| Show i r M Jr J e fOOL UI presen C Convicted d Cl Clergyman E Eager ager to S Send en d H His IS t S MW Pretty Actress Friends Specially Engraved ng lh Han nt of o lI a aben S 0 a I Invitations T To 0 B Be e P Present resent Wh When en H He e tt Sg 9 t r 1 j ben n tP 1 P 0 On th the G Gallows II th the L Laws Law's Law z n tilt t JO 1 1 Pays ays n e a e a w s Penalty for Murder J Le J 1 D y tt t I i I 0 L EING a sociable soul and uncommonly uncommonly I BEING B fond of the ladies the Rev Philip Allison Goodwin appreciated appreciated more Inore than he could say the atten atten- attentions attentions attentions of the Hollywood beauties who showered him with notes and floers when he was on trial for murder Throughout that trial one of the most sensational ever conducted in Orange County California he protested his innocence innocence and insisted he would be freed Fate and a R hard boiled jury however decided otherwise and a cold blooded voiced cold voiced soft judge said the convicted clergyman must hang For a time he was in the nethermost depths of de despair pair What bothered him most was that he never would be able to show those movie stars how bow much he be appreciated their moral support in his hour of need Now that the day and hour of his ex- ex execution ex execution are close at band however the dapper and sheik-like sheik little minister walks about his bis cell in the famous San Quentin prison whistling and in the best of spirits lie He has made a discovery It is that 4 the State of California allows a con con- condemned con condemned man to ask five persons of his own selection to attend his hanging liang-ing When a turnkey told him of this ar- ar arrangement ar ar- ar arrangement Goodwin wrung his hand hand as though he brought news of a reprieve Now he exulted I can get even with those good friends of mine who were such a comfort to me With some of them at least Im going to invite them to the hanging What an idea ideal Is it not old man And one shocked turnkey backed away and ran to tell the warden that the condemned man had gone off his head and was likely to do himself an injury Not so however The chipper sleek and self possessed young man who was found guilty of bludgeoning a Los Angeles bond broker to death and then the setting fire to the body never was more sane In his life He meant it Ever since he has been something ofa of ofa ofa a pest badgering the attendants for their ideas of the right kind of snappy invitation card for a II first-class first hanging Copper engraved at the very least eh ho he suggests and waits walts for criticism When none is forthcoming he be goes on I think so At the very least Im I'm sure they will appreciate them What could be a prettier gesture It took days daya and nights of deep thought on the tha part of the eccentric young man in the San Quentin death house to figure out his weird invitation on list At last he set Bet his mind upon three beautiful stars stare of the Iho screen sereen a j jailer ller who had been friendly with him and a reporter who had written court room stories that tickled his vanity He declines de- de declines de declines clines to disclose the names of the actresses ac- ac ac actresses tresses until the copper engraved in- in invitations in invitations are actually In the mans malls As Aa to the form to be employed in the wording of them he ho is reported to have come to the conclusion that something simple and of matter would be In Inthe Inthe the best of taste Something like this for Instance Tho The Rev Philp Allison Goodwin reo re- requests quests the pleasure of the presence of Miss Flossie Featherhead at San Quen Quen- Quentin Quentin tin January 14 1027 1927 In addition ho intimates that he will enclose brief and more informal notes to the actresses thanking them for tor their flowers and their notes of encourage encourage- encouragement encouragement ment mente What bothers the workaday jailers Is IsI I that alienists tell them Goodwin Is as w sand Bane as all any of them and twice as aa bril bril- brilliant brilliant m Usually a doomed man asks for tor a clergyman or perhaps a close friend of the family to accompany him on the sad march to the gallows Occasionally a young man will ask for a member of r M n I i 1 s- s sr r x The Rev Philip A Goodwin sen sen- sentenced sentenced to death for an unusually brutal murder his his immediate family Usually they de- de decline de decline cline Making a party out of it creates a precedent in San Quentin The warden and the jailers are reading up on death house bouso