Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-07-22
A Beautiful New York Girl Muir
dered.
ENGLAND'S GRENADIERS GONE.
Railroad Accident in Colorado and
Many Hurt.
THE DAYS NEWS OVER THE WIRES
A MYSTERIOUS CRIME.
New York Has One of Her Old Fash.
ioned Sensations.

New YORK, July 22.-'Send q coroner. i'm
portant case. Hurry him up" was the message
that was telegraphed from the Harlem police sta
ton at 8 O'Clock this morning to police head
quarters. hurried message was sent to the
nearest coroner's home, but when he reached
Harlem he had to look in vain for a job. Al
though there appears to be no room
LOT doubt that murder was committed there Is
no corpse to prove it. The body of the dead
girl has been spirited away successfully that
the police have not been able to get the least
trace OF 1t. 1t was by the sheerest accident
that the police learned of this alleged muir
der ten days after it had been COM
mltted and the evidence of it removed
by the the conspirators. The story told
Annie Goodwin, cigarette girl employed in
halIS factory, shown by her picture to have
peen OF rare beauty, was tortured TO death by
abortionlsts within two weeks IN successive
dens IN Harlem. Her lover paid for the killing
OF her and medical practitioner was hired 10
do the job. When it was done. the doctor,
aged over seventy years, carried the body OF
his victim down four flights OF stairs at the
dead of night. and took it away in
hls carriage, where nobody knows. The doctor
is Henry q. McGonigal OF 2l7 west l23d street:
the lover Gus Harrison, a young man about
town, who lives al % west l2Oth street. BE-
SIDES these, Fanny Shaw, the old woman in
whose rooms at l07 east l05th street the girl is
alleged TO have died, ls under arrest She
claims to be washerwoman. There are like
wise witnesses to the girls death detained A
boy who held the door open for the
doctor as he carried the dead girl out to his
vehicle is one. The doctors record is against
him. He has over and over again been ar
rested for malpractice, but has always es-
capped punishment The lover in the case
confesses that he put up for the girl.
but claims to know nothing of the abortion.
Friday last person whose identity the police
will not reveal overheard in an elevated
train part of conversation between two pas
sengers. He gathered that Annie Goodwin had
disappeared from her home, that she had been
I'm trouble" and that operation had been
performed. This person Informed Detective
prlce OF what he had overheard on reaching
Harlem. The police at once suspected old
McGonigsl 1t was only early today that they
began to see the end of it, when
the i26th street police station held the follow
ing prisoners, charged with homicide: Gus
HARRISON twenty-six years old, gentleman of
leisure: DIR. McGonigal and Fanny Shaw. The
witnesses detailed are: Sadie Taphagen of
2Z7 east l26th street; Joseph Z. McCready of
l6l east ll5th street and Albert Harrison, a
boy who lives with the prisoner Fanny shaw.
This woman received for her share in the work
&l0 in installments from DIR. McGonigai The
diamond ear rings, gold watch and other
1ewelry OF the victim which she wore when she
entered the den, have yet to be accounted for
The lover rs said to be very well connected in
Harlem.