Hide Article Text (OCR)
not answering the summons, was rung several time# withA SEW YEAR’S MYSTERT,urbs of largo towns precautions of an ul-proride against Ike determined and skillful attacks of midnight depredator.**. Iron shutters protected the windows, tuid to these V«?re attached beHaonspriugsto announce to the household any attempt on tbe part of burglars. The doors were lined with metal, and strong bolts and bars Afforded a further safeguard. It war no uncommon thing for houses to bo entered and robbed in tho twilight, and every door was provided with a 9atch-ckain, which permitted it to he open only a few incnes, thus allowing nu unknown visiter to be scanned and spoken to without the possibility of his forcing his way into tho dwelling. These difficulties, however, did not thwart tho thief, but merely aroused his enterprise nud ingenuity.As already stated, tho vicinity of the large towns afforded to the burp Lor Jiis favorite held of operations, and the very remarkable case now to be narrated occurred in Edgbaston, a fashionable suburb of Birmingham.In 1813, there resided in Edgbaston a wcjilthy retired merchant, named Good-all. He w;is a childless widower, and his two nniidcn sisters lived with him. His dwelling was one-holi of what is there known as a double or serai- dctaclftd villa. It was Jurgc and sumptuously furnished, and Mr. Goodall was famous for the splendid entertainments he gave. His plate was superb and his sisters' jewelry unsurpassed.In November of the year named, the residence adjoining Mr. Goodnll’s was rented by a gentleman named Mathew?, He, also, was a widower, but twentyyears younger than Mr. Goodall, and ho rhtlt;luid a daughter aged about twenty-two, and a son eight or teu years old. He furnished his house elegantly, and kept a very stylish turnout. The neighbors were soon on intimate terms, and tho gentlemen frequently drove out together. Mr. Mathews and his family spent Chriafiuon Eve nfc the house of Mr. Goodall, and tho latter and his sisters agreed to cat their Now. Year's dinner rind spend the evening at Mr. Mathews'.Mr. Goo dal Is servants were invited to cDjoy the occasion with Mr. Mathews’ domestics, and he caused the laundry and tho loft above tho stables to be fitted up tiiskdnlly for'their use.On tho morning of Now Year's day, Miss Mary Goodall, Mr. GoodalTfi elder sister, slipped on the ice and so seriously sprained her ankle as to render it needful for her to remain at home. She insisted, however, that no one should stay with her, and after tho departure of all the household for Mr. Mathews’, she was able to lock the front door, and so secure herself from intrusion, tho understanding lc:ng that her brother and the domestics were to return not later than midnight.At about 12:30 Mr. Goodall and sister budo their entertainers good night, having hecii defined longer than they anticipated by tho absence of Mr. Mathowa, who hud been obliged to take ono of his visitors home in his carriage, as ahe Svtls suddenly token ill.On reaching tho front entrance of his residence, Mr. Goodaii rang the bell. .Several minutes |«Lsaed, aud there was i;o response. By .his time the domesticsviolence, but in v climbing io tho tried tho windows, After further delayed him to bre*(yiriujowNTUraMlMKJH uxvBetween the years 1810 and 1850, thecrimo of burglary prevailed to an nhirm-;E:*most ineredible nature had to be taken tomg extent all over England. In thcaub-fasten the wiu _fruitless, for, as was to be cxpected^jto iron shutters imdde' the blind were cVaclt;l, At thin juncture, a policeman appeared on the street, and inquired what the mutter. Mr. Goodall gave a brief explanation rand-then tiwoewraid; ... . '“ Was there nobody-but tbe* lady*in the house all the evening?”; d-t*‘ No,” was the reply,. not einoe .7o'clock, when myself and aisier and all the domesbcs weht lo a mmry-vnaKing next door.”' V * • • • *:h r “c •• “ That’*. odd,” .the- officer aaiiL.^ I catne on duty at 10 o'clock, and soon alter ward, os I pnsal ner©; IwiwlhedoorIn taking the adj waa to workwhich, with the aid olopen and a gentleuuuSl step out • ••HesicLood for a moment as though, glancing at tho weather/ and then went back into the house.”