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RALD AL A SUNDAY MORNING DECEMBER 1888 SIXTEEX PAGES HERALD MB 000 OEOTB HI a flesh appeared of called onthe Who Were at the Head Crowd Retire But for Al lurn said lie saw it' to were U34t tl i 43 fl 1 if 'J back coucluaion that the burdou dragged and car i CooUaued oerui Inga were also rationed in He has a wife and VOL 1 N0 31 close and The the Xi in the serious did not fire announced the this the list of the up to the the the the The this halt sta th is four ie re 1 has have I Kilt II we New Shot Died through He 1 They Were Ordered to Did Not Tom 8 The Hawes Murder Mys tery Nears the End ly splintered On one of Ibeu 4ank number uf blood ktains were vfadUa Tbo trail was now a Lot one and the party pUkhod ter ward eagerly to tbe low lexica en closing the small tract of ground bscrrosn Um 1j11 park and Lakeview Here Mr Marshall made a startling discovery and called the attention of the remainder of the party to the condition of the fence about titty yards from where the exit had been made from ball jnrfc A large stone bad been used in an unsueoaesful attempt to into the appeared alley leading directly stomach Hr He is about 28 inding the Dead Body of Mrs Hanes Brings About a Terrible The Troops Out Havre Tbe rest at the trail wa ajspaxwt rom the park gate it led direct Lu Ute lake in which Mrs Hawes remains were found zomam van curw After the undertaker hl rcnwd the body of Mr Hawes hundreds cf propiorcjxbed the banks at tbo lake and roy tit tle string or fragment of cteth found Ijiog A Deadly Volley was ired Into Crowd directly they of the is the lop edges of tbo two lower Jankabowud the impress of clay from the feet of the person or persons who Lad pullad tbo ghastly load across Crushed weeds and broken brush now clearly indicated Ute route straightway to a gate opening upon tbo roe 1 leading to the lake It a as now plain that the trail must lead to ths perk gate Ar the party reached the roa 1 a meracogtr bound for the city hurriedly passed them Tbe body of Mrs Hawes ti 1 ju3 been He lived formerly Boston shot in the 1 the lead dozen Chief with th disposition of little body The boat boose was crowded the entire eveniag had been fired Tbe door was not It is" He'came recently He was wounded crowd di at Ala: cut He was a married Tuesday evening at tbe master of trains office at the Georgia Pacific road he wna talking to Charlie Newman son of Mr IV Newman this was about 10 be said good morning rank I mid good morn ing Dick have you lieen to Mobileawl taken your children to tbe convent Ho said 1 have got them Luth there I told him 1 eras glad to hear it ho told me on the 2 1th of November that his wife was at his boewe but ha not seen her subsequently He told me on tbe 27th going up town that bls wife and family and idmself were well id tasted fom poor man a a family conW Ire until the time he had the trouble with Mike Cain in Atlanta He mid sometime it tna him nearly distracted to think of it 1 have not seen him since iharlis nxwman I am bookkeeper of tbe Georgia Pacific shops here I have known Hawe for four cr fire years 1 saw Hawes lost Monday morning a lout 10 Mr Brown came in at the time thia was at my office When Mr Brown came in and asked if Ilawe had liern to Mobile and Hance said yes Brown said "You made a quick trip of Hawes said "Ye and I bad to buy each 0110 of the chiklren a knife and for mid napkin ring and a uniform There had been a conversation between Hawes and myself about a month be fere that about his children He sal 1 be had seen a Catholicriest about putting hl children In a con vent at Moble I know any of th family except him A anning: I live corner Avenue and Twentieth ireet in Birmingham and am working for tbe Union Street railroad I run ns conductor on the East I Ako dummy last week aud was running Monday cran ing left Birmingham at anti 7:30 Monday evening wo got to East Lake at 8:10 and then went in tbe shed 1 saw mon git on at Twinty fourlh street with a little girl This was on tbe 0 or 7 :20 run I think hr got on at the front rod of tbe rear coach 1 was collecting faro nnd am not positive They took seat in the end of the car nnd then moved up near the stove The child attracted my attention because 1 thought it was tbo little girl who sells papers from the hat she bad on but I soon saw it was not nnd did not pay any moro attention to iier Thu bat of May 11 awe was brought in and showed the witness It is the rente kind of a bat rhe had on and like the one I suw at East Lake Tuesday morning when they got the lit tie girl out know whether the dead girl I saw at the lake was the same one that wa on the dummy Mon day night or not think they got off at the lake but am not positive I know they went some distance for I had but a few ptueenger and most of them got off at Atoudole: think I have seen the man since vent up to the jail to day with Capt Kerwin and as I stepjied in tbe door 1 saw a man standing in the door behind tbs bar and he looked very much like the same man His features were like the onol saw and I believe him to Ire the same man No one called Ids name or directed my