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ml* prior In Wai«rloocftM» |edition of the Courier i» 'THBEE CBOTS.Newsboy* jure all, supplied with chAoce* asd buyers are asked to insist upon payio* only • the advertised price.aferlooA*iO*to*r rrUWlahed 1858-leportsr XstabUshed 1868.ASSOCIATED FBESS LEASED TELEGRAPH WIREHAWKINS ANXIOUS TOSTART PRISON TERM;HELD TO GRAND JSwift Justice to Be Dealt Out to Ted Gates’ Pal, Brought to City LastNight.FIGURE IN TRAGEDY HERE TO FACE TRIALSLAIN BANDIT’S WIFE AIDS PAL’S CAPTUREFACING LONG TEEM ON FOKGERY CHARGEFells Officers How He Walked Out of Waterloo Night of Fatal Shooting, Going to St. Paul.Joseph Hawkins was arraigned in municipal court at 2 p. xn. today, on a charge of uttering a false 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 immediate trial before a district judge, stating he would plead guilty to the charge.} As neither of • the district judges are in the dty, the final hearing and sentencing _ was deferred until tomorrow. Hawkins was remanded to the county jail.JOSEPH (BUD) nA.wttJ.Nb.Forger of Express Order, Who 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-Hints MuImport;MiADMITSADE1Says Har at This HouMRS. HBTTA DAVIS,aLondon, portant thi disarmameconfidencenations, V mous Brlti an intervie today.Without ference ca plish nothi “There dealing, fn euvering.” Northcli opinion re and report ernment bthe invitatwas forced diplomaticWho Revealed Identity of Pal ofdo^°feifHer Slain Husband“Bud” Hawkins.asPresidlt; is a great the chief : join* AmerStory It shogeiy committed July 1, 1920, in wards the west side. I did not Waterloo. dare ask outright what the trouble'Hawkins-will be on his way to j was. A few minutes later I heardthe state reformatory at Anamosa,;a policeman had been killed. Since by nightfall if plans of H. T, Wag-1 the people were rushing towards~er, sheriff,. aTe carried thru with-i the place where my pal was atut a hitch. The successful con-1 work I -surmised he might have ummation of this program depends • fired the fatal shot Later I heardupon whether officers are able tofe1tScrMLiisdMal- -e .e* St. Pau, Ianother man had been killed, but did' not know who he was untilbought an afternoon paper.Sat at Religious Meeting.“I thought it was about time for me to beat it I walked out of the j profits.'restaurant as-.' unconcernedly as Icould.. I went to the residence section and finally-'wandered to a park where' religious meetings were go-(The‘ ‘Holy jumpers’ werecidental discovery, Hawkins would safeguardsoon have been bailed by aceom-isajd plices prepared to furnish unlimited money, the prisoner said.He told an interviewer today j wbere ^ that he had traveled 20,000 miles I Heipfml sj since leaving here. He has been* toconnected with a booze running! jjie gr gang operating between Kansas ;a£raid £t ^ City and Canada, and also between..,,'. Kansas City, Louisville, Ky„ and|e- affai. Pittsburgh, Pa. In the past I j the nr^sic months, he said, he made 12 round; trips to Canada, one round trip to |h hU Louisville and two to Pittsburgh.} a£t The gang operated by wholesale,; - . ■selling their wares to bootleggers in. I “T Kansas City, Tulsa, Okla., and oth- S,’ er cities and making enormousproposal America seems toStory of Waterloo Orime.That the mystery as to the iden- to jump t tity of Stanley Davis’ . carap.anionL- ../*y. don’ in'crime at the time of the-murder,4i’. *V..: ’Lord Cura native ot ^ . louts.- -w*»-trne noiy jumpers vere f City Detective Goodenbour onis, if. chance ..for escape _ were 1 conducting evening1 services fflLffl-1 July 1, 1920, and the. subsequent; ‘cbe denied him thru a jau ae-i coin park that evening}.-1 safidown killing of the slayer, was no mvs-tv16 Am0r' .1 j - a. . jJ - AN • fWJ 1 j •» - 1 n t-' 1 _ ’ j.'_ O . _ — - . ■ -1 , “ /* ny^Cx 2,11 d--terv to Chief of Police H. H/ Young, a?rs, ““V and detectives working under him, i pron was- revealed today when Chief I last Thun■ears ised 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-. Louis,- was aa-t iug'-on. :riousto belivery, to get started as soon as| among the'crowd- and - listened to possible at serving time. . . | the singing end- a. man speak on aThat crimes enough can^ be un-igosJ)el versG_ iT)e men and womenovered agamst Hawkms lt;.c s. :-e. : wJl0 were folding the meetings „0 ---- — — — ----------im in the penitentiary xor xuu ju:aipelt;j UJ? and ovn jn a strange‘memoranda and data of the case: Japan andclaim of American itanway, waTr fKc, wa, nvPT. r !to a newsnauer renresentative. i thing onAstcmeeting wouia oe xne r T,tto/w^u' y'1 “But Ilast place an officer would come; H^wkins^ was^ ^known^ j was respcsearching for Gates’ pal..“Along about 11 o’clock I walk-inress cmnoauj- munw —! ed slowly away and vanished into£48 on a clothing, merchant here; the country. I walked, upon-a July- 1 1920; his escape, andischoolhouse. I entered and foundwanderings 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 at.Interest 25 whetted Kawkrns j £o Chicago. I have been in almost; item of information that might; “Toma escapade because he was the pal j every state in the last year.” I lead to the apprehension of the body seen of Stanley Davis, Tea , Wants Identity Concealed. I man who came to the city with: British gci-to-i •* her husband for the purpose of;mg and ■come Bri invitationt_ -• * y rys\-' to ' * * - -ci.4. vv. a i.iiy ii. 1. j, r ” w rr — tr---------_ 1^ress company special _ugeuts. gtffl gat on bencb_ l flgu.Ted that That the roan who escaped after;To G._W. Aprins and Ltir !a ren -ous aeetia would be the [the murder was Joseph, or Bud jtutt, Des Moines, the daring