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STATE USED WOMAN TO HELP SECURE EVIDENCEILETTERS DICTATED BY HAWK-ENBERRY TO STOOL PIGEON OFFERED IN MURDER TRIAL THIS MORNING.Letters of an incriminating nature which Curtis Hawkenberry, on trial for the murder of Perry Schultz in his room in the Kaiser hotel, wrote to Joe Gregg, his friend, were introduced before Judge Huneke this morning. One of them tells Gregg to go to the“cache” and get the gun and moneyand to secrete the gun. The letters were dictated by Hawkenberry, so thq. state claims, to Harry Palmer, a stool pigeon who was put in a cell with the accused man for the purpose of securing incriminating evidence.On the witness stand this morning Palmer admitted that he is anex-convict and was placed in the cell .with Hawkenberry following a conversation with the prosecuting attorney’s office. He denied on cross-examination that he had been promised immunity on several forgery charges. He said he was endeavoring to get from Hawkenberry what he could for the sake i of justice only.He admitted that he was assist-; ed somewhat by a woman nairrt Snyder, who carried Hawkenberry’s dictated letters to the prosecutors.Deputy Prosecutor Fred Pugh said this morning he would introduce Joe Gregg, to whom Hawkenberry wrote the letters, as a state’s witness. At the time of the crime, both Hawkenberry and Gregg werearrested for it, and later Gregg wasreleased after having been keptconfined for several weeks.• «
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Spokane Press
Spokane, Washington, US
Mon, May 25, 1908
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Caroll K.
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