The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-07-15

THE GooDRICn TRAGEDY. The arrest
of Kate Stoddard. alias Amy Stone, Oh
the charge oi being implicated 10 the muir.
der of Charles Goodrich of Brooklyn,
was accomplished through the skill of a
female detective who has been following
her for weeks. Since the finding of the
body of Charles Goodrich in the basement
of his residence on DeGrow street, by his
brother, Hon. w. II. Goodrich, three
months and three weeks ago, the police
have bent every energy 10 find this wo
man. A letter from her to the father
and brother of Chales Goodrich was hand
ed to the police and what was said to be
photograph of her was given to then
to aid them in their search. The female
detective had travelled all over the Uni
ted States. Every city on the Atlantic
coast has been visited and searched in
the hope ofmeeting Kate Stoddard. Bal.
timore and Philadelphia we're searched re.
peatedly, but without success. Last
Monday, on the return of several police
officers from Philadelphia where they par.
ted with the female detective, they re.
ported to the Chief of Police, and were
to start out and make final effort. Cor.
oner Whitehall, who at the earnest en-.
treaties Of the Police Commissioners had
time and again postponed the inquest
was told that he could reasonable his ju.
ry and close the investigation. On Tues.
day afternoon the female detective, still
confident of success 10 her search, crossed
the Fulton Ferry. On reaching the
Brooklyn side she struggled through the
crowd, and as she hurriedly lodged the
vehicles she stumbled against a woman
who with slow steps was making her way
toward the ferry gate. Recovering her
self she glanced at the person before hei
and for moment stood amazed. She had
discovered the woman for whom she hat
been so long in search. A police who
happened to be near was called, and the
alleged murderess was taken into custo
dy.
1t is rennrtna that tho woman StouLarl
has confessed that she murdered Good
rich with her own hand while crazy Will
jealousy. From statements made at 20
lice headquarters there appears to be nj
doubt that her accomplice was the Span
lard Roscoe. Globe.
For the Register.
BRooKsvILLE, VI, July II.
Mr.. EDITOR Bible declares thu
love of money to be the roo. of all evil
The miser, the ambitious, the pleasure
ieeker and the degraded. Slaves of vic,
are alike eager to procure this keyston
10 happiness according to their variou
views of obtaining it, and such class la
Dor under similar delusion in supposiu!
that money beyond a competence will il
any way administer the coveted balm tt
our craving natures. This inordinat
passion invariably leads to injustice o
crime if not properly checked. Money il
the hands of the unselfsh, becomes so
lace 10 the needy. But the unscrupulou
make it rod of oppression and a leve
or intirm when warneu VI approaching
dissolution often give the last lingering
embrace to their IDOL by appointing il
their last wills the successor to tn
treasure loaned to them by the Crea
tor, whose laws should dictate-huma
perversion may be made to punish in
gratitude, or TO aid favorites-or t
transmit to posterity gilded name, b.
magnanimous legacies to popular scheme
or themes, either charitable or political, %
possibly they may hope to liquidate som
of the grave charges in the big book O
records But how futile are all sucl
hopes. Man proposes but God disposes
Hcrioc deeds, and acts of love, and mer
cy will live in the hearts of men. Blu
an enduring fame cannot be purchase
with money. If we would benefit man
kind, let us use our money while VIC ar
living. We were born pennicss an
must leave the world in the same condi
ton. Any dictation for future appropri
ations at our decease seems like maxim
too free with what is not our own. Nor
anon. OBSERVER.