Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-04-27

thought the picture OF May lawes, alter
death, was Ike the little girl.
| The defence moved to exclude the tesii-
mony about the picture, but was oyerruled
and an exception was taken.
On cr0Ss-cXamn9ti0n Williams said The
| little girls clothes were dark and 20 were
the mans. lie bad noticed the man after
| the second station this side Of Lake View;
| didn't know where they got Of.
The prosecution here undertook 10 show
that the two took the East Lake csr line near
where IL lntersects on Twenty-second street
with the Lake View line.
j. A. flaming testified that he was the
conductor on the East Lake dummy that
Monday night. On his first trip after dark
| be left town at o'clock, reaching k'st Lake
at 7;40. returning 10 town at $780, lie had
several passengers on the Grst trip. lia"es
and little girl we're among them. Ihfy
| got aboard on Twentv-iourth street and got
! Of at East Lake pavilion. They did not re-
turn on bis trSin aud he saw them no more.
! lie saw the body Of the girl taken from the
lake and It was the SIZE OF the glri ne hau
seen on the train. but he could not swear
| they were the same. lie had noticed the glrE :
straw bat, and it was very much like the one
taken from the lake with the body.
John Alseu, an Ay0ndsle painter bad
! known Hawes for three years; got on The !
/ o clock East Lake dummy TO 20 home inst
| Monday and saw Halves and little grl get
| on at Twenty-f0urth street, and they were
/ still on when he left the train at Ayondale.
! 40 other gir was in the car that night.
/ Halves had on dark hat and clothes. The
! bat shown biu was like the one the little girl
! wore that night.
| On crOss-examinat0n Alsen said he knew
| HAYES only and no other members OF the
! HAYES family at all. lie had gone TO see the
| body OF the dead child, but could not iden-
| tify IT as that OF the little girl he mad seen,
! nor did be recognize the photograph OF Tue
corpse as that OF the little girl.
| Reuben =. Butler worked for the Electric
! Light Company IN December last. On Mon
| day night he had hidden on the dummy out
| to East Lake, and returned on the same
| train, reaching the CITY on his return about
| $3.50. ON the return trip there was one pas
senger besides himself who got on at the
| lake pavilion They bad talked together in
/ a general way. The man said he was an
| engineer on the Georgia Pacific railroad
| that young lady had been at bis house that
| day. and be had been to East Lake 10 carry
| her home. The man had gotten oil
uptown about Twenty-frst street
/ He did not know the man 1t that tune,
"but the man there at the table is the man,"
pointing at llSWeS.
On crosssexsminstion be said IIawes Wore
! dark clothes, Derby hat, aud carried agold-
| headed umbrella. HIS coat bad the same
| gray mixture. The conductor had heard
/ HAYES make the statement about having
| waited for the train at the pavilion The
/ train left on tie return "trip at $40.
| Jesse Backiler, the conductor referred TO-.
! corrobornted Butler except that the train
| left at $50.
On cros@exsminston Colonel Taliaierro
read his evidence before the coroner's jury,
| which differed in several particulars from
that be had just given.
Backiler said that before the coroner vas
| correct.
+. W. Warren, a prescription clerk at
/ Majors a. MOrrow's, testified 81 was On
! duty at the store on Monday night, Decem-
| Der 30, until 10 O'Clock. know the defend
| ant. lie was in the store on that night be-
/ tween and 10 O'Clock. lie asked about
some ieweiry be bad at Gluck d Black 5
store. He said he had just come in on the
| dummy. He said he had been waiting for
! the dummy and was cold. | saw HAYES a
| few DAYS afterward in the jail. l asked him
| If he recognized me IS the man he saw in the
store on Monday evening aud he SAID he
! did"
! At the afternoon session the photograph
Of the dead body OF May IIawes was proven
| and offered in evidence. Colonel 1aliaierrO
| objected, bot was oyerrulcd.
Ross Galloway testified that she knew
! Hawess family; was at Lake View whentne
! found Mrs. HaWes's body and described lis
! appearance.
The defence moved TO exclude the testi.
monv about Mrs. Hawes's body. This was
/ oyerruled and the testimony was accepted.
The solicitor for the state asked the wit
ness 10 repeat what HAYES had said about
| Fannie Bryant
Witness said HAYES had told him be eX-
pected to prove where be was the night
| Fanny bad said ne came after the girl. Tue
| suit Of clothes had been made In Columbus
| which he wore the day he was married.
| G.. A. Stewart was at the jail with Wycke,
| but had not heard all the conversation.
/ Halves spoke OF bis first vile ~ "tbat
| woman" but did not hear him curse. lie
said he had some property he could have got
ten hold Of II she had not died. This witness
was not crOss-examined.
J.B. Robbins, detective. testified to find
lng Mrs. Hawess body at Lake View.
Philip Graham went to HSwes's house on
Friday and found blO0d-spOls on the walls !;
also some children's garments buried IN an
asb-pile.
Or. Wilson testified to the autopsy Of Mrs.
| Hawes's body; could not say that the
wounds were sufficient to produce death.
Marion Stewart Conn, city editor OF the
Age.HerSld, testified to the correctness OF
the interview published at the tine as
having been held with Hawes. Halves
! had said be mad been out OF the city since
| Monday and did not know anything about
! his family. who bad gone away somewhere.
| Halves was asked if the missing woman was
bis wife and he replied that he had been
married TO her, but had obtained divorce
several months previously in Atlantis. lie
said that be bad several children living with
the divorced woman and he frequently went
TO see them.
Cross.examined: Halves stated that on
The way to Jail that he was prepared to an.
sWer anv questions.
| Mr.. McDayid asked him IL he knew on
what charge be was arrested. He re-
piled that he did lie said that
| he had always given his wife money
| and that lac had frequently gone
ont 10 see the children, and that May was
sbout eight wears old. lie said that be stay
ed at Florence on Monday night and left
for Columbus on Tuesday. He knew
Fanny Bryant, and sue washed for
bis family. lie moved his affairs into
Mrs. Fuller's on Saturday that he bad
gwen his divorced wife $500 on Saturday IN
| Fannie Bryants presence lie has not seen
either his wife or Fannie since. Don't re-
collect whether he told his brother anything
about Il. Remember something about being
with Wyiie on the night before be left for
| Columbus; that he had made ARRANGEMENTS
10 carry two little girls to Mobile, and would
| have done so IL the woman bad not taken
them away. His divorced wife knew that
| be was going 10 marry again.
The court adjourned Till IL O'Clock to.
morrow. The prosecution will probably get