The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-11-06

REST OF THE MURDERER OF SCOTT HAWKINS !;
SEVERAL MEN ARREsTED-REv. J. 7. NC.
LAUGBLIN-NEw BUILDINGS.
rConespondence OF the Richmond DlsDatch.l
NOVEMBER 5, 1880.
CAPTAIN p. w. Fcrreli, OF the Tobacco
Association. reports that there was sold in
October G77,4l6 pounds of leaf tobacco.
The value OF It was sS4,975 SO, and the ave-
rage per hundred Sl2.54. In October OF
1879 the quantity sold was 910,24l, the
value 500 963 Ii, and the average SlO9S.
Captain +. L. Marks. of the internal reve-
nue. office, reports the revenue receipts for
last month 500, 03S II. The items are as.
sessments, 81. 6S; spirits, s6l2; licenses,
S42423; manufactured tobacco and cigars,
$50 900. SO. The receipts for October. 1879,
amounted to S92, G24.74. The items were ::
assessments, S20.24; spirits, 1928 90; Ii
censes, $500 50; manufactured tobacco and
cigars, SSS, 944 70.
The story as 10 John Wren's hunting up
OF the murderer OF Scott Hankins goes
somewhat this way: After Wren, with two
assistants who came with him, had done
some accommodating, he disguised himself
and got into ring of gamblers who had
been lurking about the city. From man
named Lewis Stevens he got some hints,
and then, in company with his assistants,
he got hold OF Robert &. Payne around the
caming-table and eXtorted some disclosures
from him. Payne then offered to become
witness for the State, and made, 1t l. sup
posed, O clean breast Of the matter. While
he and Hankins were engaged in game OF
cards Scott Thompson kept the count, and
pretty soon after he (Payne) having won
seventy-ive cents from H1nkins, Hanklns
charged Thompson with foul play in Keep
| inc the count, and from that fight took
| place. PAYNE says he saw Thompson catch
up an axe from shelf which was near bV,
and give HankDs 4 blow on the back Of the
head and as PAYNE (as he says was leaving
the house he saw Thompson deal Hanklns
another blow and then throw bis body into
the canal, the house in which the gambling
was being carried on being blacksmith
shop near the canal
This story As to the blows given Hankins
TALES well with the account witch has been
published as to the wounds the body of
Hankins appeared TO have received when it
was examined by the coroner Jury. As a
matter of course, Thompson and Payne are
now in Jail, and If evening song and morn
ing song OF Payne agree. Scott Thompson
will be written down as the murderer, and
has been living about Danville. off and on,
for a long time, doing first one thing ana
then another, and is the son-iu-law Of the
late II. w. Lyles, who was 4 distinguished
lawyer and writer in this portion Of the
State. Scott Thompson halls from Halifax
county. The man Lewis Stevens, from
whom Wren got his first points, has also, as
matter Of course, been arrested, and is
held IN Jail. do not learn, however, that
he is charged with any completely in the act
Of killing Hankins; but u man who kept
any points about this case concealed until
Wren got them out from him could not be
spared as a witness. II is thought, too, that
the grand jury Of Judge Aiken's court
and OF Judge Aiken, who is bent upon sup
pressing crime, and has, as some say, made
a speciality against "sporting gentlemen -
may have other uses for Stevens as to him
SELF Along with Stevens another man, said
to be OF the same gambling clan, named X.
A. Richardson, has been arrested aud
lodged in jail. lie may be able TO give
some circumstanlial testimony as to the
murder of Hankins, and the grand jury
may also have need OF him In the admins
tration Of justice upon himself as dictated
by the laws against gambling.
Mrs. j. Il. McLaughiis, formerly OF Hail.
fax county, and her daughter, Miss Corne-
liza, are In town this morning, and Rev. j.
T. Mclaughlin Is expected up to-day. Mr..
Mclaughlin and the ladies, after spending
day or two with friends aud relatives here,
will afterwards make their home In Lynch.
burg. Mr.. Mclaughlin some time ago sold
the tract OF land near Halifax Courthouse,
on which he and his family had been living
for many years.
We have had rainy weather for two days,
and the ground Is supposed to be at last
thoroughly wet. All hands have been pray
ing for a season since the commencement OF
the new tobacco year.
The election business did not absolutely
put stop to building operations. Consid-
ersbie additions have been MADE 10 Hollands