Wilmington journal., 1873-07-18
from the New Ork tribune
A MYSTERY UNRAVELED.
A MURDERESS TRACKED DOWN.
Nr. Goodrich Shot by His Mistress
She stays by the Bod y II Day. aud
then merely Oh n nges Her
NaEne-The Crime: FRANKLY
COnfeSS,,d-A Mosaic Oi
Love and Vengeance.

The mystery which has SO long
shrouded the death of Charles Good
rich in Brooklyn, has at last been I'M
ravele.l. for Kate Stoddad has confess
ed that size killed him. After her ar
rest she refused to tell where she had
lodged, and the police adopted the
shrewd device of calling at every
house III Brooklyn and asking if a
woman had been missing since Tues
day The trick succeeded. 1t was
ascertained that q woman answering
the description of Kate Stodlard,
boarding with Mrs. A. Taylor, on
High street, between Jay and Bridge
streets, had been missing since that
time. Mrs. Taylor accompanied the
officers to the Second Precinct Station
House, where the prisoner was detain
ed, and recognized her as her missing
boar,ler The trunks of the accused
were then opened, and in one of them
was found the murdered mans watch
and chain, seal ring, seal, pocket-book,
containing $40 i'll bills, and revolver,
three Of the chambers of which
were loaded and three empty.
The fact that three bullets were
found in the head Of the MUIR
dercd man made the circumstance of
three barrels of the weapon being dis
charged the more significant. On
learning that the effects of the MUIR
dered man had been found in her
trunks, she confessed her guilt. She
said that she loved the deceased, aud
had lived with him for more than
year previous to his death. He grew
weary of her, endeavored to cast her
off, and ordered her to leave the house
in Degraw street. She refused, anu
he then treated her brutally. On the
morning of Thursday, March Goth,
finding that Goodrich was inexorable,
she determined to kill him. She had
put his revolver in her pocket, and
while he was STOPPING to build fire in
the heater in the basement, she called
his name, and as he looked up she shot
him. He fell, and she fired two more
shots, all three taking effect in the
head, and causing almost instant death
She then washed the blood from the
corpse, remained in the house all day,
and on the following morning went to
New York. During her absence the
murder was discovered. The murder
ess has apparently made no effort at
concealment beyond changing her
name. She has crossed to her place
daily, and has even attended Plymouth
Church on several occasions.
THE woMAN's CONFESSION.
The foregoing was all that the Com
missioner would furnish to the re-
porters, bnt subsequently Chief Camp
bell gave the following additional and
very important statements
She had been living with ''Charlie, ="
as she called the deceased, and was
greatly attached to him he wanted to
east her off, but she loved him so much
that she could not leave him. She en-
treated on her knees that he would
allow her to remain, but he was firn,
and in fact, brutal in his treatn ent of
her, and the Thursday before the Fri
day on which the body was found, the
day fixed for her to leave him, he
threatened her with all sorts of things
ii she dared to trouble him further
She had remained in the house in De
graw ST., all the previous evening, and
III, the morning, when Goodrich got up
she again besought him not to cast her
Off. He was very angry, and refused
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 Baltimore heater which was
there. The murderess says that she
loved the man 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, not the one which the detec-
tives found lying at the house beside
the corpse, and while Goodrich was
stopping down on one hand and knee
in the act of lighting the heater, she
drew the pistol, land extending her
hand toward him, she said, "Charlie p
He looked up, and she shot him three
times. These were the fatal wounds
which the post-mortem examination
disclosed. After she committed the
murder, on Thursday morning, she
waited ali that day and night in the
house watching it. On Friday morn
ing she had occasion to go to New
York, and early on that morning she
washed the blood from the face of the
murdered man with the towel, which
she afterward wrung ont and which
was also found damp by the police. -
She it was who fixed the corpse as it
was discovered, and when she had
done this she went over to New York
for something or other, and was about
to return to the house ON that Friday
evening. She came over Fnlton Ferry,
and ere she had fairly pl. her foot on
the street she heard the newsboys
crying out, Extra Murder of Chas.
Goodrich - She bought copy, re
turned to New York, and the rest is
known. She states, 81 killed him for
love 1 could mt part with him 81
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