Show VERY CONTEMPT contemptible ible IDLE THE tar leadville Co colorado orado vew neus news contains what purports to be an interview between a reporter of that paper a and ad J at M goodwin who has just returned from a somewhat extended trip in the interest of the salt sal t lake tribune the person named is credited with giving mgt to the reporter an account of the murder of his son in this city by mormon canites Da 11 if mr goodwin la Is correctly represented by the leadville e paper he be has been guilty of a piece of atrocious infamy for lon which there is no pal pai palliating pallia liati ting circumstance as the entire community are aware after a full fuli and searching investigation into the causes of the death of mr goodwins son the conclusion that his bis life was taken by his own hand was inevitable it was a clear case of suicide and was so decided by the jury before whom the inquest was held two out of the three of whom mckimmins and whittemore were non I 1 mormons cormons Mor mons so careful and thorough was j in relation to the case th that after atter it was conducted for some time it was continued in order to await any other developments that might possibly arise but every subsequent circumstance that came to light only served to confirm the the theory of suicide the trumping tramping trum ping up of a mormon murder upon this basis is not only an outrage on the community but a special reflection upon and an insult to the gentlemen who conducted the inquest and rendered their dea deal islen sien their findig finding being strictly according to th the 3 facts such a statement as that with which mr goodwin is credited by the leadville paper is all the more perdelous lous ious in view of the deep s sympathy that was expressed for hibser himself and family in the s sad ad calamity that betel them in ili the uh untimely death of a member of their household this sympathy was a as s keenly felt in the breasts of the mor imor I 1 mons as any other portion or class 0 of i the populace mr nit goodwin is welcome to whatever satisfaction he may derive from spreading at a distance what everybody 1 in this region knows to be a malicious and alid groundless fabrication in order to create prejudice against people toward whom he appears to en tain uain nothing but ill feeling he ought to be thoroughly ashamed of himself we have no harsher term to apply to him because probably the poor man is as much to be pitied as blamed he i ls is an ordinary person of no great consequence and ana had he not fallen into depraved company in becoming associated with the f fellows of the salt lake tribune would likely have been a very decent citizen but bat the he has been transplanted to soll soil that produces pro pio duces and develops nothing but rank and bitter weeds |