attention to him No one iden tified him or the man 1 wanted to see There were serei al other men standing around and I picked him out from the rowd It Willis: I live in Birmingham and am a rental agent 1 am agent for the property owned by John Worthington near the base ball park on Thirty second street I know Hawes Ha rented a bouse last October a year ago and lived in it until recently ho hail a lease on it up to October 1 last I had occasion to visit the house and knew Hawes hail a wife nnd three children The eldest was about 10 yvu wasTrtit a girl and the third about 0 uboy "Twent out one day lost September and the oldest girl met me nt the door and said her mother wanted to see me that she was very sick 1 went in nnd found the woman in tlis bed: her face was very much swollen eyes blue end looked blcod shotteu Sbo said she wnnted me to see her condition so that I attach her furniture Bhe sail one arm iabroken anil one rib She said her husband knocked her down jumped pn her and stamped her I asked why he did ill She said 1 tbiuk ho is trying to get rid of me tint she Lad some property in Atlanta and he wanted to dispose at it and she would not consent and would die before she would agree to it THE BLOOn SWISS The officers who visiUsl tho Hawes cottage riday evening wire convinced beyond doubt that tnu woman and the other child had lieeu murdered Tbe crime was com mitted at the house Of this they were con vinced by the blood staina on the floor and on the walls of the room The bloody trait leading to tbe base ball jmrk in the light of later developments suggests the theory that tho woman was killed early Saturday even ing that ter I ody was removed from th houro to the Imre ball par at once and then after midnight it was taken to the lake How many were implicated in the crime Is not known bat it is clear that one person couM not have dhpoaedof the body of Mrs Hawes weighted down as it waa with iron No man could have carried it from the cottage to the lake alone In fact one man could not have lifted tbe body with tbe weights attached In this connection a matter is suggested which should tss investi gated When the offirere completed th search of tbe cottage and tie jremises riday evening they returned to the city At tbe time no one seems to Lave thought of placing a guard at the house or aome one to watch it from a distance When the officvrs left there were blood stain on the fl oor of almost every room and one on the walL At one place on tbe floor of Mrs room there waa tbe full imprint of A BLOODT HAND When tbe cfllcers returned to tha cottage a few hours later they found that someone had entered through a window and wabed the blood stain from the floor A few of them still remained the party or parties having evidently done their work very hur riedly Tbe stain on tho wall they bad evi dently tried to cut away with a chisel or some other sharp instrument This feet proved beyond doubt that someone in the vicinity of that cottage knew' those Wood stains were there and had an interest in their removoL Now that tbe body has bean found and the work of bunting evidence be gins in earnest this matter will no doubt be fully investigated Tbe tor tics who washed away thoee stain of blood know something of the enme ANOTSEB nirOHTAXT LtVK The little cottage where tbe we family lived is the property of John IV Worthing ton and was in ccarge'of Mr Willi a well known real agent Mr Willis rented the cottage to Hawes and attended to the collectien of the rent There is some thing over a rent due an tbe houre and Mr Willi wao not notified by Mr Hawes that he Intended giving up tbe place Tbe key to tbe bouse have never been turned ovrt to Mr Willi and he did not And This Chapter is the Most Horrible of All troops cleared vicinity of right chil He lives on Avenue and Twentieth house was open and on narrow platform and stone steps the door were gathered a I ven rada 1 us In and near the jail tho arrange The en to the old jail on Twenty first was well guarded and barri Ou the roof of the mmber of men all armed with Win 1 were stationed and these men 1 instructions to prevent crowd into the alley Detective Robbins also came out with a squad of searchers He had in a conversa tion with Hawes in the jail the night previous ascertained that the prisoner Lad spent Sunday at Lakeview and found out who was with him at the lake He then saw the gentleman who spent the day there with Mr Hawes and asked what the subject of the conversation between he and the prisoner had been The gentleman told tLi' officer that he and Hawes bad talked about the depth of tho water in tho lake and tha departure of the family to Atlanta Mr Robbins took this as a strong clue and with his helirs went out to the lnks as above recited Mr Kiernan concluding that it would be ureless for both his and Mr men to drag tho lake turned his attention to something else or abcut two and a half hour the detective and his trusty helpers Milled tboir hooks about in the bottom of the Jake with out making any discoveries About 12:30 however a hook which was being pulled in a boat occupied by Messrs Jack Knight and Beaver tho latter