The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-07-23
; WEST EHEsraR PA, |

WAS taken 10 JAIL yesterday ABOUT lU4 O'CLOCK.
His friends thought the bail was excessive.
and declined to give it. Officer Woods &C.
companied the prisoner, and as he left the
ststion-house MIR. David Ardin handed him
the morning papers, which he was gratifed
to receive.
BAIL REDUCED. ,9
During the day application was made to
Judge Gilmor for reduction Of the bail,
and about noon the warrant of arrest was
filed in the clerks Office Of the Criminal
Court, with the following Endorsement
thereon "Take bail in $4,000. A. Leo
Knott, States Attorney" Duringthe after
noon bail was entered by Theodore Mottu,
lumber merchant, 1875 Pennsylvania avenue,
and David Ardin, 3l4 north Eutaw street,
and Goss was released from custody. Mr..
Ardin is the stepfather-in-law of W. S. Goss,
now supposed deceased.
THE Gess INSURANCE CASE.
On the late trial lending June 5th) in the
United States Circuit Court, before Judge
Bond, of the case of Mrs. Eliza Goss Us. The
New York Mutual Life Insurance Company,
to recover $1,000 insurance on the life of
her husband, Winfield Scott Goss, who was
alleged to have been burned to death in his
workshop, on the York road, February 2,
1872, the following testimony was before the
court and jury:
STATEMENTS AND TESTIMONY.
The written statement OF Alexander C.
Goss made TO the agents of one of the insu-
rance companies, and sworn to by him, was
offered in evidence and read to the Jury.
In it he stated that on the night of the burn
ing Of bis brothers house he passed the eve
ming at his clearinghouse playing cards
with the ladies, &c. s.::
livery stable keeper, testified that during the
day Of the fire 1.-THE burning of Goss's house
on the York roadl man applied TO him
go out beyond Greenmount he gave his
name as a. C. Ardin, No. 314 north Eu,aw
street; he called for the buggy about
dusk, and returned about halfpast nine,
and paid witness IS, his charge for the hire !;
witness identified the man in court a.. c..
Goss) as the one who got the horse Of him.
Cross-examined: Goss gave the ostler a
pair of buck>kin gloves with gauntlets; the
horse had not been driven hard thought
the man was crazy; witness was suspicious
OF him because he passed all the stables be-
tween EutaW street and Front street to hire
the burning Of Goss and the amount of In.
surancc on bis life, and told Mr.. Langley, of
the Continental Life, about the hiring Of the
buggy to 90 out in that direction; he after
wards met Mr. Goss at Mr.. Langley's office,
aud held out his hand, addressing him as
Mr.. Arden. Goss replied, "My name is not
Arden, it is Goss." James Gilroy, ostler
for DR.. Thorne, testified that the man who
hired the horse gave him the gloves;
Goss looks something like the man, but
witness cannot tell. Mrs. Parsons testified
that Mr.. A. c. GoSs boarded at her house.
No. Al north Calvert street, at the time of
the fire in 1872. MIR. Goss was not at sup
per on the night Of the tire. He was at
dinner that day, and came home little after
8 o'clock. Miss Parsons, step-daughter Of
Mrs. Parsons, testified that A. c. Goss made
an engagement in the morning to spend the
evening with her; during the day he sent
her word that he would have to go to the
depot with his brother, who was going to
New York that evening. When MIR. Goss
came back that evening, she said to him.
" You are back sooner than you expected"
He said, eyes" 1855. :
So mnch for the testimony on the trial in
question, which, in connection with the adj
vices from West Chester of alleged evidence
of correspondence between the "stranger"
murdered near Penningtonyille and A. q.
Goss. led to the latter's arrest. ~
PHoroGRApHING TIE VICTIMS REMAINS.
1t has already been mentioned that MIR.
Ardin, with MIR. E. Hampson, had, at the
latter part of last week, visited Chester
county, Pa, to view the remains, OF the
murdered man. He says he had the corpse
again examined and photographs taken OF
the face and head-one front view ana the
other in profile. He states that the mouth
was disfgured by large cut, as if it had
been made with shovel. The relatives OF
Mr.. Goss declare that the pictures bear no
resemblance to W. Scott Goss. Hmustl oe
!recollected, however, in this connection, that
the party who had the body exhumeo on
Friday last under the direction of the dis
Itrict attorney of Chester county state that
they made post-nsortens examination: OF the
body, and removing the teeth, the eyes,
SC. DESTROYED the features to q great extent.
The cartilage of the nose was cut when the
man was murdered. The body was then
supposed to be buried for the last time.
MYSTERIOUS BOX.
In connection with the fraud alleged TOD
perpetrated by S. GoSs and others upon
the insurance companies, the following mas
come TO light: II. f.1 l.Lls
Between 10 and II o'clock of the morning
of the day that Goss's laboratory, IN Balt-
more county, was burned February 2, 1871
a dray loaded with box was driven up 10
Joseph Thomas 4 Sons factory, on the cor
ner Of Park and Clay streets, and lett stand"
ing, whilst Goss, who had just returned from
New York, went into one OF the Work-rooms
Il ffnn
toneof voice, with Undertook, now under
arrest for the alleged murder in Chester
county. A half.hour afterwards they both
went down to where the dray was standing
and removed the box to the sidewalk. GOss
then left with the dray, and Udderzook re-
turned to the shop. Some Of the Workmen
who had noticed the box say that as near as
they could judge 1t was between four and five
fpeflong and eighteen inches square. When
asked what the box contained, Undertook
.s,id that it was machinery for their rubber
faetory. and that he intended 70 take 1t out 70
COSTS. Accordingly, at o'clock ne drove
up in a furniture wagon, and took the b0x
away. and did not again make his appear
ance at the Messrs. Thomas's until after the
funeral OF Goss--the corpse found in the en-
bers Of Goss's burnt shop. Archibald shere
and Francis Eyeritt both certify to the good
standing and capabilities of Undertook pre-
yious TO his arrest. s, !
DEFENCE on UNDERTOOK.
1t is understood that arrangements were
ina,igiirated sit the last meeting OF Barnes
Lodge. No. 26, Of the Ind dent Order of
Mechanics, TO procure able counsel to defend
UdderzoOk in the present prose ution.
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