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Show adorned her belt. After the pleasures of Atlanta had begun to pall the couple removed re-moved to Murphy, an Isolated little hamlet ' In western North Carolina, where Gould after a few days of abstinence began a carouse ca-rouse of the most lurid sort. In one of his drunken frenzies he chased his wife through the halls of the village tavern, striking her with his riding crop. He was taken to his room by the servants, and Mrs. Gould soon followed him. There the assault was renewed, and fearing for her life, as she asserted at the inquest, the wife stabbed her husband twice with the toy dagger. He fell on the bed mortally wounded, and while he lay there Mrs. Gould diverted herself at the piano by singing sing-ing the jolliest eongs she knew. The wounded man lingered for three days. After his death Mrs. Gould was arrested, tried and acquitted by two justices of the peace. Since then she has passed the time in alternating paroxysms of grief and hilarity, but whether sorrowing or rejoicing re-joicing has found comfort in cigarettes, which she smokes incessantly. If Mrs. Gould's tale is to be believed she has been married sixteen years, and at the time of her wedding her husband was a wealthy coffee planter in Ceylon. Their life seems to hava been a wandering one, and some years ago Mr. Gould visited America, leaving his wife in charge of his sisters. How she chanced to exchange a comfortable home for the harsh charity of :y Was it Done? A Query Constantly Following the Commission of a Criminal Deed. SANOE CASE OF MBS. GOULD. Woman Who Sings, Smokes Cigarettes and Writes Poetry After Kill-, ing Her Husband. t y Hr? Tbafc is the 9uer' I I which must always sup- II 1 plement any story of III crime. Looked at from 111 "ie dispassionate stand-I stand-I If point of d isi uteres ted- If uess there seems to be a I jf strange unrAsouable. ness in the perpetration wrong which would nat- .v . suggest that the evil is so lacking in mental er as to warrant the presumption of in-j'ty. in-j'ty. Indeed it is a common saying, even Hardened and habitual lawbreakers, that mm who has been in jail once is a fool ie ever does anything to warrant his be- locked up a second time." Ask tha wr of the assertion why it is that he the bars so frequently and hia 'J is almost sure to be: weas it's because I'm crazy." ranting lunacy to be a prime factor of ' 'aw breaker's makenn it must be both was noticed under the postal car. No special importance, however, was given to it, aa it was imagined it was an arrangement to accommodate the passengers' passen-gers' luggrtge, or that, as one of the officials offi-cials put it, some one was stealing a ride. But when the train arrived at Cape Town it waa found that a cut in tbe shape of an ellipse, and about 3 feet by 1 foot, had been made in the bottom of the compartment. The staff on Investigating saw that this aperture had been made immediately below be-low the safe in which was the diamond output from Kimberley. They at once came to the conclusion tbat the diamonds had been stolen, aud, as one of the officials said, "You might have knocked me down with a feather." Fortuuately, however, the gems were safe. The would be thief evidently had taken alarm, and fled at the instant when he had almost accomplished his purpose. The safe is about 1 foot 8 inches by 1 foot 2 inches, and always occupies one spot in the van, being fastened to two uprights; it is further secured by clamps. Tbe thief . had made a hole in two places, and seventeen seven-teen cuts In all. Below the carriage he had rigged up a seat, which waa 8 feet 8 inches long, consisting of a plank with rope attached to the connections of the brake. The seat swung only 8 feet 8 inches below the level of the van, and the daring fellow must have sat on this risky bench, and with feet against some projection have pierced flooring and safe. The latter wa about three-quarter of an inch from the floor, and contained some 32,000 worth of diamonds. It ia a remarkable fact that the depredator knew the exact spot of the safe; but it is not so remarkable that the post ofllea officials who traveled