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Show CHAUFFEUR SAYS ME MURDERED GOODWIN D. C Brichoux Pleads That He Committed Deed in Self-defense. Special to The Tribune. BOISE, Idalm, Sept. I3.R. C. Goodwin, Good-win, a wealthy sheepman of Ontario and Hoise, was shot and killed on the ni&ht of September -1, TJibor day, close to midnight. mid-night. His slayer was D. C. JSrichoux, an automobile driver of Ontario. At midnight lust night Brichoux, who had but a few minutes .before nrrlvcd in Ontario with an auto load of liquor, learned that the officers had discovered the. crime ami gave hi nisei f up. The message that he was ready to submit to nnest was t;tken from his home to the ofti.'C ra bv his sixleen-yenr-old son. Brichoux confessed lo his family and to the officers that he had shot Goodwin, and, after weighting down the body, bad thrown it iiuo the Snake river. He claims the ehooLlng was done in i self-defense, and that, (earing no one would believe his story, lie tried to cover : up the crime hv casting the body into, the river. Brichoux is in jail at Vale, i closely guarded. He is held for the kill-' ing of Goodwin. Brichoux said both Oooclwin and he bad been drinking when the shooting took place. He declared he had driven Goodwin to Hieen's Mountain for Goodwin Good-win to close a sheep deal, and that on the night of September 1 they were returning re-turning to Ontario. Brichoux is not known to be a drinking man, and It Is claimed here that it was not known he was a bootlegger or engaged in that business. busi-ness. I (e declared to tiie officers that Goodwin had drank moie heavily than he. They were near Ontario in front of the dim Bottler ranch when a dog ran out i in front of the car. Goodwin wanted to shoot him. A revolver ownd by Brichoux Bri-choux lay between the two of them on the auto sent. "hum," said Brichoux, using the name by which Goodwin was ramlliarly known, "leached for the revolver. I was driving the car on the left side. He wanted to shoot the dog. 'Don't shoot him. Lum,' I said. Then Goodwin whirled and stuck the gun in my face near the right eye. skinning my nose, and said. 'To hell with ; you!"" Here Brichoux pointed to where, the gun had been placed against his nose. 1 "I grabbed the .1,1111," Brichoux con- 1 tinned, "with both hands and we tussled for possession of it, and then the gun went off. He (Goodwin) sort of slumped down in the seat, and T said, 'Did It hit you, hum?' and he didn't answer. The gun fell down into the front of the car. T spoke to him again and he didn't answer, an-swer, and I saw he was dead. The bullet went in, I suppose, about tne car." In the tussle for possession of the gun, Brichoux said the automobile ran into the ditch, and after he discovered Goodwin Good-win was dead he got out of the machine and walked about half a mile. "I was feeling pretty hard toward Lum then." said Brichoux. "I thought to myself, here I am a man with a family and he nearly killed me. I found the car In the ditch and drove on and dumped him in the creek." Brichoux said be was afraid no one would believe his story about the tussle for possession of the gun, and that after Goodwin was killed he was afraid to bring the body to Ontario and tell about It. Brichoux said he later went to Winne-mucca. Winne-mucca. where he represented himself to be Goodwin and drew on the Boise bank in his name for $500, saying he was going eaEt. He also admitted writing a letter to have Goodwin's suit case sent to Winnemucca. Asked why lie sent the telegram, he said, "Well, I was feeling pretty mean." |