etiquette Goodwins Goodwin's Is may devil gesture in line with other incidents of his his the the- theatrical theatrical the theatrical career Only twenty-eight twenty years old he be has been a soldier actor play play- playwright playwright playwright wright and priest Ho IIo likes the ap- ap applause applause ap applause of the multitude If he cant can't please em em he likes to shock cm em Even en at the foot toot of the gallows tree When he was arrested for the murder of Joseph Joeeph J Patterson a Los Angeles bond broker he was pastor of a Los Angeles congregation under tho juris juris- jurisdiction jurisdiction diction of the American Church Catholic Catholic This sect has no connection with the th Greek Creek or Roman Catholic organizations Patterson was killed on March 15 of the present year lIe He was missed on March 10 18 A week later his charred body with the skull bashed in was found In a lonely canyon on the road to San Diego Eventually suspicion was directed to- to toward to toward ward the priest who had vanished shortly after Patterson disappeared Through acquaintances of the theater he was traced to New York and arrested in that city last July With nothing but circumstantial evidence evi- evi dence available and that not too strong it looked at first as if he would get oR Then on September 13 his pal Albert Dewey Gaines a Utah cowboy was arrested In Montana Gaines and Goodwin had been Patter sons Patter sons son's boon companions in Los Angeles and were the tho last to bo seen Been in his com com- company company pany Cooped up In a cell in Orange county the cowboy from Utah lost his nerve and turned states state's evidence After that there was little question of the priests priest's conviction Gaines said he first met Goodwin In Utah State Prison The latter was not acting the part of priest then Ho lIe was serving a term for grand larceny Both young oung and mettlesome they agreed to get together when they were discharged and they did Goodwin who had been a soldier In the Canadian army and otherwise seen Been the tho world was the I I L I 1 J I I f l f i j I M P i s sY st Y 4 t I Ix IS y It t x S 1 j t tx der S 'S a t ta tk ti k tl 1 r 2 a vI i 1 5 f I VJ I t I J 1 1 rf 4 y r ti r Miss Ruth Walser fiancee of Joseph J Patterson the California broker who was the victim of the shocking crime for which Goodwin must die leader of the combination For a time he was a 11 prison chaplain Then he tried play writing Later acting They drifted all over tho the West In Los An- An Angeles An Angeles geles the American Catholic Church authorities were taken in Goodwin con con- convinced con convinced vinced them he was a proper man for their ministry Ho lie was given the clerical livery and began his ministrations It was not an ideal arrangement Gaines said Goodwin had expensive tastes Ho lie liked to go calling on the girls in Hollywood more than he did the tho members of ot his rather drab I little flock was was Then too there was not enough money in it it He lie got his pay in fees and bap bap and were few and far tar between In IDe 10 b Johann oh retort In 4 F II ff the ha prison prison on authorities permit the Ia I W doomed minister to carry out his e I R e extraordinary plans his charming Friends of 01 the films and the stage tage may f expect soon oon to receive receive the strangest invitation ever sent ent a young woman Patterson with them to sober up That bird is in no shape to face his friends Albert Dewey in ln Los 3 Angeles this morning G Ga Gai a ai ain i in n e C s I the The ne cowboy stopped the car at the n cowboy whose hose end cn of oC the ne lane Goodwin lifted Patter Patter- Patter evidence q evidence con con con- conson son out ou and an told Gaines Caines to wait lIe Ile b n Good Good- lugged the drunken young young spendthrift win away into the thicket Gaines sat atthe at atthe j the wheel The steps grew fainter He lIe Ii J could no longer hear them There was I r sr- sr a long wait wail Desert quiet Out of the thicket came the priest s salone I alone He lIe was white but determined IBack I i e Back to the main highway he die di- L di-L I reefed IL Did you fix the kid kid up up all right II u a Gaines asked i Ii Never mind the tho kid snapped Good Good- Goodwin win irritably Step on the gas GOOd I Lets Let's S i get out of here i Gaines noticed that he had the gaso gaso- gasoline gasoline gasoline line can in his hand band He lie had not noticed him taking it when I he cot out out It seemed to be empty Under orders theman theman the man from Utah got v back to the main main