- \This announcement Mr. Goodall, and.. be expressed to officer his worst feara that' soi dreadful had happened. The Officer/? compacted * by two of: the rervantaiaafil Mr. Mathews,who ,by this tamo had been attracted by -tho voice* outside,vrwoi, way wwn um iwMrt'Mt , ,.OLMBAQAl: mGon br the tmmp, be planned the New Year'ltoto;** the. Ooodalia anl toirmeans an ‘ ’entrance was had at ohe of tbe • tipper * windows by* the* footman, who descended -and:tinlooked:; the-frqnt doc-r.. '.■•••• : .- 1 ; -i. h’'On' entering the. parlor,. tho gas .was found turned doiVb to a spark: Mr. Goodall'turned it 6n, and; as he did so, a shriek arose from the domestic*,- who hud crowded• to tlio door. Mira -Mary Goouall lay across the co.ucbf with her head beaten iu, and the bloOd and brains bespatterirg tiie nch furniture; the carpet and tho wall. Two valuable diamond rings had been tom from her fingers, and ft splendid emerald brooch waa mil*' ing from her, bosom;: Mr. Mathews, Jhe officer, and the footman, began a1 search of tise premises. In the library/ ftdjbin-mg the parlor,'all was confusion; ’'Mr. Goodall a secretary hod been’rifled :of a-large sum.of money, and two. elegantly chased silver goblets were. gone. The butler's pantry had been ransacked^ and a strong plate chest had been ■wrenched' open aud the contents removed. From the chambers up stairs jewelry of gteat, value had been taken; and. the contents of the bureaus, lay soatteired around. .Over tlio grief of tlie brother and sister so ftwfullJ bereaved j* Vail, mnsfcbe drawn. ’ • . .-i lt;.rhu r. : iInformation was convoyed at. ones'to CoL BnclJ, .Chief of Police, and the premises were subjected to a rigid scrutiny. Not a door or window-was found tin fastened except the windO# forced by the footman, and tlio main., .entrance* likewise opened by him from tho inside. Horo was a startling mystery;1 How-had the bujglare got in? How bad theyquitted tho house with their booty? Tbcro wcro no: footmarks,; no fingermarks, no dew of tlio slightest deacrip -lion as to who the burglars., were, their uuinber, or their method of entering or quitting tho premises.* Tho house, just us it waa found, waa left in charge of,the police, and tho moat expert. .detectives, after examining the dwelling from cellar to roof, admitted thiit they were beaten. But tho officers hod seen a man: about10. o'clock, or wxm after, open the front door and then close it, so that there hadbeen one man there, at all events. ‘The sonic officer aleo -remembered that as ho approached the house from the Edgbflfl-ton Rood he met a carriage which was being ’ driven • rapidly away.' This xra* about two minutes before ho saw the man at the door. Much importance was not attached to tho circumstance, however, as the carriage ttju in all probability tho one in which Mr; Mathews accompanied his sick visitor to: her homo. , . J• •All Birmingham was thrown into con-, steraation at this dreadful and mysterious occurrence. Lamber fc, tho *. great Luzidon detective, took the matter in lmtid, but wits .apparently oe 'unsucccse-ful 08 the local police iu discovering any clew. Tlio clay after the murder, Mr. Mathews closed tho house and: removedtemporarily to a hotel.. The inquest waa hold, an open verdict returned, and the body of the murdcrod .woman interred. 4 •'On the day of the funeral, Detective Lambert and nu associate paid anothervisit to the Goodall residence; and went over the premises for .the hundredthtime. Then Iiiraberf. first, heard4 that Mr. Mathows arid his family hail quitted the adjoining house. • He pro«mrcd an.cutrancc, and 8caiched it a* thoroughlyieiice. Aflos lie had Mr. Goo'dall’s residence, the furniture and maiiy articles of value had beeu leit behind, •' bnt :overything that was easily portable had evidently been xemoyed..The detectives searched tbe closets/the attics', the roof, tho cellar, iu hope of finding some ’communication between the two houses,;, but there