The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-02-09
LOCAL MATTERS.
Alleged HaIpracstce---Envcs OF
the Charges against nr. GOtidin and
- Erne&.

Alleged Observation-Disclosures Of
! the Charges against nr. GOitin and
wesley y. Brock.
| On last Monday Il piece of paper, torn
from notebook. was placed i'll the hands OF
Detectives Dabncy and ODwyer, with the
remark that it told Of a case that needed ln-
| ycstigation. On the paper was written The
| following:
"Ehzahcth. maine Of mother; Allen, father
| Of deceased; Charlotte, sister Of deceased !;
Jennie. deceased Wesley, seduccr; doctor,
name not known; Laubc, undertaken. Dc
ceased stayed in some doctors office twenty
four hours before being taken to the place of
her death. Body taken away on the nth OF
,Jan,larv. Deceascd's doctors fees paid by
checks ut Susan Hills"
Taking hold OF this slender thread. the de-
tectives went to work, and in twenty-toul
! hours made two arrests. eXhumcd dead
body. and brought to lighta case of supposed
NAL lpructice, or worse, which will probably
| occupy the attention of the courts for many
| weeks to come, and may lead to more than
| one conviction for felony.
The parties arrested were DIR. n. a. II.
GoGtiin, physician, whose Office is on Four
! tcenth street. under the Exchange Hotel, and
| Mr.. Wesley n. Brock, Il machinist, employed
| at the plough mandatory of Mr.. p. II.
Starke, and they were charged, as stated in
our issue of yesterday, with feloniously
causing the death of Jennie Y. King and her
| infant by the use Of certain drugs not named
| in the warrant. TO answer for this offence
the accused were arranged before the Police
| Court Yesterday morning, and Justice White
gave them the benefit Of a full and patient
Investigation, although the question of bail
| only was involved.
The testimony adduced in this investiga-
| ton was very voluminous, aud it is only
necessary to produce here such portions of
| it as are tit for publication and are necessary
for proper understanding Of the circlm-
| stances under which died an unfortunate
woman and her child. The witnesses were
Susan Hill, Lizzie Gleason, Eliana Seaton,
| Charlotte King, DR.. Grcbe, DR.. McRae, and
Mrs King. DIR. Goddin was represented by
| 4. Noise, ,Jr.. Esq, and Mr.. Brock by Colonel
Chastain White.
1t seems that Miss Jennie King was a
| daughter of Allen King, worthy old gen.
| tleman past tthrce-Scorcnaud-ten years of age,
who lives on the Williamsburg road about
seven miles from Richmond. On the 4th OF
january last she came to this city in COM
panv with her sister {AIiss Charlotte King
and called upon DR.. Goddn at his office, on
| Fourteenth street. She was quite sick.
After remaining there Il short while
they were joined by Mr.. Brock, and
the four-Dr. Goddin, the two ID
dies, and Brock--"ot III Il hack and drove
out to tie house OF Susan Hill, on
Leigh street opposite Ebenczer church
where Brock had previously engaged room.
| That night Miss Jennie King was so sick that
neither of the persons named left the house.
On the next morning she was no better i'll
deed, she continued very jill for nearly q
week. when she preGnaturcly gave birth to a
female child. What became OF the child is
not positively known. The mother grew
worse and worse from day to day until the
night of tie 18th of January. when she died
| Two days later she WAS quietly inferred in Il
section in Shockoe Hill cemetery.
The following is Il copy Of the burial GER
titicate:
81. Name of deceased in full: Jennie
| Young Hing. ,. Sex: Female. 5. Color
| White. /. Age: %. S. Single. &. Occu
patton: -. :. Birthplace Henrico county
Ia. 8. How long resident in the city: On {
risit. 8. Place of death: No. -, Leigh
street, Marshall Ward. 10. hereby ccrtif!
that I last saw her on the 17h Of January
1872, and that the cause of her death was
oastjftis. Time from attack till death: Sir
teen days.
| ISigned] IN. a. H. GoDDIN,
"Mcdical Attendant.
"Undertaker: F. Laube, by j. ". L., cor
ner First and Broad streets. Place Of burial
Shockoe Hill Cemetery"
[The words in italics are written; tht
others are printed.
The first witness was Susan Hill (colored)
who keeps the boarding house really house
OF iil-f,nlc) TO which Mr.. Brock took his sicl
cousin. She detailed the circumstances at
tending their arrival, and said Mr.. Brock hat
engaged the room for n week. When she
discovered the condition Of the young lady
she would not have allowed her to remail
had she not keen so i'll. The child was borr
4 week after she came to the house. 1t livet
!; only few minutes. There was an accident
Her sister was with her from the first unit
the birth Of the child, and then hel
mother came and stayed with her until sht
died. DR.. Goddin was very attentive anC
DR.. Grebe was there half dozen times
One of the gentlemen {Goddin or Brock, re
ferring to the deceased, said she came from
North Carolina. Witness saw the corps,
after il was exhumed and identified it as tha
of Miss Jennie King.
Elizabeth Gleason (coloreO boarded a
Susan HIPS, and frequently saw the Sicl
ludy. DR.. Goddin, Brock, and the LADY,
, sister, came with her. She was put to bet
us soon as she got there. Heard that tin
woman came from North Carolina. Witnes
could not tell what became Of the child. De
ceased did not expect to get well; said 81
two days before her death.
Question by Detective ODwyer: Didn'
You hear her say just before her death tha
"Cousin Wesley had poisoned her"
| Colonel White: Don't answer that ques
ton. Iolject. No foundation has been lait
for such testimony. The statements OF tn
deceased are not evidence unless made N
Qrtlculo morris.
The Court: The question tends to ellcl
tho alleged facts concerning the administra
ton of any drugs to the deceased. The pa
ternity of the child is not involved. The
statements of a person who knew her enc
was approaching are certainly admissible.
Witness replied that she never heard the
| deceased use the language quoted by the de-
| tective. Didn't think she was Gellrlous
during her sickness. She took various kinds
| Of medicine.
Mrs. Scaton, who also lives at Hills, testi.
fed that she nursed the deceased. The child
was small she didn't know what became OF
it; didn't see it taken away; missed it about
10 O'Clock on the night after its birth. Heard
Miss Jennie say she was going to die and
didn't want to live. She asked witness II
| the child was living, and being told "no,"
said no more. Think she died from debility
produced by excessive nausea. She frequent
" begged for morphine OF chloroform which
the Doctor had been giving her.