young criminal was reticent about his exploits except the charge of passing a forged American Railway Ex-ress company _ money order on aforbeen brought to ,iustic6Widow Aids Justice.While Retta maintained an air of ignorance to all interviewers, toMy iniStates ma euvers cament at ^storethe Marks clothmg a similar check.Information Charges Forgery.W R- French, county attorney,; Hawkins face had pimple and ;nve(j mq he has a prison record. -T.JTr,^ ^formation ini Gates’ had none. Hawkins* History Known. ; qualifiedThe accompanying cut of Hawk-; cause sne _ins was furpished by the chief.of:a-hy ib-dejcertain ex-iseeched the officers. “It would police ofif sheSSciSldcour^Sar^inT'HaSkins! “I hope the newspapers won’t Sth “uttering and issuing a false]give my right name ” Hawkins bG-instrument, namely a_._.press monev order for $4Sr know-1 break my mother's heart in®- the saine to have been forged knew of my conduct.-and with the intent to defraud.St.FT4 {'Louis, where Hawk-i take wou ms was listed in the rogues' gal-jpicion an; lery. On July 10, 1920. a few: “Now xdays after the perpetrating of themed in con: this city,. Chief Young; Cnees -is s'You should have thought of up-tialtv^for this offense may that years ago/' retorted Atkins, crimes in this city,, uniet xlt;onng; fences isJ WenBer t^-0f-t£c/prse S3s.Er™ rtrt tm Turn (ins if he could be apprehended.jtiovlt;* Ge-Gonilt;i ?5lt;;na .rilm Up iw xcjars. IrT^^Tpnlv rh^ Waterloo re-i-'■! r-rfGross said, “We have enough on j Jeived a -tt5 stating Hawkfrs1 ldent ?,aithis fellow to keep him behind pris-l^fg^ ^ Viaw as onion walls for 100^ years. He is|tbe tbird i3£tant. but bad disap-: ?us-'I'-se‘information charging Joseph Hawkins with cheating by false pretense. The maximum penalty, for th'is_ offense is seven years in prison. When Hawkins was; advised of the eh.au.ge 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.mrandsCuSo.C,TSS*liluS a?! ! (Continued on page twft, eoEtftnn eovB * 0~f it mav.be we can fasten murder upon him.. If he does not take his medicine here, we can send himThe information filed by Attorney lover the road in the Twin Crties.” Wenner soon after the commission it is believed .that Hawkins, who of the crime was not made public is apparently above the average at the time, ' ^ i' -- •----■-LLETTE LOSESas it was. thought advisable not to make it known that the identity of the Davis confed-crimina.] in intelligence, has been studying the parole laws of the various* states; - that he has found iterate was in the possession of the rather easy to obtain a parole mi police. Iowa and that he would rather take j' Procaations by Sheriff. 'bis chances here than in some oth-wacrnpr taTrinfi- no er state where criminals are more chfncel in^eStol tie^risone? j rigidly 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- [years old, young enough_to ^Sfige hour. Hawkins was taken to mu-i® crime again if .he does not in nicipal court at 10 a. m. today for]1?0 meantime experience arefonna-the purpose of having a preliminary! tion of character. * hearing, but owing to a civil case! Mrs. Daris Rernamed. occupying the attention of - the American Railway Express com-conterenc ■ statesmen ; “We a-minion's get every help turn : really pez ; tions. T attemptsernment lt;Lloyd Ge-;* to the Wc j Lloyd Ge land for 1 ,he is not i gotiator. “The 1Resolution Is Voted Down Underjudge, the hearing was postponed until 2 p. m.All the time the prisoner wasmpany officials said today that Mrs. Retta Davis, widow of Stanley Davis. the slain bandit, has since beenthe street and in the courtroom he: remarried. She wedded a Daven-remained handcuffed and one hand port high school boy. They are liv-was shackled to the arm of Joe ing in Davenport, it is _said._andHolksr, deputy sheriff.How Pair “Worked” Waterloo.the woman is deporting herself in a manner above suspicion.Impression Senator’s Act Inspired fay Politics.i displays (books ha i in the 15;j think tha j.tation, a; i would b(By the Associated Fress)Mexico City, Mex.. July 13.— i guard, is Resolutions expressing a vote of] Britain.” thanks by the Mexican senate toOnited States Senator LaFollette IgQfMXHere 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 thesituation. 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 carFnfor his action in opposing military j operations against Mexico without j the express authority of congress; were voted down last night in the j senate when the'resolutions were] reconsidered. jThe senate met in secret session, and, according to El Universal, it was decided that the senator's ut- i terances against military aggression •ator “were not inspired by regard for Mexico, but by political motives.”(ByMadisc Gale, no of Portaerom Dubuque, la. Taken to the It was said by several senatorsMonday night that a message 'oflo( ttS Police stationV ie IEand I the other' He save! Bertilllon measurements and pho-fee first pick and I selected the tV hannencd ^notedistrict honinE T ^bo Hn^vkins D3.pp^nGu t.O note . .nould market my wares better his resemblance to the man wanted senator was signed by only 26 there. I here. A photograph was produced“I went to the east side across! and Hawkins then admitted hisfelicitation was already under way to Senator LaFollette. It now appears that the draft of a note to themembers of the upper house of the Mexican congress, and had not beenas a me commissi The offic for six y Miss G “Miss Lu prize aslug the rof the gciltick tlt;
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Waterloo Evening Courier
Waterloo, Iowa, US
Wed, Jul 13, 1921
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