CORDOVA BOY
IS MURDERED
AT PORTLAND
John Lawrence Goodall, son of for
mer United States Commissioner
John Goodall, of Cordova, and later
deputy United States marshal at
Sitka, and an Alaskan raised boy, Wae
brutally shot to death in a Portland
hotel late in April. The boy was
practically raised in Alaska, going to
Oregon following the suicide of his
father at Pioneer Home. The boy was
partially paralyzed and was popular
among those who knew him. He was
the grandson of former Governor Ben
son, of Oregon.
Reporting the brutal kiling a Port
land special says:
“Holding Patrolman George Raney
at bay while he deliberately proceeded
•with one of the most sensational mur
ders in Portland police annals, A. B.
Foster, prourietor of a drug store at
Twentieth and Washington streets
this morning shot and killed John
Lawrence Godall, crippled night clerk
at the Angela hotel, and fired three
shots into his own body, wounding
himself, the police say, beyond the
possibility of recovery.
t The shooting is believer! to have
• occurred because of Foster’s infatua
tion for Miss Bessie Wilson, a tele
phone operator employed by the Pa
cific Paper Company, who lives at the
Angela hotel.
Patrolman Raney, who had been
ordered by Foster to throw up his
hands, was held helplessly by while
he witnessed the shot which pierced
Goodall’s heart and killed him almost
instantly.,
Later, when the policeman had
asked permission to call an ambu
L lance, and under guard of the slayer
1 had been marched out into the street
• on his way to a police box, Foster
picked up an early morning pedes
j trian, and with Raney still under con
trol, pressed Edward L. Gerwig into
playing a part in the sensational
tragedy.
Placing a revolver in Gerwig’s
hand, he pointed the muzzle toward
his own breast and ordered the
stranger to pull the trigger. When
Gerwig refused, he shot himself with
the patrolman’s gun, discarded it with
mutterings that it was not a good
weapon, and drew his own from his
hip and fired two more bullets which
narrowly missed his heart.
Foster lived at the Angela. Miss
Wilson’s refusal of his attentions, the
police say, drove him into a frenzy,
•which reached its climax this morn
ing with the murder of Goodall, who
attempted to prevent Foster from
J forcing his way into Miss Wilson’s
room shortly after 2 a. m. Miss Wil
son was not in the hotel, but was vis
| iting at the home of some friends.
Foster, unable to enter the room
caused a disturbance that awoke most
, of the hotel guests. Goodall ran up
j from the office, and Foster immed
. iately pulled a gun on him, accused
| / him of interfering in his affairs, and
| started in pursuit. Goodall eluded the
I frenzied man on the upper floors, and
ft started down stairs.
P Meanwhile, Patrolman George
I Raney had entered the lobby, at
H traded by the lights on the telephone
P switchboard and the absence of the
operator. Foster stepped out of the
elevator, revolver in hand, and im
mediately covered the officer. Raney
sought to parry.
“See that gun?” snapped Foster.
“Yes,” said the bluecoat, “It’s a
i good gun, but put it away: it might
go off.
“I mean business,” screamed the
crazed man. “Throw up your hands
-while you are able!”
$ Just as Raney complied, Goodall
I' slipped down the stairs and into the
■ lobby. He sought to aid the officer,
■ but Foster spied him and ordered the
■ two to stand together with their
B hands in the air.
It Foster then forced Goodall to re
■ move Raney’s gun and ordered him
B to place It on the counter. Goodall
B hesitated, placed his empty hand on
■ the counter and sought to slip the gun
■ to Raney, but Foster detected the
B movement and without a word shot
B Goodall through the heart.
R "My God! You’ve shot this man,”
■ cried the patrolman. "I am going to
■ gst him to a hospital.”
■ poster did not object, but ordered
■the patrolman to use the phone board
■behind the counter to call the ambu
■ lance. Raney said that he did not
^Bknow how to use the board, but that
■he would phone from the police box a
■ulock away.
Poster then marched Raney, hands
Hn air, out the front door of the hotel
■Lnd started him toward the police
■box A few steps from the entrance
■ hey met Edward L. Gerwig, of the
^Bruliana apartments as he was going
east on Washington. Foster promptl;
covered Gerwig and forced him to fal
in alongside Raney. The trio marches
a half back up Washington, comini
to a halft in front of the old Jeffer;
home.
At that point the murdered com
manded them both to halt and thei
told Raney to walk forward 20 paces
"I thought my time was up then,’
said Patrolman Raney later.
When the policeman had reaches
the desired distance and stopped, Fos
ter turned to Gerwig, an placed ths
muzzle of his revolver against his
own stomach. Then, handing Gerwij
Raney’s gun, which he had picked ui
after shooting Goodall, he told the citi
zen to pull the trigger, or lose his
own liife.
