Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-04-05
LOU HAUK.
Detective Norris Successfully Lands
Him 10 Ohio.

HIN Iu Ohlo.
.s CIKcExxAIf, March 2s.-Lou Hauk
has At last been landed in Ohio, and win
soon be brought 10 the bar Of justice, TO
answer the charge OF having murdered
Paul Lohmap, of Toledo. This morn
ing Detective John T. Norris reached
Cincinnati with the murderer, having
been one week from San Francisco.
From that city TO Ohio, Norris made a
flying trip, meeting with no obstacles
whatever. Those who know him say
that Hank has changed but little dur
ing the Eve years that have elapsed since
the commission Of the crime. He is
now 3s years of age, has black piercing
eyes and shaggy brows, is eleanly
shaven, save as to his mustache, and
his hair. now vel, streaked with gray.
is cut short and brushed smoothly
over his head. -Fhe only statement
that he would make is that be is inno-
cent ofthechme charged against him.
He declined TO say where he had been
the past 6ve wears, except to remark
that hebad. .beeusin semitropical locali-
ties.
Hauk's Nife, to whom he has ever
shown such unswerving devotion, is
now very feeble. but is now on her
way East from Tuscon, Arizona. She
has been a confirmed Invalid for ten
years. X IN ~ "'
Norrissays that while Hauk appar'
emily made no kick after leaving San
Francisco, his friends on the outside
were untirlng in their efforts to have
him stopped on his Eastern trip On
leaving San Francisco, the Chief Of Po-
lice, who was heart and soul with Nor
ris. detailed detective to go as far as
Ogden, the Central Pacific Railway
Company detailed Q detective to ac-
company him as far as Omaha.
At Cheyenne, job had been put
up by the sports to secure Hauks re-
lease on a writ of habeas corpus. Nor
ris got wind of the plan, and through
the assistance of the authorities the
train vas met by a, special car and en-
CINE about 200 miles west Of Chey-
enne, and she prisoner and his captor
were rushed through atthe rate of it,
ty miles per hour, rushing through
cheyenne ten hours ahead of time.
When the regular train arrived there
the writ Of hebeass corpus failed to
find its object. The, detective was Of
fered $4,000 to allow . gambler named
Mcmillan to change cloths with Hauk
at Kansas City, but the game would
not work.
While at Salt Lake City he obtained
information to the effect that. an at
tempt would be made to take Hauk
out of the Mormon Jail, and at IL
o'clock at night he took the prisoner
out of Jail and stayed hand.cuffed with
him, at his hotel until morning.
In conversation with reporter,
while lying in Jail at st. Louis, Hauk
said the fight against him was not for
his punishment, but for the protection
Of the railroad company in whose
train the man was killed by him. The
widow has sued the company for S.,
600 damages on the ground that, had
the company taken proper precautions
for the safety of their passengers, the
affair would not have happened. The
company, in its defence, will try to
prove that the conductor was in the
car at the time of the fatal struggle,
and the case will present the prisoner
and the widow both arrangned on one
side against the corporation. Hauk
says he will prove by his Toledo wit
nesses that the conductor was not in the
car; that the deceased was notorious as
q fighter, and that he brought his
own death upon himself.
Hauk seems confident that he will
not be convicted. He has retained
Maj. G. H. Blackburn, the noted crimi.
nal lawyer
Norris and Hauk left Cincinnati for
Springfield at 2 O'Clock this afternoon.
They will go to Delaware to morrow
via Columbus and Toledo noon train
from Columbus.
'.Buehupaiba.'