New-York tribune., 1886-01-31
MURDER IN MULBERRY-ST.
A WOMAN SHOT AND INSTANTLY KILLED
TIE MURDERER A KEEPER on BLACKwELEs
ANn.- AEEEsIED At Ills nNME.

TIE MURDERER KEEPER on BLACKWELL
ISLAND-AEREsTEO AT HIS HOME.
The four-stOry tenement house No. l4O
Muberryst has been tho scene OF 20 many hghtS ana
arrests for disordory conduct that IL is known In 'ne
neehborhood as the :" house OF biazes" pisto-shot
was heard there at yesterday and the police ios'
no tmo in getting TO the place. PatrOman Hunter oil
the Fourteenth Precinct. who the hrst 10
arrive, found tho dead bOly OF Ellen flpoS'
age twcuy-six, lying in the lower hallway She hau
been killed by bullet OF large calibrc, whch hau
entered her left breast and gone nearly through her
heart. IL WAS asceralned from other inmates tn@t shc
had heen killed by q man who had been known as Il
keeper .~~ 1ackwclrs Island. As one OF the woman :
lovers he had angry on account OF LcF atJeh
tons to another and killed her III III OF jealousy
After shooting her in the hallway he ran away
The murdered woman was we'll known Othc pohceaS
NJ had character When little than girl she left
4be home of her father hard-wOrZing briekayer, to
lead life OF dissipation in dsraputa1e resorts in the
Sixth ward At tho age OF nineteen she was molLeF'
For time she lyed with Michael DurkIn printer VINO
was the repued Of her child but he deserted her
Four years ago she appeared in police court as Wit
ness aust Mrs Terney. proprietress of disordery
mousse in PaTE-st, and her testimony
helped to send Mrs Terney TO prison
Ellrn FGbs sent TO the wOrkhOusc on Blackwels
Island several afterward for drunkenness or dis
orderly conduct the street Justice Murray sentenced
her to the Island for six months last fall but she dd
not serve the full ienn On January she appeared a'
her fathers the secOhd floor OF the tenement
house No 40 Mulberry st, accompanied by man
whom she introduced Frederick GoeOierd Keeper III
the workhousc She said that Gocbterd had smugsled
her out wokhouse. and hat brought her to the
city in the smallpox boat GOebferd went
SEQ her frequently aferward whilo She stayed with
herfamily. His visits usually wero made in tho even
ings Elen's father objected TO her presence IN the
rooms Oh OF his other children ana week ago
she moved across the hal 10 rooms which were occur
by Thomas Barns his wire and young woman named
Mary Sullivan. In those rooms EAeu was visited by
Goebierd and by other She was absent from the
rooms about O'Clock on Friday Night when Uoeo-
ferd went there and he decided TO wait Tor her
return He drank beer in company with the Burns
family until he lry milnight when Ellen returned
After chat more sent for and until after H. H.
frequent calls made on neighOoring " bucket
shop" Frank Golden. who also was lover OF Ellen
FIbbS was the rooms, and she showed some paruay
for his society. Goebferd enraged at her conduct
but when lie was ready to leave the house
ho embraced and kissed her with APP
narcnt affection At his request she
followed HIN down stairs to the front door Mrs Burn
heard Ellen call To her from below: "Mimc! Mamie
Come down here :" moment later the ps;oslot rang
through the house.
The police TOOK the wOman's body to the Mulberry
Street Police station. Burns, his wife and Mary sullivan
were detained as Witnesses GOldcnwho was said 20 have
been upstairs a time Of the shooting had disappeared
Alarms the OF GOcbieTd were sent out TO an
Precinct lost much mc procuring information about
the man. nearly o'clock before they learned
in he tenement house no. 10 East Fourth st. when
they coi 10 that house thcy learned that GocheId hal
been there after The shooting, had talked with ms vie
and had gone away II WAS learned th4l NOtUltld was
appointed a keeper IN the workhousc iu1lay lsS3 us
vile was not aware that he had been visiting the F'0bs
woman recently. He ett the workhonSe at p. M on
Al that hour ne rolling abont the floor tearing
his hair ana confessing to his wife The wrong wch nc
had done. Taking what feluy IL, in'ntS ny, tV,o ,95Io
was in the house, he went away III good time
20 Black Island in pursuit Of him before they a7cer
taiued he lived Telephone wires connect thee
tie Department Of Charities and Correction al Ihiri,
ave. and Eleventhst, ana ho offices ere kept open az
night Men at the latter Office could nave tuf'l-hti
Coeberds address before nc left his home In Folrthst
xyrre rewarded for their pains Gocbferd returned At
that hour still muddled with beer, ana was arrested III
on Blackwel's Island are permitted to carry.
GOcbferi does not have the pped rance OF rZuian' Z
His regular German features ore suggestive OF lemne
ment and lie is well built and young iookpg Ior % a i ~
OF thirtyye He denIed that he mas visited lieu f'Ds %
as frequently as had been stated oy the i
wrote TO him, he said, inviting him to Vis her on fi-
Day night A. her qsest ire reaSss' we T & beer in the
house that she had stolen larger sum rom lS po t.
the hallway abOu' the money, demanding us return. M
hallway was dark and he was not aware oi te @ @ i
nose That blow bewdered him, hesad and ne drew us
revolver his pocket defend himself In Ms e1
cement he Ellen Fbbs by accident There was no
mark of a bow Goeberts nose and his story
not believed hy the police. MS wire sao @ tnHt nc
had been away from home frequently IN tGe evenings
of duty and that lie returned nome uIullh
and duarrelSo 10 beat her and the children
Thomas Fibbs. brother OF the murdered woman, was
arrested about "a week in company with tOhr otheI
Young men, a charge OF rObbmg the Manhattan Spohg
ing Compiny's rDOms, at Centre ana Howard SIS lie was
identified with the having had mana III the
burglary and ne Is now in the TOmbs awaiting tIlaL ~
Coroner MESSENGER made an autopsy on the DOdy. ne
bullet he found first passed through the muscles 0f the
left arm then through the upper lobe OF the lei
lung Ii severed the main artery over the heart ana
passed through the lower lobe OF the right lung
GeOferd was arragned in the afternoon before Judge
Reilly ar the TOmbs He listened IN dogCed silence 10
the evidence of Mrs. Burns, Thomas Burns MARY sum
van aud the policemen. When asked what state
ment be had to make, II any, ~ nc
said that after the spree mp stairs he went down into tho
hallway and found that he had been robbed OF ms
money. He then called Ellen Fibbs down stairs ana ic
cused OF the theft She called him llr ana al the
moment young man steIPed forward anu anu
struck him in the nose. knocking nm down
and fearing that his life in danger he pulled out III.
pistol and fired a shot and then went home lie sara
that he born IN Germany and had been ior three
wears a keeper BlackwelFs Island II was
afterward stated by Mrs. Burns that Whlie
In her in the early part Of the evening he had pro
duccd which he said would not go on AS be
had tried the bullets being battered, would not
explode When arrested the pistol was found WITH al
the chambers full The prisoner had stated TO the OcI
that when he went home In the morning ne hle9 lne
chambers lie also stated that lie had been robbed OF 800
but when searched at the station house S36 were Ioo
I'm bills in q pOcketbOOk In his possession lie was
committed without bail for examination today ana tht
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