Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-02

AS SEEN A SECOND TIME THROUGH
RICHMOND speCTACLES.
Colonel Shepard Pays His Respects to
Preston Beivin-A Page Of tho
Annie Goodwin Case.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispstcn.I
NEW York. July Is, 1890.


returned to the city and found every
thing as when left five days ago. NO
thing had gotten away during my absence
ut which / felt relieved. always get the
impression when visiting New YORK that
these madly-hurrying crowds when are
forever thronging the streets are transient
in character. and are not regular. every
day feature of the town. ] cannot under
stand how people can settle down" IN
place and vet keep up such continuai
hurry-skurry and helter-skelter every uay
and every hour in the day. IL is strange,
too, that should get this impression, for
the town-the buildings | mean-iookss
Just as II IL grew here naturally. All OF
these miles upon miles of stores ana
dwellings look to me Just as spontaneous
products Of the soil a. the real ones when
are served up 10 YOU for dinner every uay.
Particularly is this true of the endless
rows of brownstone tenements which
stand on the cross-strests between the
Bowery and Harlem. Every house IS fdc
simHe ofthe others, all their hard brown
stone fronts abutting almost upon the side
walks. and efecting an unbroken juno,
ton with the slab-paved walkways and
Belgian streets, Just a. | said. as II tney,
grew there. Not speck of front yard,
not a blade Of grass TO be seen. Ground
here IL evidently too valuable 10 be wasted
in erass-plots. Every square inch Id
utilized for dwelling or business purposes.
and no. satisfied with taking the soil. the
modern New-Amsterdamers are extending
their domain into the regions OF ether
with a reckless daring which makes one
wonder. They have already honeycomoed
the bowels of the earth--many OF the large
business houses, particularly the newspa-
pers, having almost as extensive quarters
underground as above: but. not satlshed,
they are now mounting heavenward AT q
greater rate than Am afraid many OF tneni
will ever do hereafter. Where this thlng
of high building will stop it ls hard to
say-not, | suppose, until the Elhel rover
has been outdone and the moon been
brought near enough 10 make it possible to
dispense with Gas and electricity tor light
ing.
THE TWO TOPICS.
find also that the town has two brand
new absorbing topics of conyersatlon-to
wit. the threatened boycott by southern
business men in retaliation tor the passage
of the Lodge election bill should II pass,
and horrible tragedy somewhat OF the
Lillian Madison type. Both are beng
worked" by the newspapers for all
they are WORTH As 20 the former | have
nothing
seems premature, as IL Ii by no means certain
that the bill will pass the Senate. however
quickly and easily il was Reeded through
the House. Moreover, IL does not seem
| fair to hit the rascally politicians over the
heads Of honorable businessmen, as " II
| the object OF this movement to do. The
| latter topic is one of much more interest
to the ordinary newspaper reader, ana
illustrates strikingly how easily crimes
are committed and covered mp, IN
great city, for il is indlsputable that toi
| one that comes to light hundreds and per
hans thousands are never heard Of. A
young girl. cigarette maker OF rather
easy morals. permitted herself to become
| intimate with a Young man about town
an ugly, unattractive fellow, but with
plenty of money-with the usual result Of
zone more unfortunate
Rashy impOrtunate.'
When her trouble became known she wa
driven from pillar to post 10y friends ant
relatives, wEo had known of her infatua
ton all along. but who apparently did no
| object TO her presence until said result haC
| been reached. The inference 90 be drawn
| from this is interesting: You may sin. bu
you mustn't get caught az 1t. There i
plenty of evidence in the papers every DAY
| TO prove that this Is the true moral statul
of very large part of New York " society.
| The girl, as often happens, had also bono
fds lover, whom she was stringing,, n
the phrase Is. who loved her truly. and t
whom she was engaged to be married.
THE GHoUI.
She finally found refuge in cheap anC
| nasty boarding house, where she wa
visited bya grizzled old ghoul named DIR
| Mc({onigal. into whose hands IT IL proven
| - e.l1 I.f
sponsilJe for her desperate condition
| This old wretch seems 10 have made NAL
| practice his business almost throughout hi
| medical career, his house when searched
being found 10 be filed with the Trophies
OF ibis skin. which he had seemingly pre-
s1.red through professional pride. HIS pc
| culiar reputation has been well known, and
he has several times been under arres
| but escaped every time from lack o
| evidence" Tie Is very rich from the pro
ceeds of his skill" In appearance he i
a typical Fagin and rattles around Har
| lem in an old gig, with white horse muct
| like himself in it, state Of repair. The
J Girl died in excruciatlng agony and now
comes the queer part of the tale. Chou
| McGonIgal orders his pal, an old has
named Shaw, TO whose house he had con
| yeyed Annie-Annie Goodwin was the
| GIRLS name-before she died to keep the
! corpse closely concealed in the room wher'
! il Law. while he drives off TO an undertaken
who Is spoken of as respectable busl
ness-man." and asks him what he Will burr
a corpse for.
JUST As GUILTY.
TWENTY-FIVE dollars" said the under
| taker. and the bargain was concluded, Will
no questions asked. In the small hours o
| the morning the doctor drives up 20 tn
undertaker's door. who, strangely enough
happened To sleep in his shop that night
hauls out the body wrapped in blanke
from under his buggy seat, delivers 1t u
| the respectable undertaken. and goe
on his way. The respectable undertake.
| buried the body the next day Ul,de
| an ASSUMED name. and now declare
that he did not dream that ther'
was ANYTHING wrong about the trans
action! THIS is the tragedy, hastily mar
rated. and all New York Is worked III
to the highest pitch of excitement by II
| just as though il didn't know that suci
troubles" are occurring all the time an'
have 10 be covered mp somehow. The fac
that the old medical wretch's reputation
| was so well known rather gives the virtu
| Ously-indignant GOthamites away. 10 Is &
| be hoped. however. that the exposure vii
have a good effect and keep these Licensed
murderers under cover. for awhile at least
The old doctor is under arrest and III Jail
also his accomplice, Mrs. Shaw. Other ar
rests have been made, including the gay
Lothario who caused the trouble and II
whose pay the doctor ofcourse was, though
he swears he never saw the young man be
fore.
The manner in which the tragedy wa
discovered was peculiar and romantic.
detective sitting in an eleyated-raliwal
car overheard n conversation between
woman and man which pointed to thu
mysterious disappearance of Young wo
man and contained sufficient other infor
nation to pat the trained detective on tn,
alert. He heard all he could and went of
TO headquarters and told his tale with thu
result described But for this fortunat'
accident the final fate of the girl nigh
never have become known, but might hav'
remained a mystery rivalling that Of Mar.
Rogers, the pretty cigar girl" iron
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