EXTRAORDINARY CASE.
At Westchester, near Philadelphia, William E. Ucklerrock was hanged for the murder of W. S. Goss. This case has attracted widespread attention from the pecularities of the murder. Udderrock and Goss, who were brothers-in-law, entered into a con-sph-acy to defraud insurance companies. Policies to the amount of 25,000 dollars were taken out on the life of Goss. In a shanty on the outskirts of Baltimore Goss carried on the business of manufacturing a substitute for india-rubber, and one night this shanty was burnt. Udderrock, who had been at a neighbour's house, went soon afterwards to the scene of the lire, and discovered in the ruins a corpse, said by him to be that of Goss. Subsequently the hitter's widow claimed the insurance, but the companies successfully resisted on the ground of fraud. Nearly a year afterwards Goss's corpse was discovered buried in a wood in Chester county, Pennsylvania; and Udderock, being arrested, was convicted of murdering him, and was hanged for it. Udderock, during the intervening year, had tried his best to keep Goss in, and finally, through anger and despair, killed him in order to get him effectually out of the way. Few tragedies have ever occurred that have been more complete than this. Both the partners in the conspiracy paid the penalty with their lives.
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Globe, Volume III, Issue 230, 5 March 1875, Page 3
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