Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1870 — A Ridiculous Mistake. [ARTICLE]

A Ridiculous Mistake.

TnnouoH an absurd mistake a wellknown lawyer of New York. Mr. Thomas Dunphy, was arrested the other night, on suspicion of having murdered the late Mr Nathan. It appears that Mr. Dunphy called on a friend in Brooklyn, and whl;e there the conversation turned on the topic which lust then principally agitated all Gotham. Mr. Dunphy, who visited the house of the late Mr. Nathan on the morning succeeding the murder, narrated the facts with a precision and dearness which would have been considered remarkable in any one but a skillful lawyer. He drew a vivid picture of the murder, speaking, as ft is said, in the first person, thus: “Now the old man catches me, then I get hold of the dog,” and so on. A young woman, overhearing the conversation and having the golden vision of the 'stupendous rewards before her eyes, msduded that the real culprit was revealing his own experience; She instantly Informed the police, and a patrolman imme diately entered the and arrested Mr. Dunphv in the midst of hia portrayal of the-bloody deed. The gentleman protested, but the officer was inexor«ble and dragged his prisoner off to the Brooklyn police headquarters, where he was detained until midnight, ind then transferred to the Gotham lock-up, and Buperintendent Jourdan sent for. When that offloer arrived, a planatkm was made, the lawyer sent back to Broooklyn where the wrest was finale of this over zealousness of the Brooklyn detectives.