being a conductor on one of the railroads running into tho city struck soruethiug on tho bottom and tho two men promptly brought it to the turfaee It proved to bo a body that of Mr R' Hawes It was found near the south ern end of tho little island and about twenty yards from tbe boat house The water is about eigLt ua feet in depth at this place and is far from trans parent To tbe body was attached over fifty pounds of railroad iron which served to keep it on the bottom of the lake Tbe gentlemen pulled their horror inspiring passenger into the boat and rowed to tbe western shore where they placed her on the bank in front of tho pavilliou WHAT THE BOATHOUSE KErrEIt SAYS Mr Connally the keeper of tbo boat house throws still more light on tho subject He say that one morning recently he thinks Eiday he found one of the boats had loosened during tbo night nnd naturally that Rome one must have used it The steeple by which it hsd been fastened had been pulled out aud the lock had been taken away The little gate at the boat house entrance to tbe ground was open which was something must unusual Mr evidence will go to prove that the murder was committed ou Saturday night If tbe husband is the murderer according to Mr testi mony it may bu concluded that Hawes went cut on Sunday to see that his job was well done that no one suspected uim BLOODY CLOTHES About an hour before the body of Mrs Hawes was found in the lake Messrs Phil Givon and John Olmstead mado a discovery which is by no means unimportant They were searching the house and tho premises which the Hawes family had occupied Oie of them crawled under the building aid there found a pile of fresh ashes Scatter ing tha pile the gentleman found that it had as a a bundle of clothes He brought them out and examined them They were bloody and were about the size and style of those vrnrn by little Irene They were prob ably vii ones she wore when she was mur dered It is thought moreover that the lit tle girl was naked when her body was thrown in the luke if it was thrown in al all Had she had any clothes on and been on tho bottom of the lake at Lakeview the draggers believe they would have Looked her clothing as every inch of tbe bottom has been scratched It is stated fartnat several times during tho in I'X ll ty'sonie heavy object but that the weight of it has torn tho substance of the object from the hooks each time Possibly it is soft flesh that gives way to the weight of the heavy irons which bolds her to the bottom when tbe sharp hooks pierce her tender body Killing and Wounding a Number Men ne child The priest was with him this morning Tate shot through the hip thigh and loin He is dying He is a painter and lived afEast Lake He worked in the Georgia Pacific shops He is about 45 years old and had a family A Brannon shot in the hip He will die He came very recently from Gadsden He was a United States deputy marshall He 'is a rather young man Ho could not talk and appeared to be dying William Alexander: He was badly wounded but nothi ig could be learned as to the character of his injuries Cooper: He was shot thigh His wounds are considered Ho is mnrried Colbert Smith (colored): Shot right lung He is from Portland Ala is thought to bo fatally wounded LawrencE itzhugh a civil engineer on the Birmingham Mineral: Badly wounded He was shot through the shoulder He was about 30 years old He is a single man Charles Baily: Shot through the head and it is thougnt fatally at No 21 Church street Owen: He was thigh painfully He has a wife and dren street Smith of Avondale John Merritt of Rocket Station A Waters and John Ross two youn mechanics all slightly wounded Montgomery shot in the jaw Walter Robinson: Bookkeeper Hardware Company shot through the left hand A number of others are shot but at this hour it is impossible to get their names as they are scattered all over the city rank Gilmore a carpenter from Ely ton shot fatally through the intestines lie has a wife and three children Throckmorton a brakeman on the Louisville and Nashville railroad shot through forehead Dying William Youngblood prominent ber merchant dangerously wounded AS SEEN ROM THE JAIL In and around the jail there was a sup pressed vein of excitement during the entire night The outside guards were located on the corner of Third avenue and Twenty first street and ourth avenue and Twenty first street respectively These guards chal lenged all parties approaching in the direc tion of the jail and all such parties were summarily ordered The inner guards tioned jiear the entrance to the alley way leading to the jail and these kept a lookout for all who carne near them who for any reason had escaped the outer guards merits were even more complete trance street ended leaving 110 possible hope of entrance from that point A number of men were also stationed near the entrance to the alley way immediately between tbe wall to the jail and the fence to the now court house The outer door of the jail facing the new court A STORY LITTLE MAY May Hawes was tha most intelli gent child of her ugol ever said pawn broker Luky yesterday cams to my place of business several times lost