell. He leaned his head against the cell door and sobbed. _ room when Rutledge boited for the upper balcony. A minute later the alarm bell rang, and Rice turned to a guard and asked, "ls Rutiedge and, turning to the group, said quietly, "The man is ‘dead." As the group broke up, the Grand Jury arrived and examined the preâ€" mises, and Dr. Chamberlain, the Inâ€" spector of Prisons, began his invesâ€" tigation. He went over the balconâ€" ies with the guards who had Rutâ€" ledge in charge, and will make a reâ€" port to the Government upon the "I heard the shout just as L entered the door," he said, "and when I looked back I saw Rutledge go through the air. Then I knew, what occurrence., Rice was perhaps the only man in the jail who had a kindly word to say of the man whose life had just passed out. "Frank was as genâ€" erous a man as I ever knew," he said. "In Chicago he always had money to give to the poor, and we never walked down street together but he gave something to mendiâ€" cants. Among us his word was as good as gold. He was a real man, and he would stick to a friend to the last." Rutledge during his eventâ€" ful career carried a small pocket Biâ€" ble with him, and Rice‘s onty request of the officers yesterday was that the Bible be given to him. Although pressed to do so, Rice would _ say nothing regarding the identity of' the man who threw the revolvers into the hack. An attempt was also made to secure a statement from Vina Seavey, "the veiled lady," but she stated absolutely that _ she knew nothing of the man who threw the parcel. "The man that did it is responsible for all that has since happened, and if 1 knew who he was I would tell you," she £all The Dead Man. Frank Rutledge, the dead man, is a member of a Streetsville family, and was the only Canadian in the party of which he was the head. His father died when he was quite a boy, and he began to earn his own living at an early age. With his broâ€" ther he was employed in the Barber Company‘s Woollen mills at Streetsâ€" ville, and worked there for some time. He lived in the co‘mpany’s‘ boardingâ€"house. One night G. H. | Falconer‘s general store, which was . also the postâ€"office of the village, was entered and a quantity of goods taken. The High County Constable ‘o-f Peel County suspected Rutledge, who had disappeared. .A telegram was sent to Toronto, and the boy was arrested here. He was taken to Brampton for trial, sentenced by the late Judge Scott, of Peel, to five years in the penitentiary and reâ€" manded to jail before starting for Kingston. In his cell Rutledge wrenched onme of the legs from the iron cot and lay in _ wait for the guard, a man named Taggart. That evening as Taggart stepped in to give the prisoner ‘his supper Rutâ€" ledge pounded him over the head with his weapon, almost killing the guard. His attempt to escape failed, and he was sentenced to seven years‘ imprisonment for the assault. At the end of four years, for a reason not given, he was pardoned. Leader of Burglars. Rutledge went into the penitentiary a raw youth, and came out of it, the police say, at the, head of a desperate crowd of burglars» ‘They included Pat Sherrin and William Black, and Rutâ€" ledge repaid the Government for his pardon by robbing postoffices and custom houses all over the province. In one of these raids Pat Sherrin was shot dead, but before his confederates decamped they threw an overcoat over his m coat was identiâ€" fied as g to Black, but neither he nor Rutledge was caught then. _ Another exâ€"convict mamed Walter Irwin took Black‘s place in the crowd, and the next burglary . Richardson closed his watch, was at Clarksburg, where a private bank was robbed. Irwin was caught Rice Breaks Down. TORONTO a" Aov i ha by Dotoctive Slemon, of this city, while attempting to dispose of a porâ€" tion of the booty ; Black was capâ€" tured som> tims later in Hamiltor, ami both men went back to the peniâ€" tentiary. Rutledge escaped and went west. Inspoctor Stark knew of this\ and within a year heard of the arrest at Red Cloud, Nsb., of a {oung Canaâ€" dian for a theft at Greeley, Col. He sent the Colorado detectives a deâ€" scription of Rutledge, and the young man was identified, and sentenced to four years in the penitentiary at Canon City. In that institution he met Jones and Rice, one of whom was serving a tern for horse stealâ€" ing and the other for forgery. They were liberated within a few months of each other, and made a rendezvous in Chicago. It was then that Rutâ€" ledge prepared his map of Ontario, with the number of bankse in each town marked, and it was during the few months that the crowd posed as artists in that city that the trip through this province was planned. The attempted robbery of the Standâ€" ard Bank and