Liberal Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1872-1???, 1873-08-02

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About TO Mary another Woman.
On the night of the 21st March last,
Charles Goodrich, young man we'll
known In Brooklyn, was killed in a
basement in that city. The affair was
involved in great mystery. Every ef>
tort to ascertain who the perpetra.or
ofthe act was failed. 1t was believed to
have been woman, but she could not
be found. A few days ago the tele-
graph stated that the murderess had
bren discovered. She is a girl from
Middleborough, Massachusetts,. Good
rich fell in with her in New York, and
they lived together. After the mur-
der she lived in Brooklyn, where she
was discovered by a woman who had
formerly known her. Her confessions
is as follows:
She had been living with "Charle"
"a she called the deceased, aud was
greatly attached to him. He wanted
| to cast her of, but she loved him so
much that she could not leave him. She
entreated him on her knees to let her
remain with him, bnt he was firm and
| in fact brutal in his treatment of her :;
and the Thursday before the Friday on
which the body was found, was the
day fixed for her to leave HIM. He
threatened her with all sorts of things
if she dared to trouble him further.
She had remained in the house in
Degraw street all the previous evening,
and IN the morning when Goodrich got
up she again besought him not to cast
her oil. lie was very angry and
refused her request, or TO hear her at
all He then went into the basement.
at the front OF the house, and proceeded
to light the Baltimore teater, located
| there. The murdercss said she loved
the man so much that she could not
leave him. When she saw him de.
termincd to discard her she woi kel
herself up to murder him. She had
one of his revolvers in her pocket
not the one detectives lying in the
house beside the corpse-and while
Goodrich was STOPPING down on one
hand and knee, in the act Of lightning
the heater, she drew the pistol, and
extending her hand toward him, she
said, Charlie" He looked up and
she shot him three times.
After she had committed the murder
she waited all that day and night in
the house, watching it. On Friday
morning she had occasion to 20 to
New York, and early that morning
she washed the blood from the face of
the murdered man with towl. which
she afterwards wrung out, and which
was also found damp by the police.
} She it was who washed the corpse as
found, and when she had done this
she went over to New York for some
thing or other, and was about TO return
to the house on that Friday evening.
She came over by the Fulton Ferry,
and ere she had fairly put her foot on
! the street she heard the news-boys
crying out Extra "Murder OF
Charles Goodrich !" She bought q
paper, returned to New York-and the
rest is known. She states "I killed
him for love. could not part with
> him" A reporter was informed that
she had attempted to commit suicide
He went to the police authoroties, but
they denied auy knowledge of the
matter. Coroner Whitehall, however
said "She has not attempted suicide,
but there is no doubt she would, if the
opportunity presented" She had
begged and prayed, ever since she was
satisfied that her guilt was proven, to be
left alone. There is a woman with her
all the time, and on repoarod occasions
she made this request, urging it with
tears in her eyes. 'Let me alone, il
} only for few minutes, for Gods sake,'
she said. She asked the wowan in
charpa to take nitv ON her This 10 M