Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-10-28
ATTEMPT OF SON TO MURDER
HIS FATHERS FAMILY.
TWO PERSONS KILLED.
Five Morally Wounded.
THE EFFECTS OF DELIRIuM TREMENs.

detected some weeks ago in the act of robbing
his father to large amount
Young Goulding returned home about l.
| o'clock, laboring under delirium. Proceed
ing to the cellar, he got the axe, and then
went to his fathers chamber. attacking him
and beating in his skull by several blows with
that weapon. The father cannot live. Mrs.
Goulding, hearing cries, rushed from another
room to Mr.. q. s assistance, but was In turn
attacked by her Infatuated son, and very badly
wounded
The brothers, one three years old and the
other fourteen, were next attacked, receiving
several blows from the axe. The oldest won't
live.
married sister, with her babe in her
arms, was the next victim, but she managed
to escape without being seriously injured.
Two servant girls, who had rushed into the
hall, were next attacked, and so horribly
butchered it is feared neither will live. Both
have been sent to the hospital
The assassin finally went into his own
chamber, where, locking himself in, he blew
out his brains with pistol.
The Gouding family are highly respectable,
Mr.. Il. is officer in the Thirteth street
, Methodist Church, and we'll known in this
community.
Second Dispatch. A. Gouldng,
the murderer, Was about nineteen years of
age, and a dlssipated young man. He was
let i'll Tuesday night by his father, and imme-
diately went to his bedroom in the third sto.
ry, and took off his coat and boots. Then,
Selling hatchet which he had kept in his
room he crept down stairs. The father had
just got in bed when the son entered the
room, unnoticed, aud split his skull open.-
He is now reported dead. Mrs. 6. received
the next attack, her skull being fractured,
and face bruised frightfully. 1t does not
appear that either of the parents uttered
scream sufficiently loud to alarm the
other members of the family. The two young
brothers were next attacked, and are likely to
die. The two servant girls were severely in
jured. The two young sisters, having their
door locked, escaped injury.
Young Gouldlng's suicide was the first
matter that attracted the attention of the po-
lice, who brokeinto the house and ascertaned
the condition of affairs Physicians were
called, and everything possible done to allay
the sutferings of the victims. The eldest boy
has compound fracture of the skull Mrs.
Goulding's injuries were less dangerous, but
her recovery Is doubtful. The servant girls
were less injured than any of the others.
Further Particulars.
The family consists of Francis Goulding,
Jane A, his second wife, three sons, Francis
A. the homicide, Nathan, fourteen years old,
Charles Wesley, five years old, Eliza, fifteen
years old, two small children, two and four
years old, and two servant girls-Elzabeth
Carr and Joanna Murphy.
1t appears that the young man, Francis,
had contracted some bad habits, which dis
pleased his father, He was out late of nights
aud wanted too much money. HIS father
refused to give him night key, but would
get up and let him in when he came home
nights, and rebuke him for his unreasonable
hours.
1t is stated, also, that Frank took a bank
book from his fathers drawer, on Tuesday,
which the old gentleman pronounced no bet
ter than stealing. When Frank came home,
that night, the family had retired, with the
exception of the father, who was sitting in a
front room on the second floor. His wife was
in the room adjoining, with two small child
rem.
sTATEMENT OF MRS. GoULDING.
Mrs. Goudng says, that, as Frank came
IN, she was just retiring, and he said to her,
"Why, mother, are you up yeti" "Yes,
Frank, was the reply, 81 am up YETI He
then passed into the room where Mr.. G. Was,
and she heard some unpleasant words pass
between the two, and finally heard heavy
tall on the toor. She had just got into bed,
and thought to herself, sis it possible that
Frank has struck his fatherl" and, at that
thought, Frank came into the room, partially
raised the netting round the bed, and dealt
her heavy blow with a Ratchet. She
screamed and sprang up, when he repeated
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 his two brothers slept. They
had both got up, hearing the noise, and he
struck each murderous blow on the head.
He left them both Frustrated and covered with
| blood, and passed to the stairs and ascend
! ed to the third floor. The apartments on the
third floor were occupied by himself, his sister
Mary, and the two servants. The servants
had heard the noise, and were in the hall Of
| the upper floor he went up stairs. He i'm
mediately attacked them, prostrating each
| with trightful blow upon the head. Mary
hearing the struggle and screams of the SER
wants, opened her door, and looking out saw
| the girls covered with blood, but did not rec
| ognize her brother. Believing it to be burg.
lar, 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.
| Alter committing this series of atrocious
crimes, it is believed the homicide went
down stairs, pulled off his boots and coat,
and donned his slippers and morning gown,
in which costume he returned to his room,
and committed suicide with three
shooter. Only one barrel was discharged
the other two were heavily loaded when the
weapon was found. A a drawer of the bu-
reau in his room was opened, it is surmised
he took the pistol out alter entering his room
for the last time. His sister says he has had
a pistol for some years. The ball entered
above the right ear, and passed out Just over
the lett eye, causing instantaneous death. -
The alarm having been given. the neighbors
rushed to the spot, and beheld a scene OF
blood and horror painful to describe. The
father lay upon the floor entirely unconscious,
with his face and head bathed in blood In
the next room the mother lay helpless in the
nall bedroom the two boys were PROSTATE
and one Of them senseless and in tho upper
hall tho two servant girls lay also covered
with blood one of them waving her arms in
delirium, while the author OF the appalling
tragedy lay liieless on the floor of his own
room, still grasping the fatal weapon in his
right hand.
Dr. Sewall of West Thirteenth street, who
was called to the scene, gives the following
statement of the condition OF the sufferers
Mr.. Goulding, the father, was struck upon tho
left side OF the skull in two places, the axe
entering into the substance Of the brain. The
case ia considered hopeless. The patient is
wholly unconscious and in all probability can't
recover. Mrs. Gouldng, the mother, who is
oaciente, received three wounds on the head,
two of which were scalp wounds and from
one TO two inches in length. In addition TO
| this she received two Dunptured hlowa imam