the burglary of the bank and postoffice at Aurora were the opening events in what was inâ€" tended to be a summer‘s work, but proved the undoing of the gang. Rutledge had relatives in this city of the utmost respectability, and his people in Streetsville are highly esâ€" teemed. It is probable that these relatives will claim possession of the remaing. When the two prigoners were arâ€" raigned before Colonel Denison he read to them the charge as follows : "You are charged that on the 4th day of June you did unlawfully murâ€" der one Wm. Boyd." They both pleadâ€" ed not guilty, and elected to go beâ€" fore a jury. The court room was crowded at this time, and the case war adjourned for a couple of hours to permit of the trial of another imâ€" portant cage, A large! number of the onlookers, having been appeased by a glimpee of the prisomers, left the court, and it was easier to proceed with the other cames. During this inâ€" terval the two prisoners went upâ€" etairs to the Court ol Sessions and receivedi their sentences on the burâ€" glary charges; C At 1.15 o‘clock the prieoners were again brought up in the Police Court on the murder charge,. and County Constable Stewart gave his evidence, which wase similar to that gliven at the inquest. _ [ Mr. â€" Robnette _ crossâ€"questioned Stewart briefly. Stewart admitted is Je MOS i ie s Y y ib‘ #" l \ VYINA, the Veiled Lady of the Toronto ledge ghot at him. He knew of a piece of a watch chain being found in the hack, which looked like ome worn by Boyd. This indicated a struggle beâ€" tween Rice sand Boyd, and he admitâ€" ted that there had been a brief atruggle. _ & that he could not eay whether Rutâ€" _A remand wase then made until Friâ€" day mext. . Notes. One of the ladies who was on the street car on which the desperate trio tried to escape, Miss Kate Jolly, of 194 First avenue, is confined to bed from nervous prostration, caused by the excitement. 7 Rico has in a great degree recovâ€" ered his equanimity and was even quite cheerful yesterday. He is only allowed to leave his cell to take exercise in the corridor, and a very close watch is being kept over him. The jail grounds are still being paâ€" trolled at night by three anecial trolled at night by three s@pecia guards heavily armed. @ Hon. 8. C. Wood was nominated by the Liberals of West Victoria for the Legislative Assembly at Lindâ€" -l‘ Charged With Murder. Li Robert Fulford Murders Mrs. McCord and Kills Himself. ANOTHER TRAGEDY IN LONDON TOWNSHIP. THE END OF A QUEER ROMANCL. pY for a time. Then Mrs. Fulford No. 2 says that her husband tyranâ€" nized â€" over herâ€" and his threats frightenod her. In October last she left him and came to her father‘s home. Many promises on both sides were made, and she returned to her husband. Three weeks ago she left him, this time finally, declaring she could no longer stand his treatâ€" ment. Fulford wrote to Robert Mcâ€" Cord, threatening violence unless his wife were returned to him. The wife, fearing a scene, left her parents‘ home and went to ®Ft. Mary‘s, a town some 30 miles distant. Searching for Mis Wife. On Saturday afternoon Fullord arâ€" rived at Ilderton, a small village about three miles from the McCord farm, and engaged Wiilliam Schwartz to drive him to the home of his fatherâ€"inâ€"law. On the way he conâ€" fided to the driver that he was in gearch of his wife, who had run away from him, and asked Schwartz to wait a_ few â€" minutes _ for him. He walked directly to the barnyard, where Mrs. McCord was seated on her milking stool. She rose and greeted her sonâ€"inâ€"law with a handshake, and the two conversed for a few seconds. When Fulford inâ€" quired of Mrs. McCord about his wife, his motherâ€"inâ€"law replied that Gertie was well, but refused to tell Fulford where she was. "She‘s not at Exeter, anyway," she said, reâ€" ferring to the family‘s place of resiâ€" dence up to February. At this juncture Fulflord drew his hands from his _ pockets, each hand holding a bright new reâ€" volver. Mrs. _ McCord‘s last reâ€" mark was not heard by the chilâ€" dren, but Fullord immediately fired four shots from the revolver in his right hand, aiming at the helpless woâ€" man, who fell at his feet. _ One shot entered Mrs. McCord‘s body just beâ€" low the left breast. striking the apex of the heart ; two more struck her in front of the left thigh, and as she fell another bullet crashed into her brain. Then, without a moâ€" ment‘s hesitation, raising his left hand with its unused revolver, he put the mussle of the pistol in his mouth and shot himself dead. So horâ€" rorâ€"stricken were the witnesses of the terrible tragedy that they canâ€" not say whether Fulford fired more than one shot with tha second revolâ€" Within ten yards of the tragedy sat