Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-08-29

AAihNhPohtN aus. ~ MIS-. lslula
Perkins, aged twenty-eight, and form
erly residing at 29l7 Tenth avenue
south, was arrested by Inspectors j..
Z. Hey and Joe Lawrence on a charge
Of murder in the first degree.
Mrs. Perkins is charged with ha wing
murdered her sister. Mrs. Louise Haw-
kins, who died on the morning of Aug.
3, supposedly from the effects of in
juries received 10y the o~yerturning of
a lamp in the house at 29l7.
The motive assigned for the murder
is TO obtain life insurance TO the
amount of 81, 900, which the dead Mrs.
Hawkins carried on her life. and in
which the sister, Mrs. Perkins, now
under arrest, was made tire sole bene-
ticiary.
Mrs. Perkins was brought to the
central station about IL O'Clock last
night by Detective Hoy and closeted
with him in the station office until /
o'clock, after which she was taken up
stairs and locked up in the woman's
ward charged with murder in the
first degree. The warrant for Mrs.
Perkins arrest was issued from the
county attorneys office yesterday fore
noon and turned over to Detective
Hoy, who had been Instrumental in
working up the case with the aid OF
DR.. +. o. Edwards, medical inspector
of the Security Mutual Life associa-
ton, in which $1,000 Of the insurance
was carried, and by DR.. Todd, of the
Fidelity and Casualty company, in
which $1,000 of the insurance was car
ried.
AT IL o'clock on the morning Of Aug.
3, Mrs. Louise Hawkins died at the
residence of G. ID. Axtell, 2905 Tenth
avenue sOuth, where Mrs. Perkins was
arrested by Inspector Hoy, from in
Juries received about 4 o'clock on the
same morning, by the o%verturning of
a lamp at the head of the bed in Mrs.
Hawkins bed room.
Mrs. Hawkins was an invalid, hay
ing been injured tNo weeks previous.
ly In the same ann by the over
turning OF a iamy, and has been I'M
able to leave her bed. On the morn
Ing in question the lamp was
Again Overturned,
at that time it was supposed acct
dentally, and Mrs. Hawkins received
Injuries from which she died a few
hours afterward. Mrs. Hawkins was
attended by Doctors Bell and Ki~ler.
but was beyond medicala aid when
they arrived. The house at 2917 was
so badly damaged that Mrs. Perkins
has since then been stopping at the
AXtell residence, where she was ar
rested.
AT the time Of the occurrence Of the
accident every II supposed ii to have
been accidental, and no one for a
minute eve thought that the sister.
still alive and n widow who resides
with her II child, was capable of the
terrible act of which she now stands
accused.
superintendent of Police Smith.
however, looked into the case slightly
and finally consulted with County At
torney Nye, and, as Il result of their
Investigations, Inspectors Lawrence
and Hoy were detailed to work on the
case, and the insurance companies.
too, asked to do some investigating
before paying the $1,000 insurance.
they sent their two medicai inspectors
TO this city, and since hal time work
a been going on night and day on
the case, with the result thai Mrs.
Perkins was arrested on the terrible
charge.
The lamp exploded" was the ante
mortem statement made by Mrs.
hawkins, according to reputable testi-
money. and upon tbs statement the
friends OF the woman under arrest will
base their hopes TO refute the charge.
MRS. berkins takes her arrest very
cooi!y, and has very little to say TO
any one. She informed inspector Hoy
Ii a she did not care to see any one
at all; she had not secured an attorney
there would be no need of any one
to see her. She was very self-pos-
sessed, and it is alleged that she silent
well on her hard bed. This morning
she partook of a light repast and
talked to the jallor in a n which
would be used by a woman charged
with the lightest of crimes.
1t is learned that the body of Mrs
Hawkins will be dug up tomorrow
and another autopsy held by the au-
thorities.