New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-04-20
MEMPHIS.

1ewis Vaughn Before Court on n Habees
Corpus General Hindman's Widow
Testifies-Fnughn's Details to- her of
the Assassination - Car tain Athey's
Statement-Detective Granmer's Story
-Vaughn's Mother on the Stand-The
Prisoner Finally Remanded to Await
RequisitiOR from Governor of Are
kansass
MEMPHIS. April i9.--Lewis Vaughn, alias
/ Frank Burdett, charged with the assassina.
non 0t (reneral Hlndman at Helena, Ar.
! Kansas. on the night of September 81, 1868,
| was brought before Judge Halsey, of the
! Second Circuit Court to-day on writ of
| habeas corpuF. j. ID. Adams appeared on
! behalf OF the prisoner. and Judge Charles
| w. Adams and Colonel Cayce Young for
the prosecution. Mrs. Mary Hindman,
widow Ot the deceased. was the principal
witness.
She identified the prisoner as the man
| railing himself Frank Burdett, claiming to
! be a son of the former police commissioner,
! and who had written her several letters
| asking her to come to Memphis, and he
| would reveal the whole plot of the assassi.
| nation of her husband.
On the night of the fifteenth instant he
! came to her room at the hotel and told her,
/ in presence of Judge Mangum, that the
party who killed General HIndman was
| hired {" do it by John H. Moore and DR..
! iinthicum. Of Helena. That his motive iD
| disclosing tho plot was partly from con-
| science but principally from revenge,
| as DIR. Linthicum had tried to poi.
| son him lasI summer, when he was
! sick; that on the night of the assassiuatioH
| he and the man who fired the shot, after
I loading a double barreled shotgun in n
/ blacksmith shop near the Generals house,
! went into the yard, leaving Linthicum
! holding the horses outside: saw the General
! through window, sitting in large rock-
ing chair, win his feet on another. smoking
his pipe: his back was to them. and thew
| went TO the other window, where they had
| q view of bis side face.
When the gun was fred he f.eafi her
shrieks and would have given the world to
| recall ten minutes: he then mounted his
horse and made his way to Mariana and
| thence to Tennessee: also stated he had a
photograph of her house and all the parties
concerned. When asked who fired the shot,
said he would get Captain Glenn Dering
| and return i'll two hours and she should
know all.
He then asked her if che had told anv.
one ir regard to his letters. She had. and
told him she came near making a confidant
OF LinthicUm. and he exclaimed, my God
if you had. he would have had me muir
dered, as Linthicum had taken him TO
Helena to kill Hindman. The letters written
bv Vaughn were shown witness and ideno
tiled.
On cross examination said Vaughn told
Judge Mangum he did not want money;
revenge was what he wanted. and meant
20 have it. Witness was then questioned
in regard to the assassination of her hIls-
band, and was much affected in detailing
the bloody work. She was accompanied by
her little son, who had just gotten out of his
fathers lap when the fatal shot was fired,
nf EaH ha taR.
ters, and said Vaughn told him they were
written at the instance of other partiess
When asked why he did not return to seq
Mrs. Hindman as he promised Saturday
night he said because the police chased
him when he went to the appeal office to
get letter: had known the prisoner for
eight months. first as Flo Iers and then as
Vaughn; had profered his services as n
detective when the safe in the police office
was robbed. but he had no confidence in hia
honesty.
When he arrested him las. Sunday.
Vaughn remarked. "You have pulled ms
about these Hindman letters"
Detective Harry Cranmer testified 20
about the same; had known the prisoner by
his different aliases: that when Vaughn
was arrested he told him he had written
the letters. but was very reticent abaue the
matter.
Mrs. QuacIenbush, of Nashville, testified
she was III" mother Of the prisoner, and his
name was Lewis Vaughn.
Several other witnesses were introduced,
but nothing of Importance was elected.
Several dispositions Wers offered 10 provo
the prisoner was at work at the Sailors
Rrst. near Clarksville. Tennessee, At tho
time of the murder.
After a lengthy argument. Judge Haisey
remand"d the prisoner TO jail 20 await q
requisitiOn from the Governor at Arkan.
sa-. which is on the way.