David McCord, a 15â€"yearâ€"old lad, milking. He saw Fulford walk up to Mrs. McCord. HMe heard the shots fired, and saw the man and woman drop. He was busy milking and never left his cow until Robert MeCord cried out. He heard nothing of the conâ€" versation between Fulford and Mrs. McCord, and knew nothing of what happened. His milking occupied all his attention. Mr. McCord came out of the barn just as Fulford pointed the pistol at the unfortuinate woman. Seizing the only weapon at hand, a large stone, Mr. McCord ran to his wife‘s assistâ€" ance, but before he could reach her the tragedy was complete. ‘This awful catastrophe has shed a gloom over the whole community. Mrs. McCord was a very estimable Jlady, and the whole family are much esteemed. She leaves a husband, four daughters and two sons to mourn her untimely end. Mra. Fulflord was immediately teleâ€" graphed for, and this morning came over from St. Mary‘s. Whem the wife aaw, the bloodstained face of her bhusâ€" Mr. McCord Too Late. The Wife‘s Story. Nelst aaty I replied that I could not, and ne a1id that he had a drink at the hotel near the etation, and did not want the people to emell any liquor on him. I told him to take a chew of tobacceo, which he did. At the gate he got out and a@&ed me to wait a few minâ€" utes, as he would not be long. I walked the horee perhaps a hugdred yarde, when I heard shots. Looking back I eaw Mr. McCord com‘ayr itoâ€" ward the gate. D asked if my .nag was ready, and he said, ‘I guess he is, He has just murdered my wife and killed himeelf‘ " D The Dead Murderer. The body of Mrs. MceCoâ€"d was carâ€" ried into the house, and that of the murderer suircide lay where he fell all night. This morning the body was removed to the barn. In the anmide posket of the vest was a roll of $427 in bills, secured by a safety pin. There was 55 cents in change ir his pockets. The two revolvers were 45â€"callbre wellâ€"cockers, and were beautiful weaâ€" pons. Four chambors of the one held in his right hand had been discharged. One bullet was gone from the one in his left hand. Fulflord was . well dressed in a grey spring suit, with tan shoes and new grey fedora hat, and ho was of Tine physique, six feet tall, and a man who would be n# ticed in a crowd. This afternoon Coroner McNeli\ emâ€" panelled a jury, which viewed both bodiss and adjourned to take eviâ€" dencs. Mrsg. Fullord refused to have anything to do with the boiy of her husband, which was tonight taken to the undertaking cstablishment of Clarke and Smith, in this city, and embalmed, awaiting orders for re DED 1N THE FLAMES moval Fireman Perishes in Fire on Steamer at Ottaws. THREE SEVERELY SCORCHED. Ottawa, June 9.â€"The steamer James Swift, of the Ridean Lakes Naâ€" vigation Company, took fire last night at her berth in the canal basâ€" im here. One of her firemen, Robert Ireland, of Barriefield, near Kingsâ€" ton, was burned to death, and three others, John Miller, of _ Newboro‘; Thomas Sykes, of Secley‘s Bay, _ and Richard Dunn, of Brockville, are in the hospital, suffering from a severe scorching. They only escaped . by jumping into the dock. i The Swift arrived from Kingston at 4 o‘clock Saturday afternoon, and after discharging some cargo _ her crew quit work at 6 o‘clock, having only banked the fires in the furnaces. Ireland, the victim o the disaster, was supposed to be doing amchor wiatch, but it is evideat that he fell asleep on duty, for his body wuas found after the fire lying in a corâ€" ner of the forecastle,. The three deck hands, aroused by the smoke, made way to the deck and jumped overâ€" board. The captain and _ engineer were also awakened by emoke, alâ€" though they were sleeping in the afâ€" terâ€"cabin. Simuiltaneously with their appearance on the upper deok at 2. 45 a.m., a fireman on ona of the Canada Atlantic locomotives in the station yard nearby saw the flames, and tooted the engine whistle so vigorounsly as to alarm the nearest fire station, which sent a hose reel to the scene on the double quick. By this time the steamer scemed ta be on fire fore and aft., on the main deck. On the uppor deck were the captain and engineer, and three young women, passengers, screaming for help. They were rescued by means of a ladder. The fire was soon quenched, and the damage will not amount to more than $2,000. An inâ€" quest wge decided unnecessary in the case of the deceased fireman. He leaves a widow and two children. ‘Bt. John‘s, Nfld., June 9.â€"The divâ€" ers‘ reports show that it will be comparatively easy to tow off the Leyland line steamer â€" Assyrian, ashore off Cape Race. They are now only awaiting the arrival of a eualitâ€" ale wrecking tug. is 34 a‘s Assyrian Will be Saved. 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