Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1913-10-22
LIFE IMPRISONMENT.
GOODWIN PLEADS GUILTY TO
CHARGE OF MURDER.
KILLED CAPT. HARRY @. YOUNG AT
suRRY LAST OCTOBER - STATE
ALIESIsTs SAY HE is SANE
THE CRIME.

Edwin Goodwin, the eighteen-year- told
Surry boy, on Monday pleaded guilty to
the charge Of murder, and was sentenced
to life imprisonment in the State prison.
The murder was that OF Capt. Harry &.
Young, at Surry, on the night Of October
% last.
Goodwin was brought back to Ellis
worth last Wednesday from the State
asylum for the insane at Augusta, to
which he was committed at the last April
term of court for observation as to his
sanity. The hospital authorities reported
to the court that they could at the present
time see no signs OF insanity.
Monday morning Goodwin, was ar
raigned in court, and retrscting his pre-
vious plea OF not guilty, pleaded guilty.
He was remanded for sentence, and late
in the afternoon was again brought into
court for sentence.
ID. z. Hurley, counsel for Goodwin APP
pointed by the Court, addressed the
Court, giving brief history OF the con-
duct of the case. He said that he real
ICED that the Court had no discretion in
the matter of imposing sentence - that
there was but one sentence that could be
imposed under the laws OF this State, and
that was life imprisonment.
NO SIGNS OF INSANITY.
fact that Goodwin had made a confession
to officers OF the law and reporters inn
mediateiy after his arrest, and the report
OF the insane asylum that there were no
signs OF insanity at the present time, He
had tried to do justice to his client, but
he realized the hopelessness OF his case,
and rather than put the county to the
great expense Of trial, he had allowed
his client to retract his previous plea, and
plead guilty, which he did with full
| understanding OF the consequences.
| Justice King, in passing sentence, said !:
st is a sorrowful thing indeed to send q
young man to prison for life. But there
is no doubt that he committed this foul
crime, and there is but one sentence the
| Court can impose"
| Clerk Bunker then read the sentence,
| which Goodwin heard with apparent
| unconcern. He left the courtroom with
an officer, smiling, and nodding to some
in the courtroom whom he knew. He was
taken to the State prison to-day.
THE CRIME.
| The crime for which Goodwin Is con-
victed was committed at Surry on the
| night of October % last. About / O'Clock
in the morning OF Oct. 30, the body Of Capt.
| Harry c. Young was found in the rocky
bed OF Patten pond stream, just under the
edge OF the bridge on the main street oil
Surry village.
| Capt. Young, who kept a small general
| ing the store between s and $50 in the
evening. He always carried the money
| from the store with him. The way home
was but short distance along the main
| street, across the bridge. On the night OF
the murder, when Capt. Young had not
reached home at late hour, his wife in
| stituted search, and his body was found
ARREST OF GOODWIN.
Drops OF blood on the bridge, and the fact
that Capt. Young's money was missing,
gave Inc Aiot Ciuo thsi ~ vas nuuAuSti anu
| the officers were quickly at work upon the
case. Deputy Sheriff John A. Stuart, who
took charge OF the investigation in the abb
seuce of Sheriff Jellison, soon fastened his
suspicious upon young Goodwin. Before
noon the boy was in the Jail at Ellsworth,
having been arrested in Ellsworth when
about to take train for Bangor. A search
disclosed money hidden in the boys
| stockings.
Arraigned before Judge Hall the OF
Ellsworth municipal court the next day
Goodwin, to the surprise of the half-dozen
nersons uresent pleaded guilty.