Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1858-11-04
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:. Murder in New York.
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20 80, nd nGonldy, aged 10 years, attempted,
d: D. GS ~ hoyse. No. 2l7 West Thirtieth
tataea '.en E;ohth and Ninth avenues, to
bis father, mother, two brothers ana
el .rant AMI girls, and terminated the terrlnc
;e,,"Iss rE Iessectually blowing out his own
F" Although the wounds inflicted on
a'. brot6ers, and one of the servant
sIn.'' If such fearful nature as to pre-.
arc hone of their recovery, none OF
had sd expired at the time OF our goinstO
Gou,dv entered Showler's lager beer
'anS 15,sr saloon, between Twenty-elghth
T,rartv.niuth streets, Eighth avenue,
in n;ne o'clock on Tuesday night. lie
...ompauied by lad thirteen or four
Lars 6ld. They partook of oyster stews
srk no liquor. Gouldy was in the hab-
freouenting this saloon, but for long
aast had drank no intoxicating liquor.
@esday night he left this saloon little
o. o'clock, in a perfectly sober state
there, he remarked that he had had
"a with his father about money. From
;, that he reached home about twenty
.ss before ten o'clock, and that the dis
Nh from the saloon to his fathers house is
cor FIVE minutes walk, he could not
.topped at any place on the way.
,,ng the door-bell, his father having re-
! him a night-key. The door was not
,sd by servant, but by his father, who
Il awaiting his arrival. Immediately on
A ,orance, the old gentleman charged him
4 abstracting a Savings Bank book from
nryate desk, and procuring meney there
rppresenting the act to be rs bad as direct
#erv. The young man replied that as the
3npt with the bank was opened in his
H. he had right to take the book. Soon
i Toung Gouldy retired.
1 would seem that he proceeded to his
Il in the rear of the house, on the third
1 and, in a cool and collected manner,
he'd his dress, removing his coat, vest,
rayat. hanging his watch on nail by
side of the mirror, taking off his boots,
even removing the sleeve-links OF his
\ Then taking a hatchet in his hand he
ended the stairs in his stockings. without
/ CT slippers, entering the sitting room
Re his father was just turning off the gas,
DEALT him blow on the head, fracturing
WI, and striking therefrom a portion of
from the temple, three inches long,
nd a half inches in width. Mr..
and the blood issuing from the
,und, made large and deep pool
floor.
FL Gouldy, who had just gone TO bed,
/ the heavy tall, and was in the act of
(g herself to listen, when the son enter
room. exclaiming, "Mother-oh, moth
INSTANTLY he seized her hand, and
her severe blow upon the head with
hatchet, which deluged her face with
j. She screamed and sprang from the
when the young fellow repeated the
IS until she was rendered senseless. lie
repaired to the hall bed room, where
40 brothers, Nathaniel and Charles, aged
nd years were sleeping in the same bed
struck at them both with the same weap,
cutting from the head of the eldest a
e Of bone, two inches long and nearly one
wide. The younger was not SO much in
l. but his skull was fractured, and pieces
ne bone Clipped away.
he assassin next proceeded to the hall d
third floor, where the two servant girls,
had heard the noise, had come from thcil
4 to listen. lie Immediately attacked
d with the hatchet, dealing them fright
ilows on the head. One Of them wrestod
weapon from his grasp, bat he recovered
md struck her to the floor, by powerful
:. His sister Mary, hearing the strug,
aud screams of the servants. opened the
Of her room, and saw the girls covered
blood, but did not recognize her brother
posing him to be a burglar, she retreated
the room, locked the door. threw open
window and shouted for the police. Some
ers Of the Ward (the Twentieth) hearing
cries, hurried to the spot, forced open the
r, and were spectators Of such scene OF
cor as they had never before witnessed
/. father lay upon the floor entirely uncon
us, his face and head entirely covered viii
ID. The mather was insensible in thu
It room, and also deluged in blood. In
haAhe,lrDom, the little boys were in 4
nliar condition. Ascending the stairs, they
lnd tile servant girls lying in pool of gore
ItFe!y unconscious, while, in his own cham
the wretched young man was stretched
90 the floor, wallowing in his own blood
ing committed suicide by shooting him
in the head with pistol. His brain!
p scattered about the floor, and his righ
d still grasped the pistol, two barrels o
ch were still heavily loaded. When th'
ers entered be was not quite dead. III
few convulsive gasps, uttering no word
expired. Doctors Harmon, Sewall, and
rs, living in the neighborhood, were cal
In and rendered all the assistance in theil
cr.
he wound which the suicide inflicted OF
self was on the right side Of the head, i'm
lately behind the ear, the skull being
ltly shattered. A pool of blood, two fee
liameter, lay thick and moist around hi
d. The surgeons probe and the discolor
q Of the left eye show that the ball lodg
near the frontal bone. on the left side o
orbit. He fell by the side of cabinet
Seen the door and the fireplace. His Goa
thrown carelessly on chair his yes
hanging on q bedstead his watch wa
g on nail; his cravat thrown on thu
r; one boot was standing by his side, the
sr thrown under a table by the window
the stockings upon his feet were soaked
blood, showing that before he fell ht
y have trodden in his own gore. A more
'I6e sight than the corpse exhibited yes
'aiy even those who have "supped on hor
have rarely seen.
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