Show Former Attorney Dies Spent Many Y Years to Aid Utes Francis M Goodwin og aged no 90 counsel el to the the- law firm of Wilkinson Cragun und and Barker of Washington D C lied of heart Attack at his home in on Sun Sun- Sunday day evening May 20 1002 Associated i wIth tribal claims attorney Ernest L Wilkinson since 19 15 Mr l Goodwin pla played ed an import import- important ant role in assisting the Wil kinson firm in the lion or of Ute claims the United States government With his passing th the Ute In hr clans as well as other Indian Tribes lost a real friend Vh was devoted to helping them In presenting their claIms and who had a thorough and Intimate knowledge of their legal problems Mr Goodwin was born in western Maryland on June 15 1871 He graduated from the class of 1891 at Milton Acad emy in Baltimore and obtain obtain- obtained ed his law degree at the Uni of Maryland in 1896 He served for two years ears as editor of the Baltimore Jour Jour- Journal nal of Commerce and then began law practice In 1898 In Baltimore In 1901 Mr Good win was Interested by the De De- Department of the Interior in ingoing ingoing going west to ed cd frauds In the dealing with the public domain in the western states lie Ill became a special agent and later chief of the field division of the General Land Office Depart Depart- Department ment of the Interior serving In those positions from 1901 to 1907 In 1904 he moved to Spokane Wash In 1 1907 he became a special f assistant to the United States Sites Attorney General in certain land fraud cases In that same year he reo re- returned turned to private law tice practice In Wash Friends of Judge Goodwin a r tY tYM M f r aj x aN 1 Ag k aY A legal expert on Indians Mr Francis M Goodwin count coun- counsel leI sel to the legal firm of Wilkinson Cragun and Barker of Washington D C dies at the tho age of 90 80 will recall his many stories and h experiences In prosecuting the land fraud cases In one celebrated d case the Judge told the story of how after several weeks of Intense Investigation and pre of a frAud case against a number of ent westerners he was called to the hotel lobby by an un- un unIdentified unidentified Identified visitor whom he could not locate upon arrivIng arriving Ing In the hotel lobby After a fruitless s search arch for the visitor vis- vis visitor he returned to his hotel to that all of the evide evidence ce had been stolen Mr Ir Goodwin served as as- as assistant assistant in the prosecuting at at- at attorney's torney's office In Spokane from 1913 t to 1914 handling numerous important crimin- crimin criminal al cases Mr Goodwin was always pro prominent In Republican pol In 1921 he was named Assistant Secretary of the De- De Department Department of the Interior lie He performed the functions of this office In a creditable manner In 1925 he returned to vate practice In the course of years ears he has represented Indian tribes tog Ing the Osage Nez Perce Warm Wann Springs Indians of California Turtle Mountain as well as associating with the Ute claims attorneys in their representation of the Utes be- be before before fore the Court of Claims the Indian Claim Commission and the committees committed of Cong Cong- Congress Congress ress Judge Goodwin is survived survived ived by his widow and his daughter Mrs Edward Bo B Williams and son James C Goodwin of D C and son Francis M 1 Good Good- Goodwin Goodwin win Jr of New York City |