The Jasper weekly courier., 1909-11-19
|I|T OF YOUNG OUTLAW.
.uoors DOWN HIGH OFFICIALS
NEW ALBANY BANK.
CASHIER KlLLEOi PRESIDENT SHOT
soy Attempts to Escape In stolen
Auto. But is overtaken and
Almost Lynched.

N.u Albany. Ind. Special: Hands
INA every one OF YOU INTO
yanlt,r was the electrifying COM
~s,d heard al noon Thursday In the
Ta-cbsnts' National Bank Of this city.
Two minutes later. j. Hungary raw
AZ, cashier Of the bank, lay dead on
| ,te soar bullet holes in his neck and
.sesr and John X. Woodward. It's
sresident was clutching madly at his
,5e shot through the liver and In
| ,estiues His recovery is said 10 be
impossible
Ear au instant there stood at the
sar of The depository n youth.
,uoking revolver in each hand.
Then with an oath and a threat 10
Nm II any followed. he shprang toward
= automobile in which he had arrived.
| r-ohabl, fatally shot James c. Tucker.
Ne negro chauffeur. who, paralyzed
| vi,h fear. was unable TO start the ma
shine and dashed with the speed of
seer no the Ohio river. two blocks
,vay and was soon rowing desperate
h 10 reach the Kentucky side.
A pack Of man hunters gave almost
Instant pursuit. and. after a thrilling
.hsse. the murderer-yeggman was at
sar on an ISLAND in the stream.
Facing twenty pistols. the fugitive
urrendered That he was not torn
inb from limb by infuriated citizens
Dn the Indiana shore was due to the
cunning of Police Captain Adams.
A mob Of 400 men surrounded the
automobile. shouting. Hang him.
Hang him" and IL was with great
tifculty that the officers fought the
zowd away until they could get the
auto started.
The prisoner. Thomas Jefferson
Han aged IL years, son Of William j.
Hall. owner of a furniture store at
so2 South Preston street. Louisville.
low Is safe behind the walls Of the
| Jacksonville Reformatory.
The man came to New Albany in an
automobile. The property of Mrs. Wal
.sr Escou a resident OF one Of the
most fashionable districts of Louis
Tle, and ne chauffeur, James Turner.
| 4 negro told the police that the man
who did the shooting took possession
u the automobile this morning in
front % Mrs Escott's residence and
forced him. al the muzzle OF a re-
goiver 90 drive him TO New Albany.
According 10 Halls father the young
the youne man is "a household tyrant
and not insane at all"
He is simply mean." said the ia
Tier aud deserves the limit Of the
aE"
" !iall detailed his sons actions
to7 the past few years, saying that
dine novels has been his constant
mental food.
The elder Hall said. however, that
Marx INain's "Huckleberry Finn"
bad FIRST put notions" into the boys
bead q doughty deeds tc be per-
lofmed
Since then. with his subsequent
reading said the bandits father. the
boy has made the lives Of his family
miserable
Amons Young Halls effects was
loand powerfully made cabinet. lined
ahd oliniied like a room. II is be-
heVed mat the boy expected to es-
tape with his loot crawl into
ne box which was consigned 10 -
J. smith Knoxville, Tenn, and es-
cape as freight.
faWceit the dead cashier. was
ioriy-one years old. and leaves a
WIDOW formerly Miss Elsie Mcdonald
! society girl of Louisville. Ky, to
ahom he was married two years ago
ne also leaves a son. Charles Fawcett
Y former marriage. He was a son
y VhAFles III Fawcett. a retired bust
usss man and director in the Merch-
W National Bank Mr. Fawcett had
.ssh connected with the bank since
vosloo ie was a fine specimen OF
lsnnood ~ being six feet four inches
.al and weighed ESQ pounds. He was
=, member u New Albany Lodge OF
~. ald was popular in business and
social circles.