St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-26
MRS. PERKINS WAS NOT THE SIS
TER OF HER ALLEGED
VICTIM.
TWO WERE ADVENTUREsSEs
IF THE RECORD GIVEN THEM BY
THE DIES MONIES POLICE BE
TRUE.
STATE MAKING a STRONG CASE
RumOrs That Further Arrests May
FOIIosy-Mr. MuIyihilI
Talks.

Nowhere in the criminal annals of
the state of Minnesota is there to be
found a case which equals the case
of Mrs. Lora Perkins, charged with
numbering Mrs. Lola Hawkins in
Minneapolis.
There is now. no doubt but that
at the time the warrant for Mrs.
Perkins arrest was sworn out the
state had sufficient evidence at hand
to warrant the issuance of the COM
plant The only question is has the
state evidence enough to secure
conviction. The police firmly believe
in Mrs. Perkins guilt, and, While a
desperate effort has been made to
keep the state'e case from the public,
to put the G o b e in possession of
all of the principal points-and it
warrants the accusation.
a number of rumors have flown
about town that there is to be an
other and perhaps more sensational
arrest before the matter is at an
end. This, however, is not correct
1t is based upon the theory that Mrs
Hawkins was slowly poisoned to
death, previous to being burned to
death. She, it is said, was seldom
seen out of the doors during the past
year, and always complained of be-
ing sick and this, these theorists
allege, was due to slow poisoning
eliminating in the final accident
The policy of the police has been 20
carefully Investigate every suspi-
cious point, no matter whom it di-
rected them to. In one instance in
particular they have been led to-
ward certain party who might seem
to be mixed UP in the affair, but
upon still more thorough investi-
cation it was found that he was not.
This line OF investiga ton will be pur-
sued, and directs toward one or two
parties Nevertheless. no other war
rants have been issued, and it will
be as much of surprise to the state
as any one else if it is found ad-
visable to make any other arrest.
Mrs Perkins past history, charac-
ter and reputation are to count very
strongly against her. The principal
point is that she and Mrs. Hawkins
WE'RE NOT SISTERS,
and no tie of relationship whatever
existed between them. This informa-
ton has been obtained from the
state itself, and is positive. Mrs. Per
kins herself has told that she and
Mrs. Hawkins were not related at
all.
The maiden name Of Mrs Haw-
kins was Lola Atkinson, as has been
stated in the Des Moines dispatches.
Her character, as the state has it
ready for presentation, is that she
was an illegitimate child Her moth
er was an Irish woman, and her
father a blacksmith named Jack
Grannon. Lola was born in Madison
county, Iowa, and upon her birth
her mother sent her TO a family
named White. She remained with
the White family until her marriage
attending school at Aitkin, and here
it was that she met the defendant.
Mrs. Perkins. While attending school
Lola was married to a farmers son
named Scott, who afterwards en-
tered. the mail service Mrs. Haw-
kins was twenty-seven or twenty
eight years old.
Mrs. Perkins, the state believes, is
about twenty-five years of age. Of
her parentage they are in doubt. Her
story that she was born on the coast
of Spain, and was the daughter of
Count Carl Dalevega, coming to
Florida with an aunt named Mrs.
Frank Waite, they do not believe
The story that her maiden name was
May Donovan, and that she was
born close TO where Mrs. Hawkins
was born, the state is more inclined
to believe, and yet has not assured
itself that this is the case. Thew
have received communication from
the police of Des Moines, To-, giving
the women a very dark character,
and CHASING them as demi-mondes
Of the Matchmaking type This letter,
Which is in possession of the state. in
Inmates very strong that all circum-
stances go to show that Mrs. Per-
kins poisoned her first husband and
deserted another because he declined
to take out insurance. Every one
who knew the women in Des Moines
gives them shady regulations as ad-
venturers.
MRS. PERKINS CHARACTER
will be painted as black as possible
by the state, and they certainly have
the evidence to show her I'D in an
unpleasant light as a woman whom
no man would want his sister to as
sociate with. This fundamental and
principal piece of evidence which the
state has to use against Mrs. Per-
kins tells a story of having had her
leg broken, two or three ribs broken
and having sustained other injuries
on Lyndale avenue north some
months ago, at which time she made
the acquaintance of DR.. Charles NJ.
kistler, and at which time she first
learned the benefit of accident in
surance by receiving S25 a week
While she was injured. This the state
will claim is partially false, and that
she cheated the insurance companies
on this point, as she was not at all
seriously injured. At the time the
accident occurred to Mrs. Perkins
mention of it was made in the pa
pers, followed a few days afterward
by the STA tan1anf that Che 1-oe 80