Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-07-19
HAD NOT Been OUT OF CITY
According to Prisoners Remarkable
Story, He and Girl Had Nothlra to
Eat During Three Days and Nights
They Spent In HdIns-case Has
Chief Puzzled.

dairy. near Flfty.scvcnth street and
virginia avenue. Daniel T.. tsadulan
and little Lillian Harrison were found
Il last night just before midnight Dy
4 Detective Sergeant j. W. WluGwarI
4 and several citizens. They wore then
further away from home than they
{ had been at any time since they dis
appeared Sunday night
Chief Of Police Reynolds. who WAS
only short distance behind Sergeant
Woodward and his party. to,K c"n,g1
of Goodman and carried him to the
station. The girl, muddy. bel-asSlel
anu apparently half starved, was TAX.
en- directly home To her mother. Mis-.
Carrie Harrison, who lives ut 1850
Twenty-sxth street.
Chief Is Puzzled.
This case Is Indeed IL most unusual.
one. After having IL long tail: with
Goodman Is his office, Chief Reynol Is
said that he was free TO confess that
the affair had him puzzled aud that
he would not know whit to think until
further investigation Ind been made
today.
Whether or not GU0dman'S rt1ry Is
true, 1t seems that tho man Is either
crazy or idiotIc. He talked 10 tho
chief rs though he had no realization
or the terrible charge that may he
placed against him anu appeared 70
think he had done nothing espscl,lly
out of the ordinary.
After the prisoners name hud / cen
entered on the police record. with the
charge of abduction against Il, he was
taken Into the chiefs office. The
chief told him TINT If he cared to do
40 lie might tell his story Of what
he and tho girl had been doing since
Sunday night, hut that he need not
say anything If he did not want to-
Goodman's Story.
AS simply as though he were relat
Ing his experiences during Il days
work ut the shipyard the man made
Ills remarkable statement. He
said that he was on his
why to the "Sanctified" church
SUNDAY night when he mcy lilli.n
HARRISON and two plnymatcs. The
girl left her companions and ran to
nin. 'Shcy too; Il short walk ana
then she refused to 80 home again,
saying thht she was afraid the other
girls would tell her mother that she
spoke to Goodman and that her broth.
er would kill her. ilc declared that
ne begged anu pleaded with the child
to go home. but that she perslstcntly
refused. She told him that her
brother had said that he would shoot
both her and Goodman IL she ever
spoke to the man again.
The chief asked Goodman what he
mad been doing to cause Lillian Harri.
sons brother to make such Il threat.
Nothing" the man replied. only my
wire and had been going to Mrs.
Harrison's home and my wife got jcal-
GUS anu kicked up ROW once because
the girl went to Buckroe with us.
when asked what his conduct to.
ward the girl had bccn Goodman pro.
) tested that he had never treated her
improperly at any time.
Says She Threatened Suicide.
When asked by tho chief why he
did not take the girl home by force,
the man replied that he could not do
It; that he tried to take her by tho
hand and she fought him. He dccIar.
ed that two or three times since Sun
day night she had begged him to leave
her alone for few minutes and size
would settle 1t all"
The CHIEF asked why the girl should
want to Kill herself. Goodman sim.
ply said that he did not know.
According to the story. the couple
spent Sunday night sitting in /, buggy
IN Mr.. =. Z Vaughn's carriage
house, at 1928 Chestnut avenue
Goodman saws the child slept some.
but that he had not been to sleep at
all since Sunday. Monday they wan
y dered around In East End and that
night they staid In the carriage house
i again. Tuesday they wandered about
= East End and in the afternoon went
down to the beach on Hampton Roads.
where they spent Tuesday night. The
( girl slept on the sand.
Ate Only Few Cakes,
During all of this time, according IN
Goodman, the runaways had nothing
to eat but few cakes they bought
at grocery store. Yesterday they
hung around near Salter's creek until
late In the afternoon when they waIK-
ed to North End.
Last night the girl went to house
on Fifty-fourth street. while the man
& waited outside. Tho lady of the
y house. who knew the child, asked her
where she had been and she replied
that she had come with her brothec,
who was waiting outside. She indie.
(. nantly denied that she had run away
with Goodman, and when the lady
produced newspaper she fled. She
Joined Goodman and the pair made off
7 In the darkness toward the railroad
yard
MA b. b. Cameron heard of The
affair and notified the police station.
(; Sergeant Woodward and two or tn -
items imnie diately started search
n and they we're N fOllOsUad SsrcinsnIp Ia,