The herald., 1894-12-09
Held TO ANSWER
Healey and Settles Must
Prove Their Inno-
cence.
STARTLING TESTIMONY.
Evidence That Both Men We're
in Wilmington the Night
of the Murder.
STRANGE SCENES IN COURT.
The Wfs stays by Her Ca bsnd and
the 9istsr by Her Broth sr-Attor-
usy Brooke Makes . Sen.
sasiop.

The plot thickens-the mystery grows
deeper. Z. T T. HHe.is5 sud William William T T.
Ssttles will have to answer in tho su-
perior court the charges that have been
brought against them for the murder OF
John Hawkins at Wilmington, on the
night Of April 10Th last.
The two young men were taken to
Long Beach yesterday and sat in Justics
Rosecrans' stuffy little courtroom, while
the damaging testimony against them
came out, and the crowd OF curious viii
layers filing the place to suffocation,
gszed at them % they would At wild
beasts In Z cage.
Close to Hsaley. tho man accused of
two cold-blooded, 6sndish murders. sat
his wife, timid little woman.
poorly dressed, shrinking from the Rszs
OF her friends OF other days,
but clinging closely to the partner Of
her joys and sorrows, clasping his hand
In her thin fingers and occasionally rest
ing her head on his shoulder. Near by
eat asister OF Settles, Mrs. Clay john
sen, the wife of Southern Pacific con-
ductor. She is handsome little woman
free with her smiles, even under such
trying circumstances, and inclined to
look upon the whole proceedings with
mild scorn and nopohalance. She WAS
stylishly dressed and lent the sole
bright feature to the dismal scene.
Clinton Elwood, = brotherof Healey's
wife, was in the group and an aunt, Mrs.
Buckley OF Eagle Rock, cimpletsd IT..
rf ha
upon which the two men were held was
that ON the night OF the murder Settles
hired . rig in Long Beach and accom-
panied by river rode to Wilmington.
That upon mis- srrival there he WAS met
by man whom he addressed 80 Healey.
and that two hours later he came back
TO the place whore he had left the rig
and driver and was driven back TO Long
Beach.
Supporting this was the testimony OF
. witness who eaid that Settles had
ssked him on the day before the murder
to become party to : scheme to rob
Hawkins. and that several days after the
murder Settles had offered him $5, stat.
ing that it was some Of old HAWKING
money and that he wanted the witness
to keep still about the affair.
All this testimony is the result OF In.
vestigations by man named James r.
Boswell, who claims to be . detective
belonging to the National Detective
agsnoy OF Chicago, and who swore he
did not know OF the $1,000 reward offered
for the conviction Of the murderers OF
Hawkins until only few days ago.
Attorneys Brooks and Dsnio, for the
defense, made Q strong attempt to break
down every part OF the testimony given
by the two witnesses who brought these
statements into tho case. and the sensa-
tioD OF the day came whom Mr.. Brooks
asked the court to cause the immediate
arrest of the two witnesses who had
locked such evidence Of guilt in their
breasts for eight long montho after the
awful crime wac committed and the
facts OF it known to everybody. This
request the court denied.
Constable Inman of Wilmington, the
fret witDess, testified 70 finding the
body OF Hawkins at O'Clock on the
parDing Of the goth Of April. The old
man lay dead In bis bed. his feet and
hsndl were tied together. his hands be-
and the back OF his head beaten In.
Nearly hall brick vas found, evidently
the weapon used to inflct ths wounds.
4LA - ~ WoAO VA@ hto boAVov - tAVukA n0
had been styangled.
&. II. Matthews, Q barber ct Will.
mington, foreman of the coroner's jury
which sat upon the Eody of Hawkins,
testified regarding the marks upon the
body and the demoralized condition OF
the room when the body was found.
A. Laubershimer, . druggist At Will
mington, and for 25 years intimately
acquainted with Hawkins, testified as
to HawkinW habits of keeping his
money.
The first testimony to in any way con-
neat Healey or Settles with the crime
was given BY Fred Fitch, Q stableman
In the employ Of Spears, the liveryman,
whose stable is on the ocean front at
Long Beach.
Fitch 10 the man who swore he drove
Settles TO Wilmington and back o.. the
night whom Hawk came to his en-
He had never mentioned the fact "
anyone until after Detective" Boswell
had found in q drawer in the livery
stable memorandum book which con-
tanned . memoranda OF the hiring of the
horse and buggy by Settles, and the fact
that q driver accompanied the rig.
Settles came for rig early In the
evening, he testified, but showing evi.
dences that no had been drinking hs
was denied. Later he came and was
given rig and driver, and Of 10 o'clock
they started.
At Wilmington the rig stopped around
the corner from Laubersheimer's drug
store aud Settles met Healey. The two
went away and stayed away two hours.
Getties returned alone, Was still quite
drunk and wanted to be taken homo 1t
arapid gait.
Settles never settled for the rig. The
$3.50 is still owing to him.
Cross-examinei bv Mr.. Brooks the
witness said that when they arrived in
Wilmington Healey was waiting fo-
Settles, evidently by appointment!
Y rnn meeting. Hsaley exclaimed:
Hello. BIZ You are late" Settles
rsplled: Better late than never"
Mr. Brooks subjected tho witness TO
Eisid crosse summation. going back to