The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-06

SIIIlldXlllS A hours O1 dllllOSU uQ- broken questioning, District Attor- ney Edmund R. Dewing last night named the suspect as Charles Rus sell Goodale, 25, son of Clarence c. Goodale, Onset restaurateur and former resident of Poughkeepsie, N. Y, and Reading Pa.
 Young Goodale will be held as a suspicious person" until tomorrow morning when Dewing will seek a district court complaint against him. Dewing said the exact charge would be determined by today's develop ments in the investigation.
 Fits Description
 This man has been unable to explain certain of his actions, ; DeWing added.
 Goodale was one of the first sus- poets questioned in the case He was released at that time but had been under constant police surveil- lance He was said to fit the de- scription of the dapper jitterbug with whom Miss McGurk left the Colonial Casino dance hall for a soft drink the night of July 27 That was the last time the Cam bridge girl vacationist was seen alive.
 Goodale had been picked up again Sunday night and had been ques- toned all day yesterday by crack criminologists from state police headquarters, working in relays.
 Authorities outlined their circum- stantial evidence as follows.
 Battery Near Bog
 One of his fathers roadside res taurants is situated less than a half mile from the eerie bog road where Miss McGurk is believed to have been ravished and strangled
 A policeman saw and talked with man answer Goodale's descrip- tion at the supposed crime scene at about the time her body was recovered from a shallow reservoir
 Goodale was employed in cram berry bogs near the murder scene but did not report for work July 29 and 30-the days during which an intensive search for the girls body was ln progress in that area.
 Goodale allegedly was in the Colonial Casino the night that Miss McGurk was lured to her death. .. Attempted Rape Before
 The registration number of an automobile which appeared along side the reservoir just as the body was discovered proved to be that of Goodale's car.
 An unidentified Lowell girl identi- fled Goodale as the man who took her from the same dance hall less than two weeks before the staying and attempted to attack her.
 The Lowell girl, student nurse, told police the man drove her to a wooded section and made ad- vances which she resisted. When she tried to escape from the car, she said, she discovered that the door handle on her side had been removed. State police, who seized Goodale's 1887 coupe. said it had a removable door handle on the right side.
 According to the Lowell girl, she dissuaded the man by promising that if he would drive her back to the dance hall she would get an- other girl for him She said the man forced her to give him her ring "as security" but once back at the dance hall she left him and never regained the ring.
 Hometown Shocked
 Hometown folk received with pop eyed astonishment the announce ment that Goodale was being held. An only child, both he and his par ents have excellent regulations and are Well-liked in the area.
 Born in Poughkeepsie, N. r., April 20, 1921, Goodale as a child was taken, first to Reading, Pa, and then to Wareham, of which Onset is village He attended Wareham High School and the Swain School of Design in New Bedford, where he studied commercial art.
 On July 13, 1942, he enlisted in the Navy, took his boot training at Newport, R. l., and then was sent to the Navy's Signalman School at the University of Illinois. Later he transferred to the amphibious training base at Little Creek, Va.
 Goodale served with the amphibl- ous forces of the Pacific fleet untt, 1943, when he was trans ferred to the Panama Canal Zone. There he served Is months, finally