The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-12-13


Chtet-ot-folice Flchard, who has alse
been arrested, corroborated the sheriR's
statement.
Colonel Jones has received the following
letter from Governor Seay:
s.Note what you hear about the arrest OF the
sheriff. According to reports which have
reached mo the sheriff performed his duty.
l Advise me of the state of the proceedings
| against him and ASK him to send me any re.
port he may desire to make by wire.
| THOMAS SEAY, Governor
One precaution against undue excite
ment and consequent violence was taken
during the moring by the City Council.
which in special session ordered that all
saloons and drug stores be closed until
further notice. TT
Colonel Jones issued the following
order:
HEADQUARTERS SECOND REGIMENT, A. 8.
T., BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Dec. 9.-Charged by
his Excellency, the Governor. with the COM
mand OF the troops now assembled here and
| the preservation of the public peace, I
! earnestly invoke the aid of all law
| abiding citizens. Let every one of them
| make it his special business to keep down
| excitement I particularly enjoin upon all
lava 1iding citizens to refrain from assembling
| about the jail, and earnestly request them
not to assemble in crowds any
| where, and to dispense when requested to do so.
They are also requested to report to the
judges and magistrates any person
| or endeavors to incite others to acts of mob
! violence. II any there be who still mediate
further violence earnestly warn them that it
| will be sternly repressed. Let us have no more
blo0dshed. The law in its own orderly and
| majestic way will surely punish the guilty.
Attempts Of individuals to inflict private
vengeance always cause the shedding OF inno-
! cent blood. The State troops now here
are ample to preserve order. Attention is
called to the following sections Of the criminal
code ofAlabama: Sections 706 4,7O8, 171O, 4,7l1,
4.712 anu 4713. Tue sections OF the code must
be rigdly enforced. Anxious to save the she'd
ding of blood solemnly call the attention of
| oil persons to these provisions of the law and
warn all persons whomsoever that they will DO
rigidly enforced whenever it is necessary. -
"THoMAs G. JONES,
"Colonel OF Second Regiment, A. S. T"
Mayor Thompson issued proclamation
couched in similar terms. Colonel Jones
said at 6 o'clock that though he feared
some disturbance he believed that with
the force at his command he could make
successful resistance. He criticised the
conduct of leading citizens and civil au.
thorities in not coming actually to his sup
port The soldiers are conducting them
selves well, tn ugh several times they
| were hooted while marching in small
| bodies to their hotels.
ST. LOUIS Dec 1O.-The latest advices
| from Birmingham, Ala, are to the effect
that the authorities are in complete pos
session Of the city and there is little likeli
hood of another outbreak. One of the
most striking scenes during the disturb
| ance was witnessed at an early hour when
Mayor Thompson was addressing the mob
at one point, pleading with citizens to
dispense, while less than 100 yards away
other men harangued the excited gather
ing favoring another attack on the Jail.
HAYES CRIME.
Last Tuesday the body Of a young girl was
found in the lake. The next day several per-
sons identified the body as that OF daughter
OF railroad engineer, Dick Halves. Halves
lived in the suburbs of the city with wife
and several children. Halves left town
Monday. Officers went to the house,
but found 1t closed and the family gone. That
evening negro woman informed the coroner
| that last Saturday HAYES left this girl in
her charge for a few days. Monday night
! about o'clock he called and took the z ri
away, saying that he was going to place her
in convent in Montgomery. Those who
knew the Halves family believed that the
| mother, too, had been murdered and the body
concealed. The. couple had been divorced,
and he had taken one child q boy, from the
mother and sent him to a brother in Atlanta.
Monday Halves married in Columbus, NJ S.,
| and was passing through here with his secopd
wife on his way to Augusta, Ca, when he W IS
! arrested. He was il little agitated at first hut
| when closely questioned at the jail and tIld
| that one OF his children had been murdered ne
| seemed apparently unconcerned, and said that
| he had left May and another little girl soEle
| days ago with her mother, and that all OF the m
| had already gone to the mothers relativ es
somewhere in Maine.
All the week circumstances have been co,n-
| ing to light tending to prove Halves as tie
| murderer of the girl and that he had also
| killed her mother. 1t was proven bv seve, al
| witnesses that Halves went to East LAKE
| with the little girl about Z o'clock Men,
! day night, and returned alone about o'clock.
The girls body was found in the lake next
| morning. Halves protested his innocence but
| has not attempted to prove an albi It is now
| learned beyond doubt that Halves was not di-
vorced from his first wife, and, in a note writ.
ten to his young bride. he admits that he de-
ceaved her about his children and his first wife.
! The negress Fanny Bryant with whom
| Halves left his wife and daughter, was arrested
as an accomplish IN the crime, as was also
! Albert Patterson, who had been living with
her. Both told conflicting stories.
At O'Clock Saturday afternoon the startling
| announcement was made that the foully muir.
| dered and nut lated body OF the missing
| mother, Mrs. Emma X. Halves, had been
! found in the lake at Lake View, q suburban
resort, and half Il mile only from East lake,
, where the body OF her daughter May was
recovered In half an hour thousands
| of men, women and children hurried forward
to the lake. The suspicion gained ground early
| in no 1ov fhofr rho,oo fh0 h01r nod hoon
! secreted there, as it was only about D0
yards from Halves home. About II
| o'clock four determined men set to work to
drag the lake with grapplng-hooks. About
o'clock one Of the hooks struck a
| heavy yielding substance, and soon the mu.
! tilated corpse lay on the bank. The CON-
bined strength of the four men was required
! to land it. The body weighted down
with heavy pieces OF "fish-plate" rail
road iron tied around the neck and
| waist OF the murdered woman. She was
! completely clad, and about her waist and
neck were tied heavy scarlet cords, known to
have been at the Halves residence, to which
were attached six iron pieces weighing about
| ten pounds each. The back OF the
dead woman's skull told the horrible
story OF the tragedy. 1t had been
ment, presumably an axe. The entire occlpital
bone was crushed in and there was gaping
cavity that was only half concealed by her
heavy hair. Her right hand was badly skinned
| across the back as if injured in q struggle for
life, and the appearance OF the face and hands
indicated that the body had been in the water
several days.
The body, as soon as found, was taken to the
| shore and laid out with the iron weights which
| had held it to the bottom still attached. AS
the body lay on the bank the crowd OF
curious and indignant spectators which
| gathered around was momentarily in.
| creased until it swelled into q surging multi.
| tude. The feeling OF horror, Indignation and
! rage increased with each moment until il
| threatened to become frenzy. Fierce threats
! OF vengeance were heard on all Sides Strong
| men almost cried in the intensity of their ex-
element.
| Meanwhile the search for the body OF q sec.
! ond child went on, but up to a late hour it had
| not been found. That it was thrown into the
lake with its mother, however, is now GER.
| tatnty, and its finding is only question Of a
short time. The prOprietOrs Of the property