The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1909-03-06
CoNvINCES sHARPERs HE Is
WEALTHY MINING MAN
James Goodwin Soon Dissipates Small
Stock Of Cash, and Is Now Des-
titute In City Hospital.

respondent at this place received the
following dispatch:
"San Francisco, March 3, 1909.
"Please confirm report that large
part of the $4,000 deposited by James
Goodwin in Winnemucca banks has
been secured by Sidney Dandy and
James O'Loane by means Of forged
checks.
ASSOCIATED PRESS"
Inquiry at the First National bank
elected the information that a mining
man by that name, who lately sold an
interest in some claims at Rebel
Creek. had had a small account at the
bank, but that the same had been
closed some ten days previously, there
remaining q balance of but $500 to tn
depositor's credit. A bank official de
MED all knowledge of any forgeries,
but on second thought stated that u
check of $50, drawn by Goodwin, had
been returned the day previously dis
honored, and that there was possibili-
ty the same might have been forged.
although no particular investigation
had been made owing to the fact that
the account had been closed. However
the signature had been certified by t.,c
physician who was attending Goodwin
in San Francisco.
From the Associated Press dispatches :
it is learned that Goodwin, in imitation
Of the man spoken of in the Scrip
lures, went down into the city and fell
among thieves. The story follows:
SAN FRANCISCO, March with
the arrest Of Sidney /. Dandy and j.
o o'Losne, sssa the removal of James
Goodwin, u as.~salthy Nevada mining
man who. js, sid to have been the
victim Of a plot the details OF which
are Of horrifying nature, to; hos
pital where he is slowly recovering
from prolonged debaueh into which
he alleges Dandy and o'Loahe led
him, the prosecution of conspiracy
charges against the arrested men is
suspended until Goodwin is able to
give the police further information.
Dandy and O'Eoane have been held
until further investigation. Detec-
tives carefully run down every clue
regarding the past lives of the men
implicated in the plot by the story ;of
DR.. Joseph Howard, who informed the
police Sunday that Dandy and o'Loane
offered him a third Of the 100000 :es-
tate Of Goodwin il he would sign a
death certificate showing Goodwin ex-
pired Of alcoholism when death oc-
Cured.
The police discovered today that
0Loane formerly conducted a saloon
at Reno. New, and later tended bar
at Rawhide and Winnemucca. Dandy,
they declare, was arrested ten years
ago on AN embezzlement charge which
was afterwards dismissed.
Goodwin today told the police that
he signed numerous papers the con
tents of which he is ignorant. In
proof of this the authorities secured a
duly attested power of attorney,
whereby Goodwin appoints O'Loane
his attorney in fact, empowering hsns
to sell any or all his property, and
also paper empowering him, O'Loane
to negotiate loans on Goodwin's min
ing properties. Goodwin said these
were signed while he was drunk.
The deeds to GoOdwin's property
show that he is the owner OF mining
property, mostly located in Nevada,
and real estate valued at about $6O.-
000, and under the papers found.
oToane il given full charge of these.
The documents secured from Louis
Goldstone, from whom, in Goodwin 8
name, OTeane negotiated the loan Of
$l25 given a. security on notes, was
signed by Goodwin, which declared
that all the latter's properties as speci-
fed in his deeds would be turned over
to Goidstone II the amount was not
repaid on time. Goldstone called on
OIoane, and after wordy war Sc
cured the deeds which were turned over
to the police today.
EARLY last fall, shortly after dispos.
ing Of his Rebel Creek property, Good
win gained considerable local notorie.
tv GattiuO on ono NJ his nariodical
sprees, he was finally taken sick, went
to bed at q hotel, and summoned :
physician, now deceased, to attend T.
him and help him over his jag. Refus
ing to pay the Doctors bill, the latter
brought suit in the justice court to re,
cover the amount Of his claim, alleging