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terms with the Hackneys ever since they moved to the neighborhood.Hackney first went to the home of Mrs. Louis© Stelting. which is next door to Mrs. Bus, and asked for her daughter, Mrs. Lula Cavanaugh, who is said to have been Mrs. Hackney's most intimate friend. Mrs. Cavanaugh was out at the time and lie went for Mrs. Bus.Ho came to my door, continued Mrs. Bus, “and told ipe that there was something wrong at nis blouse. Not until he had talked for perhaps ten minutes did he intimate that there was anything wrong with Mary.Could Not Understand Him.I could not tell what he was driving nt when he asked me in a perfectly composed voice ana manner to go with him to his home, and was nof disposed to attach any importance to what he was saying. «o calm was his manner, in 1 act. 1 was* payhig very little attention to what he said until lie became insistent that 1 go with him. He finally told me that Mary had been hurt. I then told my husband that we should go over and see if we could be of any service.Mrs. Bus said she was very much surprised to note before reaching the Hackney home tint every light in the house was out. She said that it occurred to her at oncers being peculiar that Hackney would leave his sick wife in the house without even a light burning while lie talked calmly to her for ten or fifteen minutes.Still, it never once occurred to nw that upon entering the house we would be greeted with the ghastly sight that was awaiting us.Spoke of Grewsome Find-Never once did Hackney intimate. Mrs. Bus said, that his wife had been murdered until’ they reached the house and were looking for a light.Then a cold chill passed over me. w hile I was striking a match to light the lamp, when he said ‘1 don't know whether i.i or aii\e.' We %ere sl ';i~ ing in the kitchen then. andVhe added ‘I w ish you would go In there Vand see If you think I ought to send for a doctor ’Mrs. Bus said she bent over the prostrate formv. with the light and almost dropped k as the sight of the mangled head and the great pool of blood sur-COFFEE WAS ITPeople Slowly Learn the Facts.“All my life I have been such a slave to coffee that the very aroma of it was enough to set my nerves quivering. I kept gradually losing my health, but I used to say ‘nonsense, it don't hurt me.'“Slowly 1 was forced to admit the truth and the final result was that my whole nervous force was shattered.My heart became weak and uncertain in its action and that frightened me. Finally my physician told. me, about a year ago, that I must stop'drinking coffee or I coiiM never expect-to be well again.‘‘I was in despair, for the very thought of the medicines I had tried so many times nauseated me.’ I thought of Postum, hut could hardly bring myself to give up the coffee.Finally I concluded that I owed It to myself to give Postum a trial. So I got a package and carefully followed the directions, and whet a delicious, nourishing, rich drink it, was! Do you know I fouivd it very easy to shift from coffee to Postum and not mind the change at al|?Almost immediately after t made the change I found myself better, and as the dgvs went bv I kept1 on lmprovfng. My nerves grew sound and steady. I slept well and felt strong and wHI-baUtnoed w 11 the Jimc.Now I afn completely oured. with the old nervousness and sickness all gone. !u every way I am well once more.It pays to give‘up the drink that acts on some like a poison, for health is the greatest fortune one can have.Read the little book. The Road to Wcllville. in pkgs. There a a Reason.Kv*fr rend the above letterf \ iir» one appear* from time to time. They «re genuine, true, aud full of human iiiterrit,®®®®®®®®®®®®®®® ® ECKERT TELLS STORY. ®® ®® I’m tired of my wife; we can’t ® ® g«t along together any more, and I ® ® want to go back to the army, and ® ® I'm going, too. ®® This remark was recently made ® ® to #Charles Eckert, the young ® ® boarder at the Hackney home, by ® ® Harley Hacjjney, the dead woman's ® ® husband, according to the state- ® ® ment made byl Eckert to Chief of ® ® Police Jackson, Chief of Detectives ® ® Crawford, Lieutenant of Detectives ® ® Poppe and Detectives Pflug and ® ® Heuftlein yesterday. ®® Eckert also told the police that ® ® Hackney and his wife did not get ® ® along well together recently, and ® ® that they had little family quarrels ® ® occasionally. ®® Eckert was- positive yesterday in ® ® his assertion that he sat on the ® ® porch a little while Tuesday mom- ® ® ing waiting for Hackney before ® ® going to work, and that when ® ® Hackney came out of the house he ® ® and Hackney walked to the lumber ® ® mill. ®® Eckert was equally positive ves- ® ® terday that when he and Hackney ® ® reached home Tuesday evening the ® ® door was open slightly. ®® ® . ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® (• ® ® ®rounding the body of the murdered woman mlt;H her eyes.I knew' she was dead as soon as my eyes fell upon the poor thing lying there on the floor. Her eyes were glassy and looking straight at the ceiling.Showed No Emot:on.Mrs. Bus said Hackney stood by with-! out showing the slightest tfign of emotion. Never once did he express a word of sorrow, nor did he show by word or action that he felt in the slightest degree the awfulness of the calamity that had visited hjs home, said Mrs. Bus. He stood there while I bent lower to make sure that Mary waj» dead without saying a word. When I arose to my feet and collectej my voice, I said, ‘Harley, your wife has been murdered. How* could any one do such a thing?’ ’’Mrs. Bus said that Hackney immediately began to protest his innocence and declared. Well, what is to happen must happen, and we can't help it.In the meantime, Mrs. Lula Cavanaugh had returned home and was told by Henry Bus, her next-door neighbor, who had returned home overcome by the grewsome scene at the Hackney residence. that her intimate friend’s murdered body had just been discovered. She hastened tu the Hackney home. Surprised at Hackney’s Composure.The first person I met upon entering the house, said Mrs. Cavanaugh, was Mr. Hackney. 1 was surprised at his composure, but did not atop to comment on it. I rushed into the room whore lay poor Mary just as they found her lying mangled in a pool of her own blood where she had been murdered.”Mrs. Cavanaugh said that Hackney came into the room and began again to talk ^bout sending tor a doctor, not manifesting the least bit of grief and ' very little concern.“I told him to go at once to a telephone and notify the poHce. He paid no attention to me. but stood there looking at us as we stood stunned, not knowing what to do. I told Mr. Hackney again to notify the police, and atill he paid no attention to me. I insisted again and ag.iin that he should go and telephone the police, and he kept talking about a doctor. Finally I went myself to a phone and called up the Tenth District police station and told them there what had occurred.Both Mrs. Cavanaugh and Mrs. Bus declared that, as well as they knew the Hackney*, they had never heard of theirhaving quarrels or disagreements. On the. contrary, it is said by all of the I * neighbors that they were an exception- ' ally happy* couple. JMrs. Eveline Hulbert, who conducts a : tin shop in the neighborhood of the mur- I ( der, says she saw Mrs. Hackney as late j lt;os 8 o’clock Tuesday morning standing | under her grape arbor, when ?he spoke lt;to her. Tile condition of the premises, i the police say, does not bear Mrs. Hulbert 1 out in this assertion, and the police do f not attach much importance to her 1 statement. | !I do not think this possibly could be j so, said Lieutenant Oopelan of the « Tenth district. Mr?. Hulbert is evi- i dently mistaken. She may have seen } f Mrs. Hackney Monday morning, but I 1 feel sure she did not see her Tuesday ; ( morning.The fact that the breakfast dishes re- I mained on the table just as they were | i left by Mrs Hackney. Hackney and Eck- | 1 ert when they had finished their morn- | i ing meal, togeher with the fact that ! the dog had not been tied up and the chickens let out of the coop, according ; to the daily practice, lead the police to I believe that the murder was committed earlier than 8 o'clock.Didn’t See Them Together.An old negro wh0 lives next door to ' the Hackney home and On account of extreme age rarely leaves his home, said t yesterday that he spent most of his time j sitting at e window facing the Hackney j ( residence. He ?aid that he is up every j ] morning when Hackney and Eckert go 2 to their work and it was their daily cus- | tom to go down the railroad in front of j his house. He said Tuesday morning f was the first time he had missed seeing ^ them take this route.The old negro also said that ever since ‘ the Hackneys have been living next door ^ to him it had been Mrs. Hackney’s practice to do hf;r weekly washing on Tues- j day. Tuesday was the first time in his j memory that she had failed to have her g oloth^s hanging out on the line before St o’clock. I tIt is not possible that the negro boy j t they have under arrest,” said Mrs. Louise! c Stettmg. could have committed the mur- s dtr at the time he delivered milk at the! t Hackney residence Tuesday. He w as at, 1 the house next door to me a few minutes! lt;_ before 1 looked out of the w indow and I i saw him going in at the Hackney gate. ! f It was only a short w’hile afterward he knocked at my door to leave our milk, £ after which I saw hirfi driving off in an-’t other direction in his wagon.” J sWould Help Find Murderer. \ [Hackney remains In the same humor 1 assumed by him from the time he was a fir3t arrested. He was taken in custody ‘ c without offering protest, and, with one exception, has never showed any interest a in gaining his freedom. Yesterday he i 1 told the officers if they would let him | t go he would help mem find the man 1 who murdered his wife.. j £Hackney is said to have manifested an 1 uneasy disposition all day Tuesday at j * j the lumber plant at which iie is employed f in Wlnton Playe. As ^ general thing, it! was said by the men with whom haj * worked, lie was very alert and took an a interest 1n all that was said around him a and frequently had a Joke to tell. Tues- j J day, it is said, his bearing was very un- s usual and attracted the attention of his J fellow-work men.Hackney works at a machine in the t mill and it is ids duty to assort the dif- B ferent classes and sizes of lumber. Con- « trarv to his usual practice, Tuesday he „ made a number of mistakes and was t taken to task a number of times by his a foreman. }Wanted To See Superintendent. jcOne of the unusual things he Is said j 8 to have done about the plant Tuesday ' was to go into the office of the superin- J c tendent and ask for an audience writh that E official. He found the superintendent out and refused to make know n the purpose j a of idg mission. It is said that he had no j 1 business in the office and the police be- ® lieve it was his purpose to get an order c for his money and leave the city before 1 c the body of his wife was discovered.Hackney was noticed to have appeared c at the mill for work Tuesday morning | wearing a new pair of trousers and alone, . v which is something that had never ljeen d ■ '' * ~ f^Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) j
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Thu, Oct 27, 1910
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