The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-26

attracted by the voices outside, and had
joined The group on Mr. Gd6dalis len:
trance. w&ht'to the nearest polstUs Station
and procured ya4addeE. |. By Is This 9means
an entrance was had at one ;of the upper
windows by the footman, who descended
and Unlocked The front doJr!!i'7s ~'""2
Iona entering, the parlor. the' gas was
found turned down TO- a spark. Mr..
Goodall turned it on, and, as he did so,
shrek arose from the domestics, who
had crowded to the door! Miss Mary
Goodall lay across the couch. with her
head beaten in, and the blood and brains
besrattering the rich furniture. the car
pet and the wall. Two valuable diamond
rings had been torn from her fingers, ard
a splendid emerald brooch was. missing
from her bosom. Mr., Mathews, the off:
Ger, and the footman, began a search of
the promises. In the library, adjoining
the parior, all was confusion. Mr.. Good
all's secretary had been riAed Of a, large
sum Of money, and two elegantly chased
silver goblets were gone. The buffers
pantry had been 1ransackeea, aid strong
platc.chest had been wrenched open and
the contents removed: From tine cham.
bers. up stairs jewelry: Of; great value
had been taken, and. the contents
Of the bureaus lay! scattered around.
Over the grief Of the brother and sister SO
awfuliy ,bcrcaved, a vail must, be drawn.
Information vas conveyed at once to-
Col. Smell, chief: Of police, and the prem.
Uses were subjected to a'rigid scrutiny:
Not a door or window was found 'unfas-
tened except the window forced Thy the
lootman, and the main ENTRANCE, likewise
opened by him from the. inside. Here
was startling mystery. How had the
burglars got In? How had they quilted
the house with their booty There were
no foot.marks, no. finger. marks, no clew
Of the slightest description as to who the
burglars were, their mum Der, or their
method of entering or quitting the prem
ises.. The house. just as it was found,
was !eftin charge of the police, and the
most expert detectives, after cxamin-
ing the dwelling from cellar Is roof,
admitted that they were beaten. ~
But the officers had seen man about
10 o. clock, or soon after, open the: front
door and then close it, so that there had
been one man there. at all events. The
same officer also rememD ered that as he
approached the house from Ethe Edgbas.
ton Road he met u carriage which. was
being driven rapidly away. This. was
about two minutes before he saw the man
at the door. Much Importance was not
attached to the circumstances, however,
as, the carriage Was in all proba bility the
one in which Mr.: Mathews accompanied
his sick visitor to her home. 49,
All Birmingham was thrown into con-
sternation at this dreadful and mys-
FERROUS, occurrence, Lambert, the: great
London detective, took the matter in
hand, but was apparently as unsuccessful
as the local police in discovering any clew.
The day after the murder, Mr.. Mathews
closed their house and removed temper
arily to hotel. The inquest was held,
an open verdict returned, and the body
of the murdered woman inferred. . ..
On the day of the funeral, Detective
visit to the Goodall residence, and went
over the premises for the hundredth:
time. Then Lambert FIRST heard that Mr..
Mathews and his family had quilted the
adjoining house. lie procured an en-
trance, and searched it as thoroughly as
he had Mr.. Gooda]l's residence. All the,
furniture and many articles of value had
been left behind, but everything that
was: easily portable, had evidently been
removed. The detectives searched the
closets, the attics, the roof, the cellar, in
hope OF finding some communication be.
tween the two houses, but there was
none. In the kitchen CRATE were the re-
mains of some papers which had been
burned. Lambert looked around for
for the poker to stir them WITH: but no
such. article was near. He used his
hands, and then sought. for water to
wash them. On the opposite side Of the
kitchen was party pump--that is, a.
pump that had two handles, one in
GoodaH's house and one in Matthews.
You could see from one kitchen into the
other, and when the top of the cylinder
was unscrewed and removed, there was o
hole leading from one kitchen into the
other: eig ht.or ten inches in diameter one
way and six, the other. :.,.... ..., :; -
Lambert and his associate gazed at the
hole for fully half a minute without say
ing word Then the two officers look.
ed at each other,sand simultaneously ex!
c'a a'pie 81 e., 1';oH 71u~) =
F.,"No man could get: through there
Lambert associate said. ),
.'!Irpe," was the reply, ''but a boy
Gould, and he had a boy. Let's sd up
stairs and look at sonething:"';;,:;*~ =:
,In*&.. wardrobe lin an upstairs room
was a :qpsntity: of wearing apparel: Tt