The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-08-29
The Goodrich Tragedy.

Inc G0odnch Tragedy.
INTERESTING REVELATIONS CoNcERNING THE
MuEnFls-LIzzIE LLOYD KING UNBosOMS HER
SILL 10 \ LADY ACQUAINTANCE AT THE RAY
MoND-srREEr JAIL.
Lizzie Lloyd King, alias Kate Stod-
dard, the murderess of Charles Good
rich, continues to enjoy pretty good gen
erai health, and apparently n conscience
Overburdened with sorrow at her sum-
mer residence, the Raymond-street Jail.
In conversation with n lady the other
day, she exhibited the lOcket which she
constantly wears about her neck, and
showed her the inscription engraved on
the inside of the Thursday
morning, March 20, 1873" Kate showed
her visitor a small particle of CONCEALED
blood in the case, and remarked: 81 had
4 little left after / swallowed that in the
presence of Chief Campbell, but some
one opened my locket, and lost my
treasure out. | am so sorry. / have
tried hard to find it, 1t was all had"
Speaking Of Miss Palm, she expressed
liking for her, rs she is n good woman,
and if she was his idea of character, she
Kate wanted to speak to her. She
said:
''I Az SORRY FOR THE PAST
So sorry-but I loved Charley, and
would have tried to be anything for his
sake measured existence by his love
for me, and would have done anything
for the sake of his love. Had [ known
that he had loved another and wanted
her, would have gone"
When asked whether she had faith in
the future, Kate replied:
'Yes. Do you think my little baby
lives there? 1t was only five months,
but the little one was mine. 1t was a
little girl, and its little hand rested on
its face. l did not want TO lose it, and
that abortion was so awful. 1t was
wrong, too, and it changed me from
what | had been before. If he had let
my baby live I could have stood Tiny
little baby! | loved it so from the first,
and | Thought all along that Charlie
loved it too. Bat I had to give it up,
and-ohi l cannot tell how the cold
entered my heart then. It's all over
now, but l cannot help wishing it had
lived. When the baby would come,
thought to myself, / would have n new
for us BOTH But did not know | was
to go; that l must get out and be lost.
could bear the suffering for Charles
sake; but when / found that
CHARLIE HAD TAKEN FROM Me MY
BABE
And was going to put me out of his
sight, l thought l was surely somebody
else; il could not be. 1t was so different
from what he said. / just suited his
nature, he said, and was his other self,
and he would show me how to do, and
oh, could have been all that he wanted
me to be. But he had family pride, and
he let it kill my child and turn me OH
the world, ruined in everything. /
wanted back my baby them, and l told
him so. TOOK the letter that 1 wrote
to his father, and ] handed it to him
myself If he had heard my plea,
listened to the truthful story in it, it
| would not have been so with me, / am
sure. And at the inquest, when he
Y looked at me as If he hated me so, j felt
/ that I had done my best to make 4
/ friend of him. | saw he was glad | was
suffering, but he knew / suffered when
| / wrote him that letter that time. OH
/ how l tried, after il was all over, to be
strong and 20 home! But I could not
tell my mother. Yet it is foolish, but,
l must say lt,
WOULD RATHER SEE NY MOTHER NOW
Than any other beingon earth. l should
so love to feel her close to me once
more"
Miss King remarked that she was at
the funeral in Cumberland street, and
stood by while the coffin was brought
out. "There was a rope or a cord lying
on the ground, and when I looked down
my foot was in it, and it was in the
shape of n moose! But L talked to 4
woman there, who was trundling q
child in its wagon, and she talked to me
about there being no likelihood of the
murderer being caught.n She said she
did not believe in Spiritualism, but
"Charlie' wanted her to go away and
not tell the truth; it would do no good;
but she couldn't leave Brooklyn. az
believe in the
TRUTHS THAT CHRIST TAUGHT"
She said. 'I wish had known better
how to follow them. When it was all
over, l thought L would go home to my
mother. But she would then know
something, and would ask me, and it
would only have panied me. Just be-
/ fore the arrest, l had found strength to
20, and something seemed to hurry ME
to leave quick" Subsequently Kate
said: az wish women who have to work
| for their bread were better paid. They
ought to have better wages Bad
/ thoughts come to the starved and for
saken. 1 went twice to the Women's
| HOme-Once with Charles and once
alone-and since then have been once,
and l thought the lady there would
/ know me, but she didn't. / wanted 4
room with quiet people, but I couldn't
I get one, and left" In reply to ques-
I tion rs to whether she expected any
thing but justice, she said: 81 was
never made to follow any law that was
not plain TO me. If l am to be judged,
it will be the right decision, no doubt"
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