Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-11-07
The Latest Modern tragedy

Antagonists of the old idea of man deprav
| lty are respectfully rec ,rnnendrd to make dl-
agnos- nf the case of UdderzDok, who is now
being trl''l for murder in Chester county, Pa
If We oblitrrate the matter Of life insurance.,
which is wholly modern ion of phllan.
| thropy, we can see in this crime such an cpl
s"dc AS formed the chronicles of Newgate two
hundred years ago. The murders committed
ny the Bender family on steam highway Of
Kansas were remarked to have closely rcseu
BLEED some Of the no I'd highway murders al
rural inus iu England in the Period Of the
Georges.
In Iik" manner the murder of G ,ss by I'd.
dcIzpuk, in ali old aud thickly settled comlnu-
| nifty, about midway between the cities Of Bal
timorc aud Philadelphia suggests to us such a
crime as Mr.. Dickens might have revclcd in
when he related the murder Of Moniapuetgg
by Jouas Chuzz ewlt We may relate, in brief
the matter Of this murder, without claiming to
be correct III minor particulars:
Gss had shop OF some KIDD in Baltimore,
and was OF Il dishonest nature, 81 that he med
Ilatrd swludlc in the way Of life Insurance
and having obtained Il policy upon his life, he
perpelratcd arson. and left the bones Of u hui,
man being in The ashes # his business house.
ln due tune after his supposed dcc"asc his
his policy. But meantime the wrctched fellow
had put himself in the confidence and custody
Of chap lower, if possible, than himself, by
whom he 5 r"alucted in disgui,c, and under
an ASSUMED uarnc 10 dul aud auliqu., part of
Chester county, Penn, ylvuuia, where Wrlch.
Qnakrrs. Hcrnabs and llardshe, of all sorts
ulade up The population. Goss tcigued to lie
sick aud kept out Of the way, under the name
of Wilson. while Udderzook devised crude
means OF killing him If and Obtaining his i'll
gotten plumber. GosS it must be observed,
had NIL the while concealed his Identity, and
endeavored 10 break the link between himself
a. Gloss and himself as Wilson. Afcr some
do,ircs ut no great >agacity UddeizDok took
Goss of in the night, carried him Into woods
aud murdered him. burylng his body in Que
hole and his garments III another. La due tim"
crows and vu!turcS those Natural detectives Of
the air, began to circle around Cross grave
Human detectives. following the suggestion OF
the birds dug up the body aud the clothes
The country side, curious to know what might
be the story of the corpse. was met half way
by the detectives of the insurance company,
which had suspected something foul. The re-
suit has been to connect Gos> and td!eizook
at every point of contact. and thu, the inecnu.
tiles OF the institutions If modern society have
proved to bc match for all the dupIicitlcS Of
crime.
UJlcrzpok will be hanged unless be is inge-
NOUS enough to make way With himself in ad
vance of the gallpws. Small rascal, will here
after be considerable about how they put up
jobs on insurance campauics Chester county,
Pennsylvania, will be on the lookout for city
strangers And the Associated Press will e
relieved from the necessity Of giving us an alb
stract every day of very lccu. lar roadside
crime, the general run of which is imperfect y
understood by the diurnaI reader - Washing-
ton g r0uicie
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