New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-08-28
ALBERT D. SWAN MURDERED
KILLED IN HIS OFFICE BY H. K. GOODWIN.
SENSATION IN LAWRENCE. MAss-REAsoSs ron
THE MURDER.
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BosToN, Aug. 27.-A murder was committed
in the neshboring city Of Lawrence this morning which
caused great sensation owing to tho prominence Of
the victim. Albert D. Swan who prominently ,dent
fed with the telephone company, director Of the Bay
State Bank and principal in the L. Sprasue Bsb-
bin and Shuttle Company. Mr.. Swan was busy em-
ployed this morning In his Office when clerk announced
Henry l.. Goodwin, an electrician. The visitor was
ushered into Mr. Swans private Office and took Q seat
directly behind Mr.. Swan. The two linen conversed
together for some time. Enoch 7. Coburn, Mr. swans
In the bobbin company passed through the oce
and shook hands with Mr. Goodwin, who appeared to be
In q cheerful mood Mr.. Goodwin has been In the EN-.
ploy or the Molecular Telephone Company Of New-York
Of which Mr. Swan mas the general manager and came
TO the Office to claim several THOUSAND dollars which be
said we're Que him from the company. little discus
sion followed, when Mr. Goodwin drew a Smith Wes-
80 calibre revolver deliberate Mr.
Swan In the back OF the head. Mr. swan reeled and fell
the floor the bookkeeper who had heard the snot.
entered. Mr.. Goodwin walked TO the telephone and
called the police to come and arrest Eim. Assistant
Marshal yosc drove TO the sprague MILL Mr. Goodwin In
the meantime going the station and g lg himself up.
He stated that Mr. Swan had robbed him Of all he had
and there period In a mans life when he could
stand He had reached that point and vent TO
the mill TO kill Mr. Swan and willing to suffer the
consequences. Mr. Swan lived only few minutes after
the shooting
The prisoner thirtyeignt years odand born and
brought up IN Lawrence. He OF the firm OF Good
win Caldwell who started the telephone system In that
ety aud sold MrSwan and his partner Mr.. Good
win then went to South America, where be managee
Of the Guyer Bell telephone system OF Buenos Ayres.
lie returned years agoaud entered the employ Of the
Molecular Telephone Company. Lately he has been es-
tabshlng the Molecular system In Cleveland. He was
drummer boy in Company Ii, I'd Massachusetts Heavy
Artillery during the Var. HIS VIE lived at No. lat
Hampsnie-st. Lawrence. He Is a capable electrician
with bright and pleasing manners. Mr.. Goodwin
turned to Lawrence about three days ago from trip to
Chicago
Mr.. Swan was norn in Tewksbury in lsl5. He went 10
Lawrence in ls4S aud educated there He was
graduated from Corners Commercial College In Boston,
and married Helen T.. Churchill In 1860. He has an
adopted about twelve years OF age. He has been
the insurance business at No. Lawrence-st. since
1860. He at time In the banking house Of Hail.
garten Herzned. New York. aud paying teller OF tho
New.York Stock Board. He largely Interested In
the telephone in which he made fortune. He was az
The time his death Of the Molecular Com
pany principal stockholder and director OF the Bay
state National Bank and paymaser OF the LIST Battalion
OF Light Artillery the last twelve years. He was
Mason and Knight TempIar. Mr. Swan was considered
OF the wcathest OF Lawrence, and was unver-
sally liked.
iH,er developments show the difficulty between Good
win and Swan to have been over patent telephone
both state that when the switchboard was invented
Goodwin went to swan for financial back.
@ pa,eus Ihs was latter sSpe& gave for tno % na%S q
Henry K Goodwin. assignor, one-ha interest to A. ID.
the Patent oce. and before new oatent could be ap
Piled for Waite & Bartlett OF New-Yors, applied for
patent covering the same GROUND. Sooawns asnns
out the patent led the loss OF $4,000 TO Goodwin,
which had offered him for his invention Goodwin
thought that swan had prevented him rom getting w"r
the West IN search OF work, and although he
Is capable electrician be could ma none.
ably breeding the imaginary wrong done by swan,
the Goodwin had. Several times he obtained
for him and they were apparently on the best
terms with each other, always Joking. and even ths
morning talking together pleasantly.
Mr. Swan was clerk in the banking house Of Hall
garen rschfeld for few years toward the close Of
the Civil War; At the oice Of Hallgarten Co., the
present rn 1t was said yesterday that he assist
ant gold clerk for two three years and that hc LEFT
the firm TO return to Lawrence. where he engaged I'm
the insurance business with his father Since that
time" IL was said had lost sight OF him, although
lie had occasionally visited NewYork We knew that he
had entered insurance business at Lawrence and We
heard that he had become largely interested In tele
phone schemes when with u.s. he bright pleasant,
young fellow whom sorry to lose. lie was
with short time however, that when the factwas
had forgotten all about him. No, IL Il not
true thai Goodwin was ever In our employ we know
nothing about him"
The statement In a Lawrence dispatch that Mr swan
was at one time paying teller Of the New-iork stock
Board cannot be explained There Is no such Office ss
the stock Exchange aud former director OF tue Ged
Exchange Bank which was organized about the time
that Mr. swan left the employ OF Halgarten& hirsch-
feld said positively that no man OF the name was
clerk In the bank. The Molecular Telephone Company
has an ONCE at No. go Newst and at No 3s Broad-st
Molecular District Telephone aud Telegraph Com pauy.
neither of these addresses could one De toun yes
terday to give Information about Goodwin or swan.