Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-07-23
CRIME IN NEW YORK
A HORRIBLE ROMANCE OF LOVE, SIN AND
DEATH.
Pretty Annie Goodwin Tortured % Death in Cold
Blood By Herds in Human Form-The
M1rierers Under ArreSl-Hef
Lover Among Them.

Important case. Hurry him up, was the
message that was telegraphed from the
Harlem police station at ten o'clock this
morning 10 police headquarters. y hurry
message was sent 10 the nearest coroner 5
home, but when he reached Harlem he had
to look in vain for job. Although there
appears TO be no room for doubt that mur
der was committed. there IS no corpse 10
prove il. The body of the dead girl has
been spirited away 50 successfully that the
police have not been able 10 get the least
trace Of it, II was by the sheerest accident
that the police learned Of this
alleged murder ten days after it had been
committed and the evidence Of it removed
by the conspirators. The story told by the
police is briefly as follows: Annie Good
win, a cigarette girl employed in Halls
factory, shown by her picture to have been
of rare beauty, was tortured TO death by
abortionsts within two weeks in successive
dens in Harlem. Her lover paid for the
killing of her, and Il medical practitioner
was hired TO do the job. When II was
done the doctor Of 20 years
CARRIED THE BODY OF HIS VICTIM
down four flights of stairs at the dead of
night and took il away in his carriage
where nobody knows. The doctoris Henry
G.. McGonigal. OF 2l1 West l23d street, and
about town who lives at % West l20th
street. Besides these Fannie Shaw. the
old woman in whose rooms at l01 East
lO5th street the girl is alleged 10 have
died. is under arrest. She claims 10 be a,
washerwomau. There are likewise wit
nesscs to the girls death detained \ boy
who held the door open for the doctor as nc
carried the dead girl out To his vehicle is
one The doctors record is against
him. He has been over and
over again arrested for malpractice,
but has always escaped punishment. The
lover in the case confcsscs that he put up
for the girl, but claims 10 know nothing Of
the abortion. Friday last person whose
identity the police will not reveal over
heard i'm an elevated train part Of a cOnyer-
sation between two passengers He gath
cred that Annie Goodwin had disappeared
from her home, that she had been I'm
trouble and that an operation had been
performed. This person informed Detec-
tive Price Of what he had overheard on
reaching Harlem. The police at once sus-
pccted old McGonigal II was only early
to-day that they began 10 sec tho end OF IL,
when the One Hundred and TWcntysXth
street police station held the persons men
toned above.
COLD HOODED MURDER
At noon the police proved their supcions
correct The ciew that had been turned
up in the Bureau Of Vital Statistics follow
Cd 70 the end discovered the fact that Annie
had been buried in St Michacrs Gene
terry, Jersey City. under the name of Jane
Wilson. aged % years. Her home was
given as al 22g East One Hundred and
Eighth street Another horror was added
t0 the story by the discovery that the GER
. I'D QnulfII and fnp
burial permit made out ON the day previous
10 July n. The girl died on July T.. At
the Harlem police court Judge Power held
the Doctor i'm $1,000 bail and nc was locked
up for examination on Friday Gus Har-
rison was held in $500 and Sadie I.apham
in 500 McGouical is the patentcc of the
McGonigal wood pavement and steam
sand sitter.
THE PRISONERS ELLp.
At l2Gth street police station the follow
ing prisoners are held charged with homi-
eide: Gus Harrison, 81 years, y West
l20th street. gentleman Of leisure, DR.
Henry c. McGonigal, 20 years, 2l' West
l23d street: Fannie Shaw. washerwoman,
III East l05th street. These witnesses
were also detained: Sadie Trappagan
pretty girl 225 East l2Gth street; Jose Me
Creadv. Of l6l East One Hundred and Fif-
bow who lives with the prisoner, Fannie
Shaw Each of the six had admitted more
or less of what he or she knew Of the affair,
except DR. McDongal. who knew too
much 10 talk He denied everything. The
Doctor has a hOary old gray beard. with "a
slight frame and sharp twinkling eyes.
Mrs Shaw is q repulsivc looking woman
and by her own confession worked cheap.
The Doctor paid her so for the job, in IN
stalments The diamond earrings. gold
watch. and other ieweliy Of the victim
which she wore when she entered her
den. have, however, yet 20 be accounted |
for
HER LOVER wA~ RICH
at all events. as he had money 10 spend on
the girl He is said by the police 10 be- /
well connected in Harlem. For the rest he .
is rather scrawuy specimen of humanity .
as seen in the police station this morning, /
far from the sort of man one would eX- ]
pect to lead astray girl like Annie Good |
win. If the picture of the young woman .
does not lie and the police /
say that on the contrary every /
body SAYS that IL does not /
do her justice-she must have been very .
beautiful The face is sweet and crowned I
by raven curls, the figure perfect, her dress
simple, but tasteful Very little more Is
known about Annie's past than about her !
present but the detectives hope soon 10
throw light both ways on her career. II .
was known for certain only that she worked
in Halls cigarette factory and lived with
her sister in Harlem when young Harrison
crossed her path. ThencciOrth their paths
were one.