Year: 1873

no one to know or our marriage until

 some future time on account of pro-

 perty the reason connected with it he

 did not fully explain. I was very

 foolish, for I was alone in New York,

 with no friends only him. I have

 learned since then that the clergyman

 who married us was no minister at all,

 only friend of his, Reuben Smith, a

 doctor, l think, who lives in the city

 In December last, a month ago, our

 baby was born. Before that, and since

 then, Charley has treated me with the

 utmost cruelty, disowning all ties be-

 tween us. Several days ago woman

 with rlnglets came here to one of the

 houses after stove he had for her. I

 was at the window and noticed the con-

 versation between them. When Charley

 came into the house he told me that we

 must part, that there was no marriage | between us, that he had tired of me, &c. The woman with the ringlets is his new love he acknowledged that

 Oh, it seems as if it could not be the

 same world to me now, all is so dark

 and desolate. My heart is completely broken. To love and struggle on alone

 I have got to do, and I cannot without

 assistance. The reason I write this,

 and the circumstances under which l

 write, are most painful. have been

 trying to work. have been at work in

 store all this week. Tonight, (Satur-

 day night,) came here to my lonely

 home and was very unexpectedly ac- costed by 8 man just as l was unlocking the door. He asked me if I wished to see MT. Goodrich :; told him yes, and asked him who he was. He said his name was George Baker; that he had been employed to watch the building and that my trunks and clothes had been taken into another house. I was quite bewildered, and I had not the slightest idea that Charley would ever treat me in this manner I followed | the man into the house and saw all my things thrown upon the floor. It seems like some dreadful nightmare. To- morrow is the Sabbath, and where will stay or what will I do I have no money and no friends. am seated on my trunk writing this to you. My hands are so stiff with the cold that I cannot hold my pen for that reason it may not be easy for you to decipher my hurried writing. AMY G*******.

 SATURDAY EVENING, Feb. 15.

 The surname initial "G." was evil dently intended for Goodrich" Two days after receiving the letter MT. Goodrich called on his brother and questioned him as to the truth of the statements in the mysterious document. He admitted that they were correct, with the exception of the mock mar rlage, which he said was absolutely un- true. The woman was absent when MT. Goodrich first visited his brother in Degraw street, but on the occasion of a subsequent visit, about two weeks be- fore the murder, woman was seen in the house. Charles Goodrich acknowl- edged her presence, and said she was the writer of the letter, and that he in- tended sending her to New York, as she was bad woman. The next visit of MT. Goodrich to his brothers residence was on the morning of the eventful Friday, March 21, when, after repeated and unsuccessful ringing and knocking he obtained the key of the adjoining house, and reached the one to which he desired entrance by descending through the scuttle. Everything was in order up stairs on reaching the basement he found the door of the front room locked, md on entering from the kitchen his brother was seen lying dead before the fireplace, with pistol by his side and bullet ball in his temple. The detec- ives were summoned, and entered the house before anything had been touch ed. The indications led them to believe that death was the result of suicide so ar as they knew, the man was of seden- ary disposition, and what more like y than that he had killed himself? The oost-mortem examination showed that le had received three bullets in his lead, and at once the general impress 'ion changed from suicide to murder. The detectives still held to the theory 'f suicide, although on the day follow ng the discovery they were placed in of the letter signed "Amy { d.," and of knowledge of Goodrich's relations with the writer.