The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-12-16
The UdderzoOk-laoss Murder-Deafh.
SenscAco of. Dddarsook - Affecting

At8Pest Chester, Pa, Saturday morning
/ w. +. Udderzook was sentenced to death
for the murder OF W. S. Goss, In the cee.
brated Baltimore insurance faud case Of re.
cent memory. Before the murder was dis.
covered Judgment had been obtained In a
Baltimore court for the amount of the policy
on Goss's life-S25, 900, mssbelieve. Judge
Butler first overruled the motion for a new
trial and then condemned the prisoner to be
executed the prisoner showing emotion
while the judge was moved to tears. The
West Chester (Ra.) Local NeUs Of Saturday
evening gives fhe following full report of
THE SENTENCE. /
AN impartial trial, iu which you were
prosecuted with fairness and liberality and
defended with zeal and ability, has resulted
in your conviction of murder in the hrst de-
gree. And this result Is .ju$'.
| THAT the corpse found in Baer,5 woods
was that of Winfield Scott Goss is not open
to doubt. From the building on the York
road, which was burned to cover the flight
of this man, he Is traced with unerrinG GER
| tainty TO the desulatc grave in the woods.
Changing Ills name, and seeking to hide him-
| self, he yet left behind, wherever lie went,
| evidences of identity that preclude all dam
ger of mistake. His striking popularity OF
person, his habit Of imtepperance the re-.
| markablc ring he wore, his handwriting,
parts Of his dress left behind, his photograph
| (recognized wherever he went), and espe-
| ciafly his patent screw-driver,' exhibited
from time TO time T.; bis peculiar habit of adj
dressing you by the title of Doctor and
your own graphic description of him to
Rhodes, as man who had been lost. for q
| long time, aud was supposed to be dead,
| enable us to identify Goss in the man called
| Wilson with as much certaintyas il he had
worn bis proper name.
Traced from place to place, few days
before the body was discovered he was seen
| in the vicinity of Baer's woods. going in that
direction, and was not seen alive thereafter.
You. who we're there with him, hadintorm-
cd Rhodes, only few hours before, that the
woods was his contemplated destination.
| When the grave was opened the same re-
markable personal pecuiarities OF Goss were
found in the corpse-tbe resemblance agree
ing in everything, down to the color Of the
hair, thesshape of the whiskcrS, and The
length offhe unshaven beard The ring was
gone from the finger but it was found vir
tually In your poSseSsion-upon theSeat the
vehicle in which you had been riding. Al
bis clothes save the shoes and shirt had beer
destroyed; but these remaining articles reSem
bed his So closely that the shoes are virtually
identified as the same. They were not only
similar in kind, but were peculiarly marked in
two respects, as his had been. We repeat, witt
unerring certainty, GoSs is traced to thiS
grave. And with the same certainty is his
murder traced to you. First. it is shown
that you had u motive to commit the crime
I the success Of your schemes Us well as youl
personal safety counSeled If they did not de-
mand lt!N Second 1t is shown that you eX
pressed your purpose to do it-at first, dim
| ", as in the letter of December, and after
wards distinctly, as in the conversation will
Rhodes. And thirdly, it is shown that you
did it. Five days preceding theEeyent ht
left the William Penn Hotel in your com
pauy; ttree days later he is found in this
county, still in your company, manifcstly
under your influence, passing westward
and shui,ning obser, alton. In tbs
evening of The next day, as night came on
he was again seen in your company
by your side IN the vehicle procured at Pen
ningtonville, 7,o,n in the neighborhood OF
Baer's acoods, ancl going in that direction
Thus you were with him Immediately pre-.
ceding his death near to and approaching the
place where found. Directly after you were
alone, and he was no more seen alive. The
vehicle in which you were riding together
was broken, the carpeting torn from it.
| floor, the blankets missing, and floor stained
with blood. But few hours previous you
had expressed your purpose to commit the
crime, and sought the aid of your brother
| inlaw in itSaccomplishmeDt
ITO the crushing weight Of these terrible
facts you opposed nothing but an improba
| BILE, inconsistent statement, proved to be un
true in some respects, and supported by evil
dence in none. No rational mind with this
| knowledge can entertain 4 doubt of your
| guilt. 5s#
And it is not the guilt of an ordinary
| murder. With full average mind and fail
| intelligence you entered upon Il gigantic
scheme Of fraud. An element in tbis scheme
was the false assertionaof Goss's death, sup
! ported by fictitious apprenticeship crc;l
lion of your aCts--surplemented by your
perjury. Possessed of strong will, vol
carried this scheme almost to successful AZ
compishment. When, at length, threatened
with discovery, your plans and your prrson
al safety endangered, You resolved to secure
yourself by taking the life Of your accom-
plice in this crime. You had known hin
long and intimately, and were closely con
nected with him by marriage. You bad OBJ
tanned his confidence, and he seemed to.tnl
low your suggestions with unquestionlng
| trust, You dragged his weary fee.
from place to place, under preterct
Of seeking an asylum Where be might
etill be secures At length you reGvhe,
the neighborhon familiar to your youth
/! where It might we'll have been hoped tn,
recoIlections of that better, purer time i.
YOUR life would have awakened some Sparl
| Cd NrI11l ha pf
But here-regolutely and fatally bent u
your wicked purpose-as evening faded int,
night YOU committed this most horrible q
lcrimes. Leaving your victim for a time yo'
! returned ut the solemn hour of midnight
and with the peaceful stars looking dowl
upon you, and the sad appealing eyes gazin;
up, you carved and quartered him as if h.
were dog, spending the night in fulfil
effort to cover UP the evidences of you
guilt. Then, visiting your aged mother
you returned TO your wife and children
with as little apparent concern Us a man re
turns from Il journey of pleasure. The Ion:
record of crime scarce furnishes a parallel I,
this case. ----.
"Thcse things are not said to increase tn,
misery of your present situation, but to vim
dictate the sentence which t|se law is about t
pronounce. IN or are they said without sor
row; for weare not unmindful that human
Justice is imperfect; that the weakness o
YOUR moral nature and The force of you
| temptation cannot enter into its Judgment
That they will be considered and just.
weighed in the balance by Him who know
the secret TROUBLES of the soul, whose justic,
is perfect, and whose mercy is bouudless
we cannot doubt.
The three judges here arose, and the sen
tence proper was given as follows:
"The Court does now order and adjudgt