Evening journal., 1890-07-23
A YOUNG GIRLS MURDER.
Remarkable Story of a Pretty
Typewriter's Death.
INFERRED UNDER A FALSE NAME.

Done TO Death by Doctor and. Carried
20 an Undertaker's Shop at Two O'Clock
in the Morning Arrests in Con-
neotion with the Crime.
New YORK, July s3.-A detective while
riding upon an elevated train a few DAYS
| ago overheard enough OF a conversation be-
tween two passengers near him to become
convinced that 3 beautiful young girl had
been done to death and her body spirited
; away. Ho followed up the slight clew aud
unearthed a remarkable crime. The crime
was that Of malpractice and the victim was
Annie Goodwin, a handsome girl OF n.
who died July l2, Under the hands Of Dr.
| ~. McGonegal, while temporary living
with Mrs. Shaw DIR. McGoneenl carried
the dead body down three flights Of stairs
at o'clock ia the morning. placed Il III
his own buggy and drove it . the under
taking establishment OF q Merritt. whence
it was the next day buried il ST. Miehaels
cemetery ia Astoria az tha body o. Jane
Wilbur In order to cover no the crime
both DR. McGoaegal and Indertahar Mer.
ritt mate false certificate Of duath, even
going 50 far as to date it dag prior 70 tas
unfortunate girls death All the parties
I implicated are under arrese
beautiful Girls sad coursn.
Annie Goodwin was always handsome
girl, possessing TO narsed extent She
fatal gift OF beauty. She was fairly well
educated aud bad good position as & type
writer in Halls cigarette factory. when
she was Is years Of age she began To pass
many evenings away from home, ana at
this time she met Gus Harri.on. whose
father is o wealthy buildsr 1t No. % West
One Hundred and Twentieth street. Har.
rison Was young and not particularly good
looking, but he had plenty Of money and a
smooth tongue. Annie soon began to wear
handsomer clothing and iewelry than her
salary warranted, and her parents reInon-
strated with her for the increasing laxitv
of her conduct. She finally left home and
her condition became such that with HaT-
rison's consent she called Dr. McGonegal,
OF No 2lT West One Hundred and Twenty
third street whose reputation for unlawful
practices Is we'll established. lie is 20 years
Of age, has been arrested twice for similar
oiIenses, and has been watched closely by
the police for a long time
The End Was Death.
Eight days later Annie died at No. f07
East One Hundred and Fifth street ia a
fiat kept By Mrs Fanny Shaw, washer
woman She went there, Mrs Shaw saws,
~ Jr. McGunegals request and remained
there until She died Harrison had never
been near her during al this time. and no
one was beside the deathbed but Mrs.
shaw. Albert Harris, q l6-year-old boy,
who lived with the washerwoInan. yyus sent
for DIR. McGonegsl. who arrived al 4
o'clock. That's all right, 2 be said. as his
little gray eyes glittered through his bushy
eyebrows, I'm attend TO her and take her
to her friends You keep quiet and will
come for her late, bat it will be very late.
You keep the door shut and don't cay any
thing to anybody"
Then he went 70 Aerritts undertaking
establishment at No. s04 East One Hun
dred and Twenty-third street, aud asked
Merritt il he could bury poor girl whom
he thought would die that night. Merritt
demurred at first, but he finally oonsensed
to do the job for s2S the girl to be taken TO
his establishment that night By McGone-
gal. At ? 2. m. McGonegal visited the fiat,
hastily bundled the body into n ragged
quilt, grasped it ia his long, skinny arms,
and tottered with it down the four long
flights Of stairs. Albert Harris wena with
him to open the street door Glancing uD
and down the deserted street MeGonegal
saw that all was quiet and carried his
ghastly load across the pavement 70 his
TWO wheeled gig. William Davidson, a
colored man who works Tor Morritt. helped
him TO lift the ungainly bundle up0n the
seat az the vehicle and held it while the
doctor mounted beside it.
Buried "Jans Wilbur"
A dim light burned in Merritt's little
shop as the doctor and his load drew softly
up IN front Of it. Davidson was there be-
fore him and helped him lift the horrible
object into the shop, where It was dumped
into plain pine box, still wrapped in Mrs
Shaw's quilt AS early ns possible on sun
day the coffin was placed in q cheap hearse
and driven to ST. Michaels cemetery in
Astoria. Only Merritt and Davidson ac-
companied it, and even they did not stay
TO 500 anything more than the coffin low
cred into the narrow grave. A few clods
fell upon She box as they turned away
Thus it came about that pretty Annie
Goodwin, who died on her 2lst birthday, is
buried in quiet corner Of St. Michael's rs
plain Jane Wilbur, aged p
a Remarkable Death Certificate.
Then DR.. McGoneeal issued the follow
ing certihcate Dl death; Jane Wilbur.
married, saleswoman, died July II, at No
2S9 East One Hundred and Eighth street,
Cause Of death; rheumatism Of the heart
Jane Wilbur, daughter Of John and Sarah
Wilbur, Of England. Resided in this coun-
try four years; in New York city and
county one year, Yesterdayin Harlem
court Judge Power held McGonegal and
Mrs Shaw in $4,000 bail each, and they
were sent to prison. Gus Harrison gave
500 bail and was released. He claims not
to have known the girls whereabouts
until he heard Of her death after his ar
rest. Later in the day Merritt aud David
son were arrested and locked up.
She Gave tho Whole Story Away.
When Detective Price, disguised as Har-
rison's friend, visited Mrs. Shaw she I'M
Willingly gave the whole story away, in
Guiding the fact that Annie had given her
but 80 and McGonegal but $40 for her
services. Annie had some handsome Jew
elry when she went 20 Shaw's 1t is all
gone now and Mrs Shaw didn't tell Price
where It WAS. The body Will he exhumed
today under Coroner MESSENGERS direction
and an autopsy held.
Three People Ilutchered.
AUSTIN, Tex, July 23-Near Hutton,
small village twenty miles north III
here, Mexican named Vitola Melena, lis
wife, two daughters and n little son lived
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