Udderzook v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Chester county: Of January Term 1874, No. 230. At the August Sessions 1873, of the Court of Oyer and Terminer of the county of Chester, the grand jury found a true bill against William E. Udderzook for murder. The first count of the indictment was for the murder of “ Win-field Scott Goss, otherwise known as A. C. Wilson;” the other count charged him with the murder “ of a person whose name is unknown.”
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Error to the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Chester county: Of January Term 1874, No. 230. At the August Sessions 1873, of the Court of Oyer and Terminer of the county of Chester, the grand jury found a true bill against William E. Udderzook for murder. The first count of the indictment was for the murder of “ Win-field Scott Goss, otherwise known as A. C. Wilson;” the other count charged him with the murder “ of a person whose name is unknown.” At the same term, the prisoner being arraigned, pleaded ‘"‘Not Guilty,” and the case was continued until the next October Term. At that term, after…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Agnew
This is indeed a strange case, a combination by two to cheat insurance companies, and a murder of one by the other to reap the fruit of the fraud. Winfield Scott Goss, an inhabitant of Baltimore, had insured his life to the amount of $25,000. He was last seen at his shop, on the York road, a short distance from Baltimore, on the evening of the 2d of February 1872, in company with William E. Udderzook, his brother-in-law,* the prisoner, and a young man living near. They left him to go to the house of the young man’s father.
In a short time the shop was discovered to be on fire. After it *352had…
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