Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1859 — A Case where Ignerance was Bliss. [ARTICLE]

A Case where Ignerance was Bliss.

On the -3d ol September last nearly sixmonths ago, a mail named Michael Julg killed his. w ile in the Seventeenth Ward', of tiiis city and the papers were filled with the bloody details of -the affair, which were extetisiv: lyj-copied throughout the Suite Since that time Julg bus been tried before the Common Biease for the murder, ami tin* reporters sptcie.l the te~fn;< ny before • public as fully a- .as n-we-sary. The jurv -.- greed, in e •usequoiiee of a doubt 'in regardto the sanity of. the jiffs ;r;or. and he is f,,' to he tried again !’•»» tin- same offence. A-i.1,-from the-details oi the murder -n ! the tn.ii Julg Ims been the snlii vt. of iiv.jwnt paragraim- iff I he papers, .-o that bis n.tm - and crime are ;ami liar in til public. Julg has a mar ied si-o-r reNding iff. vieimi.yo! Hayfini, w.i > i ,-i. -s -■ .j- , |g.., u le-fi-r urging him to bi'in.j h.ts u'/f tin r. *• Du I'j V .ia it VAI.C '.lit ;; JU '.* .. Ii: d;i \V i - U'-ui't the land ol her husband, n.l piv, id. 1 . receive them kindly and. alibi'd nil the ass .'stance to himself and his wile tii ! w possible. The bearer; of. the 'letter ascertained that Julg was in jail, and to k it to him, and then cun ied buck the first- tidings of his present position to -the sister! Although living w itbi ii sixty miles cj ihccity,- she had rein fined in- blissful ignorance -aL-ihe fact' that her brother li-ul murdered liis vile, had one been tried.lor Ins life,-and was in d.t:fy expectation of being again called belfir - a |urv ot liis country a second tiin - for the perpetration oi an unnatural crime! J 1 ,d the jury cunvicl.ed him, fie. would probably haw been executed be,ore .she .was aware that lie was even accused (>!' crime. On Sunday the sister visited Julg in prison, and tiie scene which followed was extremely affecting. It was crushing to (hid a brother whom she had not seen fur months, and whom she supposed to be diving happily with his lamily, confined in a cell for tlm murder of Ills wife! “Ignorance” is ir.de«d, sometimes, “bliss.-” — Cincinnati (iaz., 16th hist.