Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-05-01
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Man Pursued by q Woman.

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ViNDAcA1oh, strange account OF nlan
pursued by woman for twenty years.
The ladv came before the Court in Louis
Vile XIV last woolr socond +imo-th;s
~ ny, 100. "eon " seeono ..liiov"i0
Time as lunatlc. Her name is Miss Ellen
Goodwin, aged 81 and she was arrested at
the instance of Mai. Tbrockmorton. a
hacha,or aood so tho mo, .ho hos n,rs,od
60. 4...e. % ~ wy "- Ni'o A', ps
LOT twenty years. line LOUISVILLE paper
says:
r. - ;d +.4 . a,>,,+ ef
+oa,, - COZ" v,tao Wien sue was .pUu eao
oon,e ~ ,;th =, as, quo nd fha1
Sa Ioao Muo ~ h;,n d wi 4ho4 r. ' 20
o.,u ", mdS meoHivJu ~ ai anu maoS he
foatsta,' mo- 1mJ aI o,o ~ twas ~,
Ior";n uyoiH we d ne meo, to The
,nauao Gnu .vugn a., hrc,,,,ht
10 =; , - o".,i pa, s,os nus pIen ';tesS nS
~, ~ tst;ao,a % Wv +h q y,
pnti, ',,,+ies az Vic os ,uy onnmantod
nOS tb p"a n .,1a h;o at ndoo;dad hes
for,,ad ~" eitorin g. - y"o a.oes;, ''N
Me- G U.,o t ~ Son4lh $50, ff+eon
wears old she fret .o' Enew y'i TbrocLmorton
Who ,. was ners;stant in h;s ,ttnnt;ons and
ha;no an eaccnmnl;shad IL man could easily
lad I'm ,nay~ar;ancad o;r '' - believe his
srom;sas and then load ha, " ~ bar ruin :.
tbot afta,"uarSa nnnsmlt;nn. h; s o.vn safoty
frorn hor family he nr.'a1ir 6asa,.t cd har and
astranrad h;msalf From, 10 fant If which
sha said sha waa mada on ohiect If rid;,,
cnle, and determined to avenge herself for
oil hor uronro NV foIiow;nr Rim thronnh
the world She saws.
s.Traated on ali occasion. with the most
brutal w;olanca cast ad,;ft evarv ;nd;oni.
tv heaned mon me- ;nsuited hv nrostitntes
Georadad in avery noss;hla wav NV feel,
mos and claims fotallu ;gnored Gradual
iv comnrehend that T had trusted q hrnte
instead Of man. / deliberateiy planned
and dal;haratejv carr;ad ont NV nnrnose !.
fn he nernstns, shadow in his nat 1pf to
xeen ever hefora him a l;vino monument
of tbe rn;n he had wrouoht ? did not con.
slider the world hrt heiiava tho world ia
ganaraIIy NOT varv mncb shocked when q
iihertine ia killed thonrh cannot do mur.
dor heIieva fiat T have done the com
munity no harm. and that know I have
done this man no WRONG Init m the con
trarv 7 have done ricEf Four times T
have been draooed before the no1ice conrt
thronph his instrnmentality. No woman
or child in the whole twenty wears saw in
| nv behavior ANYTHING that COnI0 he con-
strued into disorder excent on two differ
emf occasions when + was grossly insulted
by lewd women through his influence. I
resented r., conceive that have done
the community no wrong and MI Throck-
morton no wronr hnt II > resnectahle conrt
THINKS d;fferent1y and believes that T onoht
to nmrsne this conraa No LONGER an, readv
To nhev Tn fact nnder wise counsel
have already resolved to snare myself the
task of further furnishing him. and will
leave him in the future fo an indignant
world 70 and q inst Gods vengeance. =
Throckmorton testified that ne had known
! Ellen Goodwin since 1870 She was then a
vo1Ino Iadv GROWN and showed such a lik-
inc for him That ha was disonsted and new
or made love tn her nor se3nced her. On
one occasion at a fsir she tore another
vonno iady from his arm and made a
SCENE He saws.
MI would newer notice her after that.
and she commenced tn follow me on the
street I nointed her ont to nv friends.
and showed them 7 conld make her take
anv direction nv ooino in Il myself. Al
first that amused me hut when she nersis-
tad in Il T became annoved and tried to in
duce her to desist. Whenever T would an
proach her she would retreat. / caught
| her one evening on the street. when. She
tried to escane in an aIlev and told her 7
was poinp to kill her and she said. kiss
me. first; : could never understand what
| she wanted. or whv she dogged nv stems.
She followed me- to New York and 81
1,onis, and logged nv stems in ali kinds of