Polk County GaArchives Obituaries.....Mrs. Bart Goodwin June 1917
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Cedartown Standard, June 28, 1917
Mrs. Bart Goodwin, A shocking and diabolical tragedy was enacted early Friday 
morning, when Bart Goodwin went to the home of his wife’s father, Mr. W. M. 
Stubbs on Mr. John Green’s farm, kissed his wife and child, placed a gun at the 
poor woman’s heart and shot her to death. It was a double murder, for she would 
soon have given birth to another child. Goodwin moved from this vicinity near 
Atlanta some months ago, and their oldest child was killed there in a railroad 
accident. He finally went from the fart to a cotton factory in Atlanta, and his 
wife, who claimed ill treatment at his hands, came back to her parents here. A 
short time ago he enlisted in the 5th Regiment, and was wearing his uniform 
when he committed the murder. Goodwin claims to have gotten a day’s leave of 
absence Thursday from his company to come home, as they were to pass through 
Cedartown on their way from Ft. McPherson to Ft. Oglethorpe on Friday. He came 
to Cedartown Thursday night, and somewhere secured some shells to use in his 
father-in-law’s gun. Early Friday morning he went to the Stubbs home, got the 
Stubbs gun and loaded it, and carried out his fiendish plan. The Sergeant of 
his company, while in Cedartown Friday, said that he found three men missing 
when he left Atlanta that morning, one of the number being Goodwin, which gives 
the appearance of desertion being added to the murder of his wife. Goodwin 
claims that it was his intention to kill himself after shooting his wife, but 
the plunger on the other barrel of the Stubbs gun was broken. His brother-in-
law, hearing the shot, ran in and took the weapon away from him, whereupon 
Goodwin fled. Sheriff Lyon was notified and went at once with a posse in search 
of the murderer. As the search grew longer he sent a telephone message to 
Sheriff Smith, of Floyd, to bring his bloodhound to the scene. Deputy Sheriff 
W. T. York and Warden Redden, with the aid of "Old Nig," found the fugitive in 
a dense thicket on the farm of Mr. M. T. Barnett, and he was brought to the 
county jail. The crime was so dastardly that there was some loose talk of 
sparing the county the expense of a trial, and Sheriff Lyon decided to take no 
chances and sent Goodwin to the Floyd county jail by Sheriff Smith. He says he 
does not wish a life sentence for his crime, but wants to be hung. His callous 
manner since the shooting has been in keeping with the cold-blooded nature of 
the murder which was carefully premeditated. The couple were married seven 
years ago, when he was only sixteen years old. Their wedded life is said to 
have been far from happy. The remains of the unfortunate woman were taken 
Saturday to Lime Branch for interment. (Cedartown Standard, June 28, 1917) 


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