New-York tribune., 1906-04-10
BLACKMAIL TRAP FAILS
FOR EY-GOVERNOR'S SON.
Police Get Train Clerk Who Threat
ened Louis r. Fuller.


Homer Hawkins. a train clerk in the Mott
Haven yard of the New York. New Haven &
Hartford Railroad. was arrested yesterday
afternoon at the Melrose station. 161st street.
and locked up in Police Headquarters on the
charge of attempt at blackmail The complain
ant is Louis R Fuller, Harvard graduate,
who is in business with his father, at No 81
Fifth avenue. in a health food concern. The
detectives say that Hawkins is a nephew Of
Fuller.
According to Inspector McLaughlins men. the
blackmail was based the threat of informa-
ton by Hawkins that F'ullers conduct was such
as to jeopardze his engagement to marry Miss
Rowthan. threat Of exposure contained
in letters sent to the latter, and personal in
e newspaper last Sunday morning paved the
way for the payment of $500 as the price OF
silence These letters it is alleged, were sent
by Hawkins who when arraigned at Police
Headquarters, answered Fullers question.
What have done that you should have acted
This way?" with ''Wel. you've got what
ought to have had, including your education
This remark is construed to represent bitterness
existing between the two branches Of the fam
lily concerning certain bequests.
Hawkins said he lived at No $50 Mott avenue,
but his mother lived at the northwest corner Of
Columbus avenue and SSth street.
Fuller went to Inspector Mclaughlin last Fri
day, saying he had received an anonymous let
ter and that he wanted the writer apprehended
He showed the following letter:
Dear Sir: desire to borrow from you the sum OF
500 Give hundred dGllaTs}; will expect to see
saying that you Will let me have this sum- and 7
the personal not appear. how would Mr. Rowthan
like to hear among other things the affair with
hear that Expecting viii hear from you re-
main, yours respectfully, A B. c.
Miss ROwthan is the young woman to whom
Fuller is said to be engaged.
Inspector Mclaughlin had a personal" in
serted in the paper reading follows:
A. B. c-Letter received o. K: send directions
Yesterday morning Fuller received the follow
ing:
Grand Central Station (Sew York centraD, Get off
You viii not ask no questions, simply place in
messengers hand the money in gold coin and those
or these Instructions are not not carried out to & the
ettsf to Mrs George @ De Rowhan at But IT. on the
other hand, you do as you are told, you will not
p. M, Monday. out of Grand Central Station;
P. S: Walk up track until you are stopped
Lest you misunderstood I will add walk track
in nt deGo IN tTan Sad You w" viii
and hand over the money; walk on to the next
A. 3. c.
This letter took Fuller TO headquarters De-
tective Sergeants Cary. Rheaume and McCaf-
ferty of the Central Office. were detailed on the
work of landing the man. The first two went
UP to Melrose and took a position a short dis
tance away from the station about an hour be
fore Fuller with McCafferty boarded the train
as the letter directed.
The Melrose station is below the street, and a
bridge crosses the tracks at this point On the
bridge McCafferty stationed himself, leaving
Fuller to walk up the track as directed Then
in a moment McCaferty saw a man pass Fuller
then wheel about and go TO him. The detective
ran to them just in time TO hear Hawkins say,
angrtIy: why, there's only $50. I won't take
it,"
you're my prisoner" said McCafferty at
his elbow. Young Hawkins threw his hand to
his hin nocket and the detective seized his wrist
Here's something you may well take. too.'
said Hawkins Indicating a 38-caIibre revolver.
..I did Il " was what Hawkins declared then. &C
cording to McCafferty. II did 1t, for needed
the money for my mother and myself
He was quiet when taken away to be locked
up.
Fuller is theIson of DR.. Frank Fuller. terri
torial Governor Of Utah in Lincoln's admins
tration. He married a sister of Jacob H. Thomp-
son an editorial writer on The New York
Times who was killed September il last in
his rooms in the st. James Hotel Dr. Fuller
has a country home about two miles out Oh
Madison n. ].
The admiration of the detectives was excited
over the way Hawkins selected the place TOT
such a game. There are seyera! getaWay
routes there. since freight yards ad)oih the VI