summer with her mother Later she called several times alone and I was much surprised at the intelligent manner in which she talked about business matters She was quite au interesting child and very pretty Hit moth er too was a handsome woman and mother and child seemed strongly attached to each EVIDENCE BEORE THE CORONER At 9 yesterday morning tho coro jury met in tbe room in tho rear of Lockwood undertaking establish ment but adjourned until noon as Coroner Babbitt wu to another case At 12 however tLn inquest was resumed and the following evidence taken: Brown: I live at Oxanna and am an engineer on the Georgia Pacific road I have known Hawes twelve or eighteen years I know when he was arrested The last time I saw him I think was on the morning of November 27 at the Georgia Pacific shops He asked me to go up town with him This was about 10 o'clock 1 told him that I would do so We came to town together and he said he wanted to sc Rosser the auctioneer or he had some fur niture to sell We went to Rosser's to gether and they made arrangements for sell ing his furniture and that they would meet at house at 4 in the after noon I left him about a half a hour after this When we left the shops we tad got ten a little distance off' nnd I asked him if it was so that he was going to get married again and he said it is I said Dick have you got a divorce from your He said I have and got it in Atlanta asked him bow many children he had and he said three I then asked bun if he intended to keep his children with his new wife or if not where Le would leave them He said he would not have them with his new wife I asked him what be would do with them ahd lie said I will take the twool lest to Mobile and put them in a convent and brother Jim wilt keep the youngest until I get straight and than my intenced wife will take care of it for me He did not say whether it waa a boy or girl Tne next time I saw Hawes was in Mr office on Monday or am the second story of the new court house A feeling of intense anxiety prevailed and the silence nt times was ominous At 11 the shouts of the approach ing crowd could be plainly heard The shouts grew closer and louder still and the on the inside fingered their guns and began making preparations for the inevita ble A mass of men appeared in the entrance to the alley and in a loud voice Sheriff Smith ordered them out of the alley at the peril of their lives It was very dark and impossible to distinguish the exact place the men at the entrance to the alley were located Some were evidently on the oppo site side of the street Again the mass of human in the entrance to the alley am going to shoot at out the sheriff But the sheriff nor his men will fire at again sheriff Mr Smith was very much excited The officers could see the forms of the men creeping up the alley way toward the jail Agaiu the sharp voice of the sheriff called out etc and when five had been reached he called out A perfect fusilade followed An Age Herald reporter was in the jail and saw for himself that all the firing was not done by the officers More than one bullet whistled into the office of tho jail The officers from their various positions of am bush fired volley after volley into the crowd and the screams of tho wounded could be heard between the volleys The action was sharp and decisive but in a few minutes peace reigned The officers who were located on the steps of tho jail retired into the office of tbe building and barri caded the door after the preliminary rounds opened until after the firing was over Inside tbe jail after the battle of the bul lets had been fought it was reported that over twenty men had been picked up dead or wounded Chief Pickard over half a dozen picked up and others from their posts of observation made similar reports SHERI SMITH INTERVIEWED Sheriff Smith was interviewed at the jail and stated to an Age Herald reporter that he was acting simply in the line of his duty in defending the jail' He stated tnit he was under orders of Mayor Thompson to fire upon tbe crowd if they entered the alley The most of the shooting was done by the officers from the second story of the jail THE MILITARY OUT All the evening the members of the mili tary companies remained about their armo lies ready to turn out at short notice Immediately after the firing tho Volunteers Rifles and Guards were ordered out and marched at once to the jail Captain Clark of the Volunteers was in command cf battailion streets in jail and are now on guard there Montgomery companies will come up morning INDING THE BODY Just as the evidence had reached noint a boy pushed his way through crowd which had gathered around the store in which the court was being held and breathlessly related to the crowd the fact that the dead hotly of a woman had been pulled out of the lake at Lakeview The in quest was immediately adjourned An AgiJ Herald reporter jumped in a carriage an 1 in five minutes was at the lake A small crowd of Lakeview' residents had assembled near the pavilion on the western bank of the lake They had formed a small circle around something at which they were in tently gazing The reporter