GOODMAN

Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Wednesday, May 07, 2008 at 13:38:08 :

Marin Journal
Thursday, September 11, 1941
Page 1

Phone Operator Suicide With Revolver
MILDRED GOODMAN Shoots Self Thru Temple

Mrs. Mildred Goodman, aged 34, estranged wife of Otis E. Goodman, and employed as a telephone operator in Mill Valley for the past three months, shot herself Tuesday morning with a .45 calibre revolver. The tragedy occurred in the boarding house of Mrs. John Jackson, where the young woman was stopping.

Mill Valley police rushed her to Ross Hospital in an ambulance, but she died enroute with a gashing wound in her temple.

According to police, Mrs. Goodman left her room in her night attire, stepped into the hallway of the house, took the revolver from a hall cabinet, walked half way up a stairway, and shot herself. Her body was picked up in the hallway.

Mrs. Jackson, who was in the yard at the time, notified the officers. She told them that Mrs. Goodman had appeared despondent since separation from her husband, an extra Greyhound Bus driver employed in San Francisco.

She leaves a son, Michael Goodman, who lives with an aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. William Goodman of Mill Valley.

The weapon used was a service revolver, used by Mr. Jackson, when he was a deputy police officer of Mill Valley. The unfortunate woman left no notes. Deputy Coroner Harry Williams said the case was one of suicide. The body was taken to the James F. Russell mortuary in Mill Valley with funeral service set for Friday.