highway and sent the 1 I It was at that point that the broker Patter Patter- Patterson son Patter son came with with- within within in their ken lie had plenty ot of money lIe He spent It on the slight slight- slightest slightest est provocation lie He found Good Good- Goodwin Goodwin win with his knowledge of the world from the hobo trails to the holly Hollywood woo wood d bunga bunga- t Kitt Gould the lawyer who de- de defended defended fended the minister and his daughter lows a fascinating person Getting Getting up in the world probably was the way he pictured his association with the the debo debo- debonair debo- debo debonair debonair nair and worldly wise wie young clergyman On March 13 somebody suggested a trip to San Diego and the three pals started out by automobile At San Diego they explored the old towns town's pos pos- possibilities possibilities possibilities in the way of sport aport Wherever they went the garbed black-garbed priest at- at attracted attracted at attracted attention but ho it off They met divers ladies They partook of divers drinks They shook dice at the cigar counter of oC a San Diego hotel and otherwise comported them themselves l Cs like wild young men let loose from barracks At Goodwins Goodwin's suggestion according to Gaines a generous supply of liquor was bought for the return trip to Los Angeles Goodwin also bought a can of gasoline although the tank of the car was full On the long drive back the bottle was passed around Patterson who was flush with and had been money spend spend- spending spending ing for two days drank freely Gaines took a little Goodwin took none ac at all lie Ile was silent and preoccupied Occa Occa- Occasionally Occasionally he looked at Patterson calculatingly But when the broker spoke to him he was very friendly More so than usual in fact As the miles reeled by the broker be- be became be became came intoxicated First First maudlin Then sleepy The priest encouraged him to sleep Said it would clear his hig brain and make him all right by the time tima they reached Los Angeles Early on the morning of March 15 when passing a 1 lonely canyon Goodwin suddenly told Gaines to leave lea the main road and take a n private lane that seemed to end in a thicket near the river I 1 know some somo people who livo live across the river Goodwin said Well leave l A big car s spinning pin n I In n g along the smooth r road to Los Angeles Once he lIe looked back backA A wisp of smoke was rising from the thicket aill curling laz lazily a ily ill on the early morning air Good Good- Goodwin Goodwin win threw the gasp guso line line can away Later L ate a t c r it was proved to the satis- satis satisfaction satisfaction satis-f satis faction action of one OM woman and eleven m men n that Goodwin IS first bludgeoned the IU befuddled broker to death then poured gasoline over him and set him afire Robbery was the motive The state set forth that he got a considerable amount of cash and two oil certificates i valued at 1949 1949 There was not much room for argument about the stock certificates They were sold to a Los AngeleA broker bearing what purported to be the signature of J J Patterson and indorsed by Goodwin Finger print l ex experts said the Patterson signature was wasa wasa wasa a forgery For the than ordinarily super super- superstitious superstitious tile the Goodwin case caso is full of thrills and goose pimples The unlucky number thirteen appears at every ery anglo angle of it Goodwin lived at 1313 Crown Cron mil Hill Avenue Los Angeles He left Los Angeles with Gaines and Patterson on March 13 Thirteen jurors were sworn to try the case one being an alternate I Once the priest took the part of Edward Wales in the tha play The Thirteenth Chair in which play tho the occupant of that chair is slain His partner Gaines who scaled sealed his fate fat was arrested on September 13 The skull of Patterson was tagged lagged States State's Exhibit 13 Goodwin was taken to San Quentin to await the hangman's pleasure on November 13 The Judge who sentenced him and the prosecutor who convicted him have thirteen thir thir- teen toen letters in their names On the morning of January 14 U when he mounts the stairs leading to the gal gal- gal gallows lows he will note if he Ie is counting that there are just thirteen steps law t There is one ono fly in his ointment The Th law wont won't let him have thirteen invited guests guests in the front room for the spec spectacle tade You ask five tive may only to a hanging according to tho the laws lawa of Call Call fornia fornia |
