New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-07-15
KATE SToDDARD IN RAYMoND-SE JAIL.

SHE STILL REFUSES TO CONFESS HER cRINE-sKETcIi
! OF A WANDERING IIFE--sx MONTHS IN A LUNA
TIC ASYLUM.
! Kate Stoddard still adheres to her cOunsePs
advice and refuses TO converse about the murder OF
Charles Goodrich. She busly engaged for many
hours yesterday IN writing complete history OF her
life and crime, In accordance with the desire OF her
counsel when a stranger or her 'felow-prisoners ap
preached her she hid her manuscript and would only
| resume her task when left alone.
Her assertions that she never knew the man Roscoe
are not credited but it is believed by many that he was
| her accompce in the murder She Is understood 10
have absolutely declined 10 tell her captors where so
obtained the revolver which was found in Der trunk;
but the investigation, 1t will be remembered Luce'e
Myers that the weapon was the same that she ~
seen the hands this Roscoe. The prevailing OPINION
that the murderess is insane and her horrOe sao
ment that she ate victims blood 1t is argued proves
that she could not have had her reason IN doing H.
Assistant DisrictAtOrney Cullen states that sue
found TO be when placed on tnal her eoh'ouon
will not be pressed but she win be sent 10 an asy
From trustworthy the following iacts IN rci"
ton TO the past history Of the murderess were ooneu
She is the daughter OF Isaac III. King. mason' ana
WAS horn in Plymouth Mass She lived with her parents
until she had attained her 18th year. and since theh her
life has irregular and erratc one hef iather
still alive and she has sister named Augusta married
and living az walbridge Mass. The family are said TO
be comfortable circumstances. GLLle VI hatc, uS
she is knowD had some money left to her when very
young and much against the wishes of her parents she
spent it in travelling about the country Herfunds were
exhausted when she was B and she then sent to an
cademy or seminary by her parents 10 complete her
education She had not been long there before she be-
came insane and was sent home. Her parents endeav-
ored TO treat her malady themselves but failing in this
she was confined in lunatic asylum at Taunton. After
remaining the asylum six months she pronounced
20 han nnfag
home. They were anxious that she should remain
with Them but this appears TO have been against her
inclination and after but brief rest che resumed her
wanderngs. She remained long in one place. but
within the last two years had been employed as bonnet
maker music teacher and school teacher in three differ
ent States. Near Philadelphia she was employed for
nearly six months in teaching primary school, and
this seems TO have been her longest stay in
place Finally she came to NewYork and here IL was
that she made the acquaintance Of Charles Goodrich by
means of personal" in one OF the papers She ap-
pears TO loved the with all the strength of her
nature and placed implicit reliance in his professions
How long she knew him before the tragedy is not
known but it is said that she married TO him, as
believed. May 90 1872 in New York city, and that
the night they stopped NJ the Ashland House,
their names being registered the book as man and
wife. Who performed the marriage ceremony Is also
unknown and whether it the mock performance in
which DR.. Reuben Smith is said TO have oiciated has
not yet been learned.
The prisoner appears 10 have made the fullest confes
sion of the murder to the police officials and certain
they that she would have counsel. but simply
make confession before the COroners jury that frag
ments OF the statements made TO them repeated
and thus became public. Since, however, she has de
clned TO make any confession until the trial the police
inclined TO regret that they hasty in duiging
the news. The prisoners GOODNESS IN remaining in
Brooklyn after the crime receives the most comment,
and the delay OF her discovery surprising. She
worked Immediately aferward IN j. H. Prentice's hat
factory, opposite RiymOndst. JAIL and the detectives
who visited that place could not recognize her. They
say that no person but Mary Hanley, with whom she
had boarded could have recognized her. the portraits
resemblance 10 her. The hat firm OF X. ThOmp-
son Co.. at No 517 Broadway. state that Kate StOd-
dard to work for them Feb. a. 1872 and continued
to work there until May 4. They struck by her
modest and ladylike appearance and sadOOking face,
and feeling much sympathy for her, gave Instructions
that she should always have work.
She was living at that time in the Young Womans
Home, No. As ElZabethst. The firm also employed
Mary Haney, but not long, as she failed TO give salts
faction.