In his latest adventure, Nick Carr of Scouting NY bravely enters the newly opened COS store at 129 Spring Street in Soho to check out a preserved well where a murdered lady was found in the 18th century. Racked has covered this before , but it's worth revisiting mainly because it's such an fascinating story: On December 22, 1799, a young woman named Gulielma Elmore Sands left her boarding home to elope with her secret lover, Levi Weeks.