The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-08-21
TRUNK MYSTERY.
OF Monte Carlo Solved at Last
by Confession
OF the Man and Woman in Whose
Possession ii Was Found Over in

| France.
The authorities of France were
confronted by a perplexing problem
in trunk mystery, unearthed il
Marseilles, some ten days ago. Mr.
and Mrs. Goold, an elderly couple
were travelling with the dismembereG
body of a woman in their trunk and
her head and feet in a satchel, were
subjected to a process of cooking
in the hope that they would tell about
the crime. The woman is French
the man English, and the murdered
woman, a Swede
Finally Goold broke down and
confessed to the magistrate. He re-
lated coolly all the details of the
horrible crime. He alone had slain
the woman, he declared, and it was
he who cut up her body, although
his wife helped him pack it away in
their baggage. After this had been
done they both agreed to journey to
Marseilles, where they planned to
cast the body into the sea.
Mrs. Violet Goold also confessed
her part in the crime. Sne said her
husband had promised to give Emma
Levin the sum of 500, but she de-
manded 500 more. To this Mr.
Good objected, and said he would
not pay the extra hundred. Thereup-
on Emma Levin abuseu uim. Referr-
ing to what happened next, Goold, in
his confession, says:
II had been drinking, and becom-
ing angry I seized hunting knife
and buried it in Emma's back. She
fell dead. The next day I dismem-
bered the body with saw and a
knife, and placed the torso in
trunk and the head and legs in
valise. only stabbed the woman
once The other wounds on her body
must have been caused by packing
her in the trunk. +"
Referring to his family, Goold said
his grandfather was = baronet and
his father an Irish magistrate. He
said he had at one time served secret
ly on the Irish Land Commission in
Dublin. In 1893 he moved to Mon
treal, where he says he made for
tune. He then went to Holland, and
later moved to Monte Carlo. .hrs.
Goold corrobrated everything her
husband said.
The murder was unearthed by ac-
cident. Blood oozing out of trunk
at the MarseilleS railroad station at
tracted the attention of porter. He
summoned the police and the old
people were arrested after an inspec-
ton of their baggage. 6 1t contained
the body of woman. The head and
lower parts of the legs were missing.
These were carried in hand bag.
Mr.. and Mrs. Goold said the murder
had been committed by man named
who escaped, and that they
we're taking the body to London, Eng
land, to bury it without causing any
commotion at Monte Carlo.
The victim proved to be Mrs. En-
ma Livey, a Swedish woman, widow
of a rich Jewish trader of Stock
holm. She had been residing at
Monte Carlo for some time and had
been an associate of the Goods, at
whose invitation she went to their
home on the afternoon of the murder.
She was never seen afterWard alive.
Within three hours she had been kill
ed, cut to pieces and packed IN
trunk and made ready for shipment.
A niece who returned home to flld
her aunt and uncle ready for trip
to England, says she sat on trunk
and chatted with the aged couple for
some tine and that she noticed
strong scent of lavender water, for
which her aunt accounted by saying
she had upset bottle.
Death was caused by a deep stab
in the breast 1t is not believed by
the police that the old man was able
to inflict the wound 1T the eld-
erly couple were abl do the cut
ting unaided. For tie reasons, 1t
is believed. there is a third party in
the case. Robbery was evidently the
motive: for the crime. Jewels known
10 have belonged to the dead woman
we're found on Mrs. Goods person.