The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-09-22
IIIl5IlG all IN
I'm MURDER TRIAL

lfOodW{1, father OF the murdered
was on the stand ThursdaI
nine and testified that, he Nwas
not present when he died. Went I'd
is ho1se, after getting message
irving at 8 o'clock. Found son
UNCONSCIOUS. Saw pools OF blood
Tor pistol and al pheus vii
lIIs told him It was IN machine
drawer, but it was not there.
onpgeE son got it from him. Eli
u lack and witness took walk
ard Examined the pistol Given a
pistol by Mr.. Basel, the witness
saIf he believed it to be the same
pistol He and Estlack, when they
mined it, ran white cloth
IFough chambers and it looked like
had been used. Did not know
pis OF calibre, as he does not
handle pistols very much.
On ross-examination the witness
sai he did not see the revolver in
machine drawer and did not
know whether Oliver Goodwin was
with the pistol produced in
or not.
Law handed him pistol and
Iiff e. ll4Iq = To- SIdLS hllGtIG4 liz
glit 1t had been recently fired.
opinion was that it had not been
ntly shot. His experience has
ho hat IN a few hours after be-
ina rot, powder sweat would
fora OF another revolver he stat
ed looked as. if it might have
leeh recently fired Still another
frto ef was handed him, and he
stated he thought that was the first
eyalyer Mr.. Law gave him. One
revolver handed him was sized up
: by him as a 3S-calibre.
Witness never heard anything
against his daugbter-in-law, and had
spoken to her Two OF three times.
One time was last October when son
was badly burned by gas and went
down to see him and several other
times and always spoke to her.
Witness stated he had not en-
plosed counsel to help prosecute the
eases but he had learned friends have
{ and he expected to pay for such
He had not intimidated any wit
ncsses OF threatened Willie Hick-
man for stopping the mails to take
plans of the Goodwin house. Knew
nothing ABOUT petition said to have
been talked of to prevent Mrs. Good
win from giving bond
Goodwin told Mrs. George Good
win that it might be good policy to
get out a petition, and later he met
Williams. who said such a policy
would not be wise. Did not ask
that the coroner be notified and
Jury empanelled, and did not know
who carried the news to Squire In
mis- first The son carried lnsur-
ance and the oil men said there must
be an investigation it was then they
sent word to Squire Innis.
He denied that he had had trou-
BILE with his son before his marriage
nor had he drove him off. He left
to drive for jackson Stout. He
came back later and never was
driven away at any time, nor did he
ever saw he had to leave home.
The witness also stated that the
defendant twice left her husband.
Witness was opposed to marriage
but never said anything about it af-
ter that.
During the examination of Mr.
Goodwin, the defendant wept quite
bitterly. and through it all the wit
ness manifested much emotion.
Following John T. Goodwin on
Thursday evening were Mrs. Gold
en-. Blaine McAfee and W. A.
Vance. :.
Mrs. Golden related incidents in
the domestic life of the Goodwin's.
among which was one in which Mrs
Goodwin stuck a butcher knife IN
Lone of her husbands arms, but both
Mrs, Goodwin and husband laugh
inplTSseferred to it=afterward, when
speakinA to Mrs. Golden. Witness
also saw Goodwin on one occasion
push his wife off the steps, but did
not know why he did it.
w. A. Vance being called SAID the
pistol. supposed to have been used
and which was showed him was !, 2
32-caliber and that that sized bali
weighs So grains.
- Friday morning the murder trial
was resumed and John I. Goodwin
-gecalled. -
3dwin stated that his son weigh
about lao pounds and that nc
vsas not very tall probably five feet
.eiOht or ten inches.