Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-02-25
.f!ORRlD CRIME or A BLACK BRUTE.
FeIonIousiy Assaults White Woman
and Beats Her Terribly.


and Beats Her Terribly.
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Shocking Exparlcnee Of Airs. william S.
Gnhwin : Forced TO the Margin of a
stream--AIter q desperate Struggle She
10 Oyerpowered, Knocked Down, Kicked
Into InssnsibiIity and Outraged.
Baltimore Sun Special.
Chestertown, Md, Feb. 10. -,One Of
the most brutal outrages over com
mitted IN Kent county was pernetrated
by an UNKNOWN negro brute upon Mrs.
William s Goodwin, wife of SUCCESS
full farmer, near Fairies, at about
O'Clock this morning.
Mrs. Goodwin had left her home TO
drive to Uhestertown Cd business.
Among other things she was to mako
Deposit and carried with her book
OF the Chester Loan Association, In
which We're over $50 in cash and checks
to be placed to the credit Of her nus.
band. In the hack OF tho carriage
was basket OF eggs to DO disposed OF
at the stores IN making purchases for
the family. Tho road along which she
was to pass is through an open and
thickly populated section, and il one of
the most frequented thoroughfares in
Kent count. Mira. Goodwin told the fol-
lowing story Of her awful experience: /,
When she reached Halier's branch,
Which crosses the public road ut the
gate of tbs Decorse farm, about thrso
miles from Chestertown, she saw a
coiored man, whom she asked to loosen
the rein go that her horse could drink
at the stream. The man did as re-
quested, and stated that he wanted
pay. The unsuspecting woman said
that she had no change, but on her
return would pay him. lie then
demanded that she accompany him in
the branch, which she Indignantly re-
fused. He forced his way into the
cnrriage, and though she fought, as
she Gays, like n tigress, tho negro
dealt her hlvws in the face with his
fiat, and, seizing the reins, drove the
horse through an opening 10 the hedge
fence around the branch. She con-
tipued to fight and mako an cutlery,
but after drying q short distance the
horse was stopped and she was thrown
from the carriage and then over FIVE
rail fence into the branch, where she
was feloniously assau tied.
Mrs. Goodwin is about 30 years Of
ngs. She weighs about 160 pounds and
is known as muscular and powerful
woman. In order TO overcome her
stout resistance, she says, the man
knocked her down, kicked her in the
face with his boots and otherwise
rendered her helpless After the out
rage she was thrown over the fence bali
dazed and semi unconscious into the
carriage, and as the horse was STARTED
off the negro brute dealt her parting
blow 10 the face, saying as he did so,
Damn you, will kill youv'
Y Mrs. Goodwin managed to drive to
the house Of w. L. Nicholson. nearby.
DIR. Hesley, who was called to sac the
sufferer, said: Mrs. Goodwin is horri-
bly, mutilated and cut. Six large scalp
by the mans boot, are on the back of
the head and part Of one ear is torn
Off An ugly wound extends down the
face and across the. right eye. The
upper lip is cut entirely through to the
mouth. The nose is broken. one thumb
Ia broken and she complains of pains
across the breast, and yet her injuries
| scarcely consider necessarily fatal. -
The scene of the crime fully attests
the desperate struggle made by the
woman. The ground for so feet around
is Hprinkled with blood. A pool of
clotted blood wag found near the fence
and LOCKS Of hair hanging to the weeds
around. The soft soil showed where
she had heen knocked down. On the
branch side of the fence great patches
Of blood marked tho spot where the
final struggle took place. Roots were
torn up and heavy indentations made in
the ground by the noble resistance Of
tho woman in defending her honor.
Suspicion rests upon negro farm
hand named Samuel Sehoiield, who has
disappeared,
Chestertown, Nd, Feb. %. The
failure to arrest Samuel SchofieId,
colored, supposed to DO the assailant
Of Mrs. William Goodwin, has thoroughly
aroused the entire community of Kent
county. Over 300 mon, mounted and
In carriages, spent yesterday AMI to
day, in securing the country in search
of him. The colorod persons living in
the section Of tina county where the
crime was committed are apparently
as much interested in the capture as
the white cti2ens are. Fully 100 col
ornh men joined in searching the woods
and rarines for the fugitive.