, 1873-07-26
THE GOODRICH TRAGEDY.
Lizzie Lloyd King Unbosoms Rorse1f
to q Indy Acquaintance.

I1XX1C Lloyd king QnboHomA ACT6c1I
to a Indy Acquaintance.
From ths Ne,s YorE Heraid, July %.
Lizzio Lloyd King, alas Kate Btoddard, tho
murderesa Of Charles Goodrich, continues to On
Joy pretty good general hoalth and apparently
conscience ovorburdened With aorroW ct nor
conversation with lady tho other day abe OK
hbited tho looket which sho constantly wears
shout her mock aud showed hor tho Inscription
gesu dag morning, a N Mareb 20, is7s." Kato showed
her visitor q small particle Of .congealed
blood in the case, and romnrked, ~ II
had = little left after ,as ! sTalloEod l,th,1 that
f. s ae epsoa u nv eoe and os y
hard to and 1t. It was all had" spoaking Of
Misc Palm, sho Expressed Liking for her. aa
che Is good woman and II sho "as e., ms iaoa 1aa
She Bald;s I am sorry for tho past; SO aorry.
But loved Charlie, and would hayo tried to
be anything for his sake. Yes, ! did try I
] sas 5sao by y.1x nf eq for ns shs ss
Of his love. Had I known that he loved
another aud wanted her I would have
gono.". When asked whother ,a sho had
th H. ns ta b.b9 ha1 ysg yspd tbare eo
only tlyo months, but tho little one was mine.
It was little girl, and its little hand rested on
it's face. did mt want to loso it, and that abor-
tion was 80 awful. Il vas wrong, too, and Il It
ho had lot my baby live. ! could hsvo stood iii
my littlo babyi Loved 1t 30 from tho first, and
/ thought all along TINT Charlie loved it too
But hRd to give It up, and-oh! cannot @ ton o.!
over now; but I cannot help Wishing IT had
lived. When tho baby would como, I thought to
myself, would have new tic In LIFE, and II
would make it happier for nH both. But did
DO lost. / could baar tho suffering, for Char
lo's sake; but when I found that Char
lie had taken from me my babe. and Was
going to put mo. out Of his sight, thought
WAS 30 different from what he said I just suited
his nature, he said, and WAS his other self; and
he would show me how to do, md oh, could
have been all that he wanted mo to be-. but hc
turn me On tho world, ruinod In everything. I
wanted back my baby then, and told him 80:
I took the lattcr that wrote to his father, aud
/ handed It to him myself. Il he had hooded
would not havo boon so With mo, en euro. And
at tho inquest, when no looked ut me aa ii ho
hated me 80, I felt that had douc my bcst to
make friend Of him. saw he was glad was
suffering, but he knew Waa suffering whom !
wrote linn that 1ettor that time. Oh! how I
triod, after II WAS all over, to be atrong,,and SO
home! But could not tell my mother. Yet it
Ia foolish, but must Say 1t, ] would rathor sec
! should 30 loYo to fool hor oloso to mo once
moret"
Miss King remarked that aho waa at tho funer-
al in Cumberland Htreet, and stood hy while tho
coffin was brought out. There waa rope, or
cord, lying on the ground. and when I looked
down my foot was In it, and ii waa in the shape
Of q moose But talked to woman there,
who was srundliug child in ita wagon, and sho
talked to mo about thoro being no likelihood ot
Tho murderer being caught" sho aaid eho did
not believe in Bpiritualism, but that " Charlie y
wanted her to 60 away md not toll the truth II
wonld do no good but ahe couldn't leave
Brooklyn. ~ belioye in tho truths that Christ
taught" ahe eaid, "I wish had known better
how 10 follow them. When It was nll owe,
thought would so homo to my
mother. But she would then know aome.
thing and would ask mo, and 1t would only
have panied mo. Just before tho arrost had
found strength to 60, nud something aoomed Y
hurry mo to loave quick" subsequently Kate
remarked, II wiah women Who have to work TO,
their bread wore better paid. They ought te
have better vagoa. Bad thoughts como to Tie
starved and forsaken, I wont twtco to tLt
Women's Home--onoo with Charlie aud once
alone-and since then have been once, and
thought the lady there would klow mo, but allt
didu't. wanted room with qulot people, bu
couldn't got ono, md loft" In reply to !
question as to whothor eho o1pectod anything
but juatice, sho Haid, ~ was never made to fol
low any law that WAS not plain to me. II ar
to be Judged it will be the right decision, nc
doubth