The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-02-14
HAWER nONFEEEInN.
HEE PLOTTED THE SHAVING
Or WHS WIFE AND EWKE-
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i ATLANTA, Ga, Feb. e. Especial. r
Dick Hawes, under sentence 70 haRl
Al Birmingham en- the SSth Of ihi
month, has confessed. Jim HEwes
his brother, to whom the confession
was made, tells the sseyy. Dicl
charges John Wyiie, conductor on Ih,
Atlanta and West Point RsslFoHd
with having committed the mar8eI
and aekuowtodges hNViRg paid hiU
$500 fer "PBtuRg them eat Of sbI
way, u Is he expresses 81,
For moths Jim has heeu begging
Dick &c vindScate himseli jan stBak
J 10 b6s hraahg7 3hraagh Iho gTiai, avid
nut5l the eauv6Ol8ar came heg5eced ab,
solaae3F III Dicks Innocence Of Hctn-
! ally 1oSmD5sI5nC the crime Though he
/ freeuaBsly expressed kIs heI1et thai
DEEk knew more abep1 ste STAIR Jhsa
iheruoald saI..
4 Nrasfaav Jim was ~ birmingham
sB3 8alGSc aaBt for hlln. jim Fefnsod
1opo al s1gsI, Afasause, - he ExplajnsG,
hc Ruzss sltFaid DEbk might attempt sur
6iae. -aad Ibe1 be dim 4r0uli Be
mixed M IN ii FlBativ hc wen. &C
samnanas5 ~ ShnzE Sm5sa.
-AE1sT talking RhnuI MS bra1bsr 81
soIna BaarsA, .5Er asked Daek t. tell
all ahn EBFw abnuI sho srFT5l,ss 4sEE4r for
winch sha Is sRbUEs 80 s1fs- &sRsA
= knew B0st2aE GbaEa lF--n0thgs-
mos Than vau a5e. s1a5 DssE-
',lhA, Dgsz, EssRsrsE tae arotbev,
-. Raw aes&sgpss5 y,s1 On 10. XII flRsE,
IA ! 5siz5zEBE va kRuE ut1o GBs-T
'.lhssE appeared cas- uswD. saws
JIM, IS be I0Id the story here IL A.
anlA Ggday. and he threw his arms
ABOUT my neck and cried like = baby,
Don't leave me, don leave me When
Smith and l both asked him 10 tell
what he knew, then he turned to us
and said "Why, Smith and you both
know him as well as do, Jim
"Who was 1t, Dick p
"Why, John Wyhe; he did it. You
asked me what | did with my money
there's where 5000 went. l paid him
that on condition that he would put
them out Of the way. The last time
that ! saw them be added, was on
Saturday MI ht, when ! went out
there to the house. They were all 10
bed, in their night clothes. When
they we've found they had their clothes
on. On the next Tuesday l was to be
married had seen Wylie, aud be
agreed to put them out of the way for
5000. On Monday he came to me and
said, It's all right, Dick Whats all
right ? l asked They won't bother
you agaiD-they'll never trouble you.'
l asked him again, said Dick, 'and be
replied that they would not bother me
again. Then he started to tell me
about it, but ! wouldn't let him.
paid HIM the 5000, then got on the
next train and went to Columbus, Miss,
where l was married on Tuesday, the
next day"
Wylie, it will be remembered, was
beld at birmingham for long time TO
answer to charge of being accessory
to the crime. John Wylie and his
brother Jules were believed to be mixed
mp in the affair, bnt alter awhile the
indictments against them were not
pressed. Since then the Wylies have
been at their home here. John has
been freight conductor on tue Atlanta
and West Point, and today was ar
rested just as he was abont to leave on
his run.
Sheriff Smith will come tomorrow
with a requsltloD, which Governor
Gordon will recognize.
Wylie denies bitterly any knowledge
of the crime. He charges that the
confession is Just a rnse of Halves
attorney to secure time and to save, if
possible, the neck of Halves, who is 10
hang on the 29th
Wylie says that Halves got mad
with him while the two were together
here in Birmingham Jail, and that this
is one result.
Wylie WAS in birmingham at the
time the crime was committed, and
could not establish a clear alibi,
though the evidence against him here
tOfore has been only circumstantial.
He and julie Wylie are railroad men
and John has always been regarded as
an honest, hsrdworking man.