Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1858-11-12
Horrible Tragedy in New York City.

city, was enacted a. eli West Thirtieth
street. last night. Francis A. Gouldy, a
young man twenty years DID,, literally
butchered the family, undoubtedly killing
his father and one servant girl, inflicting
injuries which may prove fatal to his step
mother, two brothers and another servant
girl. and browning the terrible crime
with self. murder.
The family consisted Of Francis Goul-
dy Jane A.. his second wife. three sons.
Francis A., the homicide: Nathan, four
teen years old /; Charles Wesley. FIVE
yeasr old daugeter Mary Eliza. fifteen;
two small children. two and four years
old, and two servant girls, Elizabeth Carr
and Joanna Murphy.
1t appears that the young man Frank
had contracted some habits which dis.
pleased his father. He was out too late
at nights and wanted too much money
! His father refused to give him a night
key, but would get up and let him in
when he came home at nights, and, per
haps, rebuke him for his unreasonable
hours. 1t is stated, also, that Frank, as
he was called, yesterday took bank book
from his fathers drawer, which the old
gentleman pronounced no better than
stealing.
Whatever the provocation or cause,
Frank went home about ten o'clock last
night. The family retired with the ex-
.ception 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. and the two small children were in
a 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 -
Eyes Frank" was the reply, II am up
yet" He then passed into the room
where Mr.. GOuldy was, and she heard
: some unpleasant words pass between the
two, and finally heard heavy fall on the
floor. She had just got tito bed, and
thought to herself, "ls it possible Frank
has struck his father 2" 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 Ratchet. She screamed
, and sprang up. and 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 bed room where his two brothers
slept They had both gotten up. hearing
, the noise, and lie struch each a murder
Gus blow on the head with the same hatch.
ct he had used upon his father and moth
err. He left them both PROSTATE and COW
> cred with blood. aid passed on to the
: stairs and assembled to the third floor.
Mary, hearing the struggle and
screams of the servants. opened her door;
and looking out, saw the girls covered
with blood, but did not recognise her
brother. Believing it to be burglar, she
locked her door and remainded in her
room. Had she known it was her broth>
er she would have rushed out. in which
case she would probably have been muir
dered.
After committing this series of afro.
UiUus urimes, IL Is believed the homicide
went down stairs. pulled off his boots and
coat. and donned slippers and morning
gown, in which custume he returned to
his room.
But Mary, meantime, had not been
idle. She had raised her window and
cried murder ~ And officer Morehouse
and Hull, of the goth Ward Police, who
were standing on the corner of 9th ave-
nue. and 3lst street, heard her 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
succeeded with some labor in forcing the
door.
1t is probable that Frank heard them
, and found that he was detected. Be this
as it may, before they found him he took
three>shooter, which was heavily loa>
> ded, and. placing the muzzle to his head !.
fired. The ball entered above the right
ear and passed out just over The left eye,
causing instantaneous death.
The father lay upon the floor entirely
unconscious, with his face and head
: bathed in blood. In the next room the
mother lay helpless, and in the hall bed.
room the two boys were PROSTATE, and
one of them senseless, and in the upper
hall the two servants lay also covered
With blood, one of them tossing her arms
in delirium while the author of the ap-
palling tragedy lay lfeless on the floor Of
his own room. still grasping the fatal pis-
toll in his right hand.
The two small children and Mary were
the only ones unframed. AS the sf.
frighted neighbors passed through the
-, room in which the crib was, the little
girl. two years old. sprang up and said
pleasantly, II am not hurt"
: The moral of the above tragedy is
briefly written ::
Frank is spoken of by former ac>
quaintances as good fellow" They
I say he was never regarded as bad
< young man, although he was rather wild
, Others say the family feared his habits
It would lead him to some desperate act"
GIdleness and drink. made a damon of