The morning news., 1889-04-27
HAYES SEEN ON THE CAR
MAN WHO HAS KNOWN HIM
FOR YEARS WAS ABOARD.

FOR YEARS WAS ABOARD.
,ri++Ie Girl Was with the Accused
The Chnds Hat Similar to That
round Beside the Body in the Lake,
7,tarest in the Case Intensified.
BIRMINGHAM, ALA, April 26.-Tne in
+orest in the Hawes case shows no abate-
-,.n+-in fact it rather increases as evidence
If the defendants guilt grows apparently
stronger. The sick juror, Mr.. Dunlap, who
ospsed an early adjournment yesterday.
was well enough for duty this morning. and
rocIined throughout tue day on a lounge.
osneciallv provided for him. Feminine
onrio.ity has tliumphed at last and num-
her of ladies' were present as spectators for
the first time ta-day.
LAWYERS STORY.
Witness LAWYER, who was on the stand
st the adjournment yesterday, was first
called. and his cross-examination proceeded
With He thought ITawes was the man
who came in with little girl from Lake
View on Monday night about o'clock. The
witness was not positive il was Hawes but
tb1upht So On the redirect examination
he said the child had on hat like the one
fo1ud in the lake with the body, but he
could not positively identify it.
AGREED WITH LAwLER
John Williams, who boards with Lawler,
came in o. the same dummy car Monday
night. He said be saw man with a little
giTl. or years old, on the train. He
thought H4wes was the same mal, and
thought the picture of May Hawes after
death as ike the little glrl.
Vno 1afansa InOUa5 pypirldp tha tncti-
mony about the picture, but were over
ruled aud an exception was taken.
Ga cross-examinatiOn Williams said the
little girls clothes were dark, ana so were
the mans He had noticed the man after
the second station this side of Lake View,
but did not know where they got off.
The prosecution here undertook to show
that the two took the East Lake dummy
line near where it inteTsects on Twenty
second street with the Lake View line.
REMEMBERED BY THE CONDUCTOR.
J. A. Tanning testife that he was con-
duct0r on the East Lake dummy that Mon
day night On his first trip after dark he
left town at o'clock, reaching East Lake
at 7.40 O'Clock. returning TO town at $3.50
o'clock He mad several passengers on the
first trip. Hawes and his little girl
wero among them. They got
aboard on Twenty-fo1rth street, and
got off at the East Lake pavilion. They d!d
GOT eturn on his train, aud he saw them no
more. He saw the body Of the girl taken
from the lake, and it was about the size OF
the girl he had seen on the train, bu5 he
n could u5t swear they were the same. He
A had noticed the girls straw hat and it was
very much like the one taken from the lake
with the boly.
POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION.
John Alsen, an Avondale painter, had
known Hawes for three years, He got OF
The o'clock East Lake dummy to go home
that Monday light and saw Ha ~ es and a
little girl get on at Twenty-fourth street
and they were still on when he left the
train at Avondale. No other little girl wa,
In the car that night. Hawyes had on
dirk hat and clothes. The hat
shown him was like the one the little
girl wore that night. On cross-examina-
ton Alsen said he knew Hawes O ly
slightly, an no other members Of the
ha8es family at all. He had gone to see
the body Of the dead child, but could
not Identify it as that of the little girl ue
had seen, nor lid ne recognize a photograph
CT the corpse as that of the little girl.
A MAN HE TALKED TO.
Reuben p Butler worked for the electric
company in December last. On Monday
night be had ridden on the dummy line out
to Fast Lake AID returned on the same
lFaiH, reaching the city on his return about
S5J O'clock On the return trip there was
one passenger be,d9 himself who
got on at the lake pavilion. They
lad talked together in genera
way. The man said he was an engineer on
tDe Georgia Pacific road; that a young
aay had been at his house that day and ht
lad been to East Lake to carry her home.
LIE man had gotten off uptown about
I"enty-drst street He did not know the
man az that time, but tue man there al
1e taOIe IS the man." pointing at Hawes.
HOW HE WAS DRESSED.
Un crosa-examination he said Halves wore
1aTK clot es, derby hat, and carried
sYIl-neaded umbrella. His coat had some
gay mixture The conductor had hcarC
ives make statement about having
naiteu ior train at the pavilion. The
"G'h leit the return trip at $40 O'CLOCK
Os'S9 bAcHler, tue conductjr referred to-
ot. tt'o.otated u. ad Butter, except that the tran
lett at $50 o'clock.
On the cross-examination, Col. TaliaferrC
leai bis vldence before the coroner's iurv
,. %acn Hitgied IN several parti ulars from
's sa,3 ',9 .'au Just given. Conductor Backil
'"'- lAat before the coroner was correct
IN A DRUG STORE.
Ev.t w; Warren, prescription clerk al
4.'.Is a"eIs % Mofrp"s, testified: II was on
{! -'{! a. Ih5 store on Monday night Dec.
rs 2 ~ v ci'cR know the defendant
',I T's ,n IA tne store on that night between
t ~ CLOCK. He asked about some
"o"y ne had at Gmck az Blacks in th,
me sad ne had just come ia on the
I'tIy' ne said h. had been waiting for
Iuu'iuy, and was cold. saw Hawes ,
aiS a'terward at the jail. asked
~ - a. recogIlz Il me as the man he saw
iV ai, Sgoso on Monday evening, aud he sale
THE PHOTOGRAPH.
ue a, terhool session a photograph o
odst,a-I poly OF May Hawes was proven
4o,.,' W su IN evidence. Col. Taliaferro OBJ
etf,,- ~ vas overruled. Rosa GALLOWAY
ba '-'' 'Htt She kue the Hawes family
h, M MHs at Lake View when they found
n., "a"es ,r' body and described its appear
4ue defense moved TO exclude the
Iony about Mrs. Hawes' body. This
,eg 9' erruled and the testimony was ac.
THEORY OF THE DEFENSE
.4~ie tne afternoon the theory of the
r.r.r.,r1 as developed through tho cross
a. E'4 ol the states witnesses. IL il
he s,SS ,9,uIe Bryant saw Hawes paw hi,
MY Ty,o' and killed her for the money
ua'ned Thompson, said to resern.
lives, was her accomplice. and he il
|on H., was seen on the dummy trains
ar,.' ''1Ae 1e We and out to East lake
t.tS9 "'ils May out to the latter place
vs,u hued her and put her body il
0t m mat tho witnesses mis-
at pson for Hawes and
stroN, former disappeared about
ea nor ~ 'uf murder and has never been