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!Euds Shady Story►SIItSILVER** HICKEY.MR HICKEYOWN LIFEAFTER MURSlays Wife With Ax; EndsNotorious CareerTRIES TO KILL BOYHickey Cuts Throat Then ShootsSelf Three Times, Huttingto Reload Otutt}“Silver Hickey, wrho for ysam bore proudly the title of Muscatine** most disreputable citizen, came to the end of the trail today, and died at Bellevue hospital at 10:55 this morning.Hickev shot himself three times, after killing his negro wife, Anle, 40. with an ax. and attempting to kill their 8-year-old mulatto fosterson, Randall, with the same ax. The boy will recover.It is possible that Hickey also cut his own throat, before the shooting —his head is so badly mutilated by the shots that it will never be known.The tragedy occurred at 8 o’clock this morning in Hickey’s little four-room shack on Bryan avenue, In Park place on the outskirts of the city,It was the blow-up” that the po lice have always known wrould comtsometime. Violent-tempered, a dealer in crime, and a **bad“ man. Hickey was marked as one who some day wrould provide the newspapers with one last, big story.Boy Tells of Murder.Randall, a bright little chap, fosterson of Hickey, who wras white, and his negro wife, told the story of the murder, an hour after it happened. The boy waa lying on a couch at thehome of neighbors, Mr. end Mr*. J.P. McWilliams, who live across the street, not more then a hundred yards from the Hickey home.The boy was stil| partially dased. He-wras struck a glancing blow on theside of the head by Htokey*e ax. Had the blow struck squarely, Hickey would have had two murders on Mesoul when he died.Terrified and bewildered, the boy sobbed as he told the story.“Never mind, honey,” crooned Mr*.McWilliams. “You can come right here and live with me. The McWilliams are colored, also.Comforted, the boy told bis story to County Attorney Harold E. Wilson and to newrspaoer men.Drunk and Quarreled.Hickey had come borne drunk at 10 o'clock last night, the boy said, and was “acting mean.” There wras a quarrel, and it was resumed this morning at the breakfast table. His wife scolded Hickey for coming boms drunk. The men was never “meen** and they never quarreled except when he had been drinking, the boy said.The quarrel became bitter, until Hickey’s temper wras fanned white hot. There may have been threats,but the boy could not remember. Mr*. Hickey was still seated at the breakfast table in tbe kitchen that also wras dining room and parlor. She wras between the table and the wall.“Papa wrent and got the ax.” the boy said, and he hit mama once or twice. Then he hit me, end I wrent to sleep.”Wife Dies Instantly.The woman wras killed at once, the base of her skull crushed by the blunt side of tbe ex. She died in the chsfr. Hickey turned end struck at the boy, again using the blunt end of the ax. knocking the lad unconscious. The rest of the story is pieced together. While the boy wras unconscious. it appears that Hickey cut hie throat with a razor, while standing in the kitchen near the fallen boy. This theory is adduced by the discovery of e blood-soaked razor lying near a pool of blood, wrhile nearby was a blood-stained shirt, as If it had been used to staunch the flow of blood from a wound. Neither the boy nor his mother had been cut by the razor.Shot Self S Time*.A trail of blood stains shows Hie-
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Muscatine Journal
Muscatine, Iowa, US
Wed, Feb 06, 1929
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