Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-09-19
TIE VICTIMS or FOLLY.
Why In They Prefer tn Do Evil-A
Mother Si"'" For Leading Dauxhr
A~'ray-1wO Wives Hauuv With
One Nan,

c'aEru philosopher ut fiction lone
"ars ago, and his utterance still re-.
mains All axiom. Had he couch, d
the idea i" the phrase If the schools
the g-"t|ema" probably would have
said that the fair sea sometimes as,
t"nnds the world by startling *.
h'hl''"hs ct unaccou'tnbl- toll,; and
did he live iii New Y"rk Cit, at ti..
present day he might give poin, to
his statement hy citing the case of
Annie Goodwin.
Indeed one hardly need look further
for \ typical Example of feminine Ut.
wisdom. Here VAS n girl, young, at.
sracti>e and blessed with loving ,-ls.
tlves and II good home. She had NJ,
excellent position ina cigarette fas.
t Try, and ear"ed tl2 a week. She
wa" admired by her iri-nds OF tn op.
pos,te sex, an'i one ut ieas, Of them
sought h'r hand i" honorable mar
rage. Apparently no one had less
excuse fur leaving the path Of decency
than ANNE Goodwin.
Yet she did it,
\ "man about town" dazzl-d her
foolish brain with smart pr. s-n,s aud
smarter talk. She {. c. ived him ut
her home, Il cozy abode over which
her married sister pr-sid-s. Sh-
weht with him to ent-rtnlptn-l.ts,m All /
one night ret armed late iuidI.d with
liquor. The sister, good, h. n.>, soul,
protested, aud warmed Annie that her
escort had other tan honorable
motives. Tie g'rl, hen, on her own
destruction, refused to listen, l- t the
house, and S. cured quarters with Il
cnmplaisant chum. For Will. after
that tho Una" ahout town" had ever,
thing his own way. One day Annie
found that she WAS destined t, become
IN thrr. She begged her h-t'ayer
to marry her He laughed, declined
the honor, lit cigarette, and walked
away.
10 hide her shame the girl took
apartment, with strangers, and nd
x f.r n. ,ious ola man name d DR..
McGon-pal submitted t. criminal
operation. n bill. sick in bet sic
WAS orde'e from thu premises by her
suspicious landlady, aud the doctor"
conveyed her TO the filthy quarters OF
n disease Scared frmal- who was his
TOOL. There Annie Goodwin died.
alone, nn,riended, suffering unsp-Ak
abb. torture The doctor wrapped
qnilu about her tender and mangIrd
form, dumped i, int his buggy, OBJ.
t.inei 4 false burial certificate ari
,he services of All undertaken, and hid
the corpse in all unmarked gray. in
AZ obscure cemetery. Both crime and
Wet IN he t.ngh' We're concealed
u"t,i the Judgment day. but an acci
d-nt brought the horrible affair 10
light, and placed tn whole crew of
principals and acconpl'crs in the
hands Of the police.
1t would not he fair tn class Mrs.
Emily Hall a> 'fo"lish" in the sam~
s~nse that Annie Goodwin was, for it
the reports are true Mrs. Halls folly
was of the hehherat'y wicked kind,
and AFFECTED t,os- who ought to have
r-c.ived her t interest car"-nrr
daughters. When her husband. Hen ~
Hall, shot her dead at Council Bluffs,
Iowa, the other day 1t WAS grn"raIly
conceded that the man committed the
murder while insane regarding the
disgrace Of his family. Several
mouths ago Hall unavallinglv sought
legal aid tn get the children VIII"
were still at home awav from t'"i
mother, desiring, he said, t, place
them where they might be surrounded
nv good i, fnenc-s. tie asser'e ! that
his wife ha6 ruined the Other girls,
and was pursuing tho same course
with the two Youngest. he''g |" tn"
habi, OF taking them With her to
,l.c. on the .knw.' The "e'g''h'rs
t Id how Hall used t. G" with whip
aud drive hi- girl Emma home from
the house of il'.r-put- where she re
sort~d. After he got her home he d'd
moth ng MI re tina" reprlmand Ter.
but Mr.. Hall took the girls side, ana
said she should do as she pleased.
A desperate expedirnt. wasn't it
slaying his wife that his daughters
might be saved from disgrace?
Here is another instance OF folly q
still another sort. The Other day
detectives arrested w. q. Elliot at a
hotel in San Francisco at the request
of the Oregon authorities The
prisoner asked the ,fli"rr- t. step
IN stairs so that he could notify his
wives Of his arrest. The word "w'N's
surp,is, d the detect, YES. who inquire"
if he was a hignmi-t, bur he assured
them that one # the wo'n-n was his
divorced wife AID the other was t"-
one to whom b is married ~ r'"sr"'
u, k:vv, r,.hnn no LETT or