Confessed Hawes Crime Details From Birmingham Execution
A detailed confession by Dick Hawes outlines the murder of his wife Emma and two children Irene and May. He describes quarrels over marriage plans, the use of an ax and drowning in Lake View, then hiding the bodies and plotting a cover story. Hawes was hanged at the Birmingham jail, asserting the full truth before death.
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Hawes
Willie
Miss Story
Irene
Honge
Drayman
Lake View
May
Jim
Fannie Bryant
Fanny Bryant
East Lake
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Bherif Smith
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E. C. Bruffey
Atlanta Constitution
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Mr. Bealer
Birmingham
Atlanta Journal
Dick Hawes
Age-Herald
Joe
Tom Smilth
John Wylie
Wille Hawes
Emma Hawes
Wylie Denies Involvement In Hawes Family Murders
Atlanta dispatch reports John Wylie, accused of murdering the Hawes family, remaining in the city and denying complicity. Hawes testified of miscommunication over a $200 deal to remove three females, with May allegedly harmed and turned over to Wyle. Hawes claims May was not carried to East Lake but was left drunk under Wyle’s control before a ride on the East Lake dummy.
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Wylie
Fannie Bryant
May
East Lake
John Wyle
Atlanta
John Wylie
A Strange Case Puzzle St. Louis reporters
Special to Recomper, St Louis, March 2. The local press ponders John J. O'Connor believed dead, then alive, later possibly buried in his own grave. He reappeared with a stomach wound, claiming a burial in a suspended state and revived by blood flow. He recalls waking at a lodging house and later on courthouse steps in a dazed, sick state.
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Boy Who Warned Fellow Miners Dies in Mine Fire
Special to Recorder Wilkesbarre Pa March 1 An explosion in the south Wilkesbarre colliery shaft 700 feet below the surface started a fire in a rock tunnel leading to the Stanton mine. Eight men were trapped with hopes fading as rescuers race to reach them. One boy, Jameson, ran to warn others saying they must get out quickly and did not return.
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Hillman
Stanton
Jameson
Will Be a Battle Near Flat Lick in Kentucky
Cincinnati special reports from Barbourville Kentucky that Sheriff Calloway Carnes was fatally shot by Bill Smith leader of the Smith faction. The Smith group fled as Carnes attempted arrest. Both sides rally with over thirty five armed men each and past year saw two open battles with casualties as bloodshed looms.
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The
Enquirer
Barbourville
Flat Lick
Calloway Carnes
Bill Smith
Smith
Smith-Slusher
Carnes
Menseres
Missouri's Money Deficit Hits State Treasurer Noland
Special to Recoupen from St. Louis reports rising belief of a defalcation in the Missouri treasury. Gov Francis and state officials probe Noland's accounts as bondsmen meet secretly. Shortage rumored to be about 35000, with claims of actual loss or temporary transfer in funds.
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Jefferson City
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Belbert
Morehouse
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State Democratic Committee
Varloun Funda
Killed With Winchesters Three Men Die in Creek Affray
Special to Reconper Cincinnati Ohio March 5 A man returning with coffins told of a bloody Sunday evening clash on popular creek six miles south of the city Archie Legier, his son, and McKinney, son in law, were shot dead by Joe Turner and two Bell county men over a disputed household goods division. Several others wounded.
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Ohio
Popular Creek
Archie Legier
McKinney
Joe Turner
Bell County
Bank teller W. W. Sing deficit investigation progresses
Special to Ruconper reports from Louisville on March 4 that an investigation into W. W. Sing, teller at the Louisville Bank, shows a deficit of about 000. Surgeons report injuries to Taubbee and an operating move to remove splintered bone fragments is advised amid concerns over a shortage of funds.
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Taubbee
Louisville
W. W. Sing Teller
Louisvs Bank
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