The morning news., 1889-04-27
reference to the death of Mrs HaweS and
Irene.
STORY OF THE ARREST

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Sheriff Truss proceeded to tell of the ar
rest of Halves on his arrival at the station
with his bride from Columbus, Miss. He
had told Halves he was wanted for murder
and Hawes asked OF whom. When he said
Of his daughter May. Halves replied: THAT
Is srange.n Halves, before going with
the sheriff went and told his wife that he
would be back in an hour. and that friend
would see her to hotol. He spoke of the
lady AS his wife. The next day he was
taken to the undertaker's and identified the
remains of the child there as bis daughter
May. The cross examination elected
nothing.
John T. Worthingtou. owner of the
house were Hawos lived, had gene there and
found spots of blood on the floor and walls.
On cross examination he could not say it
was human blood.
r. C. Wycke lived at Avondale. 81 am
a locomotive engineer, and havs known tho
defendant about one year. | was at the
jail about two weeks ago, in company with
Mr. Stewart. There was no offer to have
any statements made in court. Rawes
asked me what the met Oh the road thought
about bis case. told him that a great many
believed him innocent. The prisoner said he
had So, 600 in Atlanta which he had some
doubts about getti q now, and it's
all on account of the death Of "that -
- woman. You see now whether or not
| wanted her to live" He said Fannie
Bryant had gotten him into all of
this trouble The defense took an excep-
tion, which was overruled.
THE STATEMENT REPEATED.
The solicitor for the state asked the wit
ness to repeat what Halves had said about
Fannie Bryant. The witness said that
Hawes had told him he expected to prove
where he was the night Fannie had said he
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been made in Columbus which he wore the
day he was married.
G.. A. Stewart was at the jail with Wyck.
but had not heard all the conversation.
Hawes spoke of his first wife as that
woman, u but he did not hear hir1 curse. He
said he had some property ne could have
gotten hold of if she had not died. This wit
ness was not cross-examined.
j. B. Robbins, a detective, testified to
finding Mrs. Hawes' tody at Lake View.
BLOOD ON THE WALLS.
Phil Graham went to Hawes' house on
Friday and found blood spots on tue walls
ard some childrens' garments buried in an
ash hill.
DR.. Wilson testified to the autopsy on
Mrs Hawes' body. He could not say that
the wounds were sufficient to produces death.
Marion Stewart Cam, city editor of the
Age Herald, testified to the correctness Of
An interview published at the time as hav-
ipg been held VITA Hawes Hawes had
said that he had been out Of the
city since Monday, and did not
know anything about his family who had
gone away somewhere. HaweS was asked
if the missing woman was Lis wife aud he
replied that he had been married to her, but
had obtained divorce several months pre-
vious, in Atlanta. He said that he had sew
eral children living with the di-
vorced woman, and that he fre-
| quently went to see them.
! " hen cross examined he said that Hawes
stated on the way to Jail that he was pre-
pared to answer any questions. MIR. Nc
! David asked him if he knew on what
| charge he was arrested. He replied that he
did. He said that he had always given his
wife money, and that he had frequently
! gone out to see the children; that May was
about s years old.
AT FLORENCE MONDAY NIGHT.
| He said that ne stayed at Florence on
! Monday night and Left for Columbus on
| Tuesday He knew Fa nie Bryant, and she
washed for his family. He moved his
| effects into Mrs. FGllers on Saturday. He
| said that he had given his divorced wife
| $500 on Saturday in Fannie Bryants
| presence, be had not seen either his wife 90
! Fannie since. He didn't recollect whether
| he told hi, brother anything about it. He
| remembered something about being with
| Wylie on the night before he left for Co
! lumbus. He said that he had made arrange
meuts to carry his two little girls TO
Mobile, and would have done so.
! II the woman had not taken
them away. His divorced wife knew tnat
| he was going to marry again.
The court adjourned till 9 o'clock to-
morrow. The prosecution will probably
| get through with its witnesses Tomorrow.