The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-08-05
GOODWIN HAD A WIFE, TOO.
HE HAD BEEN WRITING TO "EsSIE "
WHEN WEBSTER SHOT HIM.


posed to have been bachelor. was shot In the
Percival on West Forty second street on Sum
day night by Bertram c. Webster. he was writ
Ing letter. This is the letter:
SUNDAY. Aug. 2, 1901.
MI Own PRECIOUS DARLING WIFE: mover
sat down to write you with my heart so full OF
Tenderness. sympath and love MS tonight I
nevor loved you moro or needed your love more
than now, and yet don't know when or how
10 begin my letter. 1t seems as II had lived
years In the last fow days. and as II the
experience OF a lifetime had been crowded into
thom. My brain ssems like q tangled skein.
and It Is impossible 10 find An end that might
follow p.wthont intersection, any one partic.
ular thought Everything crowds upon me In
tumult and tits only by this preface that can
hope to unravol my thoughts and lay them
down separately and side by side. to take up
one BY one until have mastered them all. and
have them on paper for you. my beloved Essie.
to read and understand.
II have not appreciated the last two or three
weeks tho damage was doing you. tho state
OF mind was putting you in. II could not
vsrywell write you whom ought to and wanted
to. darling, l said: My vile knows me. knows
would write II well could knows that MOTH
ing wrong 10 keepipg mo from her. and will
fret at tho obstacles In my way. but hold mo
i did not know what was doing, did not
dearest; il Ihsye already written ,yog a
The suDjeSt Ard pn, It all behind vs. B1t not:
row row untold that have brought to ' You .' ''
e 1t was NOT ut once. dear. that I grasped the
situation. could not appreciate at first the
then came my agony.
you, liked Of purpose. confident. unswerv.
A. this poln, he was killed;
station have not yet located the murderer.
Waterway aiternoon Betty, Green or Eyelyn
cham bermaid whom she calls her maid. and
all tho other witne- SOS in the case were at JET
ierson Market. whore Justice Hogan lie sitting:
to take an .afildavit against Webster and to
hold = Mrs. Webster" and the ehambermaid on
the affidavit Of the detective that they are ma-
Justice Hogan examined ThomH e Meier a.,
told practically the same stories which they
l had told before. Then Detec,iye Hay ! told
when when no first reached the house Sc on Sunday
night Goodwin was lying on The lounge. Good
win said That wssste5 had she, HIM and dig
Webster: Justice Hogan asked Jay { ali the
witnesses were there. and Hay said An ex-
husband DOESN'T know where she ISL 0u' n'f
Mrs. Hussey is the wife OF G. A. Hussey. and
CotS rend ve
the shooting, and she heard what Goodwin
cival. That night while Detective Hay was at
the house hs went 20 Hussey's room and
and h Hss All rsR
Pm an officer" Then the door WAS opened and
Hay wept in. He c@ms out in about half an
to the Iercival and WAS there for n few min
utes and went away again.
the Webster woman and the ehambermaid is
that Goodwin came to the Websters' rom on
saaa that fo od hsr e n"s sf all
letle when Webster rappHd ut his door, While
goodwin was living on the lounge n is his room
take eharre of his papers. and men,iion ned this
unfinished letter. Mrs. simpson locked the
desk wsee the and nd s IN
Yesterday morning. When Deeesive Hay
asked her for tho letter. she refused to give 1t
threa'ened to arrest her. At the close. OF Hays
testimony he showed Justice Hogan the letter.
hs aWser s
Justice Hogan replied that he thought that the
', Blu. Mrs. Webster cannot be witness for
the prosecution" said the lawyer.
not testify against The nus band = "I'' '""
:" There is no evidence here, said Justice
formed; ana she said that there had been no
But marriage by contract is valid, is 1t
"There is nothing hero to show that thore
women give bail for 500 to appear when
saV The q 81
Then young man who was with the lawyers
spoke to Justice Hogan. and he said: don't
haven't bondsmen here. let them 90 to their
house. as they did yesterday. In the care OF
Ho fnally decided to parole them in the GUS
toby Of their counsel.
few moments went away, together. Hardly
live minutes after they had gone a thick-set,
and with slouchy air about him. as ii he were
as sks to he
that she had gone out. Then he took one OF
The cards of the house and wrote on the back
Give that to Mrs.. Webster , when she
Ss sss ne et h. SAID sh0 will understand It,"
4 brIsht.syed and, nervous woman, accom-:
panied ny man ouu " ruHnp0tWHlu, walked
up to the box office OF Palmer. Theatre last
night, The nervous woman was about to Ap-
Fly for tickets for the play, and tho man
and the chambermaid expos,ulated with
an eRrnestness that attracted tho attention Of
all the loungeIs In tho lobby The womRns
face was familiar to the theatre attendants.
She walked away finally. and left the lobby
Manager Askin, said aftsrward that he
recognized her as Evelyn Granville" the OK
actress Of the Casino. who has been living
with Webster
She. has been a fre9uenter Of the theatres
and OF the Casino roof garden since the quit
the stage and she boasted considerable Rc-
uuaintanco among theatrical people. news
paper mon. brokers. and members OF q yacht
club whose house Ia on the Sound. Betty
Green, It 10 said. is her right name. When she
left the Casino. where she was In the chorus In
"Amorita" In 1885. and afterward had small
part AS boy, she went to Europe When she
returned she had gone on greatly in her looks.
No one at the Percival knew. anything about
Goodwins wife or where she 10. He had lived
there Tor nonrly, q year; and had always ap-
come TO the ,Perclval does not give any clue to
her whereabouts. and 1t Is not known there
that he was In tho habit Of writing to any
The fact that the letter is broken of as It is
In the middle OF a sentence 10 looked upon as
bad for the story OF Mrs. Webster that Good
win came in her room on Sunday night. She
said that when Webster opened tho door Good