The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-07-26
80 weak from loss of blood that he
could barely stand.

30 weak from loss of blood that he
could barely stand.
Edward d. Marchael, aged father Of
Mrs. Holcomb, was in the house at
the time. He is deaf and was unable
to hear the cries of his daughter for
protection from her assailant. He has
not been informed of the murder.
Stella Marchael, nurse. sister of
Mrs. HOlcOmb, was out attending her
patients and did not arrive home UNI
til 10 o'clock. BY that time the body
had been taken to the county morgue.
There were no witnesses to the
quarrel. if there was one. Mrs. Hol-
combs desperate defense evidently
began in the dining room. Her board
er had called at the regul dinner
hour. He was sober. AS hi NZasn-
ed frequently in the past, the b~ 20
say. the two were alone. The II.
evidence of anything unusual came
when two shots were fired rapidly in
the cellar. Even then the boarders
did not pay heed, for the reports were
seemed deadened.
Had Desperate Struggle.
A broken bottle. the fragments of
which lay scattered along the stair
way from the dining room, mingled
with her blue. unstrung beads and the
blood, several pools and spots on the
floor and walls, told of the tragedy.
The stairway Is narrow and dark,
there being no access for light in this
underground room. Whether she
used the bottle to defend herself or
he to assault her has not been deter
mined.
1t was apparently not until Mrs
HolcOmb reached the floor of the first
room Of the cellar that Goodwin fired.
One bullet from new 3S-caliber re-
volver entered the left side of her
neck, another under her heart. She
fell, her head striking the sill of the
door opening into the second room of
the cellar. The sill is blood-smeared
and thick pool is ON the floor there.
She rose again and fled into the ad-
joining room. There he fired again.
Grace P. Small. another nurse, was
Manning. 30S Sheridan avenue. next
the dying fugitive cry:
will some one for Gods sake come
into the back yard! Come back here,
COIit DGCh. rOT SIOu sake nGlD llG,
help mel"
These women from a window in the
Manning home saw her reel, blood
squirting from her neck, and fall.
Goodwin appeared, smoking revolver
in his hand. AS Mrs. Holcomb spied
him she shrieked with terror and
crawled into the alley, striving to
reach a door near the front of the
house. But Goodwin overlook her. A
number Of men were running toward
the alley. They saw Goodwin snap
the weapon once. When it missed
fire he again pulled the trigger. This
time the gun exploded.
Slasiles His Own Heart.
Then Goodwin ran into the rear OF
the house and began slashing his
throat with a razor. A crowd OF men,
women and boys gathered in the yard
and calmly witnessed the deed.
Stop him!" a woman cried.
"No; let the kill himself;
he ought to-" said someone in the
crowd, and they let him cut himself
until he became discouraged. Then he
threw the razor away, leaped over a
low fence into the next yard and tried
to drink the acid. Policeman Dick
caught him just in time. He strug-
gled hard to escape, but several men
went to the policeman's assistance
and he was placed in the patrol wag-
on.
Mrs. Holcomb was attended by DR.
w. l.. Grounds of Washington, Pa
who was visiting friends in the neigh
borhocd. but he could do nothing fol-
her. She was unconscious when she
reached the hospital and died almost
Immediately upon her arrival.
DeliriOus at Hospital.
When Goodwin arrived at the hos
pital he asked, "Is anybody hurt?
have not had any sleep for week and
have been very nervous"
Besides her father and sister Mrs
Holcomb leaves daughter, Stella
Holcomb, 13 years old. The child was
at picnic in Kennywood, Park with
Hazel Dick, sister of Policeman Dick
and daughter of John Dick, who also
had room in the house.
Mrs. Holcomb's father, Mr. Mar
chael, is an occupant of the Old Sol
in Pittsburg on q furlough. No one
dared tell the old man Of the murder
for fear that the shock would kill
him.
Goodwin is 40 years old. Whenever
Mrs. Holcomb was teased by hel
friends regarding his attentions she
would say, jokingly, that she did not
like him because he had one defective
eye.