Show murder confession bared after 80 years ithaca N V Y the fate of 0 a woman who disappeared sorce some eighty years ago became known by a statement made bade public by miss amelia crum explaining pla ining the disappearance of 0 mrs airs edward 11 II 1141 ruloff off wife of a man who was hanged in binghamton for the murder of a store clerk it was always understood that ruloff died on the gallows denying that he could explain his bis cifes disappearance but the criminal prior to his exe execution cution did confess to his lawyer that he be had murdered his wife and had sunk her body in cayuga lake near baughan nock falls ile he placed the body in a chest and weighted it with iron it was never found runoffs Rul offs lawyer on his deathbed related the confession to landon D crum a cousin to mrs ruloff and father of miss amelia crum interest in the mystery was recently aroused by the discovery of a wom ans skeleton by excavators excava tors near the new state agriculture college the theory that it was that of mrs ruloff was disproved when several other skeletons were nere found Indi indicating indication catin a forgotten graveyard however horev er the talk induced miss crum to make her statement clearing up the tha ancient mystery all the parties concerned in it being now dead A daughter of ruloff who disappeared at the same time her mother did had been given away by the unnatural father he confessed slie she was brought up in philadelphia and later married a government employee in Nv washington hIngton |