Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-08-27
HEMP FOR HAWKINS.

HEMP ron HAWKINS.
An Indiana Desperate Fatally Shoots City
hIarshal Bruce. Of shelbyville-A Mob
Takes Him from Jail. and After Hang
Ing Him Fills His Body with Bullets
His Victim Still Alive.
saRnnYvthEh, Ind, Aug. s4.-Dan
Bruce, city marshal, was shot and
fatally wounded Saturday evening by
Charley Hawkins, a desperate, who was
lynched by mob q few hours later.
Hawkins was III quarrel when
Bruce game NpoA Tie scene and
feahssted him to cease his dis
turbance. Hawkins then reached
for his revolver, and with an
oath fired three shots in stlc-
cession at Bruce, each bullet taking
effect. Hawkins fred twice more, but
miSsed3 and started is fuh With bruce
following. When about $50 feet from
the place of the shooting Bruce caught
Hawkins, placed him under arrest and
Immediately fell. He was removed to
his residence. His case.was considered
hopeless
the courthouse yard and proceeded to
the Jail without a word The sheriff
demanded to know who was there.
One of the moi, impersonated q deputy
marshal aud saaa 1se had d prisoner
The sheriff then opened the door, when
twelve men entered the parlor and
seized him by the throat. He
was then. tied hand and foot
and a Observation-Disclosures stuffed into his
month. One of the mob secured the
keys OF the Jail huH tile barfed doofs
~efs swung open and guards placed at
the entrance to keep back the other
prisoners. Hawkins was in a
rear cell, and when the mob
reached that portion of the
Jail fell upon his face, tlaGed
his hahds over his eyes and said:
'sPlease let me pray" The committee
did not wait, but proceeded to tie his
hands and feet and to adjust the rope
about his neck. Ina moment six men
came rushing out of the Jail pulling
their victim ) by sthe neck; drag
ging him Oh the gtoand $ Twenty
feet floin the Jail door. a tree was
found and the rope was thrown. over a
limb, and second later Hawkins was
suspended in midair. Eight shots were
then fred into his body and the dread
full work. was over. The mob immes
diatelY dispersed and in HvS. minutes
everf thing on the Streets was as quiet
as a graveyard.
1T is said that Hawkins deed was
'pfemeditated. A week ago the Mar
shall arrested. Hawkins 12-year-old son,
who had thrown stones through some
plate glass windows, and Hawkins
boosted that he had come to the city
prepared to get even with Bruce. He
had sought trouble with several per-
sons, but all were afraid of him
and avoided him. His father
and son were left in jail unmolested by
the mob, although each participated in
the cowardly shooting of the city mar
shall After Hawkins had emptied his
revolver, which he had borrowed for
the occasion, his son stepped up and
handed him another well loaded, but
of this he was disarmed by other
| officers. The father of the
assassin, very old man, came up just
| as the marshal started to fall, and GO
ling up to the dying man drew club
and was about to strike him when a
bystander caught him. The mob, how
ever. let him go on account of his age
and his boy Oh account of his youth.
! The lynching was all completed and
the mob dispersed inside of three min
utes from the time it entered the yard,
and people living in the Immediate
vicinity knew nothing of the affair un-
til all the participants had disappeared.
It is said that many of the most promi-
nent citizens of the city and county
I participated in the hanging. DR.. T. C.
EKennedy says that Bruce has even
chances. Three balls passed through
his right breast, but only one pierced
the lung.
Hawkins father and son were per-
mitted to go from Jail Sunday, and
with his wife and mother fingered at
the undertalkers all day and at :
o'clock were permitted to view the body
of their. son and father. HIS mother
who is aged u, bent over his form
and kissed him and sobbed pit
eously. His wife also wept anC
created "a scene when permitted to see
him. She was in buggy 80 PAGES
] away and witnessed her hus stands
crime. She was cool at the time ani
never moved during the shooting
though two Of the shots came near strilz
ing her.
/ Babe Hawkins, brother of The
i lynched main, is said to be in the city
now on the hunt for Constable johnson
and others whom he believes to hav,
been in the mob. A post-morten
was held on the body of Charlie!
Hawkins. Dr. T. C. Kennedy
who dressed the wounds O
Bruce, found that three of tn,
balls fired into Hawkins after he wa
strung up had passed through his lef
lung and two through his left arm ant
shoulder. He also found that the skull
had been fractured where one of TIL,
lynchers had struck him with ssknucks.
4 The Iowa Campaign.
1 CHEROKEE, Ia, Aug. 22.-Gov. Boie
began his campaign for reelection Of
the democratic ticket by addressing al
immense crowd in this city shortl.
after noon Saturday
| MASON CITY, Ia, Aug. 24.--Georg
i Van Honten, candidate for lieutenan
governor on the republican ticket
opened the campaign at Webster Cit
Saturday. The large crowd was great