Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-07-17

second street, and there obtained lodg
ings. AT that place she remained until
late In April, when she removed to High
street, Brooklyn, and in the same hat
factory, Mr.. J. III. Parsons, she contin-
ued to work for several weeks after the
tragedy. No one suspected her of any
completely in the deed, and although the
murder was the common subject of dis
cussion all about her, there is no evil
dence to show that she ever acted in
manner calculated to awaken suspicion.
In this connection, however, it should
be remembered that
HER MANNER WAS ALWAYS ECCENTRIC,
and that things which would have at
tracted decided attention in others,
awakened no curious suspicious when
seen in her. Had she waited from work
few days, suspicion might have been
awakened, but appearing in the factory
both on Thursday and Friday morning,
no one thought of connecting her with
the crime. The statements of both
Mrs. Meyers and young man that they
saw Goodrich on Thursday evening must
have been caused by mistaken identity,
as the statement of Kate Stoddard to
Gen. Jourdan is curiously corroborated.
SINGULAR EVIDENCE.
After telling how she had shot Good
rich, he pointed out the discrepancy be-
tween her account and the testimony of
the witness. |'Well," she said, ''there
need be no doubt about it, for had the
day and date engraved on my locket. :"
This locket she wore round her neck
when arrested, but the chief had taken
it off. Asking him for it now, she
opened it carefully and there showed
this inscription 'sDone Thursday,
March 21st, 1873" '"That settles it,
said she, 81 had that put on there few
days after shot him." About this lock
ct there is another curious circumstance.
1t is very large, about the size Of a
watch When the chief saw it first he
| thought possibly it was Goodrich's
watch, and therefore babe her to hand
it to him. With this request she was at
| first 10th to comply, but seeing that re-
! sistance was useless, she passed it over.
! On receiving it the chief took hold to
open it. "Oh. be careful, be careful, -"
said she. ''There is mineral in that
which | don't want to lose Despite
the utmost care a little portion OF the
mineral, as she called it, fell upon the
floor, and this to the chiefs surprise, she
/ picked up promptly, put into her mouth
and swallowed. ''What did you do that
! for p said the chief Looking sternly
into his eye, she SAID,
"iTHAr is CHARLES GooDMcH'S BLOOD
and sure enough, upon closer eyamina-
ton, the l0Cket was found to be filled
with CONCEALED blood. 4 few questions
/ ELECTED the fact that on leaving Good
rich's house on Friday morning, she
/ had taken away with her, among other
articles the cup full of blood which had
1 Oozed from the brain. This blood
/ cOngealed, she had been
EATING y LITTLE OF EVERY DAY
| Since the time of the tragedy and till the
| time of her capture This story is al
/ most incredible, but the portion in the
! locket and the disposition of the part
/ that fell gives it crediblity. In addi-
/ ton, however, to any specific testimony,
/ her widest behavior becomes credible
when the fact is known that she was six
! years ago
AN INNATE OF A LUNATIC AsYICI.
and that insanity was brought on by dis
appointment in love After her arrest
| the first person she spoke to IN an Off
cial way was Chief of Police Campbell
I He asked her where she lived. but she
| declined to tell. She never for a mo-
! ment denied her identity nor, hut for "A
! few moments, did she talk of Innocence
She said frankly that she had killed
| Goodrich, killed him for love. detennin-
ed that he should never belong to an
other woman, but by some curious rea-
soning she seemed to fear the discovery
of his property in her possession. ''lf, ~
said She, you find out my place of
residence
| YoE' IL FIND EVIDENCE ENOUGH To HANG
Me-"
The chief reasoned with her upon the
absurdity of conCealing her boarding
house, and reasoned to such purpose that
she finally agreed to take him to the
house on condition that she should be
allowed to enter the room two minutes
ahead of him. This he declined to do,
as he. from her tone of mind, thought
suicide to be part of her purpose, and
that he was not mistaken in this respect
the story told Yesterday and the discOve-
nv of the revolver in her room proves.
blown out her brains. Seeing that he
would not make this concession, she
once more assumed an air of reticence.
The chief by making the promise asked
and failing to fulfil it, undoubtedly
could have been taken to the house, but
with rare honor, he scorned to practice
such mean deed.
WHAT HER CAPTURER SAYS.
Miss Mary Handley, who has been in
search of and finally captured Kate Stod-
dard to-day, stated she formerly lived in
the same house with Kate, several
months prior to the murder, and was a
room mate with her in the Working
Womans Home in New York. Kate
left the Home about six months ago, to
go to Brooklyn, to live with Goodrich.
She was pleasant, eccentric and inn
pulsive, and in some things very pecu-
liar.
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