Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-24
He GOT EVEN.
AN INDIANA MAN SEEKS TROU-
BILE AND SHeOl.
n Fills His Man With Bullets-A Mob
Takes Him from Jail and Plays Tit
for Tat--i Neat Lynching.

SHELBYvILLE, IND, Aug. 23.-Don Bruce,
city marshal, was shot and fatally wounded
last night by Charley Hawkins, a desper-
ado, VINO was lynched by 4 mob few hours
later. Hawkins was in a quarrel when
Bruce came upon the scene and arrested
him TO cease his disturbance. Hawkins
then reached for his revolver and with an
cath fired three shots in succession ~
Bruce, each bullet taking effect Hawkins
fired twice more but missed and started to
run with Bruce following. When about
one hundred feet from the place Of
the shooting Bruce caught Hawkins,
placed him under arrest and Immediately
feL. He was removed TO his residence. At
II O'Clock Bruce was vomiting blood and his
case was considered hopeless
~ y o'clock last night mob Of 800 col
lected in the courthouse yard and proceeded
10 the Jail without word. The sheriff de-
inanded to know who was there. One Of
the mob unprecedented 4 deputy marshal
and said he had Il prisoner. The sheriff
then opened the door, when twelve men en-
tered the parlOr and seized him by the
throat. he was then tied hand and foot,
and a handkerchief stuffed into his mouth.
One of the men secured the keys and the
doors were thrown open and guards placed
at the entrance TO keep back the other priS
oncrs. Hawkins was in the rear cell, and
when the mob reached that portion of the
over his eyes and said: please let me
pray
The committee did not wait, but pro-
cecGed 10 adjust the loop about his neck
In Il moment six men came rushing out of
the jail. pulling their victim by the neck and
dragging him on the ground. Twenty feet
from the Jail door 4 tree was found and the
rope was thrown over q limb, and a second
later Hawkins was suspended in mil-air
Eight shots were then fired into his body,
and the dreadful work was over. The
mob then dispersed, and in five minutes
everything on the streets was as quiet as
graveyard.
1t IS said Hawkins deed was premedi-
tated. \ week ago the marshal arrested
Hawkins twelve-y ear-old son for mis-
deed, and Hawkins boosted that he
had come 10 the city prepared
10 get even with Bruce. He had sought
trouble with several persons, but all were
afraid of him and avoided him. His father
and son were left in the Jail unmolested by
the mob, although each participated in the
shooting Of the city marshal. After Ha.y-
kius had cmptied his revolver, which he had
borrowed for the assassination, his son
stepped up and handed him another but Of
this he was dIsarmed by other officers.
The father Of the assassin, Il very old
man, came up Just rs the marshal started
10 fall and going up 10 the dying man drew
4 cluD and was about TO strike him. when
4 DEstander caught him. The mob, how
ever, let him go on account of his age, the
boy on account of his youth.
Coroner Clarence Bruce, brother of the
marshal, was called and tomorrow will
hold an inquest on the body of his brothers
assassin and will most likely investigate
the cause Of his brothers death. The
assassin leaves a wife and family who are
in destitute circumstances. The body was
left HANGING in ne court lpUSp yard