Litchfield enquirer., 1858-11-04
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Y neEzta . late hour on Tuesday night last ',ss horrible and unnatural tragedy was enacted in NewEs1ork sCtfy. Francis A. Gonldy, aged l9 years, attempted, at his fathers house, No. 2il West Thirtieth street, between Eighth and>N nth avenues to murder his father, moth CT, two brothers and two servant girls. and ter initiated the terrific scene by effecrually blow Ing out his own bra.ns. The wounds inflicted on lis father, brothers, and one of the servant glr's, are of such fearful nature as to pre- elude any hope of their recovery.
 Young Gouldy entered Showley's lager beer and oyster saloon, betwcen sTwenty-eighth and rweuty ninth streets, Eighth avenue. about g O'Clock on Tuesday hight. For long time past he had drank no intoxicating liquor He feft this saloon little after 9 1-2 o'clock, in perfectly sober state. While there, he remark ed that he had had dispute with his father about money. From the fact that he reached home about twenty minutes before 10 o'clock, aud that the distance from the saloon to his fathers house is not over five minutes walk, he could not haze stopped at any place on the way. He rang the deor bell, his father hay ing refused him night key. The door was not opened by a servant but by his father, who was awaiting his arrival. Immediately on his entrance, the old gentleman charged him with abstracting a Savings Bank book
 from his private desk and procuring money
 thereon, representing the act to be as bad as direct robbery. The young man replied that as the account with the bank was opened in his name, he had right to take the book Soon after young Gouldy retired.
 It would seem that he proceeded to his room in the rear of the house, on the third floor, and, in cool and collected manner, changed his dress, removing his coat, vest and cravat,
 hanging his watch on a nail by the side of the mirror, taking off his boots, and even remov- ing the sIeeye-links of his shirt. Then taking hatchet in his haud he descended the stairs
 ill his stockings, without boots or slippers, en-
 tered the sitting-room, where his father was just turning off the gas, and dealt him blow on the head, fracturing his skull and striking therefrom portion of the bone from the tenn pie, three inches long, and two and a half inches ill width. Mir. Gouldy fell, and the blood issuing from the fearful wound, made large and deep pool ou the floor Mrs. Gouldy, who had just gone to bed heard the heavy fail, and was ill the act of raising herself to listen, when the son entered her rooom, exclailning, Mother--oh, mother ]" Instantly he seized her hand, and dealt ler severe blow on the head with the hatehet, which deluged her face with blood. She screamed and sprang from the bed, when the young fellow repeated the blows until she was rendered senseless He then repaired to the hall bedroom, where his two brothers, Nathaniel and Charles, aged l3 aid 6 years, were sleeping in the same bed.
 lie struck at them both with the same weapol., cutting from the head of the eldest piece of bone, two inches long and nearly an inch wide.
 The younger was l'ot so severely injured, but his skull was fractured, and pieces of the bone chipped away.
 The assassin next proceeded to the hall of the third floor, where the two servant girls, who had heard the noise, had come from their room, to listen. He immediately attacked them with the hatchet, dealing them frightful blows on the head. One of them wrested the weapon from his grasp, but he recovered it, aud struck her to the floor, by a powerful blow. Her sister Mary, hearing the struggle and screams of the servants, opened the door of her room, and saw the girls covered with blood, but did not recognize her brother. Suprosing him to be a burglar, she retreated into her room, locked the door, threw open the window and shouted for the police. Some officers of the Ward hearing her cries, hurried to the spot, forced olen the door, and were spectators of such scene of horror as they had never before witnessed. The father lay upon the floor en- tirely unconscious, his face and head covered with blood. The mother was insensibie in the next room, and also deluged in blood. In the hall bedroom, the little boys were in similar condition. Ascending the stairs, they found the servant girls lying in pool of gore, entire ly unconscious. while in his own chamber, the wretchcd young man was stretched upon thei floor, wallowing in his own blood, having com mitted suicide by shooting himself in the head with pistol. His brains were scattered about the floor, aud his right hand still grasped the pistol two barrels of which were still heavily loaded. When the officers entered be was not quite dead. He gave few convulsive gasps, uttcriag no word, and expired.
 The would which the suicide inflicted on himself was on the right side of the head, i'm medately behind the ear, the skull being great ly shattered. A pool of blood, two feet in di- ameter, lay thick and moist around his head. The surgeons probe and the dscooration of the left eye show that the ball lodged near the frontal bone, on the left side of the orbit. He fell by the side of cabinet, between the door and the fireplace. His coat was thrown carelessly on chair his vest was hanging on bedstead his watch was hung on nail his cravat thrown on the floor one boot was standing by his side, the other thrown under d table by the window, and the stockings on his feet were soaked with blood, showing that before he fell he must have trodden in his own gore. A more terrible sight than the corpse exhibited yesterday, even those who have supped on horrors" have rarely seen.
 The murderer was son of MT. Gouldy by his first wife. He has often expressed himself much attached to the present wife-and meth CT. He has always been very impulsive boy, and very easily influenced He has not been regarded as having g peculiarly bad temper