made his way through the crowd end beheld an object stretched out on the bank and covered with a sheet The covering was wet from having corie in contact with the body show ing that it had been only a short time since taken from the water Tbe reporter lifteil the sheet and disclosed the lifeless body of what was only a few days since a beautiful woman in the full vigor of her young life The remains had been disfigured by the water most horribly The skin was drawn in wrinkles and had been bleached a sicken ing "white by the water A fifty pound weight was tied with a curtain cord around the neck another around her waist and still others to her feet She was dressed in a calico or muslin wrapper on the ol der of a Mother Hubbard She bad been lAid with her face upward and when her head was turned a ghastly wound was dis covered on the back of it The skull was crushed and the water had washed the hair from the injured part leaving it a sickening sight to behold hile the re porter was noting these things the crowd had increased and hundreds of people from the neighborhood and from the city had been added to its numbers The sight of tho wo man served to exasperate the crowd and many espressions advocating revenge for ber death were heard inally the wagon drove up and the coroner had the re mains borne away An anxious crowd fol lowed the wagon as it left the lake HOW SHE WAS OUND Detective Kiernan has contended from the first that the lake at Lakeview should be drained Its close proximity to the Hawse residence he thought was suggestive Oi a probable place of burial Yesterday morn ing he got permission from Coroner Babbitt to drag the lake and he and two of his men worked from 8 until 11 with nets and hooks but without effect At 11 clock This aroused the most intense ily bariyin afternoon people began to freely of lynching Hawes against the counsel of cooler ing to determined men under the lead of Pickard and Sheriff Smith all armed Winchester rifles and with numerous rounds of cartridges All were disciplined to the last degree aud the instructions were issued to shoot rectly entrance Twenty first street tbe Sheriff Smith and the dzan policemen and deputy sheriffs on duty patiently awaited the onslaught of the expected crowd with a preparation and grimness born of a sworn duty to law and order that could not be easily mistaken all prearations were re ported complete and a warm reception was certainly in store for those who were re ported to be coming to avenge the gross out rage on law and society committed by a man who was surely a fiend to have encom passed the death of the wife he had sworn to honor and protect and the children it should have been his delight to love and cherish But" ample as these preparations were all has not yet been told On the roof of the Yinn Chester rifles were likewise under the entrance of the leading to the jail A number of men MAY HAWES rom a photograph takes after death the heart from the roar Killed instantly He dressed nicely He was a handsome mm Kept books for Aweland Phelan 'Came recent ly from Statioh Tenn Ho is un derstood to have a family at the lake He was about 30 years of age Unknown: A substantial looking man about 28 years He was shot in the Lis hrnins wflm running out Ha dieJ instantly He is thought sJ have been bricklayer and to have worked for Williams on the Morris building A Schide a mechanic shot in the 1 I left side just under the shoulder thought that he will die from Kalamazoo Mich by a Winchester rifle ball A Tarrant machinist at the Louis villa and Nashville shops shot in the He died a few minutes afterward Jenkins carpenter at Smithfield: lfjsquare in the centre of the foreheadij at 3 Rather a young man McCoy from Duke Station Shot in the head His brains oozed and he died instantly man 'o Throckmorton Postmaster of Shot in tbe lower part of the was dying at last accounts years old the from into roroieu row were' the instructions issued by The Age Herald this morning records the mosc terrible tragedy which has ever occurred in the city of Birmingham A number of men were shot dead and many others were wounded last night in a supposed attempt to lynch Hawes confined in tho county jail on a charge of murdering his wife and childen Yesterday the dead body of Mrs Hawes was dragged from the bottom of the lake at Lakeview and a terrible wound was found in her bead feeling ever known in this ci the talk and bends a crowd was organized about 10 After some time spent in talk and listening to those who were urging moderation and the observance of law and order tho crowd advanced on the jail At the corner of 1 Third avenue and Twenty first street they' 'were met by a guard of special officers Here they paused for some time and Mayor Thompson urged tha men to disperse to their homes and do nothing rash or a time they listened to him and it seemed at one time as if the terrible affair would be averted But the crowd behind pressed on those in front and gradually they advanced down Twonty firat street until the mouth of the alley was reached Vhen the crowd turned up the alley they were several tiims warned iback by Sheriff Smith