The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-09-28
REFUSED TO HEED THE
pLEADINGS OF HIS WIFE
Elisha Goodwin, Shot Down in Perquimans
County Monday Night Wouldn't Give Up
His Evil Companions and Habits
Ey VICTOR MEEkINS.

~ N't'. 49,
|fstened to YOU, | would not
Bbaye been in the fix | am in to-
\ NIGHT. Ii is too late now. You
begged me and pleaded with
me to stop going up there to
that place. but l wouldn't lis
ten to YOU and now I'm going
10 die.
With these words on his lips, his
rfahlood pouring from gun shot
,rorrI in his abdomen. Elisha Is.
ccmlviu hrcathcd his last in the
arm, ct his wife ut their little
bom, in Hcrtford. Tuesday morning
a. three o'clock.
\, the stricken mans lips and
ero, closed when his strength ehhcd
orr with the flow of blood that
fast emitted his arteries, Herbert,
Chspr.U. 19-year-old country hoy
whom The dying man accused Of fiji
in, The fatal shot. fell i'll a faint
near the doorway of the Goodwin
home aud did not revive until
sheriff W. II. Wright took him i'll
rn<rody 10 place him in cell i'll the
PprquimanS County Jail.
Thus ended final chapter in
/ m" story nf the life of Il man who
9S MANY another, brings trouble
+ anI misery on his family in the fol
lowiu. of evil companions and the
|lipuor malady. which today seems
grow in. in proportion 10 conditions
wear or two ago even.
Before Elisha Goodwin hreathed
| hi, last h. reiterated To his wife.
the statement he had made shortly
before. that Chapp"ll had shot him
s,n the lonely Chiuluapiu road near
the Pimplc Point SrhoolhouSe, some
l. miles from Hcrtfnrd. The s!'ief
Etrickpn wife. who had been wait
in. M that night for the return of
her srrin@ husband who had been
away all the day before with MS
two smell children. looked INTO the
eyes of the Chapel boy and Sohbed: ::
Herbert. did You shoot Iisha:
No Ellen. | didn't shoot LiSha.
|anI don't know who did" the boy
replied. and this is the story TO
whih he stuck when interview
rd in the PerquimanS County jail
"Wednesday morning. Young Chap
pcll suck to his story, altho he
had not retained any lawyer to tell
/ him what To say. '..-
Chapp"ll'S obstinate denial that
/ b" shot Goodwin is giving the
epi,od" an air of mystery to many
|rn",l. in IIertfOrd. even in the face
| ot 'hr accusation of the dying man
| aud the testimony of two witness
| whr >wurc they saw him fire the
| |fata, shot about ten o'clock Mon
| day night. when Goodwin took part
In difference ensuing between the
'hapl. n boy and his young 1S-year-
old wife. Witnesses testify that the
Chnpr,"Il hoy in drunken fit. was
|uyiu. 10 frighten his wife from the
car hc was driving. and that Good
win. who was the uncle of youn"
llaud" Chappell, intcrceded i'll her
behalf II was then that Herbert
Cbarp"ll who had got out on the
rad. ordered the uncle of his wife
{" i"' him alone. IF you take an
other step. ] will shoot you down.
b" >9id and when Goodwin advanc-
tl o." fired at him with q single
harr"i Shot gun from u distance of
'hr"" or four yards.
i hal no reason to shoot Elisha
Goodwin" says Herbert Chappell.
II" ami I were the best of friends.
VI" hI" h""u good pals and it WAS
r. vh" ser m" up housekeeping and
|h"ip"d m" q" get my furniture
Plead, th" ignorant country boy
|wh" hears the marks of Il liquor
e'ii"'. III" marks of poverty and
>'"mS z" have had little culture or
advantages.
Dying Man Accused Him.
HHt fh" dyiu. man had accused
'hap'"H. At the inquest held in
tL" office "f Dr. T.. A. Cox. county
'"I"n"r uf PrrpuimanS. the jury
si"Hr up Of RoS$er Brinn. W. f.
" m'". J I. JcSSup. Is. c. Berry,
'. y. barirm and \. ". Hefren,
F'i'' that "GpDdwin came to his
i"a'a hv shot gun wound inflict-
10y one Herbert Chappell."
Herbert thappell. the accused
"'h. Is the son of W. Richard
~'pp'U "t the Piney Woods sec
''h above B"lvidere. His mother
now IN an insane asylum. The
'"Pi"il hoy lived in an old house
"N his wife and 1S-mOnth-Old
'''. ami tended Il few acres with
'"r Tor which he traded his own
'"" ".fh his nrighborS.
hrru>ri Of selling i,iulIOr.