was none. In .the kitchen- grate wore theremains ofcume pAjpers- which Had I^eenfoburned. Lambert looked around for the poker to stir them with but no such article was near. He used liis hands, and then sought for water to wash them. On tlie opposite side of the kitchen was a party pump—that is, a pump that had two handles, one ia GoodalTs House and one in Mathews.1 .. You ootfld Beefrom one kitchen .into the other, and when tho top of tho cylinder was .unscrewed, and removed/ there was’a.bole lending from one kitchen into.the other eight or ten inches in - diameter -one;way;and six the.Other, r lt;v . . '. ...Lambert arid liis associate gazed • at* the hole for fully half a minute without saying a word. Then-''the'-two' officers looked'at each other, and simultaneous' iy exclaimed ,fv- “That'sit!” ? :• *• . W“No miin could get tllrough.ithere;”-Lambert’s associato-said. ^ • .. ;j“True,” wasc'tho* reply;, ^bufc a .boy -could, aud he had*a;boy. -.Let's go upstairs and look at something;/’ .In a wiurdroljo inaii up-sUira room_wus a quantity of woarriigppri^j. Vlfc had already been examined, :bnt Lambert went over- it again. ’ Among’’the clothes was a boy's bltie-cloti* blouse.’: .’The back, of it w;:s cxivered with lime-wash, and’ four of the buttons were half ripped off.“That settles it,” said Lambert, as he held it up. “Tho boy went through that hole, aoid opened the doer, to admit the man And. his pals, for there were ,tiro or three of them. ’ ’ : v.-In ten .minutes the two. detective* were at Hen-arid-Chickens Iiin, but'Ntf.' Mathew? nod his family had gone. .They* were traced, bv means of tfie boy, to Liverpool,: and • captured on-board an. outward'hound vefwed, whichyraa already' under woigW • Mathew* had:in his pos-seasicui .aomo ficvon thouaad' pounds,.taction. 'After hehiMt made i aU ihhi pfo-paritions, the detention of Mias at home with a^iined ankle to up** MI Hm pl^ Hfl kiKd got tet*y-thing iu the house on credit, and it was a desperate rather thantoo* therM flhane0Jrerrertrfd If Md* be. to ;Uke_tihe nnfocton^te ^po*a|ip.'a Wc-Mmmdrrt iM andveil known cheeredi*pUKjxve of niltiratin,_the immpnae riches of the Missis-vaUey; every bit of land tamedmto shiiws ms quoted at the Bonne of ........kiffndtnoa^m-of ho value- and- thH explaihatryWhen he'* quitted his’ Jr^torir *fqr 'the’ pinpoee of a«kmip«3jiDg hn^eick iontei'he .wjl)tritperforintegmpart oftd«iU«i*wathe DameBJ* tbe ‘/Campagme des lu-general manager of the mines of Louisi/ ang .ander^date June,-14, 47*23. TheeiifchawtiSeet m'lTOl, Wprteed, first, two lragne* square, or tlnrty.-aixthe plot, the suppoesd ladybeteg: in with him. The carnage stood below in IHe rbad witboxrt i cxCTtiiJg ; anapteib^ ^wsth the female accomplice seated .inaide, while Mathews returned to the'tear of fKtf haute, srid paeted Hk aoh'-thnregh tbe puttJp dkdo. vTbe lad, ^acting-, s on his father s directtoift easiH’omm tho back door arid admitted Ma®W arid bis srippoeed gro^ Tbe l^otirEms again cloned and fastened, and; the boy handed through tbe hole again to a ooo federate. As Mathews . was*' about' to ascend the staire. Mite GwdaB, hsariu^ a noise, cried lt;mtman: akmed totes— s- f« WHo'b there?”; Mathew^darted. back to the Jtitehen ahd‘telz^thejpoker.^L* J':i*•n ff.Come ;ori,° saidhe to • his confederate, “or we zd^.be bagged.;” iThe two passed' hurriedly toward the parlor.;. Mathefls/,entered; and,.before Miss -a .Goodall could utter a scream, brained Her with a poker. Then they turned down tb6 gas and ransacked .the library, prooeeding.next up stairs. The grbom inoved' all thebooijfo tte''carriage; which was drireti Off:»Pausing for a moment, lost the Jeamage .wheels sHouhl attract the attention of. any iu his own house, Mathews at length opened the Yxobt‘dM*rtoadepni.'