The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-06
HER FAREWELL LETTER
HAD TO DON MALE ATTIRE IN
ORDER TO ACCOMPLISH HER
a
BLOODY PURPOSE.
SAYS SHE NO LONGER FEARS DETECTION
She Shot Goebel For Numbering Her Dear
friend and Relative" She Could Find
no Man Brave Enough to Asenge
His Blood.

Who killed tioebel?
Just now nobody knows.
Maybe we will never know. More like
~ the secret will some time or other he
revealed
In the meantime There will be IAenty
of people who Will claim TO have COM
mittef the crime.
Already there are two--one in Frank
fort and one in Raleigh. The Frank
fort fellow is crazy and in jail. The
Raleigh murderer claims to be woman
and is at large.
She writes to the News and Observer
giving the details of the homicide and
the causes that led up to it. The letter
was mailed in the posUofTice here yester-
day at IL O'clock though il bears date
Of February Bird. Ii is written in fem
mine hand on note paper, and is address
ed 10 the editor of the News and Oh
server
'Phe writer begins by saving that She
is lin the act of leaving your little city
after several days rest" She then
takes the editor to task over an editorial
on The TapRoot of Anarchy which
appeared in this paper of February 1st
then adds that he may be surprised 80
learn some of. the real facts concerning
this tragedy
With this by way of introduction, the
letter then proceeds as follows:
las now feel safe | will inform you
that no Republican had anything to DO
with this shooting Of that murderer
Cfoebe!, further than 10 furnish me with
an opportunity 10 take revenge on him
p feEs the sInllrderaof any dear friend and
relative.
For months l have brea on his track.
las the law would no, punish HIM for his
. cowardly villainy | resolved 10 have
revenge, and for months, clad in male
attire and armed with several good
weapons, l have been after MIN, but no
cllance ever presented itself without the
danger of Immediate arrest until the
present rlnbroglio. II was then OF nevc"
so I sought 10 get a pull ut him. but alas
| fear my bullet was not a fa.al one
But I must leave the United States or
keep concealed until | do got him. for
finish him l will. if we both live.
1T is dOub' ful if yon will publish this
but If YOU have the honesty to do so il
may exhonorate Taylor. Bradley Oh. any
of their friends from guilt of the mat!
Ter. ! will write the Louisville Courier
Journal the facts also. If he has the
honesty OF a true man, he will also ex-
aonorate the innocent.
IL shot Gocbel for numbering my dear
friend and raltivc. | could find no man
brave enough 10 revenge his blood, so |
donned the brooches and Graveled over
Il thousand miles. first and last in order
To land blrllet through him. l have
DO compunctionS Of conscience-Goebe
should have been hanged. but he was
screened by dirty political boot blacks,
as he is now. lie is no Democrat. he IS
q cold blocded free bocter and murderer,
and he must die if / can have another
chance at him.
Nov put your detectives on my track
II YOU can find a track. but / have NJ
fear of them, even though we may be on
the same boat or ship. Now leave You
10 your own coSitation To see If you
can find anything else to lay at the door
of, the REPUBLICANS