The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-11-03
An Old Murder Recalled.


ives who had the insight into characinr,
the keen intuition that the chief pos
sesses, there would be some work d lone
that would astonsh folks"
This remark was made by promiu-
ent Brooklyn official, who was not aware
he was addressing a reporter of lac
World.
detective work in Brooklyn is below
that of other cities, is it not?n the re-
porter asked.
well detectives are born and cau-
not he recruited from police rank. '
was the answer. policemen as Il rule
are not logical, They have little intel
lectual dlrectness, except perhaps in the
use of the club. A detective must not
only be able to see a point, but to hold
on to it through all manner of compli-
cations and the inevitable side issues
which are so fatal to detective work.
Policeman as rule are as garrulous rs
old women over their tea. There are
notable exceptions, of course but it is
| lamentably true that these exceptions
are rarely promoted. But to return to
L
got at the facts of the Goodrich murder.
1T seemed next to impossible to oh.
tain the proofs of her guilt, and the
chief was at his wits ends. To COM
plicate or rather aggravate the case still
more, the woman confessed to him IN
confidence that she committed the MUIR
der She said:
~ did it chief, and know you will
not give me away, but if YOU should
think proper to do SO, my oath will be
worth as much as yours You will
swear told you, and l will swear |
did Mt.
Every endeavor to discover kate'S
local habitation failed. 1t seemed an
excellent joke to this strange wo-
man that she could tell the story Of her
crime to the superintendent of police
and not have it of any value to him as
evidence.
If send for you, she said her eX-
pressive eyes dancing with fun, lit will
not be necessary to communicate my
address, for you will not know where to
find me,
The chief had her in the station-house
at this time.
Yes, Kate, he said kindly, 4 shall |
know where to find YOU, and | promise
to come as soon as Won send.
Then calling him back. she said: II
have told you the truth. killed Char
lie Goodrich, and when You find where
live you will find trunk in my room
and in that trunk is the pistol that |
killed him with, watch and a ring be-
longing to Charlie Goodrich. Besides
these there is at leasl 4 pailful of dirt
in the trunk.
Dirt" said the chief Why, what
in the world did you put dirt in your
trunk for?'
Because | loved the very ground
that Charlie Goodrich walked on. was
The very singular response.
After | had killed him, chief" and
most all the defiance and fun faded
rom the wOman's face, II went out !
where had seen him walk hundreds OF
lines and shovelled up the dirt and put
t 10 my trunk. -
The chief, who felt himself respon.
>ible for the apprehension of the muir,
ierer, was still Oft the track. At last
bold thought struck him, The exhaust,
i've and eNhausting talks he had with
Kate demonstrated that Kate had a
room, and that the room was in Brook
lyn. So he issued an order that inquiry
should be made at every house in the
city TO discover if any woman had been
absent from her home for the length
If time that Kate had been a pris.
lncr
Three hundred women, including ser
'ant girls who had left their places, had
1een absent for the time stated. Then
he three hundred were sifted until it
yas found that only four had been mys.
eriou'ly absent during this period
Kate was one of the four, and in this
yay was hunted down. In her room
Has found the trunk and in this trunk
he articles she had mentioned, dirt and
all.
From first to last Kate Stooddard had
never told the chief e.--NeD YQrS
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