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THEIE CENTS.Newsboy* jure all, supplied with chAore* aad buyers are asked to insist upon pyinc only • the advertised price.I’VVtIioatrUr rrUWlahed 1858-leporter XstabUshed 1868.ASSOCIATED PRESS L.EASED TELEGRAPH WIREHAWKINS ANXIOUS TOSTART PRISON TERM;HELD TO GRAND TSwift Justice to Be Dealt Out to Ted Gates* Pal, Brought to City Last Night.FIGURE IN TRAGEDY HERE TO FACE TRIALSLAIN BANDITS WIFE AIDS PAL’S CAPTUREHintsImpFACING LONG TEEM DN FOEGEBY CHARGEFells Officers How He Walked Out of Waterloo Night of Fatal Shooting, Going to St. Paul.Joseph Hawking wag arraigned in municipal court t 2 p. m- today, on a charge of uttering a fal£e instrument. He waived right to preliminary trial and was bound over to the district court* bail being fixed at $3,000.The prisoner asked for _aBimmediate trial before a district judge, stating he would plead guilty to the charge.} As neither of the district judges are in the city, the final hearing and sentencing _ was deferred until tomorrow. Hawkins was remanded to the county jail.JOSEPH (BUD) nAWttJLNa.Forger of Express Order, Who1 Evaded Capture for One Year and Nine Days.Tardy justice was administered along towards 6 p. . m. and I went with a swift hand here today upon into a restaurant on the main Joseph (“Bud”) Hawkins, brought street to get supper. While in here last midnight from Kansas there I saw people were excited City to answer to the crime of for- and several were walking: fast to-MRS. HETTA DAVIS,Loneportan!disarm;confidenationsmous I an Inte today.Witt ferencs plish n “Thlt; dealing euverii Nort opinior and re: ernxneithe in'1was fo: diploxnWho Revealed Identity of Pal ofjdonfo:Her Slain Husband“Bud” Hawkins.asPrlt; is a gr the ct : join* ASiItgery committed July 1, 192U, in wards the west side- I did not Waterloo. dare ask outright what the trouble‘Hawkins-will he on his way to j was. A few minutes later I heardthe stale reformatory at Anamosa;a policeman had been killed. Since by nightfall if plans of H. T. “Wag-!the people were rushing towards-er, sheriff, are carried thru with-: the place where my pal was atcidental discovery, Hawkins would safegusoon have been bailed by accom- i sajd plices prepared to furnish unlimited money, the prisoner said.He told an interviewer today j ^ere that he had traveled 20,000 miles I hejpfu since leaving here. He has beeni .‘*^s connected with a booze running !ja {]ie gang operating between Kansas ;a£rald City and Canada, and also between. jtieian Kansas City, Louisville, Ky., aad!ft- aut a hitch.. The Successful_ con- j work + Pittsburgh, Pa. u»_the_ past___ 12 | th%ummation of this program depends ] fired the fatal shot Later I heardanother man had been killed, but did' not know who he was untilupon whether officers are able to?• is* lt;■%**; 1ed guilty. ‘ Following' preliminary hearing in municipal court this afternoon,' it is proposed to arraign the prisoner immediately on a charge of forgery. . He has agreed to plead guilty- . 'Hawkins Anxious to Servo Time.•. Hawkins, who -is' 26 years old and a. native of :St-. I^uiA- was aa-| mg'-on.: jnouso bestarted as soon asbought an afternoon paper.Sat at Religions Meeting.“I thought it was about time for me to beat it. I walked, out of the j profits.' restaurant os-.' unconcernedly as Icould.. I went to the residence section and finally'wandered to a park where' religious meetings were go-(The' ‘Holy Jumpers’ weremonths, he said, he made 12 round; ^ trips to Canada, one round trip to L, - \ Louisville and two to Pittsburgh. {. The gang operated by wholesale,;- t selling their wares to bootleggers in! *•Kansas City, Tulsa, Okla., and oth- Sj?/ ? er cities and making enormousproposAmeriseemsStory of Waterloo Crime.That the mystery as to the iden- ttTjuxt tity of Stanley Davis’ companion' in 'crime at the':time of the'murder.itLorda native oe ^ . erne iioiy jumpers were f City Detective Goodenbour oai^“,,is, if, chance for escape-wsrei conducting evening'services m Lm-1 juir 1S20, and the. subsequent! ?