Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-07-16
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From the New York Herald
HER TALE OF LOVE AND

! From the New York Herald
her TALE OF LOVE AND DESERTION.
The following letter, which best re-
counts her wrongs, and which gave rise
TO the angry passion which satisfied
itself in the blood of her sedueer, will
prove worthy Of perusal, as it comes
from her pen:
Mr.. Goodrich:
SRI propose to tell the truth. Will
you listen? For the past eight months
| have been living in the second house
of the block of new buildings in De
graw street, the third door from Fifth
avenue. have lived there unknown
to anyone except Charley. About one
year ago was married TO him secretly,
/ for trusted. | loved Him so truly that
his word vas law to me, and he wished
for no one 20 know our marriage until
some future time, on account of prop
erty; the reason connected with it he
did not fully explain. was very fool
/ ish, for l was alone in New York, with
no friends only him. l have learned
since then that the clergyman who
married us was no minister at all, only
a friend of his-Reuben Smith, doctor,
l think, who lives in the city.
In December last, q month ago, our
baby was born. Before that, and since
then, Charley has treated me with the
utmost cruelty, disOwning all ties be-
tween US. Several days ago a woman
with ringlets came here to one of the
houses after a stove he had for her.
was at the window, and noticed the con-
versation between them. When Charley
came into the house he told me that we
must part; that there was no marriage
between us; that he had tired of me,
etc. The woman with the ringlets is his
new love; he acknowledged that. Oh,
! il seems as if it could not be the same
world to Ge now, all is so dark and so
desolate.
My heart is completely broken. To
love and struggle on alone / have got to
do, and l cannot, without assistance.
The reason l write this, and the circum-
stances under which l write, are most
painful. l have been trying to work.
| have been at work in a store all this
week. Tonight Saturday night /
came here to my lonely home, and was
very Unexpectedly accosted by a man
just as l was unlocking the door. He
asked me if wished to see Mr.. Good
rich; / told him yes, and asked him
who he was. He said his name was
George Baker; that he had been en-
plOyed TO watch the building, and that
my trunks and clothes had been taken
into another house. / was quite bewil-
dered, and had not the slightest idea
that Charley would ever treat me in this
manner. followed the man into the
house, and saw all my things thrown
upon the floor.
mare. Tomorrow is the Sabbath, and
where will l stay and what will do? L
have no money and no friends. am
seated on my trunk writing this to you.
Ny hands are 50 stiff with the cold that
l cannot hold my pen; for that reason
it may not be easy for you TO decipher
my hurried writing. AMY S.
Saturday Evening, February 10.
"Amy S." "Amy Snow" and Kate
StOddard" were the favorite aliases of
the prisoner, it will be remembered, and
the foregoing communication, which
was written in the presence of man
named Green, q watehman employed
by the deceased, in the basement of one
OF the Goodrich row of houses, on the
cold, bleak night on which il is dated,
WAS duplicated and copies were sent by
Goodrich, and the father of the murdered
man. The letter was read before the
corone's jury in May last. During the
investigation DIR. Reuben Smith, named
in the letter, while on the witness
stand testified that deceased had ex-
pressed a wish that he, the doctor,
should perform an operation upon GER
tain woman, whom he, the witness, had
once seen during visit to the Degraw
street house. He declined to officiate in
the delicate professional capacity, even
to oblige Charles Goodrich, but he sub
sequently understood that an operation
had been performed on her by a New
York physician, and that she had again
returned to her old quarters in Degraw
street, much TO the annoyance Of
"Charles," who was exceedingly anx7
ious TO get rid of his companion, whom
he regarded as a very
NORTHUMBERLAND AND DANGEROUS
WOMAN.
The 4" DOctori' rec0unted, as also did
the witness Green" several instances
in which she had displayed very vio-
lent temper, which was greatly excited
because of the fixed determination of
her paramour to cast her Off after hay-
ing deceived her. There is nothing on
record, however, to show that she had
ever threatened to take his life.
THE PISTOL THAT DID THE DEED
has long been q source Of conflicting
opinion among the officials. The mat
ter Of mystiheation is now dispelled.