The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-15
We're st. Leger G0Old Commits
Suicide in His Cell
After Contrasting That He MUIR
dered Emma Levin.
A MYSTERY CLEARED.
They Quarreled and He Stabbed
Her in the Back.
His Story Is COrrObOrated by
Mrs. st. Leger GOOld.

Marseilles, France-After confessing
the murder of Emma Levin, a wealthy
Swedish woman, whose dismembered
body, found in his baggage. caused the
arrest of himself and wife upon their
arrival here from Monte Carlo. August
6, We're St. Leger Goold committed sui
eide some time during the night. His
body was found hanging by the neck
from the bars of the cell window when
the turnkey made his rounds with
breakfast for the prisoners.
This trunk mystery" created much
excitement, especially as 1t was soon
learned that the Goods, who are Eng
fish, were of good family. Their ex-
be in their baggage were in no sense
convincing, and the confession of today
does not come as a surprise.
Goold made his confession to the ex-
all the details of the crime. He alone
had slain the woman, he declared, and
it was he who cut up her body, al
though his wife had helped him pack
had been done they both agreed to
journey to Marseilles, where they
planned to cast the body into the sea.
Wife Admits Her Part.
Mrs. Goold also confessed her part in
the crime. She said her husband had
promised to give Emma Levin 800 for
q certain reason, but she demanded
800 more, which she wanted to give to
a man friend. To this Mr.. Goold OBJ
jected. and said he would not pay the
extra hundred. Thereupon the woman
abused him.
Referring to what happened next,
Goold says in his confession:
Il had been drinking. and, becoming
angry. I seized a hunting knife and
buried it in Emma's back She fell
dead The next day dism' nhered the
body with a saw and knife and placed
the torso in a trunk and the head and
-
woman once. The other wounds on her
body must have been caused by shaking
around in the trunk"
Denies Intent to Rob.
Goold said they carried off the wo-
mans jewels, not for their value but IN
order to prevent their discovery in his
apartment.
Referring to his family, Goold said his
grandfather was a baronet and his
father an Irish magistrate. He said he
had at one time served secretly on the
Irish land commission in Dublin. In
1893 he moved to Montreal, where he
says he made fortune. He then went
to Holland. and later moved to Monte
Carlo. Mrs. Goold corroborated every
thing her husband said.
Gocld and his wife, who are both ell
derby and of good English families ar
rived at Marseilles from Monte Carlo
on August 6. Their baggage consisted OF
a trunk and a suitcase.
How Crime Was Learned.
The trunk was left at the station to
be registered for London, while Goold
and his wife, taking the suitcase, went
to hotel for breakfast. Blood oozing
from the trunk aroused suspicion. It
was opened and found to contain the
torso of e woman. The Goods were
arrested, and in the suitcase the man
carried were found the missing por-
Gions of the body.
he
of Emma Levin, the widow of a rich
Stockholm merchant. She had made
the acquaintance of the Goods at
Monte Carlo.
When arrested the Goods told the
police an incredible story They said
the dead woman had been stabbed to
the heart in their apartment IN Monte
Carlo by a man named Burker. who
ran away Immediately after committing
the crime, leaving the body lying In
their dining room. They said they were
trying to convey the remains to Eng
land for burial so as to avoid trouble at
Monte Carlo.