£°uic be denied him-thru: a jau a.e~icoln park that-evening). ! sat down kiliina of the slayer, was no mvs-lv56 Aery, to get started as soon • as|among the'crowd- and •listened to passible at serving time. . . jr^e singing end- a. man speak on a' That crimes- enough can^ be ^“1 gospel verse. The men and womenovered agamst Hawkms Ynn ' who were holding the meetings . . „„„0 ---- — — — --------im in the penitentiary xor xuu ju2npe(i and in a strange‘memoranda and data of the case; Japani is claim of American xiauway ws? ovp-t r to a newsnauer reoresentative. i thingterv to Chief of Police H. BL Young jQors -and detectives working under him.i^bs-t ] was- revealed today when Chiefilast i■earsf --- • * s rc L *' t*-J - -CA.4. A L1AV, T* I - ---tr------ I™resscompany special _a.geuts- stm gat on a bencb_ j_ figured that That the man who escaped after; To G._W. AGrins and Liir ;a ren -otjs meet521„ wouId be the [the murder was Joseph, or Bud jtlt;•butt, Des Moines, the daring young criminal was reticent about his _ex~ ploits except the charge of passmg a forged .American Railway ®x-ress company _ money order on aforBe was rwas known to Chiei;Young shortly after the arrival ofi. fit. jRetta Davis, girl wife of the dead; •I bandit, and it is due to her dis~;f closures that Hawkins has finally;1 been brought to iustics j j'1-Widow Adds Justice. ! statesWhile Retta maintained an air: euversignorance to all interviewers, to mentofmeeting --------—last place an officer would come \ Hawkins searching for Gates’ pal..“Along about 11 o’clock I walk-Dress comuauj muuy led Slowly away and vanished into£48 on a clothing; merchant here j the country. I walked, upon-a July- 1 1920; his escape, andjschoolhouse. I'entered and foundwanderihgs . since when the police: a map. which set me right on the dragnet was-spread all over the-directions. Later I caught a traincountry, for-him. • . ‘-for St. Paul and afterwards went j the “chief she gave every possible prised. Interest is whetted in Hawkins j; to Chicago. .X have been in almost;item of information that might; “To escapade because he was theL^j every state in the last year.” ; lead to the apprehension of the: body;of Stanley Havi^ ahas led , wants Identity Concealed. I man who came to the city witLLBritislGates, who shot and • killed Dej anrt aafftR nr|her husband for the purpose cfiing aicome in vitathe Marks clothing »•« Men *r I)».I ni; sum UIGV irruuHiii-i . —^ .» ...... „ ±t. . ----- : YJhO©a similar check. -W^RLFYenchf^c^nty attorney. | Hawkins’ face had pimples and j lived and he has a prison record. | tl o na-or information ini Gates had none. Hawkins* History Known. . quaiirThe accompanying cut of Hawk-; cause _ins was furpished by the chief of: a-by ucertain ex-^seeched the officers. “It would police ofif sheSSciSldcour^Sar^inT'Hawkins j “I. hope the newspapers won’t Sth “uttering and- issuing a false |giye my right name ” Hawkins^be-instrument, namely a_._.press xnonev order for $48, know-1 treat my mother's heart the same to have been forged Knew of my conduct.’-and with the intent to defraud-St.TVLouis, where Hawk-j takems was listed in the rogues' gal-ipicion lery. On July 10, 1920. a few: “Ncdays after (.he perpetrating of the led in this city,. Chief Young; dneesYou should have thought of Thp. n^naltvfoT'this offense may that years-ago,” retorted Atkins, crimes in this city,, cruet roang;epeesinformation charging Joseph Hawkins with cheating by false pretense. The maximum penalty, for Uiis_ offense is seven years in prison. When Hawkins was; advised of the ehauge in the information by which his prison term, in case of conviction or plea of guilty, might be raised eight years, he objected strenuously to the procedure.S1^SSi'5SSewiin TTrt tnn YPsAtv; fins if he could be apprehended-; r lov'dConld 1send Hxm Up 100 Tears. !Tr,.