Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1877 — The Nathan Murder. [ARTICLE]

The Nathan Murder.

The Philadelphia North American says that the police of New York had the murderer of Nathan in custody at one time and knew that they had him. Mr. Nathan’s coachman had the idea that his master owed him SIOO,OOO, and the murderer entered by the area way, just as the ooachman was in the habit of doing surreptitiously. Also for several nights before the murder the coachman had slept about the wharves on North river, and the murder was committed with a “ ship’s dog.” The police detained him sixteen days and then sent him Ho the Ward’s Island Asylum, without tioning the fact publicly, the family being satisfied that he could not be convicted on account of his insanity. In India bats are called flying foxes, and generally measure six feet from tip to tip,