The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1909-11-26
ACT 0F YOUNG OUTLAW
ssooTs DOWN HIGH OFFICIALS
IN NEW ALBANY BANK.
CASHIER KILLED; PRESIDENT SHOT
sOy Attempts to Escape In Stolen
Auto, But Is Overtaken and
Almost Lynched.

View Albany. Ind. Special: Hands
h, and every - one OF you into
,be yaultiH was the electrifying com
mapd heard at noon Thursday In the
Merchants National Bank OF this city.
Two minutes later, J. Hungary Faw-
,ett cashier OF the bank, lay dead on
he door. bullet holes In his neck and
chest and John X Woodward, Its
resident. was clutching madly at his
tide shot through the liver and In
testines. His recovery is said to be
impossible.
For an instant there stood at the
rear 81 the depository youth. a
smoking revolver in each hand.
Then. with an oath and a threat TO
XII II any followed, he shprang toward
m automobile In which he had arrived,
wobably fatally shot James c. Tucker.
he negro chauffeur. who. paralyzed
with fear. was unable TO start the ma
shine aud dashed with the speed of
deer 10 the Ohio river. two blocks
away. and was soon rowing desperate
" 10 reach the Kentucky side.
A pack Of man hunters gave almost
instant pursuit, and. after thrilling
chase the murderer-yeggman was at
bay on an island in the stream.
Facing twenty pistols. the fugitive
surrendered That he was not torn
limb from limb by Infatuated citizens
On the Indiana shore was due to the
cunning Of Police Captain Adams.
mob OF 400 men surrounded the
automobile. shouting, Hang him!
Hang him" and IL was with great
iificulty that the officers fought the
crowd away until they could get the
auto started.
The prisoner, Thomas Jefferson
Rall AGED IL years. son of William J.
Hall owner OF furniture store at
s02 South Preston street. Louisville,
now is safe behind the walls of the
Jacksonville Reformatory.
The man came TO New Albany I'm an
automobile. the property OF Mrs. Wal
Ter Escott. resident OF one of the
most fashionable districts OF Louis
Vile and the chauffeur, James Turner,
negro told the police that the man
who did the shooting took possession
II the automobile this morning in
front 90 Mrs. Escott's residence and
forced him, AT the muzzle of a re.
5olyer, % drive him TO New Albany.
According 10 Halls father the young
the young man is "a household tyrant
and not insane at ALL"
He Is simply mean" said the "a
her, aud deserves the limit of the
avr
W. Hall detailed his sons actions
lof The past few years, saying that
line novels has been his constant
mental food.
The elder Hall said. however that
Marx Iwain's "Huckleberry Finn"
PAD first put notions" into the bows
lead % doughty deeds TO be per-
formed
Since then. with his subsequent
reading, said the bandits father. the
10y has made the lives Of his family
miserable.
among Young Hairs effects was
Olhd powerfully made cabinet. lined
aha olthtied like a room. II Is be- |
ue'ed that the boy expected To es.
cape with his loot crawl into
NE box which was consigned 10 "F |
cape as freight.
,fa"cett the dead cashier. was
W',!-one years old and leaves a
NuoW formerly Miss Elsie Mcdonald. |
: society girl Of Louisville. XIV. to |
nuoul ne was married two years ago. |
ne aiso leaves a son. Charles Fawcett |
y 'ormer marriage. He was a son
!. NnaIies n. Fawcett. retired bust. |
US man and director in the Merch- |
Wv National Bank. Mr.. Fawcett had
Ssen connected with the bank since |
Uglood He was fine specimen Of
Y. manhood being six feet four inches
.''l and weighed 250 pounds. He was
r,, member Of New Albany Lodge of
s a,As' al.l was popular In business and
social circles. anu