New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-13
THE GOODWIN INQUEST.
WEBSTER FOUND TO HAVE DONE The
SHOOTING.
TESTIMONY EBFoRE THE coRoNERs JURY-Thh
PRISONER HELD FOR THE GRAND
urRYiS ACTION.

rrsTr MoNY EBFORE THE CoRoNER'S JURf-IhH
PRISONER HELD FOR THE GRAND
JURY's ACTION.
The man who killed Charles E. GOODWIN !r' ""'
whom the newspapers have been calling BerlrHh -
webster. calls himself Burton c. Webster mat y
Tho name he signed to the printed form yesteru"S
hicb was handed him by Coroner Schultze after inc
ino,est IN the case was Webster also WroUe
hat bIs occupation was that Of boOnaker, and that
ro was horn in Richmond, Va. Police Captain Cross
~ the Twentieth Prcrinct. Allen Hay, one OF MS
dctectyes and Cornelius Price, keeper In the IoHDS'
took Webster from that prison TO the Coroners ooe
In second.ave. yesterday morning. William r. Howe
with his face ablazc with heat, and good part OF thS
rest Of his body ablaLe with Jewels was FrescnV III "
half Of the prisoner
The Coroner's jury consisted of Michael \. HON
man. No 90 East FOurtL.st l. Harris, NO. 50 Liberty
81: b. Kahn. No. Bond st.. Clifford f. Smith, No
10 Bondst.: John Pelsenweber, No 800 West fllty-
elghth.st. Benjamin Simon. No. IL Bond-st' WIZ
lam Campbell No 514 West Forty -second-st.; jacob
simmons No. 20. BOnd-st. Joseph Kaufman, NO. %
Bond-st; ]. Bieber No. &C. Broadway; W. I'LL, NO.
Al Great Jonesst and F. Wilshasen, No. 50 Eighth-st
Evelyn Granville, or Mrs Webster, came In through
side door with Mrs. Fanny Romano, and they Doth
took seats the prisoner. Assistant DlstncthV
t0rney John F. McIhtyre had charge OF inc case loi
the people. Roundsman John DAILY, Of the TWeh'le'n
Precinct the first witness to take the stand SAID th'
on
Goodwn's room in the Pcrcival flats, NO 2Jo west
Forty -second-st he found him lying on sofa win
wound in his right side. 81 asked him VINO sIlot hn'
said the policeman, "and he replied, 'Ihat man
Webster Peter Hogan, policeman OF the I"eh'etn
Precinct. also swore that Goodwin told him II WIS
Webster who had shot him.
Detective Allen Hay, OF the Twentieth Precinct siu
that he saw in Goodwins room broken cuSpluoI
This had apparently shattered by the fail OF Good
hodv tbo Npr
Mcfarland Of No. POS Broadway. Brooklyn, Is the
engineer Of the rercval fats. He said that on tle
evening that Goodwin was killed he, the witness
ran the elevator. AT o'clock said he, "WebSter
came downstairs and said TO me Call DOCTOR Ivy
this time the hOusekeeper and her husband ran down
from the second floor and l. thinking that 1t was MS
wife, whom / knew to be under the doctors care
was ILL., ran around to Dr.. WINNER, two doors away.
When the doctor came TO the door Of the room some
body shouted Call the police Webster went down
stairs at his usual gait
In his crossexamination the witness said he knew
Goodwin by sight, and some time before the shooting
he saw him put his around Mrs. Webster to hug
her.
odd you say anything to Goodwin
al did not"
Mr. Howe asked him for more detailed account
Of this incident. The witness said that about
month previous TO the shooting, Goodwin came III
drunk night with another man. WebSters door
was n little ajar Goodwin went in there and Mrs
Webster ran out AS she was passing him, he tried
to throw his arms around her. His friend tried to
pun him away and he said, NO. let me alone
want 70 love this little woman" His friend bnalN
succeeded in dragging him away to his own room
Mrs Webster ran over to the witness and asked him
to take her downstairs to the hOusekecpcr for pro
lection.
The next witness DR.. Sebastian J. WINNER, OF
No $50 West Fortysecond-st who swore that he told
| Goodwin that his wound fatal and that he was
going 10 die Gle sald," continued the witness,
webster shot me. lie must have grldge against
me-, lie complained about his pain. lie said he was
| sitting at a desk writing a letter, when ne got up 10
open the door in response 10 knock lie was III
:" Did he saw how the cuspidor was broken?'
lie said he fell over IT, lie was not uhIer ths
Influence OF drink. His head was as clear rs nine.
Anna Janet Wade said that she was the mouse
| kecner and saw Webster coming slowly down stairs:
| . when I went into GoO1win's ROOM the witness
went on he said to me, Take charge OF these letters
George Wade then testified TO seeing Webster walk
out Of the house. Deputy Coroner COnway's testimony
was then nut I'm evidence. 1t that Goodwin died
| from a pistol shot wound in the abdomen 49,
The Jury after brief consultation brought IN inns
verdict I'VE, the jury, find that Charles b. GOODWIN,
ir came TO hiSleath from pistol shot wound in the
Webster - A. A., ro,,,r
| The prisoner was then taken back 70 the Tombs,
where he will remain awaiting the action OF the Orlho
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