Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-10-29


HORRIBLE MURDER IN NEw YoRK-A
WHOLE FAMILY ATTACKED BY ONE OF ITS
MEMBERs.-NEw YORK, October 27.---A
horrible massacre took place last night IN
West 30th ~streetin this city Two Persons
were murdered and FIVE wounded It Is sup
posed mortally. The victims are The fanIy
OF Francis Gouldy. lumber merchant, con-
sisring of himself, his wife, two soBs, tive
daughters, and a servant girl The sons,
aged respectively nine and twelve yearsaFe
already dead, and the wife is dying. The
others cannot live.
The murderer, who is the eldes' son of
Dir. Gouldy, has committed suicide. The
motive of The murderer is supposed to be re-
yenged, he having been detected some weeks
ago in the act of robbing his father to a large
amount.
Later---Tbe following Is an ~aecesHi- 81
the horrible massacre. Lust night young
GonIding tfhe first dispatch says GouldF---
lRsPA returned hstne about il O'Clock, Ia
boring unfer ii ifriufnt renens Proceeding
to the cellar, he procured an axe and went
kto his fathers iInmber md httacked bin.
bea.ing IN his skull by several blows with
the asxe. TIE istbeT cannot 1--we. Mrs.
Goubding, hearing the cries Of her hhs6af'a'
rushed from another rom 20 lbs atsis'snce'
and was in return attacked by the tatDr'ated
son, and very badly woEn ded 7
His txo hroiheFs--o8 one three years old and
the other Eo~urteSn--weFe next attacked,
RECEIVING several blows from the axe The
eldest will not iiv+. His married sister with
n chiIdsinA he r aar8s. was The ne1t victim. but
she mana sed to ~escspe without being seri-
uusiy Injured. E
Two servant girfs, who had rushed into
the hall, were next attacked and SO horribly
butchered that ii is feared neither will live
= Both have been sent 10 The hospital.
10 The assassin 6naiy went TO bis own cham
Der, where, after locking himself IN, blew
, .oui his brains with a pistol.
The Goulding family have held a highly
: Respectable position in the community. Mr.
: Goulding Is a n officer of the Thirtieth stree
! Methodist Church., and is well known ii
New York i ESs
Z Another accs1nt states that all all IN,
family had retired when young Gonldins
3 returned home, except his father, who lie
him in. The father retired, when tn
!, son erept down fran his own chamber witt
a Ratchet or axe and commenced tbe attacl
upon his father and next upon his mother
who lay rsfeer. Both of bis brothers wer
also asleep vber attacked. They are terribI
mancled. and nrT5 her a~e expected TO survive
The servanss are said TO have bee
attacked in their own chamber. Th
murderer then rushed to the room occupIe
by his sisters, one aged fifteen and IN
i other ] IS thant wo, but the door was fortu
nately licked, aud they escaptd injury
The faibet is reported to be dead. and tn
r oldest son dying. The mothers recover
nd is also doubtful. The condition Of tn
ft Youngest SON IS also critical. The seryan
or girls, ii is supposed, are not fatally injured
h, Mr.. GeOlIing is man of wealth, being
adj retired hardwar merchant.
be The murderer wns only 10 years of as
and was a clerk in a hardware store, and a
10 wsys bore the reputation of a fast your
IN man. He bad lately become very dissip;
aa ted. s5a
:. ass8s asa aaL zaLM 1917! 'asa
r. The ST. Ssu.s Democrat has au;heni
IS news from the K.nsas gold regions, in ii
nd form of d letter dated Lawrence, K. I
81 Oct. l9th55 ard signed" William b. Parsons
i. Mr., ParsoDs leG Elstern Kansas IN May ia
lie for the gold regibns. He says there is
I'D gold at Pixies Peak.a. The statement Of Il
r. case is az follows:
i. On the sth Of July we arrived at the ba
"a of Pike's Peak, and on the next day con
nd menced prospecting. we remained the
,ss Eve days, and did not find a trace Of ga
AMI at the end ofthat time our old mine
ler said they ieere satisfied there was no go
nd here,as there ,cas no qnurtz, no bed 70
d. except the surface rock, lghicb is Did red san
a stone and micaceous granite, and no indie
re 7ions of gold a1out The soa.
~ II. Plall- gold region Us ii is called "
,ye next prospeeted. without sncness- The
are gold digRings however in that yicinit
re ana the following. processes TO be snd '
an presume is a candid statement of I
ng facts in the case Of The mines as they real
hi are: .sa.s lsq.-5r s.
Ids mo work is yet been done there
claims to any extent have been. made-tl
"a time has been spent in prospecting with pa
.e. a half q day here and a half q day ther
No man has found a piece weighing tive.
es tY-three ounces" or one ounce, or to n
of kuowlsdge, one penryweight. No man b
made some hundred'' or s'ffty" or tttwenty
dollars per day. "To the best of nv know
edge, Information and belief,'' no man MAJ
&c. sixteen dollars in one day. The men W
an were there when | left were working wi
,S pans, carried their dirt from four 10 seve
,is ty rods, and made from 50 soto SIS co pa
he day. =
g Tie better way for your readers to judi
OF the yield OF the mines, is to know, II
prospect of the PAM I have seen 81
rk ina single pan a few ~tines--40 TO go cen
3; frequently, and hardly ever less than Gig
ud or ten cents. Cali!o-nians will tell "
en- tn t with three cents TO The pan full the
IS can make good wages. The Californian
IL in our party say, that when they get stu
10 ces arranged, they can make every day The
u. Ho-k, SI5. There, then, yoa. have ii
OF whole s.ory. Un'ess some new digging
Sc have been discoyt red since September 2ou
le you can put down all reports Of wageshigf
Is or than $40 us extravagant, and recei.
t them with a ~'1eetle' grain Of allowance.
OF your readers are satisfied With any wage
under that sum, let them go there ard the
s. will make il. Thers IS rooRa enough ft
Id twenty thousand mining claims. The gol
re is all wash god and is, in the opinion {
J our wisest heads In the m"unrains, bat til
0 beginning OF next years discoveries
IS a MINISTER'S TESTIMONY.
ID r4sasssz HooKsToWH, BEAVER Co., Par
nj @ reH sH February ath, 1858. )
Is We prefer buying BERHAoE's HoLLAN
I'd BIFTERs for CASH. 10 save The discount
N Hops7to send you soon a r-eeomnendatiu