New-York tribune., 1874-03-11
KATE STODDARDS NOVELETTE.

SIZE BECOMES HER OWN LAWYER AND rUBMsHER-
u A SUICIDE AND NOT A MURDER-A COPYRIGHT
ON ALL THE INCIDENTS.
Lizzie LLOYD King alias Kate Stoddard who
is in Raymouds JAN Brooklyn, awaiting her trial
for OF Charles Goodrich, has employed her
leisure hours in writing extraordinary account OF
| the tragedy. which she has copyrighted, with the
ayowed intention OF publishing it In pamphlet form.
She says that she took her pen after she was
Imprisoned aud having finished her statement pre-
sened 10 TO her counsel, with the expectation that II
would be used the trial. They laughed Mt IT. and
insisted that the proper ground of defense insanity.
She retorte1 that she would either be acquitted or
hanged and wranged with the lawyers until they asked
Judge Gilbert TO allow them 10 retire from the case.
Their request refused and their client considering
herself under obligations to taxa their advice has
given The Brooklyn Union permission TO publish her
statement, retaining all other privileges secured by
sSBPyyTissbt. sSPyFilsbbti.
1t Is denial rather than confession, for whhe sD
describes with morbid minueness the incidents OF the
last hours Of her acquaintance with GOODRICH ana ner
anguish after his DEATH denies that she murdered
him-denes that she said as much to Chef camp
bell or to any one ese. Goodrich killed himself, she
saws Tho police authorities put no confidence IN her
statements and claim that she is striving to plead her
own cause before trial, else that she is insane
"My trunks had been removed TO 2O4 East Forty
second.st New-York but stil remained in the ffth
until the party entered who had hired the house, Ths
is the way which this novelette, opens Supper was
ready when she joined Goodrich at MS house Oh tno
night Of the murder March 90 aud after 1t was eaten
he went out in the rain TO an old gentleman VINO
had talked OF buying the houses He returned at 10
d. m appeared melancholy and said that he would Try
| 70 drive away headache by smoking cigar After
he had taken off his boots she left him IN the dining
room and went up stairs bedsHer story OF the suicide
| of Goodrich is this:
After going up stairs went 70 sleep presume had
slept over two hours. awakened by the report OF
frearm. did not know at first whether u was IN tn9
honse outside as all the doors were closed IN t6e nan
dressed down stairs. the dlnlDg-roOn door at
the foot of the stairs was looked III was not Wne
went up stairs. went through the kitchen and opened
the door into the diningroom coai nre was gio"ihg
in the heater. Charlie was lying upon tue moor Win ms
partly outstretched. knew no one had entered the
house. because the basement door front was locked ana
il. Up stairs the securely locked. No one
could have entered except with afch-key NO one had
as I entered the room. was amazed ont not
I5slte4Sa iSSs his nv 9'"f liz, to S m
mouth was quite He had not smoked
had matted the hqr at the eide OF his head just
| the temple. AS held hn IN my arms his face grew
and did not know Il when he was dead. From the mo-
ment found him did not notice the least change on
his features or expression of them then adjusted
his head upon the door His boots stood by the hearth
where he left them. placed them under his head also
eyes SRS we're partly Closed f that might look ao
them, aud how kind and lovingly they looked up at me
he had found perfect peace HIS watch was on the
table, also his purse 1t was two O'Clock in the morning
sat down by his side and talked TO him for hours aud
sang IN low, cOntcnted murmur "NOw may the grace
mercy aud peace OF our Lord aud SAVIOR Jesus Christ
| remain and abide with you forever. Amen"
She then speaks OF pouring the blood from his wounds
into a cup from which she usually drank her chocolate
and wrapped the cup In towel She says that she then
took the sealring of his finger put 1t her
She wiped his face put the pistol his side and
No 2oi East For'y-second-st., New-York. where her
trunks were stored, and at Q D. started agln for
Goodrichs house She then repeats the story which she
is sad to have told to Chief Campbell, rectng her arr
val al Fulton Ferry, her purchase Of newspaper
tanning account Of the MURDER and !rctd to the
| house In NeYYork. She adds:
! l bought nearly every New-Yorz paper that was
touching the case Tae detectives found these cppugs
in my trunk. was much surprised TO learn that there
and knew ne hsd killed bimsalf The idea Of any one
having entered the house had never occurred 70
possible. The bar OF walnut which lie had braced the
outer basement door with before went up stairs, was
It's place. wondered why he took that extra precau-
on after IL locked The quiet the order, together
with the dismal storm outside, all these surroundings
influenced my mnd. would have gone to his friends
and told them, II had bitterly experienced
frien6y manner N wht5h they ignored the facts con-
taned in the letter mad given them, and which was
aferward published in the daily paPrIs For this
son shrank from disclosing my identity 10 any
When read in the papers That suspicion fastened d
Tectly upon as the peTeuator Of the n6od, would
| have shot myself through the head sooner than have
been discovered for knew tuero no way OF prov
| ing my innocence,
She then speaks OF attending GoodricAs funeral
suspected ana afterwards wandering to Fort Greene
with GOodIichs revolver her pocket, determined to
shoot herself If she discovered In the evening
she attended church On Monday, March "a, she Oh
tanned work and returned to Brooklyn to board
In appendix she details the particulars OF her arrest
already known 10 the public, aud there gives her
! version of what occurred between herself ana Chief
Campbell, asserting that she made confession She
says
| had blue ribbon my neck with the locke, at
concealed by my craYat, aud ordered the Captain
to what that The lOckct is divided crystal
| in two compartments In was the preserved
mignonette which had become brittle aud crumbled
atoms. In the other Charles blood ia CONCEALED
particles. l emptied these contents into my hand
and swallowed them before the captain could take H.
When my trunks arrived st the station asked To he al
lowed 10 get the OF Charles blood that remained
in the cup aud place il In the lOcket For this
objected 10 passing IL TO the jury at the inquest After
L came prison | laid 10 to change the ribbon
in it, Some must have uniBstened lt. IL could not
have unfastened Of tselt Whether the late
Charles Goodrich came 10 his death by ms own hand,
by the hand OF another know not. But TINS know
for the infatuated devotion with which cherished his
memory. for this / arrested for this | have
dured the martyriOm OF eight mODths' Imprisonment ;
| a1d for this am 10 be sentenced
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