*^Ther0 waka'faint -light in the hall, which was shed - on tbe uniform of A polioerDan^u the sidewalk below.. Mathews, with greatipi^atepf mind/rooked up t the sky as1 though tesiiiting- the weatbfr/and -then re-en-tored the bouse and closed the door. He locked.it as he found. it, and returning to tho Ititehexi, directed his son to be pawed through! the pump:bole a* before. t-Thiswas done#andaftorqniUiDg the bouse, by; the. back;door, the.boy bolted it and.was Bafely drawn bfick into the adjoining’kitchen. * The. poker with which the fatal blow waa r struck waa dropped into ithe well Mathews then followed the carriage into the Edgbosten road-.where it awaited him, and drove off to'sup^ririlerid the“difl4v^l8f#the stolen property. This took him longer than he expected; and/onhis return home,, after midnight he excused .himself to his visiters by teying thatii* bompariion wm so ill that he had to remain with. her uri-till tHe arrival'of a medial man.Mathews ;waa 'banged* at Warwick in the spriog 0lt; .1Q4L .His confederates were* not captured;'and it is supposed :is «square miles, at a place called Mine La-motite; titebtffi/ oite ted oue^half leaguesfront by six league*, dqep, for wgh ty*pn% •qiiare miles, on the Little. Menunec. fit Behaut’a 'Tbrks-ttn^ 65e‘HAgi« fetot t. a _____by rireieacteaideep, or-teghloeir sqnw*. fit Fort Chartres, j^- fonrtbj/oix^mile*.tea^e front, by flve leagu^ ideep^orp-tee aqiiHe nriite,'atiP^otte.jHL,they fied to this cbontry.-Educatloa of tbe President*.v .... a •The SyrftcuM TTnli'crtity Herald has made up. the following. table of Preside Sla and : their plaoee of education, which is of interest:WftftLmatou-rQood Eaallah, educatioa,, but utrtftBtudiod the ancient Unguagee.AdMma—Harvard.. .....Jeffmrra—William and Mary.**■^iilldlsori—PrizMMtOD. ••.,AdunB,;J. Q.—Hamid. • , . :‘ Jaokaon—limitel edacabon. • 1 .Van Boren - Acad«aio edtiMticn.. „Htrrieon—Hwxtpdefi fiaduey OoHege.' - . .;; TvJer—William and Marr... /Pcllf—Uuirereity of North Carolina. *Tarior—81lfbt«t rodimenta. Fifhnoro—Not liberal!y_ educated.Pierce—Ikmdoin.. Baclianan—Dickir»on.tinoolri— Education very .• Jcbreon—Sdf-edcwated;. ■ -GrariU-Weet Point.^ Monroo and Harrison did not gradu ate. Monroe * left college to join • the Revolutionary army. Financial reverses deprived^ Harrison of a full course. Polk wm the oldest whan graduated, being*. 17. The ma-beffig InWag^ente tm Square-miles:'1 ■ This giibl• hae'at this J’day the* same guarantee it h*d in 1723 add-1731, being protected by the . treaty of cession of Louifltaria * by • France * to;* the:. United States, signed in 1803 bj -k^rquia.de Lassos, whose eon at this time is living ii St: IxriiiA Until la«y! nd‘ serious reokloatkrDa havebeeiuriade bytheheixs ofcBeuaut to- recover- poasqaaioi^ of thelands granted.to their.aucestora. Tlie Gdrefnriiebt of the United States,’how-evcr, which: canceled-or sold the same, carefully inserted iu all ite deed« the clause, “ subject to French claims,” so that the present hoMere have -only1 oon--ditioioal Cities,'Over whick the: awoyd of Damocles is constantly suspended by the heirs of Ronaut. .-It.w ^impossible to\eum.,np. tlic.immense interest* dispersed . all oyer Illinois and Missouri, which are 'depending upon -thi* Beoaut inheriteuoe.',., A. few .examples trill finjfice: In 1872 tlie Mine Lamothe was sold ' fo oiiJ Ehglisli fcom-pany for £1,000,000; -the' -bargain was suspended for a year, in order tp give the sellers time to jrobiire a clear' title7, and wos^canceled Afterward/-afl they Were nuablotoobtaina quit claim .-deed; of the Renaut heirs. ..... .The city sf Peoria, which' was founded by the Frenchifl.1673.- and wHich^is at present one of the most important cities of Illinois, ia entirely’built on land be-longiug to raid heirs, and from Peoria to :the.Mississippi a great many villages are in the same condition/. From this it is tesflv nbderatood that‘ of~iate': eeribhs efforts'-have been’ made:ufhuht tip the heirs; of Benaat and* to obtein ,their power, of attorney.. Wo know a'large banking 'house in Chicago/ MefWK Mo-MuJlen Brothcrir, • who. have expanded SOO,(Xip for this purpose during.tho loafc two yeara.iu this country as Veil ’as in Ffahce/ Cotmt - do’ TottfnOTi,1 living’hi Pari*, whoiia occ of the principal heirs,offered to sell his anterost to Mcesrs..McMullen ; ah teschtioi point iu this