Evening star., 1936-09-20
GOODWIN MURDER.
NEAR SOLUTION
POLICE INDICATE
Package Resembling Cam
era Taken From 18th
Street Home.
FINGERPRINT CLUE
MAY BE UNDER STUDY
Janitor Adheres to Story Regard
ing Discovery of Treasury Typ
lists Body.

Following painstaking search of
the Sixteenth street home where Mrs.
Florence Goodwin was slain Friday,
police last night expressed confidence
they were nearing a solution of the
brutal crime.
The Investigators apparently CEN
tered their efforts on the large second
floor room where the 43-year-old Gov
ernment typist was slugged.
Detectives refused to divulge the re-
suits of the search and would not say
whether any incriminating finger
prints were found. Shortly before they
/, left the house at 1902 Sixteenth street,
however, one of the investigators was
sent to police headquarters and re-
turned carrying package resembling
q camera. This resulted in rumors
that fngerprints had been discovered
RoOmer Raps At Door.
Although police said they attached
no significance to it, 1t developed yes
sterday that one Of the roomers in the
house had gone to Mrs. Goodwins
room about $40 am. Friday-about
three hours before her body was found
ito .borrow a dollar He said ne
raped on the door. but left when ne
Syeceived no response.
z Meanwhile, police continued their
questioning of Carl D. Chase, 20, COL
ored janitor in the boarding house
that Mrs. Goodwin operated in addl-
Stion to her work in the Procurement
Division of the Treasury Department.
He has been transferred from the
third to the sixth precinct station
house. where police said there were
fewer prisoners, and consequently less
danger of interruptions.
Although the investigators are not
ready to release Chase, there were
no indications they had succeeded in
breaking down his story Of innocence.
Janitor's Story Unshaken.
20 Chase has steadfastly insisted he
knows nothing about the murder and
did not see or hear anything unusual
IN the house the day Mrs. Goodwin
was killed except that he noticed the
shaker was missing when he came to
work Friday morning.
His trousers were sent to chemist
20 be, analyzed for possible blood
stains, and the material under his
fngernails also was removed for
chemical examination. Police said
they had received no report as yet
from the chemist.
Mrs. Goodwin's body was found on
the bed by Mrs. Alphonzo Bil1ups, one
OF the roomers. Her head had been
smashed by five blows from a blunt
instrument, presumably the blood
stained shaker that was found later
inside the furnace. Mrs Billups inves-
tigated when Mrs. Goodwin failed to
appear at her usual time.
The time of Mrs. Goodwin's death was
fixed at about 7:30 a.m.-approximate-
ly the time she would have been get
ting up to go to work. That she had
been up before the slayer entered her
room was indicated by the fact she
was dressed in underclothes and bath
robe when her body was found
Difficult for Stranger.
These factors have puzzled police,
since. if she was killed by an outsider,
the intruder must have entered and
left the house while other roomers
were up, although al lsaid they did
not see any one.
It was also learned that the police
are still looking for another man, sup
posedly a discharged janitor. That
they know where he is was indicated
when officers denied that any suspect
has left the city.
! Married about eight years ago Mrs.
Goodwin had been estranged from ner
husband, Benton Goodwin, several
years. He is supposed to be in Cali
fornia.