A HORRIBLE CRIME.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3769, 13 August 1907, Page 4

A HORRIBLE CRIME.

More Sordid Details. London,' August xo. Goold, who with liis wile was arrested at Marseilles on suspicion of being concerned in the murder of Mrs Levin, widow, at Monte Carlo, implored his wife to he prudent, since the officials would read all letters. He wrote, “ I wonder it all these horroisare bad dreams ?” Mrs Goold told the Magistrate that Mrs Levin left her jewels, asking her to pawn them. She asserts that Goold when intoxicated conceived the mad idea of disposing of the body, and she was rrnable to dissuade hint from it. The post-mortem examination discloses ten wounds, one piercing the heart. Four were apparently inflicted with scissors. A pair of blood-stained scissors was found in Goold’s rooms. Isabella Girodin, neice of Mrs Goold, states that her aunt forbade her to enter the box-room, where the police found indications that the body had been hidden before being dismembered. French newspapers declare that the wife dominated Goold. He states that he claimed the baronetcy because all his brothers had been killed in Australia.