The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1858-11-04
HORRIBLE TRAGEDY In THRIFT
ETH STREET NEW YORK. !.

Iaco Servant GarlS Probably Murdered
Tile hOnaicade 6loacS out his oa0n brain
a0sth q PStoI.-Appearance Of the par
ties and premises Great Excitement
Full Particulars.
From the New York Post, Oct 9th.
One of the most bloody and horrible
tragedies which ever took place in tbi.
city, was enacted at PIT West Thirtieth
street, last night. Francis A. Gouldy
young man twenty years old, literall J
butchered the family, undoubtedly killing
his father and one servant girl, inaicting
injuries which may prove fatal to his step
mother, two brothers, and another serv'
ant girl, and crowning the terrible crime
with sclf-murder.
The family consisted of Francis G Gouldy =;
Jane A., his second wife, three sons
Francis A, the homicide; Nathan, four.
teen years old; Charles Wesley, five years
old; daughter, Mary Eliza, fifteen; two
small children, two and four years old
and two servant girls, Elizabeth Garland
Joanna Murphy.
1t appears that the young man Fran
els had contracted some habits which dis
pleased his father He was out too late
nights and wanted too much money. His
father refused to give him night key,
but would get up and let him in when be
came home of nights, and, perhaps, re-
buke him for his unreasonable hours. 1t
is stated, also, that Frank, as he was call
ed, yesterday took q bank book from bis
fathers drawer, which the old gentle m an
pronounced no better than stealing.
Whatever the provocation or cause,
Frank went home about ten o'clock last
night. The family had retired, with the
exception of the father, who was sitting
in front room on the second floor. His
wife was in bed in the room adjoining in
the rear, aud the two small children were
in crib in the room with their mother.
Mrs. Gouldy says that as Frank came
in, she was just retiring, and he said to
her, why mother, are you up yet p
Yes. Frank" was the reply, 81 am up
yet" He then passed into the room where
Mr.. Gouldy was, and she beard some un.
pleasant words pass between the two, and
finally heard heavy fall on the floor
She had just got into bed, and thought to
herself, "Is it possible Frank has struck
his father 7" and at that moment Frank
came into her room, partially raised the
netting from around the bed, and dealt
her heavy blow on the head with a
hatchet. She screamed and sprang up,
and he repeater the blow twice, when she
fell heavily to the floor, breaking down
the netting as she fell.
The murderer then passed through the
hall bedroom where bis two brothers slept.
They had both gotten up, hearing the
noise, and he struck each a murderous
blow on the head with the same hatchet
be had used upon his father and mother.
He left them both PROSTATE and covered
with blood, and passed on to the stairs
and ascended to the third floor.
The apartments on the third floor were
occupied by himself, bis sister Mary, and
the two servants. The servants had
heard the noise, and were in the hall of
the upper floor as he went up stairs. He
Immediately attacked them with the same
fatal hatchet prostrating each with q
frightful blow upon the head.
Mary hearing the struggle and screams
of the servants, opened her door, and
looking out, saw the girls Gov vered with
blood. but did not recognize her brother.
Believing it to be a burglar, she locked
her door, and remained in her ROOM
Had she known it was her brother, she
would have rushed out; in which case she
would probably have been murdered.
After committing this series of afro
cious crime, it is believed the bimicide
went down stairs, pulled off his boots and
coat, and donned slippers and morning
gown, in which costume he returned to
his room.
But Mary, meantime, had not been l.
die. She had raised her window, and
cried "murder!" And officers Morehouse
aud Hull, of the Twentieth Ward Police
who were standing on the corner of Ninth
avenue and Thirty frst street, heard be,
cries, her room being in the rear of the
house.
They Immediately went to the house
but the door was locked; which delayed
their entrance for some time, but they sue
ceeded, with some labor, in forcing the
door.
1t is probable that Frank heard them
and found that be was detected. Be thi:
as it may, before they found him be tool
three shooter, which was heavily load
ed, and placing the muzzle to his head be
fired. The ball entered just above th'
right ear, and passed out just over The
left eye, causing instantaneous death.
The alarm having been given, the
neighbors rushed to the spot, and behelc
a scene of blood and horror too painful
to describe.
The father lay upon the floor entlrelJ J
unconscious, with bis face aud head bath
ed in blood. In the next room the moth
er lay helpless, and in the hall bedroom
the two boys were prostrate, and one o
them senseess, and in the upper hall th'
two servants lay also covered with blood
one of them tossing her arms in delirium