Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-08-31
AN lNHUMAN MAN
Gets Twenty Years for Assauiting His
Own Daughtcr-Time Of Con-

Own Daughter-Time of Com
ventson Changed, Etc.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispaicn.l
WARRENToS, August %, 1889.
The trial of Richard |. Gooding for
criminally assaulting his daughter. Dorah
Gooding, on June 8th and July I'd, was
concluded to-day. After an absence Of
about an hour the jury returned and
handed in a verdict of guilty, fixing the
penalty at twenty years in the peniten-
tiary. Never in the history of this
county has a crime OF such revolving
and brutal nature occurred, nor one that
appeared so disgusting TO the senslblli-
ties Of civilized mankind.
The defence put up great many wit
nesses to testify to the character OF
Go0ding. which appeared to have been
UP TO that time very good.
Ia his closing argument the attorney
for the defence attempted TO prove tenn
porary lunacy of the father, caused by
his brooding too much over the alleged
wrong done his daughter by her lover
James. However, he did not succeed IN
doing this to the satisfaction of the Jury,
as is shown by their verdict Goodlng
is q small man with q red beard, about
thirty-six years OF age, and does not look
the brute that lie is During the trial
he wept copiously and protested his IN
nocence. When he heard his fate he
looked brighter than he had done during
the whole course Of the trial, and, II one
may Judge from the expression OF hs
face, thought that he had gotten oil re
markably well and was content that he
had escaped the death penalty, which
most people thought he deserved.
The girl, Dorah Gooding, Is seventeen
wears of age and not bad looking, taking
into consideration her station IN lie.
During the time she was teStiiylng
against the life Of her father she APP
peared perfectly calm and did not
once weep, displaying no feeling what
ever. except when she got mad because
she was asked a question over AGAIN
when she had answered 1t once. Inc
wife of Cooling and mother of the g1rl
had been dead for about SIX months, and
since her death the family had lived
peacefully together, he being hard
working man and All industrious one,
but sometimes in the habit OF drinking
too much.
This case has excited great interest IN
the county, and when it first came to the
knowledge of the people it was thought
that violence might possibly be resorted
TO.
Mr.. ]. Stevens Mason has announced
himself as n candidate for the nOmlna-
ton on the Democratic ticket for either
the Senate or House of Delegates, and
says that he is prepared to make an &C
tive campaign.
The ioint convention which was to
have taken place on September 9TH Tor
the purpose of nominating a senator and
fioatcr for the counties of Fauquier and
Loudoun has been changed to the l4th.
There will be temperance bush
meeting at Rectortown, III the upper
par. of this county, Oh the 10th, 18th,
and 18th of this month.
Invitations are out for the marriage
of Mr.. Thomas Forbes, recently of this
place but now residing i'll Admission,
Ala. and Miss Shepard, daughter of
Colonel A. X. Shepard, of that place.
a sugar mandatory has been es-
tablished Mt Morrisyille for the purpose
OF manufacturing sugar from sorghum,
and it is hoped and believed that 1t will
be q success, Notwithstanding the unusu
ally poor crop of sorghum in this Sec
ton of the county.
The house recently occupied by Bro
die the tailor, in this place, was sold on
Monday last to Theodore kreisel, OF
Warrenton.
Miss Gaines gives a large reception to
her guest, Miss Baselba, this evening
from 5 to o'clock.