Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-12-27
TEE DEAF MUTE TRAGEDY.
Finding Of the ssoay OF The Victim
Verdict of the to-o1scrss .suTy-4ilg-
hams Threats Against Goodwin.

special from Raleigh. :. C., says: Friday
afternoon the body OF Miss LINE T. burlington
was found In sight OF Carey. n.3e miles from this
city and over three mile this side OF N0r1SVite.
The body was regularly laid cut by her murderer,
Naltrc = Biaghtm. in piece OF woods equi-
distant between the Raleigh and Augusta and the
North ear. I'm. railroads and in 400 Yards OF the
road FROM Raleigh 10 Morrisville. negro found
it. its presence being revealed oy buzzaTds- There
were marks OF a struggle. Miss TuTlingtOn'S hat
AM sateheI were found on One side OF the little
road. ON the other side Of the road was pool OF
blood, and down the hill in n rayine seyenty-five
yards further on. her body lay as neatly disposed
Of as II by undertaken. Tier hands were placed
across her breast. BlHZardS had eaten out her
eyes and tongue. The rest 81 the body was Just
In life save the forehead was purple with bruises
In the side OF the head back OF and above the ear.
was "a bullet hole In which portion OF the brain
was visible. Beside her lay her mUff. on her
hands were four rings one OF which was her EN-
gdgement ring, given her by Bingham. The scene
was horrible.
KILLED HER
The story OF Binghans horrible crime was re-
vealed to the Imagination. He had driven up an
obscure road to the scene OF the crime and had
pulled the girl out OF the buggy: she had tried TO
escape; he had shot her and then dragged her
body 10 the place where it lay. Afterwards he
had driven to Morrfsvflle by the road along which
he had first gone with her, and so on TO Durham.
After the body had been viewed at the place
where 1t was found near Carey. the coroner gave
home at Wilmington. where it arrived early sat
Uriay morning. IL was found that the pistol
bullet, which had entered at the back of the left
ear, had passed entirely through the head The
hand bag OF the dead girl was examined by the
coroner. In it were found her gold watch and
chain, pOcketboOk and scissors. ON the girls
person was locket and chain. Her four finger
rings were removed by her brothers.
THE INQUEST.
Saturday the coroner's jury met here. Frank
Marsh, the old negro who found the body OF the
murdered girl testified TO the facts in relation
10 that matter. Some other witnesses were eX-
amined- The jury found as verdict that Lizzie Il.
TuriingfOn'S death was caused by a pistol wound
In the head, inflicted by Walter l. Bingham, De-
cernber II.
Frank Marsh, the finder OF the body, was paid
to-day the 500 reward offered by the, trustees OF
the Institution OF which the dead girl was matrOn
The brothers OF Miss burlington also rewarded
him.
The sad feature of this horrible affair is that
Bingham'S mother, to whom her sons crime has
Only recently been communicated. Is in feeble
health, and 1t is feared that the shock of the dis
cOvery of the body will prove a fatal blow 20 her.
The mother OF Miss burlington IS Il sufferer from
heart disease, and her sons say they do not think
she survive such a shock, which has We'll nigh
unbalanced her mimi.
PROF. GOODWIN THREATENED.
To-day Charles Il. Goodwin, of this city, re-
Ceiyed letter from his brother. Edward Mckee
Goodwin, who Is professor at the Deaf, Dumb
ami Blind institution AZ Council Bluffs, iowa, and
Is the man whom Walter Bingham imagined was
his rival Goodwin, in his letter, Acknowledges re-
cttpt OF his brot hers telegram warning him that
Bingham had made threats against his life he
says ne does not 3ppTehend any danger OF Bng-
hams reaching Council Bluffs. but feels that
II h. had bseH IN tiJ institution at Raleigh BnC-
ham would nave killed him II he could He 1ur-
Their says: The great mystery TO me is that Bng-
ham wanted 10 Kill iile. / suppose he considered
me his rival, but he was a fool 10 think so. /
never tricti with her affections in the least. In
postscript 10 this letter Goodwin says: ''Since
wrote the above / received a telegram from st.
had al ri Y
on his Way to Council Bluffs TO kill me. II seems
a though he means business II he * not arrested
before he will be nabbed when he gets here
Tomorrow. VIII be prepared for him ii he gets
To the institution here