Evening star., 1939-05-10
Fuirfux
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the locomotive so badly that q
change of engines was necessary
before the train, Southern Rail-
way express bound for New Orleans,
could continue. Traffic on the road
was delayed for some time while
the switch was made.
Sheriff Eppa P. Kirby, broadcast
the radio lookout that resulted in
Goodnough's arrest
Cupp told The Star today the
same story he told Sheriff Kirby last
night, that he went to the home of
Miss Alice Watkins, a clerk in the
National Bank of Fairfax, last night
and sat in the parlor chatting with
the girl and listening to the radio
until shortly before 10 o'clock, when
he left to drive to his home quar-
ter of a mile away.
when I reached the Fairfax
Methodist Church." Cupp said,
"Goodnough hailed me: told me his
car was stalled down the road and
asked if I would drive him to it
and I agreed.
I'VE started out and Goodnough
inquired If had enough gasoline to
drive a short distance. I told him
I had and then he asked whether I
ever had gun stuck in my ribs
and when I said that I hadn't he
told me Well. you have one now. so
keep driving and he jammed a
pistol into my side"
The youth declared Goodnough
kept the weapon-a .45-caliber auto
matic-against his side until they
reached crossing at Burke Station,
seven miles from Fairfax, where
Goodnough ordered him to stop the
automobile. He said Goodnough
then told him he was going to kill
him because he had had a date
with Miss Watkins.
I'VE sat in the car and talked for
about two hours" Cupp continued.
Il was so scared I don't know what
we talked about Finally, 1 heard
train whistle for the crossing and
Goodpough told me to drive out on
the tracks
II asked Goodnough if he was
crazy; that we'd be killed, but he
Just told me again to drive the car
across the tracks. I did as he said
and when the headlight of the en-
gine came into view Goodnough
pulled up the emergency brake,
opened the door and jumped out,
warning me that he would shoot If
I moved
II decided I'd rather be shot than
mangled by the train, so I opened
the door and jumped out, too. Good
nough struck me with the pistol just
as the train crashed into the car,
but the blow glanced of and ran
into the bushes near the track.
Goodnough shot at me once, but the
bullet went wild.
HE ran after me as I ran away.
The bushes cut my face and I be-
came exhausted and jumped into
ditch to hide. Goodnough was COM
ing after me with the gun in one
hand and fashlight in the other.
Il crouched close to one side of
the ditch and hid beneath some
bushes overhanging one bank.
Goodnough came up. flashed the
light all around me but didn't see
me. After a while he went back to
the tracks and I could see him
standing there watching the woods.
In the meantime the train had
stopped and people got out and
looked at my wrecked car.
II was afraid Goodnough would
shoot me if I made a sound that
would attract his attention, so I
waited there for what seemed like
hours. After awhile another train
rolled up and stopped for the wreck,
and while its whistle was blowing
and brakes screeching I leaped from
the ditch and ran through the woods
to a nearby farmhouse"
The youth said he aroused the
people in the house and a farmer
drove him to Fairfax, where he told
his story to Sheriff Kirby.
Members of the train crew, who
left Washington with the New Or
leans express shortly before mid
night, told officers the front set of
wheels on the locomotive jumped
the track when the engine struck
Cupp's automobile but miraculously
bounded back onto the rails.