Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-16

Der knees that he would allow her TO remain,
but he was firm, and in fact brutal, in bis
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 threat
ening her with all sorts of things if she
dared to trouble him further. She had to
remain 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 of. He was very angry, and re-
fused to grant 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
heater, which was located there. The MUIR
deress says that she loved the man so much
that she could not leave him, and that, when
she saw him determined to discard her, she
worked herself up to murder him. She had
one of his revolvers in her pocket, and
while Goodrich was stopping down on one
hand and knee in the act of lighting the
heater, she drew the pistol and, extending
her hand toward him, she said, " Charlie. :"
He looked up, and she shot him three times.
These were the fatal wounds which the post
mortem examination disclosed. After the
murder on Thursday morning, she waited all
day and night in the house, watching it. On
Friday she had occasion to 90 to New York
Early that morning she washed the blood
from the face of the murdered man with a
towel, which she washed and wrung out, and
which was afterward found damp BY the po-
lice. She it was who fixed the corpse as it
was discovered, and, when she had done this
she went over to New York, and was about
to return to the house that Friday evening.
She came over 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
a paper, returned to New York, and the rest
is known. She states, g / killed him for
love; | couldn't part with him.
Sue has begged and prayed ever since she
has been satisfied that her guilt was proven,
to be left alone. There is a woman with her
all the time. and on repeated occasions she
has made this request, urging it with tears
in her eyes. Let me be alone, if only for
few moments, for Gods sake" she said
and asked the woman in charge to take pity
on her. There is liti lie doubt that she would
commit suicide it left alone
The daughter of the lady at whose house
Kate Stoddard resided, stated that she came
there in the second or third week in April
said she was employed in New York and
wished furnished room. She used to do
light straw work; she made hats very pref
tlly. She used to 60 to work every morning,
and came back every evening regularly until
three weeks ago, when she did her work at
home and took it over in parcels when fin-
ished. She never had friend call or re
ceived letter. We never saw her associate
with any one. She spoke of her relatives,
but her story was false, as we have learned
since. She said her father lived at Trenton,
N. j., and that her mother was dead She
said, too, that she intended to visit him the
Fourth of July, aud we expected her to 60,
but she did not. She used to bring her meals
to her room and eat there Sometimes, how
ever, when she came down for hot water or
we would ask her to eat with us.
which she did. Should Judge she is from IS
to % years old; she is slim and thin-fea-
tured, has light hair, and is a perfect lady in
her manners. She has evidently been
brought up in good circumstances, from her
speech and department. My mother told me
she thought Miss Waltham, which was the
name she gave at this house, had something
on her mind, that she had seen trouble, but
she Miss Waltham) never told mother or
myself anything of the SORT She never was
10 good spirits. My brother used to come oc-
casI onally to read for US; be is a good read
err, and Miss Waltham liked to hear him.
One day he was going to read about the
Walworth murder, and she said d" Oh, don't
read that, don't like to hear of MURDERS
Mother wishing to hear it and my broth er to
read it, she got up and left the room She
had several dresses, not expensive but nest.
She exercised great taste in her dress and
was always very clean. Her room was al
ways tidy and in order, and we thought a
great deal of her and thought her a per feet
lady. She used to hire piano, which she
played upon. She was not good player,
but said she was very fond of music. She
never yelled her face when she went out
She was fond of going to Mr.. Beecher's
church; she used to attend every Sunday
regularly. On Tuesday she left about nine
in the morning.
Mary Handley earns the rewards, which
amount in the aggregate to $500.
The brother of the murdered man, W.
W. Goodrich, is at present In Europe, and
has been telegraphed the news of the arrest.
So murderwill out :" has come true in a
case which has in its mystery wed with the
Burdell, Rogers and Nathan murders of 9TH
Or years.