Gerwig was horror stricken.
"Why man,” he said entreatingly
“1 don’t even know you, much less
have anything against you. I couldn’l
kill you.”
"Then you want me to do it my
self?” asked Foster.
“I don’t cars what you do to your
self, but I won’t kill you,” was the
reply, whereupon Foster turned Ran
ey’s gun to his stomach and pulled the
trigger. The shot did not seem great
ly to effect him. He turned to the
cop.
“Your gun’s no good, Officer,” he
said as he brought his own gun into
nloir onH fit'orl furn aVinta in hid hrpast
all taking effect in the vicinity of the
heart, but none of them penetrating
the organi. When he fell, Raney ran
to the police box and frantically called
for an ambulance.
Captain Jenkins and Patrolman
Smith and Rackdahl rushed to the
scene, but 'found that Goodall was
dead. Foster was sen tto St. Vincent’s
hospital in the police patrol but his
recovery is not expected.
“He acted like a crazy man,” said
Patrolman Raney.
The police were able to learn little
as to the motive of the murder ex
cept that it was over Miss Wilson
That Foster was insane was indi
cated by an incoherent letter which
was found in his room this morning.
It was addressed to Mrs. Francis, wife
of the hotel proprietor, and was
marked “please publish.” The letter
which is in four parts apparently
written at differnet times, follows:
“April 25, 1919. They are persecut
ing me for religions causes (catho
lics) and see if they should even just
one verified truth. I’ll go but some
one will go with me. I am sorry it
had to be here in your place. Brother
Barr is a minor quality but Bess was
all the world. What I owe will be
paid in full. Goodby, Bessie, if you
marry get the other guy. B.
‘“Kindly keep and publish. They
can’t show with a black record if the
truth is shown for I have not one.
BERT.
Police Face Mystery
“Mrs. Francis kindly publish for
the half way Catholic wise guys to
home (apparently means ‘whom’)
wants to read. I am sure Barr would
call me but the S. B. will not so I’ll
get some of you anyhow.
B.
“Goodby, Bessie, God bless you lit
tle girl and they can’t prove one word
af what they say but it don’t help any
position any also for H. O. A. (ap
parently means his partner).”
Detectives Moloney and LaSalle are
somewhat baffled to fathom the let
ter, and can only think that Foster
was eiuier crazy ui mat ue
of some drug. The letter sems pos
sible, but if he was a drug addict, it
was not known to any of his asso
ciates, according to the police.
Miss Wilson lives at the hotel and
often operates the switchboard in the
evenings. It was while she was oc
cupied in this manner that Foster,
who also roomed in the hotel, became
acquainted with her. When the young
v/oman became ill some weeks ago
Foster sent flowers to her, and after
her recovery invited her to dinner
once or twice, but according to Mrs.
Francis, this was as far as theii
friendship extended. The crippled boy
had never paid any more than civil
attention to Miss Wilson nor she
to him. Both Mr. and Mrs. Francis
speak very highly of Miss Wilson, and
Detective Maloney said this morning
that after investigation he had found
her Character was splendid.
Slayer Booked For Murder
Young Goodall was paralyzed on
one side. He had but recntly recov
ercd from a sieze of smallpox. Ac
cording to information gathered by
the police he is an orphan son of an
Alaska judge and is related to som«
supremo ’court judge, but the police
could not learn his name. The body
was removed to the morgue. He was
19 years old and born in Salem.
At noon today attendants at the
hospital said that Foster had a light
ing chance for recovery. He has three
bullete through the left lung lust
above the heart. He was booked or
the police blotter this morning foi
murder.
The police were unable to locat<
the mah referred to in the letter ai
Barr except that they learned that
he was a roomer in the hotel. What
difficulties he had with the murder
are not known by the police up to a
late hour today.
"Patrolman Raney is a lucky man
that he is alive to tell the story,”
said Captain of Police Jenkins this
morning. “I consider that he did ex
actlj right, and to have done other
wise would have been suicide.”
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE OF SALE
No. C.-151
In the United States District Court
for the Territory of Alaska, Third
Division.—In Admiralty. Nels An
derson, Libellant, vs. the Ship Myr
tle H.
United States of America, Territory
of Alaska, Third Division, ss.
Public notice is hereby given that
by virtue of a decree made, rendered
and entered in the above entitled
cause on the 3d day of May, 1919, by
the above named court, and a vandi
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Dated and signed at Cordova,
Alaska, this 12th day of May, 1919.
F. R. BRENNEMAN,
United States Marshal, Third Divi
sion, Territory of Alaska.
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