Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1873-07-18
The Gnndrinh Murder.

IssAsITY--coRoNER S INQUEST ExTRAoRDI-
NARY INCIDENTS.
New YORK, July l2.-It was reported in
| Brooklyn last evening that Kate Stoddard,
who Is still confined in the captains room al
the police station, had attempted TO commit
suicide. There Is woman in the room with
her TO sec that she does not carry out her
threat, but il is feared even this precauiion
will not be sufficient 10 save her life if she is
kept confined there much longer.
She was very restless last evening, after hear
| ing that the police had captured her trunk and
obtained possession Of Goodrich's property.
Once or twice she begged to be left alone in
| the room, but her request was not granted
Some say that she is already insane, and
does not really know what she is talking about;
Others that she is only feigning insanity I'M
der the advice of counsel, who have long
since been retained to defend her.
THE INQUEST RESUMED.
| The inquest in the Goodrich case, which
was indefinitely postponed about six weeks
ago. was resumed to-day Kate Stoddard,
the prisoner, is woman Of slight figure, and
| her form appears wasted by sickness. Her
face is remarkable for extreme paleness, aud
frightened expression has settled upon it,
! When she entered the Coroner's office she cast
a hurried glance at the occupants of the room,
and seemed very terrified at the appearance Of
the inquisitive crowd struggling to obtain a
view at her features. AT the first glance she
might have easily passed for an average school
| girl on account of her attenuated form and
| small stature. Her face, however, is furrow-
ed with slight wrinkles, and a close observer
would say her age was from twenty-eight to
| thirty years.
Lucette Myers was the first witness called
A gold wateh-charm, seal, pistol and other
articles which had been found in Kate StoG-
dard's trunk were shown to her: she fully
identified the watch as having been the pro-
| perty of Goodrich also the seal and charm
| Witness, upon looking at the pistol, said it
did not belong to the murdered man. but she
hnd seen it before in the hands of a man nam
ed Roscoe, in Rivington street, about week
before the murder Of Mr.. Goodrich. She re-
cognized the prisoner whom she said she had
known as Kate Stoddard, Amy Stone, and
Amy Gilmore Miss Myers first saw the pri-
soner at 10 Stanton street, New York.
Roscoe called at the house three times and
conversed with the prisoner. Witness also
testified that she had seen Roscoe and Kate
Stoddard together on several occasions. Dur
ing the testimony of the witness the prisoner
stared boldly at her, and at several points
shook her head indignantly
Adeline Palm testified that the watch and
| two seals in possession of the coroner belonged
to the murdered man. She was also positive
that the ring and pocket-book had been his
property. She had also seen pistol in Mr..
| Goodrich's hand resembling the one shown
her. Witness had seen the prisoner in COM
pany with Mr. Goodrich.
Mary Handley, who discovered Kate at Full
ton Ferry testified that the prisoner was her
roommate in Elizabeth street, in New York
Kate never mentioned Goodrich 5 name or said
that she knew him, but witness recognized
the gentleman who called upon the prisoner
as the murdered man BY photograph exhib-
| tied by the coroner.
A captain of the Brooklyn police testified
that he found in Kate's trunk, al her residence,
the article exhibited in court.
SHE SWALLOWS HER VICTIMS BLOOD.
| A Brooklyn afternoon paper says Kate told
the Chief of Police OF that city that she had
| the day and date of the murder engraved on
her locke:, which was opened and found to
contain the inscription "Done Thursday,
| March 81, 1872 That she said / had put il
there few days after had shot him. There
is another curious Circumstance about this
locket 1t is very largc--almost the size Of a
watch, and when the chief saw it FIRST he
thought possibly it was Goodrich's watch,
| and therefore he babe her hand il TO him.
| With this request she was ut first 10th to
comply, but seeing that resistance was useless,
she passed il over. On receiving ii the chief
took hold to open it, ooh, be careful be
carefullp said she "lhere is mineral in
that which don't want to lose" Despite
the utmost care, however, a little portion of
the mineral as she called it, fell on the floor,
and this, TO the chiefs SURPRISE she picked up
promptly, put it in her mouth, and swallowed
"Whlt did you do that for?n said the
chief, looking steadily into her eye She said,
''that is Charles Goodrch's blood /" and sure
enough, upon a closer examination, the locket
was found to be filled with CONCEALED blood
A few questions elected the fact that on leav-
ing Goodrich's house, on Friday A. NJ, she
had taken away, with her other articles, cup
| full of blood which had oozed from the left
lateral lobe of the brain. This blood, CONCEAL
ed, she had been eating little of it every
day since the time of the tragedy till the time
of her capture.
This story is almost incredible, but the
portion in the locket and the disposition of the
part that fell 81 YES it credit. In addition, how
ever, to any specific testimony, her widest
| behavior becomes credible when the fact is
known that she was six years ago lunatc
and was an inmate of a lunatic asylum, and
the insanity was brought on By disappoint-
ment in love.
| Mary Handley, in an interview with a re-
I porter, said she had learned since she and
Kate were room-mates that the latter was in
a luuatic asylum six years ago. She also
said, 81 have known her to get out of bed at
midnight uncothed, and, walking back and
| forth through the darkened room, play upon
an old ACCORDION for an hour at time. This
she did repeatedly, and this was only one Of
| her Freaks
The jury in the Goodrich case returns the
following verdict: ave find that Charles
Goodrich came to his death by pistol-shot
wounds in the head, inflicted by Lizzie Lloyd
King, alias Kate Stoddard with intent TO
! cause death, on the evening of the Goth or
morning of the 2lst of March, 1873, at his
aforesaid house in Degraw street, Brooklyn"
| In answer to the usual questions from the
coroner the prisoner said her name was Lizzie
Lloyd King that she was twenty-six years
of age, and was born in Plymouth, Mass. that
she was a bonnet-maker, but declined to say
any thing in relation to the charge against her.
She was taken to the Jail by the Sheriff.
| A BAND OF PACIFIC RAILROAD RoBBERs.-
For months past suspicious have been aroused
| in our mind that an organized band Of rob-
| bers were operating on the line of the Union
| Pacific Railroad, but for want of evidence TO
| substantate statement to that effect, we have
remained silent. Recent Developments how
ever, show beyond the shadow of doubt that
such is the case. During the search for the
body of Mr. Ferguson, supposed to have been
foully dealt with by this gang of thieves, large
| quantities of stolen goods were found by the
railroad detectives strewn along the line, in
Gliding United States mail bag ripped open
and plundered.
The railroad company employs n number of
| detectives chief among whom is Mr.. Gillem,
one of the smartest detectives the country can
boast, but they find themselves powerless 10
| protect their passengers and goods against this
band of desperate ruffians. The railroad COM
| h. H.