New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-28
HORRIBLE TRAGEDY IN SOih STREET.
4 son Attempts 70 Hill his Father, lIoiher.
Brothers and the Servants.
SUBSEQUENT svicloeos TIE MURDERER

0le 4 tic most honbie, bo,dy ard ubnsg,,,
~. r.0ies which hes evsr occurred in this c,v ,oh
,isce ~ the mansion of Mr. =. Guudy. No. 2l7 w..
Thirteth street, on Tuesday night. Frascs cosnv
IT,, Young man 81 abOu, 70 years If sg, oa..e hor,
at about II O'Clock a, sight. is f.tter opeasi y.
joor aud lct him in. Dunn Z the day Fraak hsdtsksp
8 bank book, vlich he lad given ois father 10 Ia,
sometime before and hai gone to the bank and ar..,
sone morey and spent il. H., father repr.nsud.,
h,m, ori De turned and Wen. - hs own nom lau,s
u roil y soorufal laugh. he ok off ais coat ara
boots, hung up his rairh, mi pat on bis dras.ir,
gown. lie armed himself with a ha'ohet a butcher
bliie and fuYolver and cane aown and ln,t his e,
,her "a tne doorway, and stuck him with The hstebt
Oh u head buylng the batrbst nearly Us who ewith
in the skull, Makii teTble wpund IA, fa,h,r IN.
r ediGtcly ,N ard rs he zen Fank n .de sils',,,
blow at him, taking effect on the .iie of hi. heal
r,sriy seyeipg tie top pHt OF skull. IL then In
li- father srd wen, to his mothers room, c,ach,bo3
a. her Land and commcrcsl .'rikiug her sA ,bo
hutcl,t Tie hrst three bovs his uo,her parrAi with
h,r ann, bu, the last teo took efle,t on her heal
TIE uo.se made by his mother had asaketed bi.tx,
little brothers--Naibaniel about H. ard Cbsrle.
about or ycsrs Of age; he immediately s,.sckos
unkirr terrible wounds. Two servant GIRLS ~
slept il tie third story, hai BY this tine beeon,,
a'arucj aul were coming down stains. He a,t th,n,
and knocked one OF them down, cutting hsr very
much in tLo head. One of them sized the ha,ehet
ard wrcrched il away rom him, bat he recovered il
"a, knock,d her down, srisins her twice atsrssri.
lie then went to his roon in the third story sad
placing tie pistol ta his right ear 6red the bsl On.
tered the ,ht ear. blowing oG reaiy the entire sds
Of his head and lodged under the let eye. iIe iei
almost immediately. The batehot which he used is
a common, small Ratchet, about e'gh, inches vide;
hsrdle about eighteen inches IN length. The kuhl,
an olduary butcher knife; blade about SIX nohelonz
and TWO wide. This does hot sppear to have been
u.ec at all The pitol is tAr,e.b .barrelled Allen re-
yolv,r; two Of the barrels st loaded.
THE HOUSE.
The house in which the dreaiu' deed was committed
r. rnodei built t, ree-s,ory brick house with ba.
ncr, Or the fret floor two psrl,r-. On The sec
ond floor are two square rooms, bah room and bed
room in the rear Of one of tie square rooms Il ws
In the front one of these rooms, which was kind sit
ting room, that the father was sitting when Frank
caue hone and in which be So nearly killed. He
te right IN the doorway lie ,dlug iuo tue hall o sar-
vhy The bedroom at the oi these two rooms Is
y famy bedroom where Mr.. Goully was when shs
Was attacked by her son. The two httle boys had
bed in the square room next the beiOom, and hal
nsen aud were going to the mother when they were
cut down. Tie third floor has four rooms, front
room where Miss Mary f. Goudy sl.pt, and another
y here the two servant girls were. Franks room was
the rear room on this foor The house has been Be.
segci all dsy by persons, mai Of whom are women,
who have the most delraved and morbid ouriosiyto to
see the bloody scene. One msn, very respectfully
dressed, came TO the house with his whole family,
among them little girl not more than 10 years ofsge,
ana he was very much disappointed because he could
not get in and let his little daughter the wounded
lemons.
THE FAMILY.
Tie family was composed OF Mr.. and Mrs. Gouldyi
Frapcis. eyed 70; Mary Eliza, about l6; Nathaniel,
about II; Charles, or 8; Jabs, years old and An
infaut Of two year,, pamed Katy, and two servant
gr's, named JoGnoa Murphy aud Elizabeth Can.
Mr. Gouldy is about % yeais of age. lie is rus
tee in the Methodist Chmch of which the Rev. NJ.
Crawford The man who was sbc, at in his pulpit by
an insaLe man a week ago last Sunday evening, s
pastor lie was i)rnery la pber merchant, AID hsa
retired from business with All ample Torture. He was
esteemed by his church ns exemplary Christian,
and by all who knew him a. upright and honorable
citizen. lie ia spoken of by all his fdends a. 70.
marbably kind and generous man, who was always
dearly beloved by all who krew him never harsh TO
his CHILDREN though rather stne about some things.
Mr. Gouldy alive last bt but cannot live many
bours; bis head is almost cut in two by the terrible
wounds which lie received. He has rcpnlandei
Frank several times lately for bad habits, and
few nights since locked him out OF the house.
Mrs. GOuldy il the second wife Of her husband sni
the siepmo,her of Frank and Mary Eliza; the other
four children are her own. She is said TO have bsn,
however true mother 10 the older children, and'o
have performed her duties in most eIemplsr! msa'
ner. She il much bruised about the arIas from bows
received in trying to ward of the blows Of the hs'cbe'
Her cad Is very badly cut, but the physicians hope
that with proper care she will recover. She does not
complain much of the wounds ON her hesd, bat h1
arms trouble her very much.
Francis, or Frank as he was called by the faulyS
the of the fret wife. He has often expressed hH
self much attached TO the present wife-snd monef'
Tie has always been very impolsiTe boy ana 'ey
easy Influenced. He has not been regarded o. ba'lhs
peculiarly bad temper; yet when very much eAei'sa
be would scaroey care what he did. he ssPoken OIL
by former scqusintances az good fellow lhsy
say lie was never regarded as bad young "A''
although he was rather Wild.
He has been clerk in q hardware store '"i NV
Spring, when the firm he With, being very nun
embarrassed by the hard tines, were obliged 'of''~'
the number Of their clerks END he, with some O's,',
was discharged No con plant was made agslr' A-
at all the being simply the inability 70 kssp
many clerks. During the revival Of last "ime'
quite serious for short time srd even wasesN't
ou psobation, in the VI. T.. Church, in Thrtyt0a".
-tl.et. This seriou.ness, however, larted bGs sE'
weeks, and he returned TO biz old babits
Before he lef HE olerkship bis habits were rglS