The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-11-02
Man Shot While in Victoria
Apartments Talks of
Affair.
GOODWIN'S FIANCEE
CALLS AT HOSPITAL
Miss Pearl Mcclure Takes Flowers
TO Patient Injured at
Her Home.

Members Of the family OF Mrs. VII
| liam J. Mcclure. living in the victoria,
| at Fourteenth and Clifton streets north
west, declared today that the shooting
/ Of Samuel R Goodwin. OF New York
| city, in their apartment yesterday after
noon WIS purely accidental.
Goodwin, who is at the Garfield Hos
| pitai' and whose condition was greatly
| improved this morning, said it was an
accident
Goodwin was visited this morning by
Miss Pearl Mcclure. his fancee. who
| carried to him a handsome bouquet Of
roses.
Explains Shooting.
The wounded man expects to be able
to leave the hospital within a few days.
His father. Edgar b. Goodwin, is on the
way here from New York to see his son.
In explaining the shooting. Goodwin
said:
= cannot say precisely no wthe shoot
| ing occurred. but I know IL was an ac-
cidenL l left the Mcclure apartment m
company with Miss Pearl Mcclure. and
after reaching the street returned TO
/ the apartment TO get a handkerchief out
/ on top Of my handkerchief. and as I
| stopped over 1 picked mp the pistol with
one hand and grabbed several handker-
/ chiefs with the other. While / was sJII
/ STOPPING the pistol went of in my hand,
! but just how, 1 cannot say. ] imagine
/ II was due to my hurry
| Miss Pearl Mcclure had the follow
/ ing 10 say, concerning the matter:
Victi-u Is Found.
| Mr.. Goodwin. and I started out TO
meet his mother at Union Depot at 3-25
| O'Clock. After we reached the street
/ he said he had come out without any
handkerchiefs, and ran back 70 the
apartment. A few moments later some
body, I don't know who. told me that
Mr.. Goodwin had been snot.
Il ran up stairs, and found him
| stretched out on the floor with blood
Oozing from a wound in his head
/ ran screaming down 10 the drug store
/ on the first hOor TO try 10 get medical
! assistance. I do not know just the de-
/ tails Of the shooting
Mr. Goodwin and 7 have been aC-
/ Qualnted COR about two years. He has
] been frequent visitor at our home.
/ He came here from New York last Sat
i urday, and has been our guest since
/ then His mother. too. has visited US
| here We expected his mother here yes
! terday- Late yesterday afternoon we
notified her of the shooting by telegraph,
| and this morning received a telegram
| saying that she was prOstrated, but that
! her husband had Slready started to
| Washington
! Detective Burlingame interviewed the
members Of the Mcclure family this
theory. He also talked with the wound
ed man.
Wound Is Slight.
/ Goodwin's wound extends no deeper
than the scalp The ball entered the
/ back Of the head close TO the top, and
| furrowed the scalp for about two
/ inches, coming out on top and embed
/ ding itself in the ceiling. The officer
/ theory is that the ball could not have
taken such a course If it had been in
/ 1icted with suicidal intent. or by a
/ second party The STOPPING posture,
| together with the course o. the bullet
was conclusive TO the detectives mind
! The police investigation is at an end
/ Goodwin is twenty-scven years old.
1 and is well kn,wn in this city. He
was stationed at Fort Myer for about
/ two years a. squadron sergeant He
| first enlisted in the army about eight
| years ago as 4 PRIV ATE hc Is BEdQu-
I ate of Harvard. and his training won
/ for him a nOncommissiOn I'm less than
! q month. He served two enlistnents.
! He re-entered the army for O. third
! enlistment last January. and was as
| signed to Troop II. Fifteenth United
/ States Cavalry, which about that time
was transferred from Fort Leaven-
worth to Fort Myer.
! firing of the army last January,
/ Goodwin bought his way out, so Miss
| Mcclure stated this morning he then
engaged himself with his father in
the contracting business in New
York city. His home is at SIT West
151st street.
There was nobody in the Mcclure
apartment at the time of the shooting
but Mrs. Mcclure. She was in a room
across the corridor when she heard
the shot. She ran 10 the room, but
soon emerged screaming for help and
attracting several persons.
Miss Edith Mcclure is younger than
her sister by several years. The lat
ter IS thirty.