The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-25
AN ACID THROWING CASE
ONE WITH SENSATIONAL FEATURES
TO BE TRIED TOMORROW.
Mrs. Maud GOOdin, the Prisoner,
Charged with Influencing Mrs.
Kline to the Deed.

The trial of Mrs. Maud Goodin, charged
with completely in the acid-throwing case
in which DR.. Aimee Haskinson was the VIC
tim, will be commenced in the Criminal
Court tomorrow. Mrs Lulu Kline threw
the acid and in her confession to the police
after her arrest, she named Mrs. Goodin as
an accessory to the crime. Mrs. Kline has
been in Jail ever since her arrest The
Goodin woman is out on bond. AT the time
the crime was committed Mrs. Goodin was
employed as a janitress in the Empire block
on Massachusetts avenue and Mrs. Kline
was lodger in the block.
DR.. Haskinson, who is a young and pretty
woman, was assaulted in her own home on
the night of May %, last. A quantity of
sulphuric acid was thrown in her face by
woman who had ostensibly come to con-
suit her. Fortunately the acid did not
strike her souarely in the face and DR.. Has
kinson was not greatly disfgured. Her as
sailant fed the instant the deed was done,
and the physician could only give a meager
description of her. The woman had given
the name of Mrs. Wilkinson and had
said she lived on Alabama street. The po-
lice were unable to locate her and came to
the conclusion that Mrs Wilkinson" was
a myth. The conclusion proved correct.
Within three hours after the assault had
been committed, Police Sergeant Lowe and
Patrolmen Miller and Hagerty arrested Mrs.
Lulu Kline in her rooms in the Empire
block. How the clew was obtained, the
police have never disclosed. Mrs. Kline,
when arrested, denied all knowledge of the
crime. A short time after her arrest the
police found a black silk dress in her room
that had been splotched and burned with
some kind of fiery liquid. This find
strengthened the theory of Mrs Kline's
guilt, although she strenuously denied it
until the following evening.
Mrs Kline confessed that she threw the
acid on DIR. Haskinson, to Superintendent
Quigley and one or two police officers in
. the Superlntendents private office. The
M. taS woman IN her confession impli-
night this woman was arrested. She de-
clared her innocense then and continues to
IN her confession, asserted that she COM
mltted the crime at the instance of Mrs.
Goodin She said the latter was jealous of
Dr HaSklnson. A man named James Van
Malta, liveryman of the city, figured in
the case, according to Mrs. Kline. She said
that Mrs. Goodin had told her that DIR. Has
and Van Malta. The Goodn woman, ac-
eeording to Mrs. Kline. also said that DIR.
potion. Mrs. Goodin had also claimed that
Van Malta was her husband. This was de-
NED by Van Malta, who. admitted he knew
her. '-'
:. Mrs: Kline went on to relate to the po-
lice that she was finally induced to do the
bidding of Mrs. Goodin. Acting on the in
structions OF the jantress, she procured a
lar of acid and called on DR.. Haskinson.
She told the doctor that she carried medi-
cine in the jar which a friend had given
her, and asked the physician to examine ii.
DR.. Haskinson turned up the gas for this
purpose, and as she did so the acid was
thrown. Mrs. Kline did not throw the acid
full in the face of the other woman, but it
struck the side of her face and neck. Mrs.
rtnk Ill
done. in. talking with the police. She said
DIR. Haskinson had never injured her. The
police claim to have strong evidence against
Mrs. Goodin in addition to the confession
made by Mrs Kline 1t is said that shortly
after the arrest, two women called at police
headquarters and told how they had fol-
to DR.. Haskinson's home. They said the
women went to a side window, where Mrs.
Goodin wanted Mrs. Kline to shoot DR.. Has
kinson. Mrs. Kline refused to do what the
other woman demanded.
Mrs. Kline, wnen this story was related to
her, admitted that it was partly true. On
that Van Malta was at DR.. Haskinson's
house. 1t is claimed that on one occasion
Mrs. Goodin, on learning that Van Malta
the man and threatened to horsewhip him.
Van Malta says that Mrs. Goodin declared
she would ''spoil' DR.. Haskinson's face.
Attorney John S. Duncan will defend Mrs.
Goodin.
Mrs. Kline's husband was murdered at
Brightwoood in 1893. He was employed by
the Big -Four Railway in the shops and was
mysteriously assaulted one morning while
lying in bed at his home. He worked at night,
and that morning had come home and gone
to bed as usual When found he was un-
conscious He was bleeding from many
wounds in the head, which appeared to have
been inflicted with a Ratchet. He never
revived sufficiently to speak of the assault,
and the crime has always been a mystery.
His wife was closely questioned by the de-
tectives, but was never openly charged with
his murder.