-reply lbe Waterloo officer re-:Hoylt;iGross said, “We have enough letter siting Hawkins|^mons OTIS/ II Liiti LDX1U lilSUiUi,. UUL nlt;x\x KA.iva.p-;TSSr aS3t« | CC5=W^j§eSm^n-it mav.be we can fasten murder up-this lellow to keep him behind pns-]bad been the city as late as oni^ on walls tor 100 years. He isjtbe third instant, but had disap-:c.a:on him. If he does not take his medicine here, we can send himThe information filed by Attorney | over the road in the Twin Cities.” Wenner soon after the commission it is believed .that Hawkins, who of the crime was not made public js apparently above the average at the time, - “ ^ ^ -.7 --- -LLETTE LOSESas it was. thought advisable not to make it known that the Identity of the Davis confed-criminal in intelligence, has beenstudying the parole laws of the various* states; that he has found iterate was in the possession of the rather' easy to obtain a parol© m i police. Iowa and that he would rather take jPrecautions by Sheriff. jhis chances here than in some oth-lt;3v,a-riw taklne m er state where criminals are morech!ncefin%e^YttuJ| tie^risone? Iri^flly punished With good time opportunity for some desperate at- ^tempt at escape, as that of his pal, Stanley Davis, a year ago, when hehis liberty in a little more than six years. He then will be only 32shot to death Detective Gooden-(Y^rs. old, young enough to engage hour. Hawkins was taken to mu-i® crime again if he does not in nielpal court at 10 a. m. today for]1?0 meantime experience a reformative purpose of having a preliminary I tion of character. * hearing, but owing to a civil case! 5Irs. Davis Remarried.occupying the attention of - the American Railway Express com-contei 1 states ; “W minio get evhelp 1 , really I tions. attem ernm« Lloyd to the j Lloyd laud 1, he isI gotiat “T1Resolution Is Voted Down Under ;^tLjudge, the hearing was postponed until 2 p. m.All the time the prisoner wasinpany officials said today that Mrs. Retta Davis, widow of Stanley Davis. the slain bandit, has since beenthe street and in the courtroom he i remarried. She wedded a Daven-remained handcuffed and one hand port high school boy. They are liv-was shackled to the arm of Jo© ing in Davenport, it is _said._andHolker, deputy sherlff-How Pair “Worked Waterloo.the woman is deporting herself in a manner above suspicion.Impression Senator’s Act Inspired fay Politics.idispla j books iin thlt; i thinkjtation i woulc(By the Associated Fress)Mexico Citj, Mex.. July 13.— I guard Resolutions expressing a vote ozlBrita: thanks by the Mexican senate toUnited States Senator LaFollette jHere is Hawkins’ story as toldi Hawkins began his criminal ca-to^ Officers Atkins and Curnutt while en route to Waterloo last night:“Gates and I started in the late .afternoon to-‘work’ Waterloo. We were on the west side of the river at first. I cashed one order at aclothing store. A few minutes later I met Gates and we discussed theBituation. Gates was a better sales-reer in St. Louis when a boy. He is now wanted in probably a dozen states.Apprehended by Accident.Hawkins was apprehended as the fugitive from Waterloo largely by accident, it was revealed today. He was arrested in Kansas City on a charge of stealing a Cadillac carlor his action in opposing military) operations against Mexico without j the express authority of congress; were voted down last night in the j senate when the’resolutions were j reconsidered. iThe senate met in secret session, and, according to El Universal, it was decided that the senator’s ut-; ^ * teranees against military aggression ! ator “were not inspired by regard for Mexico, but by political motives.”1Ma Gale, of Poman than I. We decided to sep- ^ice Marion he was liveji the hi» wrtrtine- mi* of tW peace station, ne was given xnerom Dubugue, la. Taken to the It was said by several senators-iver' and ^^e^oth'er.^^He^gavei Bertilllon measurements and pho-feie first pick and I selected the t05Ta^ie^V ^annened''to note^ • who saw Hawkins happened to notei-r_A. htminess district honintr T wno saw xiawKms aappeneu i.o uote (jcuia uv*. jcould market my‘ wares better his resemblance to the man wanted senator was _ signed^ by on y i oflhMonday night that a message ;offelicitation was already under way to Senator LaFollette. It now appears that the draft of a note to theas acomn The -for s Mi; Miss prize
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Waterloo Evening Courier
Waterloo, Iowa, US
Wed, Jul 13, 1921
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