The Osceola times., 1882-09-30
"REMINISCENCES OF KATE STODDARD.
The Freaks of the Yelled Murderess Of
the Hon. W. W. Goodrich's Brother.
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"Orall the criminals | ever met" said
Superintendent of Police Campbell, Of
Brooklyn, 81 must say that Elizabeth
Lloyd King, alias Kate Stoddard, the
murderess of Charles Goodrich, was the
smartest. After Goodrich was found
murdered in the house in Deeraw street
there was lsng and tedious search for
his murderess, for We had a clue that n
woman had killed him, and you remem-
Der that Kate Stoddard was finally cap
turcd by female detective. | talked at
intervals for two days with the prisoner,
found her bright and intelligently acute,
and in all other conversations she never
told me a falsehood.'
"She wore a big locket around her
neck, which at first thought might be
Goodrich's watch, which was missing,
and | asked her to let me see it, OH
she said 4 can't But you must | said,
and snatched it away.
Don't open it, she exclaimed, Don't
| open it, But ! did open il and some fine
dust fell ont of it. ] inquired what twas,
and she told me il was some of her vie
/ TINS blood. She said she filled it with
/ Goodrich's blood after she shot him, and
allowed it to dry into cake, bit of
which she had eaten every day. We
took from her clipping from a
newspaper, which related how society
of Frcnchmen dried the blood of mem
/ bers who had died believing that by eat
I ing il the spirit of the dead would pass
/ into the living. She had eaten the last
substantial bit of the blood Just before
| her arrest. In II little book entitled
What ! Know About the Goodrich
| Tragedy which she wrote before her
/ talk with me, she denied the murder
/ She would not tell me where she went to
/ live after the murder, but she said: III
YOU find my room you will find there in
/ my trunk Goodrichs watch and pistol
and package of earth
"'What did YOU want the earth lor" "
asked
ooh she said Il loved the very ground
that he walked on, and so ] dug up some
Of it TO keep
"We found her home, which was in q
room in High street, by sending to every
house in Brooklyn and asking if any
young woman belonging to the house on
having room there had been missing
for two DAYS, for then we had had her foi
that length of time, and it was not pub
licly known that we had arrested her
When found her room | discovered
that she had determined to make herself
comfortable. She had hired piano
purchased music, and she used TO play
and sing to divert her thoughts. She al
so had book upon insanity, which she
had evidently been studying, and upon
one page, describing the case of woman
afflicted with mania, she had iottcd down
the words, My case exactly The de
scription was that of Il woman with {
Roman nose, blue eyes, and light hair
her own general description. She reaC
all Of the newspapers while we were
searching for her and when she wen
out she was always doubly veiled. She
told me that she saw that we had gooC
description Of her and so one day she
took a walk through the crowded street'
to see if women with Roman noses, blue
eyes and light hair were uncommon, anC
she said that she found scores of them
Then She took of one Of her wells. A
length she read in 4 newspaper that the
police had given the case up and she be
came bolder, and SO we caught her. tn,
day that Goodrich was buried, she said
she stood AT the foot of the stoop, and The
policeman who was pushing the crowC
back pushed her also. At that very
moment every member of the police fore,
was supposed to be on the lookout fo
her. She stood by the hcarse door a
the coffin was put inside. 4 few days be
fore she was arrested she was 50 conf
dent of safety that she paraded with {
Bible class from Bcccher's Sunday school
in full view of a score Of policemen. The
dav she was arrested Mary Handley, The
female detective, who was employed tC
search for her because she knew her, go
SO for expenses from the department
and started for New York. Just as sht
was about to enter the Fulton ferry hous,
she missed s. of the money, which sh,
either lost or had stolen from her Sh,
went back to look for it, and suddenl,
came face to face with the murderes
that we had been over six months look
ing for all over the country.
"Kate Stoddard came from respect
able family of Newburyport, Mass. Thcl
gave her a good education and felt easy
about letting her seek her own way il
the world. because she had been reare,
in religious home. She, however, ha'
periodical fits of insanity, and although
usually in possession of all her faculties
she escaped trial for murder, and wa
sent TO the State Convict asylum for tn
insane"