The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-06-11
HAWKINS, ALIAS FULLER

straw ct my aide. I thought something
had fallen from above. In moment
felt another heavy jolt in the straw
and heard q voice, "I'll get you ! I'll get
you /" Then I half raised up, reached
into my right breast coat pocket with
my left hand and pulled my revolver. l
think that envelope came out with 1t. l
threw the left hand forward with the re-.
volver, but never raised the hammer.
Then the pistol was discharged. Julian
had hit it with the Ak, while trying to
kill me. And they will find the pistol
broken where the AZ struck it."
"How did you know in the dark that
it was an ak /"
81 didn't know. supposed there
were tramps in the NOW and that one
of them was striking at me with . club.
I crawled out then, and, coming ont of
the shed part I found ladder against
the side and climbed down that. Didn't
know l had killed the man-in fact, !
didn't kill him. He killed himself by
his own act. 1 never fred that pistol.
But expect would have fred 1t. That
was my intention. Wouldn't you 2"
Hawkins went on then to describe his
wanderings after the murder, which cor
respond with the trail followed by the
Sheriff. He will not, however, admit to
the spending of as much money as the
Sheriff says he did.
1t is only thought that he got about
$25 or 80 in the cloth purse taken from
Julian, which was found empty by the
roadside, not far away, Friday morning.
Julian's papers and correspondence were
found scattered about the NOW, as If the
place had beed ransacked. But some.
thing near $500 in cash, hidden under
the straw, had been overlooked by the
murderer.
$50 help me God, 1 never took q cent
from Julian" said Hawkins.
"But, how about that first robbery,
when you wrote to him to take his
money out of the banks, and then held
him up for $5OO?"
II didn't do that"
"Then why did you write the letter ?"
II did it last August for two young
men who dictated it, don't know who
they were. If the envelope could De
found it would show different hand
writing. They had no envelope, and
had to get one at the postoffie. I never
robbed Julian. They say it occurred Oc-
tober 9TH or 9th. I came down the Ohio
on raft of logs, arrived in Cincinnati
on the 5th. got $40 for my work.
Went to the Latonia races on the 9Th.
Fell in with stout" named Joe Bennett.
Won $23 on first race, then $50. Then
put up $40 and won $44. Next day, the
9Th, won $7s. Wasn't there then till the
l1th, when won $72. On the 18th l
won $3.50. That night lost $40 playing
dice. On the 14th I won $58. Gave
German National Bank five tens and got
fifty dollar bill. Had been drinking
some and gave this $50 to Mrs. Belle s.
Roberts. Kept going to Latonia until
the 2sth, and the aggregate of my win.
ings was $3.50. Then I came up in this
country. left my money as supposed
in good hands, intending to buy turkeys
and ship them into the city to be paid
for on arrival. Now don't know where
the party is that got my money. No.
body can find him."
he detailed his wanderings again, and
explained that he stayed around Carmel
90 long, hoping to get . contract for
cutting cross ties. But somebody else
got the job.
my home," said he, "is in Cincin.
natl, where ] have sister in an asylum" ("
He said he thought his sentence was
too severe, as the killing was clearly in
sell. defence. He said perhaps it would
be commuted.
When reminded that the sentence
could be very considerably reduced by
good conduct, he shook his head mourn.
fully and said he didn't expect to live
that long. He said really he didn't care
whether he lived or not.
He would like to perfect his inven.
tions, he said, and was sorry he couldn't
help his sister and her three children,
in Ironton.
Hawkins was taken to the penitentiary
yesterday morning.
Under the circumstances, it would
seem that this case has been well
disposed of. Hawkins always denied
killing Julian, until after the plea ol
manslaughter was admitted. There wa
no direct evidence available except the
envelope, and that had been burned
Those who saw it differ go in their recol
lections that the force of that circum
stance would have been greatly weak
ened. Besides, Hawkins has long born,
the characteristics of IN unbalanced