did not hear his operations owing to the rattle of the train. He thought he saw a ghost. That is why John Williams confessed himself a murderer, mur-derer, ''gave away" his pal and cleared up tb mystery surrounding the recent burglary bur-glary of Mr. Decker's house at Morris, Bis!, which involved the killing of Decker and the almost fatal beating of his mother. As Williams, who is a negro, and his companion, com-panion, James Maxwell, rushed from the house they met a servant girl clad In her night dress. The colored man thought ber a ghost, and ever after, while a fugitive and while in custody, was tormented by recollections of the supernatural vision. ll!lrtltM!llft;.ft ""table and 'Me to assume s' Mrs. Lillian ."onld, who 7 her hns-cd hns-cd the other 5- at Murphy, Ijm was a mad-At mad-At any e We story of CTime is 0U8 '"e most sensa- that has re-15 re-15 come to Wm 1 . WILLIAMS AND MAXWELL. Ko actual proof existed against either Williams or Maxwell, but the black'a disordered dis-ordered fancy constantly conjured up the 'spoo'u," and finally, panic stricken aud unnerved, he told tbe details of the hideous crime. Kow he and his partner etaud an excellent chance of banging. Bjtb are Chicago men with bad recoru. THE ATTEMPTED DIAMOND EOBBERT. a London pooruouse is not known. Indeed In-deed the only facts fully established are those connected with Mrs. Gould's stay in New York and with the tragedy at Mur- PhOne of the many queer incidents connected con-nected with the affair occurred on the day of the funeral. Mrs. Gould did not attend the obsequies, but sat in her room and wrote poetry. Here is her production: TO GOD FOR MT HTSBASD'S STIBIT: My God, I linger yet on earth. With reverend prayer to thee, Fearless mid tbe awful dearth, Tbat thou will yet bear me. In boly regions tor above, A spirit yet may linger. Awaiting from tae hands of love Some sign of the blessed floger. That hand now dares on earth to write, Now ciasps ttseif ia prayer, Entreatuig.aofcs the holy lilt To show her husbanJ where H yet may meet his weepio? wife Who prayerfully asks God s aid. To toad her to etenuJ Ute, And be, with Charlie, saved. Tha "whys" in tbe Gould case are numerous nu-merous Why did the man beat his wife? he was a brute, did she leave Eng. "and to join him? Why did she i make a kew York record as a drunkard? Aad why did the ill assorted but seemingly wealthy pair go to the obscure hamlet of &Sm. erected along . different differ-ent line, has to do with . recent event in South Africa, and takes form liite this: WhT did the robbar lose his nerve at t he last moment when be had a fortune in his ' , Here ia the story: A mail train frorVT Kimheriey to Car Town carried, valuable consignment of diamonds. On rocMfla .KJuebX road an attachment "tit it ig MRS. ULUAU S. GOULD. : SWe that the actual facts will never M known. It has been established, "Ter, that Mrs. Gould reached Kew :"rom England in October, 1888. r Passage, had been paid bytheLon- vanr3r.ers of the Por and uPn her 'in Gotham, she went to a boarding ''. ,m t'hrystie street. Within thirty ne became insane from the excessive 1 stimulants and was removed to W ospital- -t1" her recovery the n 1? furnished her with transportv , -.fcnetta, Ga.,whereit had been aa-tht aa-tht Charles Gould, the man she irith TM her hushand then resided. ,ln her departure from New York the r f 7r3-Gould passed out of the pur-a pur-a th i RUhoriti!8 until the other day, fmm'.v tftils ivei above were extract-m extract-m the official records by those interna inter-na securing the true story of the worn wo-rn How 808 paased the time iltwU rof her arrival at Marietta lid t 1 moment when she stabbed 'end! IrPnris not known, save as may be given to her own narra-i narra-i j jswrts that on joining her hus-: hus-: kit,V0Und him liS opulently and as fn T ly- They removed to JelUco ruL. ieni8ee, where they remained morethanayear and V S'npe they Ti8ited AtuinU' -el r- Gould, by common report, h;me notorious for getting drunk IwteeT and for beatin hii wife-' wife-' nn,' tlsp "J"- who is a handsome ;ntlv V Jor thereabouts, dreaseri "3K "ot.n(Iwor'nanycostlyomaments. - ners a jeweled dagger, which |