and several gentlemen who were at the front of the crowd urged them back They would not go back and finally tbe officers in the jail opened fire which was returned by th 3 crowd After a large number of shots had been fired tha crowd fell back in great con fusion and the firing ceased The following is the fullest killed and wounded obtainable time of going to press: A Shot through tbe body and Lby dU not (tropuw to dlMppolntod if they roxld help it Uea tbo efflaen rew ILU InumaM crowd they dmeA It imprudent to fartmc tbo body la at that time Tbo wasod bear lag tbo eorpre uas met omeUtnc by ao officer and drtwa out to aretnw and rwenry aereetb rtrret It a at firet intended to bold the iwjumA there yady erening Int later it decidod not Lo du on account of tha rxcitemanU After snma delay ami rht Um crowd bad dbpwied Lb Ixwly brought ta uadar guard ami uiea to Lockwood Lter Corooer BabUci bad It raaovod to Uta oamatory aidtlccd In a vault her It will ranuln until tbo Inquest i held Tha luaand wacoa driving about tbe outlying atm 00 much attracted no little attentfoa and omm a ru mor was afloat thnl Ilawe hid been plered in the wagon and was in that way Joeing spirited out of the city AT TUX HAWES HOUSE Tbe neat little brown emtage on Thirty aerond street and Avenue whirfi up to last Saturday night occupied by Hawes and hla murdered family was vw i ted by no Ires than CvOO propio yesterday They came down from lAkeview in great crowds Tbo tlreerted bouan wa nuMecked reaaul I 7 jna kMWalreew lea ika aeumaafjal wrus vsS'P walls were acruUnuend for auans relic or nre tiMMito at tbe uiyttcrioody murdered dead' Every thing was carried away that bad been left about tha premise The edd school book of tbo children lying about tbo floor were carried off as prised relic trwil gentlemen went under the houre and dug up the ground hoping for further clews REUE1 A IlKAlUXa (Job Taliaferro tbo attorney for Hawes called on Coroner Babbitt yesterday uad asked that his dieut be given a hearing before the jury He stated that lie would possibly bo able to throw some light 00 the subject and rohably aid the jury in arriving at tbe correct an I trns fact a Imo that sven if the facts were agint hi client be de sired that they abould be brought out Tbo Colonel furtlier stated that Hawi had had no oue to defend him or appear iu bi behalf and that lie thought that a bi attorney be inul a right to bo Usard especially as what bo talc! might assist tbe jury la art lug at tho con ocl verdict Alter a goot deal of consideration Coroner Babbitt said be did not think it was right for any attorney to appear before the jury and refused to grant L'oL req 1 ret Coroner Babbitt said that so far there was no de funeral bod Hit Uy Have at Lock wool Miller 'a It has bron em balmed and jilacod la a neat casket Coroner Babbitt has decided that it is not necessary to ketp the body out of the grave any longer and it will be turiei to day or to morrow There ill be no publie funeral but it will bs quietly laid to rt in the I at purchased for the purpose with tbe money subaenbed by ibe ciltcen THE BLOODY TRAIL In the Age Hebald of yesterday an ac count was given of a miduight trip to tbs Hawes neigbarbood Tbe pony conrirtad of Age Herald representative and Capt A Pickard city tnrsbid After brief examisAtioa of the Hawes premises it was decided that if Mr wwniur dered her body mt probably would i found in tbe bus ball park or in Lakeview park just beyond Acting uot tha Lios tbe areh wa taken up and Ltl in lite article sllu ted to resuiud to tire fiudwg of a broken pteuk ii tbe fence and ret wu close by At o'clock a tn nothing moro baring been dereloped tbo uarcL wo ducoalintud At noen yesterday oDOtbor party was organized aad we trail again fol lowed up with mostconeludva result Thera is no doubt bat that from tha iclM where tLe broken plark and out sock were tound some heavy object had been dragged through tbe weed to the flagged bicycle track and along this track to where it meets the atwn fence at th park At tut oiut two plank 1 a tbe fence know the family were gone nntfl tbdl cowry of tbe murder mystery Tbe key are etill missing and it would I inlrrnuag to know in whoa porewreuun they osn Ire found Mr Willi knew nothing at Ure at tempt to manors tho blood Maio until In formed by Aos JIebaLD reporter oter day Dtsrosmox or the dody TVhsn the news that th bojy bed beau found and would anon bs brought into tbs city lecaius generally known a crowd began to gather in front of the undertaking room of Itockwood MiUer Second Soon tbe bate crown riled to hundred and then rapidly to tbuukaud until tbo struct were Oiled for ru blocks la every direction People were attracted by enri odsy to see tbe body A dozen cfficcre were required at tbe front and rear door cf fawBdaKi Ws a AGE VOL NO VOL NO IXff 5 1 ii it AX jr A as fl si? iX I i I ii 1 ii trWI 8 HI £jE 1 JK Ixwkwood and to keep bark the crowd Tbs crowd quiec but every 1 man bad coute with the intention at arobig jmt I Si 1Vw ti 4 1 I i 3 jl I Yk fl fl (11 Ifl A fl I il 1 'll Wl 1 I1 0 1 I A Ala A i i 4 Ar A i.

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