The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-07-23
"A new YORK MYSTERY.
Foul Murder Of a Beautiful
Young Girl Of Harlem.
PECULIAR CIRCUMSTANCES
or tho Crlmo Committed by scv-
cnty Year. Old Doctor...Pretty
AnnIc Good wins Horrible Fate.
Tho Body Not Yet Found.

Tho Body Not Yet Found.
, New York, July 22.-"send O core
} ner. Important case. Hurry him up,
> was the message that wast telegraphe'
from the Harlem police station at i
} o'clock this morning to police head
quarters. A hurry message was sent l.
the nearest coroner's home, but whel
he reached Harlem he bad to look IL
vain for job. Although there nppcar
to be no room for doubt that murder
was committed, thers was no corpse t
prove 1t. The body OF the dead cir
had been spirited away SO successfully
that the police had not been able to &c
the least trace Of it. 1t was by the
sheerest accident that the police learned
O! this alleged murder ten days after /,
had been committed and the evidence oi
1t removed by the conspirators. y r
FOUL MURDER.
The story told by the police is briefly
as follows: Annie Goodwin, cigarette
girl employed in Halls factory, shown
by her picture to have been OF rare
beauty, was tortured to death by abor.
tionsts within two weeks in den, in
Harlem. Her lover paid for the killing
OF her aud medical practitioner was
hired to do the Job. W"cn it was done
the doctor Of 70 years carried the body
of his victim down four flights of stairs
at the dead Of night and took it away in
his carriags, where, nobody knows. The
doctor is Henry G. McGonigal, of 2l7
West l23rd street, the lover Gus" Har.
rison. young man about town, who
lives at % West l20th street. Besides
these, Fannie Shaw, the old woman
in whose rooms at l07 East l05th street
tn" girl is alleged to have died, is under
arrest. She claims to be n washwoman.
inere are likewise witnesses to the
girls death detained. A boy who held
the door open for the doctor as be car.
ried the dead Rirl out to his vehicle is
one Tim doctors record is against him
He has been over and over again ar.
rested for Malpractice, but has always
escaped punishment.
The lover in the case confessed that
he .put up" for the girl but claims to
know nothing Of the abortion. Friday
last a person whose identity tho police
will not reveal, overheard in an elgvl-
Ted train part OF conversation between
two passengers. H- gathered that Annie
Goodwin had disappeared from her
nome, that she bad been in trouble and
that an operation had been performed
This person informed Detective Price of
what he had overheard, on reaching
Harlem. The police ut once suspected
old McGonigal. 1t was only early to
day that they began to see the end Of It,
when the 10th street station held the
persons mentioned above.
ANOTHER HORROR. ------. :.
At noon the police proved their sus-
picions correct. The clew that had been
turned up in the bureau OF vital stats.
Tics followed TO the end, discovered the
fact that Annie had been buried in St.
MicGael's cemetery. Jersey City, under
the name OF Jane Wilson, aged 90 years
Her home was given as at 220 East10Sth
street.
Another horror was added to the
story by the discovery that the certiii-
cate OF death was applied for and the
burial permit made out on the day pre-
vious to July II. The girl died on July
l2,
At the Harlem police court Judge
Power held tho Doctor IN $4,000 bail
and he was locked up for examination
on Friday. Gus Harrison was held in
s. 500 and Sadie Lapham in $500. Nc.
Goulgal is the patentee OF the "McGoni-
81 Wood Pavement" and steam sand
sitter.
THE PRISONERS.
At l26th street Police Station the fol.
prisoners are held charged with homi.
eide: Gus Harrison, 20 years, % West
l2Oth street, gentleman of leisure; DR..
Henry &. MCGonigal, 70 years, 2l7 West
l23d street; Fannie Shaw, washerwo.
uian, III East l05th street.
These witnesses were alp6 "detained":
Sadie Trappagen, pretty girl, of 227
East One Hundred and Twenty.slxth
street; Jose MrCready. OF lGl East One
Hundred and Fifteenth street, and al.
bert Harrison, IL young boy, 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.. McGonigal, who knew too
much to talk. He denied everything.
rhe Doctor is hoary old Gray.beard
with asliyht frame and sharp twinkling
eyes. Mrs. Shaw is repulsive looking
woman, and by her own confession
worked cheap. The doctor paid her $40
ior the job in installments. The diamond
EARRINGS. gold watch and other jewel.y
OF the victim, which she wore when she
entered her den, have, however, yet to
be accounted for.
If the picture Of Annie Goodwin does
not lie, and the police say that on the
contrary everybody says that it does not
do her justice, she must have been very
beautiful.
Tho face is sweet and crowned by
raven curls, tht fsure perfect. her dr-ss
simple, but tasteful. Very little more
is known about Annie's past than about
ner present, but the detectives hope
soon to throw light both ways on her
career. II WAS known for certain only
that she worked in Halls cigarette fac.
tory and lived with her sister in Harlem,
when young Harrison crossed her path.
rhencetorth their paths were one.