The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1858-11-04
Horrible Rutchery.
Terrible Consequences Of Dissipation.

most horrible scenes ever presented to NOR
tai eyes, in which six persons in New York
were left weltering in their blood by the
hand of one Of the household, who finished
his butchery by putting ball through his
own maddened brain. We make up a more
detailed account from the New York papers,
giving the facts as best authenticated.
The scene of tragedy was in the house Of
Mr.. Francis Gouldy, which is alt West
Thirteenth street. The family consisted OF
Francis Gouldy, Jane A., his wife, three
sons, Francis A., Nathan, fourteen years old,
Charles Wesley, five years old; daughter,
Mary Eliza, fifteen, two small children, two
and four years old, and two servants girls,
Eliza beth Carr and Joanna Murphy.
The author of these horrors was Francis
A. Gouldy, the eldest son. One the night
of Tuesday, Oct goth, at about lO1 o'clock,
Francis came home, the family having re.
retired except the father, who was sitting
in the front room on the second floor, and
Mrs. Gouldy-step. mother of Francis-who
was preparing to retire. AS Francis came
in, he said to his mother, "Why, mother, are
you up yeti" "Yes, Frank" was the reply,
81 am up yet" Francis then passed up
stairs to his own room, returning after q
while, went into the sitting room with
hatchet, buried it in the brains of his father,
who fell heavily to the floor. then into the
room adjoining and dealt his mother mum.
ber Of blows, she falling 10 the floor, then he
passed through the hall into a bedroom
where his brothers were-who having heard
the noise had got out of bed-and having
felled each f,hem to the floor the murderer
passed up to the third floor, where two SER
want girls having heard the outcry, had come,
he then Frustrated each of them by murder
GUS blows. Mary, the sister, on the same
floor, hearing the noise, looked out into the
hall, and seeing the servant girls weltering
in their blood, supposed the house to be at.
tackled by burglars, and locked herself in
her room, thus ne doubt, saving her own life.
Mary raised her window and screamed "Mur.
der !" which brought two watchmen who
burst in the door, but in the meantime Frank
had gone to his own room, and with q six
shooter had blown out his own brains. The
scene when the neighbors were aroused and
came in, is described by the Post, thus:
The father lay upon the floor entirely un.
conscious, with his face and head bathed in
blood. In the next room the mother Law
helpless, and in the hall bedroom the two
boys were PROSTATE, and one of them sense.
less, and in the upper hall the two servants
lay also covered with blood, one of them toss.
ing her arms in delirium; while the nuthor
OF the appalling tragedy lay lfeless on the
moor OF his own room, still graspDg the ia
tai pistol In his right hand.
The two small children and Marv were
the only ones unharmed. AS the affricbtcd
neighbors passed through the room in which
the crib was, the little girl two years old,
ssPrang up, and said pleasantly, II am not
hurt"
The carpets and furniture in every room
throug h which the murderer had passed, were
stained with blood.
Upon the Coroner's investigation the fol-
lowing facts were proved. Mrs. Goudy,
who, although suffering intensely, was able
to testify. Her testimony condensed, was to
this effect:
Frank is her step son; has been in the
habit of coming in at ten o'clock; his father
vas very strict in regard to that matter; he
vas at home to tea as usual in the evening
IT the tragedy; after he had left, his father
iscovered that his bank book for $50 dol.
nrs had been removed; when Frank return.
ID at ten O'Clock or thereabouts he was in
.ood humor; his father let him in, and asked
lin if he had been to the desk; the son said
lie had; and the father asked him why he had
opened the desk; the son said that the mo.
ley had been placed in the bank in his own
Iame, and he had right to use it; the faith
n reprimanded him. and the son went out
# the room laughing; not pleasant laugh,
ut rather fiendsh and exuItant one; this
lr. Gouldy, the father remarked, and then
drs. e. went to bed; about quarter of an
!our later she heard her husband fall, and
rank Immediately rushed into her bed room
nth on axe, excluiming, "Mother, oh,
nother ~ she raised her hands as he ap-
reached, saying, "What is the matter,
'rank!" when he took hold of her hand,
nd struck her on the head, cutting her; her !!
urse ran in shortly after, covered with
lood; Mrs. e. ran to her husbands room,
here ne was lying on the floor insensible;
he little son, Matte, of fourteen years, WIS
neeling over his father kissing him, he also
eing wounded.
The officer, who came to the scene, test- t
ed as follows:
He went to Franks room, where F. luy
1sensible; near him was hatchet, and o ,
istol was in his right hand; he breathed ,
wv minutes but never spoke; the pistol was :
ard clinched Ia his hand, and the officer had !
} pull it away.
Mary E. Gouldey, the sister of Frank, ,es-
fed:
She heard screams of "Murder !" and
Frank, don't kill my father" &C., &c.; t
ne opened the door, and saw her brother |
ttacklng the servant girls; was frightened Q
no smut her door and screamed murder; she
'as too much frightened to remember much E
bout the scene; the hatchet was one which |
er brother usually kept in his trunk; he al
'ays carried pistol. I
A keeper of an oyster saloon where Frank
ad been just before the slaughter, testified )
lus:
Frank had drank nothing at the saloon; q
had took an oyster stew; there was moth c