Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Goodwin, R. C.  1916
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Payette Enterprise 9-14-1916
Payette Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, September 14, 1916

AUTO DRIVER HELD FOR AWFUL CRIME

DEAD BODY OF R. C. GOODWIN FOUND IN SNAKE RIVER

The dead body found lodged against a pier of the Snake river railroad bridge 
near Ontario last Monday, upon investigation proved to be that of R. C. 
Goodwin, a wealthy sheepman, who had for some time past made his headquarters 
at Ontario and Boise. The body had been weighted down with tire chains and the 
hub of an automobile before being cast into the river, and showed that death 
had resulted from a bullet wound in the back of the head.

Suspicion soon after pointed to D. C. Brichoux, an automobile driver of 
Ontario, as the murderer. Brichoux was placed under arrest Tuesday night upon 
returning to his home in that city from Winnemucca, Nev.

Brichoux has made a confession in which he claims that Goodwin was shot while 
the two men, who were traveling in an automobile, were scuffling over a 
revolver, on the western outskirts of Ontario, on the night of September 4th, 
and that both were drinking at the time. He then placed Goodwin's dead body in 
the auto, drove back thru the town to the wagon bridge east of Ontario, 
weighted the body down as stated, and cast it into the river. Before doing so, 
he robbed the body of valuable papers and other effects, after which he made 
his way to Winnemucca, Nev., drew on Goodwin's bank account for $500 by 
telegraph, bought an auto load of whiskey and returned to Ontario.

Goodwin was a single man, with no known relatives except his aged mother, at 
Butler, Tenn. Brichoux is a married man with a family of five children.

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