The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-13

Inquest.
A strange female group was that which st
at she inquest yesterday IN the Goodrich casa.
whom Lizzie Lloyd King. the woman known
as kate stoddard." was found by the Coro-
ner's jury 10 be tho murdcrcss Of her quondam
paramour. New York, IN its busy round Of
life. Is well used 10 scenes that epitomize tho
most grievous problems OF humanity; but
IL is long since IL has seen 30 near
it picture like that wherein o calm, pale,
self-confessed murderess met the tear-filled
gaze of woman-Miss Adelaide Palm-who
had been the fanoee Of the murdered man.
Before that woman, widowed Of her love, sat
third female-Lucette Myers-with cold,
quick-glancing eyes. who had been the rival
OF each Of the others in the passions.
not the heart, of the man slain last March. A
fourth woman looked coldly, composedly on
the amateur female detective who gave Lizzie
Lloyd King up to the police 1t woald seem
as though the spirit of female honor had or
ranged the tableau in revenge for the
wickedness that man had wrought II
brings strikingly forward the evils OF
all who should learn thcrefrom. In the case
of Fisk an exceptionally dramatic scene WINS
presented, with fast woman in the fore
ground. Happily, it was case that
can have but few repetitions, for the actors
were out of the ordinary line of men and
women. Bejewelled glare and coarse passion.
quarrelling with an unfaithful mistress and
friend turned bloody minded enemy made mp
that tragedy In the case of Walworth il
was the curse of ill-assorted marriage, breed
ing parricide, that shocked the public eye
The Staying Of the Deputy United States
Marshal Stephenson in Jersey City on Friday
last by q desperate Russian sailor was uncon-
trollable malice and ruf6anism, striking des-
perately at all law in the rude, barbaroua
way in which Russians essay in their
own land how to temper their con-
dition with assassination. Kiistners murder,
undoubtedly for plumber, may have in it
something more mysterious as an exciting
cause; it is the outlawry of civilization fercely
and bloodily at war with responsibility
and order. The Goodrich case surpasses
all these in one particular, that it
is q realization of the dangers that lie in the
path of womanhood, poor and well-to-do.
morally frail and serenely chaste. With
phatically q woman's case, and our
young women of all stations will do
better to learn from the morals it points than
from the Haunting romances which they read.
The murder stories we have referred to are
confined to very limited classes The Goodrich
homicide has lessons for we know not how
many thousands in the group of cities
on the Bay of New York. It holds its head of
false pretences among the respectable classes;
its feet are in the blacklist mire of the city's
immortality. Who will not pity the young
affianced who gave her heart to man
whose decency was q sham? Who can
say what deeper tragedy that murder saved
her from had she been the wife of Charles
Goodrich Who can bend glance which is
oil harshness on the murderess, deceived and
cast off as she found herself, when uncurbed
passion famed the savage fires of malignity to
murder heat in her poisoned heart That with
all the horror of such crime upon her head
she could 'weave wanton spells anew shows
that too much pity for her would be mis-
placed; yet it indicates how all sense of fine
morality had been burned out of her soul by
the soaring life she had eagerly learned to
lead. Lucette Myers, another type of the same
social cankering, wanted, perhaps, only occa-
sion to have stood in the fearful position Of
Lizzie King. 1t is a sorrowful story, and
begets thousand queries that it would be
hard to answer. We may PROFOUND
one of them:-How many Lizzie Kings
and Lucette Myers are standing on
the verge of the same precipice with Charles
Goodrich tempting them, pushing over the
affrighting verge; how many Adelaide Palms
are laying up store of love that will turn to
ashes in their heart when they have learned
he tr1,fI foo 1otao