transaction, however, is to establish by authentic: document? • the? complete ;gcuc alogy of tlio Renaut family, and to know all the surviving heire, in order to be able to exhibit before tho courts, the power of attoreey of all the heirs. We don't believe that the-McMullens arc in poescs*r Sion of these documents:'' The want of u single signature will set at naught jvll proceedings, ft td* as Mctem -McMullen are going .to.bejin their suit, we odvisoi all Mrties concerned to take carc of their interests. * * :: ,: * '- We have in our possession all. the letters and proofs of. what wc have stated in'regard to tlie Rfchftut sricccsr sion.—New York Courricr dw Elalz Unis.. x: i. i23 .: Tyler thejonfcy graduated, at. 20, thia being alv the* average age. Jeffeiten * probablyhod tho most liberal education and broadest culture.. It is said, that hi* range bf^knowledge would compare favorably with :th*t of Burke. The drill •t West Point. may be considered equal to a oollege lt;xurte, and in many reapect*imperibr.'’ In discipline and mathematical itouning it is not et|uftl*d by any American college. Coaafcmg.Gen; Grant,two-thirds of bur President* have bten -college men. - To be sure the two whose names have t become housebol d words, Washington, the. Father, and Lincoln, the Martyr, were not lilfetmlly educated; but theirs were special miasioM. They live in the affection* of the nation jather-than in the intellect, as embodied in the Constitution and laws, Heirs was to execute, not to mohh. tRath HaltThe Boaton oocreepondent of the Cleveland Plaindealer write*:. “Mr. James Parton’s bride is the 1 Nelly* of Fanny Fern's novel, 4 Ruth Hall,' the greatest literary, bombshell that ever exploded in Boston; The Kook'was pub-’ listed in 1856, just' before its author’s marriage to Mr. Parton, and as it con-, tained. caricatures of nearly all editorsof the weekly papers in the city, a paiu-it of Nathaniel;fullv unflattering portrai P. Wdlis, Lady BleMU)gton’s * Yankee Poodle, * and such a llkenera of her father-in-law and' his wife is a spirited woman would' bo likely - to paint, the outcry •gainst it .was loud;„. Everybody protested that hiafeeling* were not hurt, and defended everybody^ else.from the cions.attacks* made by -MistressFanny. Columns of leading article* were written' to aliow , that the portraits were libels, and the book was • sold' bv teonranda. Looking over it to-day, when .the sting has .quite departed from .it,-it seem* rather bright but ^ inartistic,^and ocoa-sioDally spiteful; and it is well faown that'tbo writer underestimated tbe kind-of her own and Mr. Elunim•,« »vn ». 1DM. ____ _.ldridge*afather: They dedded'after th* dewth ofher husband, who wva-'not all tbe angel'that, her fancy painted him, to make her an annual allowance of fOOQ,' which intliofle days wasecoughto modretiy *up»' “Treni.k Sheww•the riieult of. tho .robbery, and three splendid dumonde, indchtlfled as Mr.luid gizfchored at the dconvuy, sad much ftiirjiriHe was expre?«ed st Miss Goodall'sGoodall’B. v Mathews ‘ idcutifiedf as.'one Brica, who had formerly been a mm-, ter at Bermondsey, but had defrauded't ■ a:i._____A a- ffn \ -Ins creditors and decamped' The wom'ah daughter wiiihia wife,.'wliopa-aid’.as his itiid the boy was their child.When Mathews found that everythingport her and her two ohiUna. xuaatisfled, and. betook herself to liters-' lure to inorease, her. msonroe*1.btit it is not oh record* that she ever 'vetoed to draw her quarterly #150.•Col. 8fl*rtm;' of to Twemty-fourth United State* 'Infantry, who recently m*da.;a W sooot through the Sfeksd Plains of Texre, report* that their tree character has.been' xvsappveheaded, to wood, water and gtMi-aboiind in the •ertioH* he explored, abdticna tot had wriooriy been regsid^daaalmestunm-
Newspaper Details
Palo Alto Reporter
Emmetsburg, Iowa, US
Sat, Mar 18, 1876
Page 1
Full Page
Clipped by
Mary B.
USA 22 May 2018
Other Publications Near Emmetsburg, Iowa
Emmetsburg Reporter Emmetsburg Democrat
Emmetsburg Reporter
Emmetsburg Democrat
Palo Alto Reporter
Drainage Atlas Palo Alto County Iowa
