Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-04-10
Homer Hawkins, Born Here,
Under Arrest in New York
For BIaCkmaiI.
COMPLAINANT, /. R. FULLER
latter's Father Was Secretary
OF Utah Under the Administra-
ton of Abraham Lincoln.
Ancestors Of Principals Figured tn
salacious Cases In Early Day
History Here

New York. April lo--TIomer Hawk,
ms. a train clerk In the Motthaver
yards of the New York, New Haven IS
Hartford railroad. was arrested yester-
day at the Merosc station. One Hun
dred and SlSty-drst street, and locked
M on the charge OF attempted black.
mailing. The complainant IL Louis r.
Fuller A Harvard graduate, who Is in
business with his father &C 81 Fifth
avenue, The police say that Hawkins
il nephew OF Fuller,
TRIED TO PREVENT MARRIAGE.
According 10 the police, the black
mail was based on the threat of infor-
nation by Hawkins that Fuller's con-
duct was such as to jeopardize his en-
gagement TO marry a Miss Rowthan.
A threat Of exposure was contained IN
letters sent to the latter, and a personal
IN newspaper last Sunday morning
paved the way for the payment of $500
as the price of silence.
WHAT HE HAD DONE.
These letters, It is alleged, We're sent
10y Hawkins. who when arraigned at
police headquarters. answered Fuler's
qucstion. What have done that you
should have acted this way?" with
well. you've got what ought to have
had, Including your education"
hawkins said he lived At No. 3j2
Mott avenue, but his mother lives at
the northwest corner of Columbus
avenue and Eighty eighth street.
UNDER POLICE DIRECTION.
Hawkins was arrested by detectives
near the railway station where
meeting between Hawkins and Fuller
had been arranged under the direc-
ton OF the police The officers seized
Hawkins after he had accepted roll
Of marked bills from Fuller The prs
oner struggled gamely. drawing re-
voIyer. but was quickly overpowered
SON or DR. FULLER
Fuller is the son Of Or. Frank
Fuller territorial secretary of Utah in
Lincoln's administration. Dr. Fuller
married sister of Jacob II. Thomp-
SON an editorial writer on the New
York Times who was Killed on Sept.
1, last in his rooms IN the St James
hotel Dr. Fuller has a country home
about two miles out OF Madison. y. j.
The arrest Of Homer Hawkins in New
York on the complaint OF Louis Il.
Fuller will recall TO old Salt LalIers
many INCIDENTS connected With the
fathers of these young men, and tho
peculiar answer that Hawkins gave to
Fuller at the police station to the effect
that he had done this to Fuller because
Fuller had got what he. Hawkins, ought
20 have had including his education,
may possibly be explained.
THEIR UTAH CAREERS.
The story Of Hawkins in Utah, anu
of Fuller Is not exactly free from spicy
details. and the present conflict of two
SONS of the families suggests that tho
sins of father may have gone down TO
be visited upon another generation,
CONSTANT TROUBLE.
Old timers aver that there was con-
slant trouble between Acting Governor
Fuller and his daughter Nora, and that
the difficulties OF the household inoreas-
ed after Fuller's marriage to another
woman Nora IA the meantime be- Z
came the wife OF Dick Hawkins, the
father OF Homer Hawkins who now
rises up after many years to figure IN !
a scandal perhaps as racy as any In
which his ancestors moved in the early
history OF Utah
WENT TO SOUTH AMERICA
The parents OF Homer did not
live happily together. and short .
~ after he was born his
father hft for South America .
and his wife followed him there with
the child. Then they became formally
separated. and Mrs. Hawkins returned ,
to this country with the child. Haw- Z
hns also returned, aud induced another
daughter OF Gov. Fuller, an older sister
Of Nora, 20 leave her husband and 80
with him TO San Francisco on tho way
they abducted Nora's child and took
Il TO San Francisco with them, and
there Nora followed the couple. She
flied charges against her husband IN the
courts. there was a trial and a great
deal Of scandal, and she finally OBJ
tanned q divorce and the custody OF the
child
EDITOR on HERALD.
Dick Fuller-his real name was Rich.
ard r.. Fuller, II he Is st!ll alive. Is u
man approaching three score years.
He was q civil engineer ann wss
brilliant, but rather cratic When
the salt Lake Herald was first organized
I'd Fuller a brother Of the governor.
became an editorial writer. and Frsnk
returned TO the territory after his re-
call as acting governor, and engaged IN
business for some time. Ed, the broth
err. died last year In Tacoma. Hav-
klus wrote mining news for the Her
aid. and often wrote articles on social
conditions ia Tho territory under tho
coguomcu Of "Custos Morcm.
THE MOTHERS soRBON.
The mother of Homer Hawkins who
is mentioned as stilll alive, went par
tally insane COR q time during her
fight 10 regain possession OK nor CHILD
IN san Francisco, and through her
WAS crushed ana 5orrowed Far beyoat
her years. u may be that shs has
taught nor son 70 cherish hatred
against her father and q belies thar
the son was entitled 20 money ana
property which was not given 10 him.