The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-17

rect they were in their belief. The reasons for
the detectives first suspecting that the awful
crime first committed at No. II La
grange street. have already been given
In the columnseof the Globe, but brief resume ia
necessary Parties living No. 81 Lagrange
street had seen old trunk on the shed adioinino
the house bearing the above number, and they were
positive that it answered to tho description of the
one in which the murdered woman was found
They also learned that party residing in that house
had told physician that they had dead body in the
house. would seem now that at least one of these
singular circumstances may work the discovery of
the crime this fact shows that while the first in
formation given, was, in the main, wrong it led
directly up TO the end which was reached last
night Residing at No. II Lagrange street professedv
as a spiritnalstic medium but really as an abor-
ZIONIST. at the time of the death Of the
victim Of the trunk tragedy. was a Mrs.
Caroline G. Goodrich. whose sign an
she, past events have shown. was connected In a
business way with certain DIR. Daniel f. KimbalI,
formerly of No. 266 fremont street While the de-
tectives were work with the belief that party
other than Mrs. Goodrich the guilty one q GER
tain nurse living in Somerville whom the detectives
designate as Mrs. Smith in order that the identity
may remain a secret, called upon Mrs. Goodrich,
and. as was learned very shortly after. demanded
The detectives learned that this Mrs. Smith was
demanding payment of 5000 knowing that Mrs
Goodrich practised abortion and that DR. Kimball
frequently with her, new light seemed break
ing upon the The bare results are all that the
detectives will make known now. and in addition
to those given above are the following facts
1t would seem as if tho Doctor and
Mrs. Goodrich had feared that they were
being watched by the detectives. for they
went to the house of DR. S. L. Simonds at Brantree
where Mrs. Goodrich has been sick. 1t was from
there that they taken last night and now in
the City Hall they may ruminate upon the dreadful
crime which they have committed. When Mr.. A. n.
Adams was arrested last night he remarked to tho
officers at is lucky You just as you did, for
you would not have found Inc in half hour more"
The officer asked at once what he meant. and then
as il understanding that he had committed himself,
he replied evasivey :-"Because then should have
been sound asleep that you could not have awak-
ened me-.
JENNIE cIARKE's LAST HOME
From all the various stories now given out by the
authorities and the parties who know the inside
history of the murder and the mutilaton of
Jennie Clarke. the following may be taken
as the correct one:-For several weeks prior
to her disappearance Jennie had been only trfe
Respondent at times and Mrs. Adams states gave
no sign that she was in such deep affection What
her feelings must have been when, she was
making up her mind to have the opera
ton. which finally resulted in her death.
performed no one can say imagine. Perhaps
that his name might be saved from dishonor; per-
haps DESTROYS of 50 doing in order to conceal her
before the 18th of February she spoke of her
desire to visit her uncle, in Milton. Mrs. Adams
made no objection to her being absent from the
house. and on February IL she left the house. taking
with her not even change of clothes,
and only such things could be
put in small paper bundle. She rode
in horse from her home to the corner OF Wash
ington Kneeland streets, where she aghted and
directly to No. 81 Lagrange street. where the
rangements had already been madefor Mrs. Goodrich
to perform the operation upon her. In this house she
met the two people who were to perform that opera
ton which was to result in her DEATH and what she
may have said while there but
her murderers know Arrangements had been
woman in Somerville. who followed the
vocation of nurse, and also practised baby farming
The operation was performed in the early hours of
the evening. and at halfpast nine on the following
day she left the house. walked to fremont street.
and from there rode in the horse to the
house wherein she died. The who received
her is said to have preserved fairly good name in
the vicinity where she lived, and very few knew
that she baby farmer. When Jennie arrived
at the house she was suffering from severe cold
taken the night previous and it was not long before
the result OF the operation performed on Lagrange
street began to be apparent.
DYING.
She was tsken sick at once and during her illness,
which lasted from the 14th to the 25th Of February
she never rallied for few hours
nurse told her that the poor girl would
die. at least two days before the death did really
occur, and she was naturally alarmed She sent
and toward the last Dr. Kimbal was
there very frequently. No physician could
be discovered. And with other attendance than
that afforded by the nurse and the protested DOCTOR
whose only knowledge of medicine consisted in the
smattering of magnetic treatment, the poor girl
breathcd her last.
WHAT SHE SAID.
During her illness her sufferings ut times
most intense. She said many things which will
appear at the trial. The most important her
who had compassed her death that she had
been thus brought to shameful end. Until she
made the acquaintance and learned to love Allen N
Adams she had been pure, virtuous woman.
From her acquaintance with him began
her downfall, which resulted in the hor-
riblo knowledge that she was about to
become q mother. Prior to this she had been
regular attendant at the Warren Street Methodist
Church. where she had many friends but init
mates. For nearly twoy she had been intimate
terms with Adams. ana moro than once had she been
tempted to tell Of her fall to Mrs. Charles $. Taber
a neighbor Of the family with whom she lived. She
did confess portion Of her troubles to her mother
and promised her that she would do differently in
the future. 1t was Adams who proposed to her
that she have an operation performed.
and he told her that he knew of q
party whom he had formerly worked for
who would help them. Adams went to DR.. j.
l.. S1monds at No. Il Lagrange street, and was d.
rected by him to Mrs. Goodrich. She consented to
perform the operation for certain amount of
money, and then introduced DIR. Kimball into
the case. The story which told by
the poor girl few hours before her death. and
when she knew that she could not live must be
ken as he n. IN not he no