Evening journal., 1911-04-14
GOODWIN GETS
HIS FREEDOM
Was Liberated Last Night,
After the Board Had Granted
Unconditional Pardon
WILL UNDERGO OPERATION
FOE TUBERCULAR TROUBLE

After serving one year and nearly
two months in the New Castle County
Workhouse, John Goodwin, who has
been convicted on a charge of at
tempted bribery, was released last
night shortly after eight o'clock, after
his attorney, Harry p. Joslyn, had
presented the pardon recommended in
the afternoon by the Board of Pardon5
and signed by Governor Pennewill.
Mr.. Joslyn waited at the State House
to get the official papers for Godwin's
liberation, and he arrived with them
from Dover at 7.40 o'clock last night.
Mr.. Joslyn went out to the wOrkhouse
with Gregg Goodwin, a brother of the
prisoner, and with Street Commis-
sioner Frank w. Pierson in Coroner
Chambers automobile, in which they
brought Goodwin back TO this city. He
spent the night at the home Of his
brother, and after recuperating some
what. it was announced today, God
win will undergo an operation for the
removal of the tubercular gland from
his neck.
Goodwin was engaged in outdoor
work yesterday and was one of the
men erecting the scaffold upon which
it was proposed to hang Reese Rob-
erts, colored, convicted of murder
who was reprieved yesterday for
thirty days. When word that Goodwin
had been pardoned was received from
Dover at o'clock yesterday after
noon, a representative Of THE EVEN
ING JOURNAL telephoned that infor-
nation out to the workhouse with a
request that Goodwin be notified. He
says he first heard late in the after
noon that he had been pardoned, when
a man passing along the road told one
of the wOrkhouse guards. Goodwin
did not accept this as conclusive, as
he remembered his experience last
July, when he was told that he had
been pardoned, and when he packed
his property and prepared to leave,
only to learn later that a pardon had
been refused Goodwin says he was
informed by one of the worl1house Of
flcials about seven o'clock last night
that he had been pardoned, four hours
after word had been telephoned there
by a reporter.
Goodwin had very little to say last
night or today, he refraining from any
discussion Of his imprisonment or
pardon at the request of his counsel
RDuMliis noNtNHAf odAN nN WdhA'h ~
thank Mr.. Joslyn and his friends for
their interest and efforts I'm his be-
half
He said he intends to consult Or.
Joseph p. Pyle i'm a day or two about
his condition, and to arrange for an
operation for the removal of the
tubercular gland in his neck. He
will go to a hospital about Monday,
he says, for the operation. After he
RECEIVERS from that, he said, he in
tends to remove to New York or Con-
necticut, to re-enter the employ of A.
NJ Craig, a wealthy manufacturer
who has many interests with whom
he was engaged before he returned to
Delaware and was sentenced and COM
mitted to the workhouse. He expects
TO spend some time in Delaware City
before removing to New York or Con-
necticut, he says.
Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
DOVER, Del, April 14-John God
win, after serving one year and near
ly two months of a two-year sentence
for attempted bribery, was given an
unconditional pardon by the Board oi
Pardons yesterday afternoon. Secre.
tary of State William T. Smithers
State Treasurer ID. o. Moore, ant
State Auditor Theodore Townsend
voted for the pardon. and 1t is under.
stood that Chancellor Charles NJ