Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-03-31
MYSTERY CLEARED UP.
The MRrderer of Charles Goodrich
Known to be a SpaHls-d named
Roscoe
Confession Of the Mistress Of the Muir
dered Man-ROmance Of Crime.

New YORK, March 3O.-The MereurV
to-day publishes a letter from Balti-
more, which says the police of that city
are in search of Spaniard named ROs-
coe, the alleged murderer of Charles
| Goodrich, in Brooklyn, and the lover of
Lucette ]. Myers, now under arrest. On
receipt of letter, a Mercury reporter
visited the father of Lucette, and he
said he remembered a Spaniard who
frequently called to see his daughter, but
had not called since they came to
reside in Rivington street. The MeT-
curry then gives the following story
concerning the main actors in the
tragedy and the murder. Before
becoming acquainted with Goodrich,
Lucette was intimate with 8 Spaniard
named Roscoe. Finding that Goodrich
was possessed of ample means, and that
his assertions of owning houses in
Brooklyn were correct, she forsook Ros-
coe for him. When her people removed
from Stanton street she changed her
workshop and strovo to hide her where
abOuts from the Spaniard. She gave a
wrong address on employing with Mrs.
Levy, and charged those in the
place to deny her presence should
any one call for her there.
That the Spaniard was cognizant of her
preference for Goodrich, and was jealous
of the favored lover, is shown by the
dispute they had in her house, and to
save him from Roscoe, she thrust him
into another room. After removing to
Rivington street, Roscoe was at first IN
able to find Lucette, but ultimately dis
covered her and the intimacy which
existed between her and Good
rich. On Thursday night he
watched her ss she started for
Brooklyn, and tracked her to
Goodrich's house, in Degraw street.
He sought for way to enter, and after
repeatedly traversing vacant lots at the
rear of the house, he climbed over the
fence and gained entrance to the build
ing by the back basement, lifting the
latch with a jagged jaek-knife he found
on the floor. When in the house he
closed the shutters and went to the room
in which were Goodrich and Lucette.
Dashing in, the startled pair leaped from
bed and sought to escape from the
room. Goodrich and Roscoe closed
in the struggle, when the former
broke loose and ran down stairs, followed
by the latter, who had in the mean
time secured a pistol, and on reaching
shooting him in the temple, and as he
lay on the floor placed the pistol behind
his ear discharging two more shots,
and after taking the valuables from the
PROSTATE body, Roscoe told the woman
all he had done and the necessity for him
to flee, saying he would go to Baltimore.
When the woman had recovered from
her fright she sought to conceal the
tragedy, and arranged the body as it was
found, locking the doors and throwing
the key of the basement in q basket, she
then left for New York in the early
morning. The Mercury adds: The wO-
man detailed to Chief of Police Campbell
a full history of the murder and every par
ticular connected with it; also, that Dis
ct-AttOrney Britton, when asked III
the statement in the Bath paper was
correct, answered, ~ believe it is. Yes,
that is So"
There is strong reason to believe that
Roscoe, the Spaniard, who was sup
posed, as stated in New York morning
paper of to-day, to be in Baltimore, is,
as alleged by said paper, the murderer
of Goodrich. Several statements made
in the Sunday paper in question are
found, however. to be Incorrect. It is
proved almost beyond doubt that Mrs.
Myers was at home with her parents on
the night of the murder, and not, as al
leOed with Goodrich GIo Gays slao no ZOE
Roscoe on Saturday morning after the
murder. She had seen an account of it !
in Friday evenings papers, and sus-
pecting Roscoe, accused him when she
met him on Saturday. Since then, she
alleges, she has not seen him.