THE MONTE CARLO TRAGEDY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8891, 10 August 1907, Page 2

THE MONTE CARLO TRAGEDY.

Further Details. Press Association. —Copyright. London, August 9,

Tho Goo Ids asked the victim, .whose name was Emma Levin (not Levy) to tea on Sunday at fivo. &ho remarked to a friend “ It is funny how fond they are getting of me. 'There aro literally smothering mo with kindness. I cannot help but think they must have a motive.” Lovin' was the beautiful widow of a Swedish engineer and enjoyed an income of .£ISOO a year anti possessed much valuable jewellery which she almost always wore. These jewels wero found in Madame Goold’s possession. They were worth £2500 and mostly marked with the initials E.L. The card found asking for repayment of a thousand francs did not refer to the Qoolds but to a lady of somewhat similar name„ ~ , The Magistrate at Marseilles called the Goolds assassins and urged them to confess. They first stunned and then stabbed Madame Levin for the sake of the jewels. Goold was reticent and bis wife wildly hysterical. Hooker whom the Goolds accuse of the murder, has not been traced. The police believe ho does not oxisfc. Conavgeres, the servant girl at Goold’s flat, states she heard a noise like a struggle about 5 o’clock on Sunday in Goold’s rooms, followed by tho cry “let mo go.” "She went upstairs and listened, hut hearing no more she thought it was a family dispute and returned to her work. LONDON, August 9.

Goold first told a railway employee to send the trunk to Lyons by express then changed his mind, ordering it to ho sent to London by a slow train. Isabella Girodin, Goold’s niece, states that when she returned to the flat on Sunday evening she noticed that Goold looked very queer and that ho was shivering. Her aunt said that he had been vomiting-blood and that she intended to take him to a Marseilles specialist. . The nieco added that she noticed nothing unusual about the house until tho Goolds left when she saw blood stains on the walls and on a tub in the bathroom. PM attributed these to her uncle’s hemorrhage.

The Rea! Baronet. Adelaide, August 9. In connection with the Monte Carlo tragedy it has been ascertained that Sir James .Stephen Goold, known at Gladstone as Mr Goold, has resided in Gladstone for the past 20 years and is employed on the railway. He is a widower with six children. Goold is working on the permanent way and is -strongly adverse to publishing family details until ho sees tho papers. He stated that he hud not seen his brother Vore for -15 years. Sir James received a cablegram from the London Standard today asking for information about himself, but ho will not reply.