THE MONTE CARLO TRAGEDY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8509, 10 August 1907, Page 5

THE MONTE CARLO TRAGEDY.

FURTHER DETAILS. ;Received August 9, 8.34 a^m. LONDON, August 8. ':The Goolds will be tried at Monte •Carlo. A blood stained dagger, chopper, ■saws, and a knife were found iin their . apartments. rA niece living with them was sent :away before the crime was committed. Mrs Goold told peonle that her husband was subject to hemorrhage. Goold, while at Monte Carlo, openly Styled hiirself, "Sir Vere Goold." Hisvwife gave the police the maiden name of "Girodin." Both were-heavy gamblers. An entry in Livev's notebook mentions, that she lent the <£oolds a thousand francs, and a card was'found asking, for immediate repayment. The newspapers allege that Goold is apparently a brother of ~Sir James .Stephen Goold, or else assumed thei«ame. The .prisoners, with their niece, lived at Montreal in 1891, and conducted -a fashionable dressmaking business.

Sir J a rr.es Goold's brother married & Mademoiselle Girodin.

Recehfefl August 9, 11.25 p.m. LONDON, August 9. % The Goolds asked the victim whoss name is Esima Levin (not Livey) to tea on Sunday at 5 o'clock. She remarked to £-friend: "It's funny how fond they are getting of me. They are literally smothering me with ;kindness. I eannot help thinking they must have a motive." Mrs Levin «*as the beautiful widow of a Swedish engineer, and enjoyed income of ;£1,500. She was possessed of mudh valuable jewellery, ■which she aluost always wore. The jewels found is Madame Goold's possession were ®«orth £2,500, and were mostly marked with the initials "E.L " The card found asking for the repayment of one thousand francs did not refer to the Goolds., but to a lady of a somewhat similar same. Booker, whom the Goolds accuse of the murder, canr.ot bs traced, and the police believe that such a person not exist. Couraygeres, a servant girl at KJaolds' ißat, states that ske heard a n >ise like a struggle, about 6 o'clock on Sunday, in the Goolds' room, followed by a cry "Let mo go." She went upstairs, and listened, but hearing no more thought it was a family dispute, and returned to her work. Received August 9, 11.35 p.m. LONDON, August 9. Goold first told a railway employee to send the trunk to Lyons by express, then changed his mind, ordering it to be 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 Goold looked very queer, and was shivering. Her aunt said that he had been vomiting blood, and that she intended to take him to a Marseilles specialist. The niece added that she noticed nothing unusual about the house until the Goolds left, when she saw bloodstains on the walls, and on a tub in the bathroom. She attributed these to her uncle's hemorrhage. Received August 9, 11.38 p.m. ADELAIDE, August 9.

In connection with the Monte Caflo tragedy, it has been ascertained that Sir James Stephen Goold, known at Gladstone as Mr Gcold, has resided in Gladstone for the past twenty years, and is employed by the Railway Department. He is a widower with six children. Goold is working on the permanent _ way, and is strongly averse to publishing family details • until he sees the papers. He states that he has not seen his brother Vere for 45 years. Sir James received a cable from the London Standard, to-day, asking for information about himself, but he will not reply. (Goold is an Englishman and his wife a Frenchwoman. The murdered woman Levin was a Swede. Sii James Stephen Goold, baronet, is a son of a late resident magistrate at Waterford.