Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1874-07-10
THE SENTIN Ell
The Udderzook-Goss Murder.

banc at Philadelphia, on Thursday, the I'd
inst, rendered its decision in the case Of VIM.
Undertook, convicted of the murder of w. S.
Goss, affirming the sentence of death The
decision was delivered by Chief Justice Agnew,
as fellows:
William E. Undertook VS. the Common
wealth. Error 10 the Court OF Oyer and Ter
miner of Chester county. Eastern district.
This is indeed n strange case. A combina-
ton by two to cheat insurance companies and
Il murder of one by the other TO reap the fruit
of the fraud Winfield Scott Cess, an nhahi-
tant of Baltimore had insured his life TO the
amount OF S25, 900. He was last seen at his
shop on the York road, a short distance from
Baltimore, on he evening of the second Of
February, 1877, in company with William Il.
Ydderzook, his brother-in-lnw, the prisoner,
and'a Young man, living near. They left him TO
go to the house OF the young man father. In
short time the shop was discovered 10 be on
fire. After it had barned down body was
drawn out of the fire, supposed TO he that Of
Goss. Claims were made upon the insurance
companies, the prisoner being active in prose
cutting them. On the 30th of June 1873 the
prisoner aud stranger, a man identified as
Alexander c. Wilson, appeared at Jenneis-
vile, in Chester county, this State, and re-
manned over night and the next day. In the
evening July l. the prisoner and this stran-
ger left Jenuersville together in a buggy
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Baer's woods, about ten miles from Jenners-
vile, the head and trunk buried in a shallow
hole in one place and the arms and legs in an
other. The stranger who was with the prs-
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