Show THE GOODWIN SUICIDE EVIDENCE EVIDEN CEAT AT THE inquest verdict NOT YET YUT RENDERED the NEWS last evening informed the public of the finding of a dead body la in a gulch a little northeast of the warm springs bath house and that an inquest was being held at sexton taylors office where the body had already been identified by a brother of thede the deceased as that of william goodwin the D R G fireman who disappeared so jo unaccountably about five live weeks a ago 1 0 14 ta 3 pm the coroners inquest convened mark mc inic kimmins chas 0 whittemore and dr jeter clinton having been summoned to act as jurors the first proceeding after swearing in the jurors was to examine the body which was in a pine box in the tile sextons Sex tons wagon in the back yard on the person of the deceased were found a small comb case with comb and glass a memorandum book a slik silk handkerchief some matches two or three meal tickets issued by tile the D I 1 K 1 1 G Rall rali railway way a tobacco pouch and a buckskin muney money moneybag bag containing 2 L 1 75 25 75 in silver there was also a letter addressed to wm win B goodwin tiie the tile missing foremans firemans fi remans f ull full name and signe ahmed dJ J M G his bis fathers initials it was dated at halley hailey idaho july lith and addressed to colton cotton utah the pistol with which chith it is supposed he tired fired the fatal shot allot and which a NEWS reporter has since examined is a smith and wesson 32 1 calibre nive live chambered revolver a self cocker one chamber of which was wap entirely empty another having in it an empty cartridge shell and the 0 her three loads still in As sald said yesterday the weapon was thickly coated with rust doubtless caused by the rains but ishad it had evidently been new now at tile the time it was last used this pistol answers the description of one sold by broker charles little to a man he did not know some five weeks week sago ago at his stand on second south street mr little says he does not distinctly remember the person who bought it but bud tit the sale wasim was im pressed upon his bis memory front from the tact that he had two vi pistols a colts revolver and a smith and wesson and the customer after selecting the latter iatter and paying for it asked lafile luttle ta load it for him this he did putting la but bat four cartridges and letting til the hammer down town oil on tiie tile nipple of tiie tile empty chamber wondering all the time what the man wanted of it and at his apparent lack of familiarity with a pistol shown by his asking to have it loaded for him this item of course has not been adduced at the inquest aest having been ascertained only this s morning but it Is a strong connecting link in the lile evidence favoring the suicide theory now to go back a little the first witness examined at the inquest which followed the examination of the body by dr beli belf benedict edict edlet and the others was way william 11 ridd kidd the young 0 u ng man who first discovered the lo 10 body d Y his evidence was substantially lit rit tally ly as set forth in our last issue Louls louis oviatt n nex XV iogal suard lied tied to being informed by kadd ot odys being there and to notifying alie tiie oat cers at the city hall also aiso that thae t larget target d r shoo thoo shooting ting and hunting were ivore w cocom C mon na on the hills that although lidi I 1 lived bu but n t about three quarters OF of a I 1 mile mlle III ili it f from rom the fatal gulch he would not have thought anything out of the way if he had heard a pistol shot in that neighborhood at tile the time dr benedict testified to examining tha thee body and finding but one wound which passing through the brain would cause profuse hemore age and certain eath death tile the shot was fired from right to left a common method with suicides the ball bali he had found in the hat was of the same calibre as the pistol found by the body the pistols being belm on the left lef L side of the bod body was V a s a tittle little difficult to explain bit but but it might have been been thrown there thereas t as the man fell ai or have dropped krs ir ii f S upon uron po lithe tithe the body and rolled coffon off on that sid side it was evidently a case of deliberate era e suicide the secluded place ewas was no proof against such a theory sul sni suicides usually sought solitude ile lle knew kleiv one who went skating and waited till his bis companions all retired home then sat down dellbe delibe deliberately smoked a cigar cleir or two read a paper and then put his revolver to his mouth and blew his brains out true this might inight possibly be a murder but the evidence all went wend to shuw show suicide harry C goodwin brother to the deceased and the first identifier of the body then testified lie ile saw ills his brother erlest last oil on the tile lith of august helett lie ile left on his engine at 10 pm and got back the morning of the ile he slept that day at atthe the rio klo grande grandc hotel and in the afternoon got up rip and built ills liis fire in tile the en engine lne ine inc ready forthe for the next trip ile lle lefiti roundhouse round house at pm but was seen on the platform format at by hir bir howrd now non engineer on the same locomotive for which he was fireman ile he told the men at the th round house he was going home to 10 get his clothes as he expected to be gone for some time the morning of 0 the witness went to inquire for him at the round house and was told bythe by the mail man that his hig brother had gone away homesick some wrong I 1 impression witness immediately went InI inquest enquest ln quest of him but found no trace the deceased was not what could be called a drinking iban iman though he sometimes took a glass lass 0 of beer but nol not often witness did not know kuony of any trouble between him hlin and ana anybody anyhony any Dony ile he thought some one had killed himas he preferred to believe that to the suicide theory did not see why he should RO go to such ruell an out of the way place to kill himself he never owned such a wea on as that found by the body nor habitually carried any pistol at all he was of a quiet disposition had had no domestic troubles all was peace at home and he kept company with no sirl girl ile he was a little over 25 years old an and d ried tied was five feet ten inches in height and weighed pounds ile he made from 75 to 80 81 per month but was not satisfied with his work and when his engine was ditched julyeth july ath was out of employment till within a week wee k or ten days of his disappearance ile he talked some of going to 11 pacific the 1 I 1 R G company owed edhem him from to 5 at the time of his death while while out of work he came home and nursed his wass was sick ick witness slept with him the of the loth and borrowed a dollar inight of him on parting lie he then had about ten or twelve A iV ollars with him at the conclusion of this witness testimony it was deemed advisable to adjourn the inquest one week at the same time and place la in order to procure other witnesses the father of the deceased J M good Goo goodavin divin win has hasteen been telegraphed at butte montana and IV will 1 I 1 reach home tomorrow to morrow the mother is said to be prostrated by the terrible developments in the case |