The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-12
BANK CASHIER IS
KILLED BY ROBBER
President of Institution DAN
gerously Wounded; Negro
Is Third Victim.
MURDERER MAKES VAIN
ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE
Declines to Reveal Identity
and Declares He Had No
Assistance.

LOUlS lbBG, hyy NOV. III =
Hungary Fawcett, cashier Of the Mer-
chants National bank Of New Albany,
Ind, was killed; John X. Woodward,
president of the bank, was dangerously
wounded, and James r. Tucker, ne
gro chauffeur Of Louisville, was fatally
wounded this morning, when a young
man, partially identified as Arthur
Hall, Louisville dealer in second
hand furniture, entered the bank and,
after commanding every ono to throw
began shooting.
Mr. Fawcett died almost instantly
after being shot through the neck and
chest Woodward was shot through the
liver and intestines, and Tucker was
shot through the body and may die.
Desperate to Escape.
Following the shooting, the murderer
rushed from the bank and tried to
make his escape in au automobile,
which he had taken from the curb in
front OF the residence Of its owner,
Mrs Walter Escott, in Louisville, fore
ing the negro chauffeur at the point
of a gun to drive him to New Albany,
But the chauffeur, paralyzed with ter
ror, and apparently incapable of ac-
tion, sat still. The robber jumped from
the car and sent a bullet through the
negro's body.
Turning down the river bank, dis
tancc of perhaps two blocks, the mur-
derer ran with great speed. He quick
~ appropriated skilf at the dock and
was on his way to the Kentucky shore
before the frightened citizens Of New
Albany knew what had happened. An
alarm was given through Il megaphone
from a drcdge boat and in short time
the police of the little city had started
captured their man. and bad brought
him to shore, only TO confront the new
peril of r lynching.
Saved from the Mob.
By clever ruse. Captain Adams Of
the police stood off thc crowd of zoo
that tbronged the dock as the boat
landed. Commanding the prisoner TO
lie down, the captain announced that
the man had taken poison and was
dead, meanwhile carrying him TO the
patrol wagon and giving the word TO
drive ahead,
The bandit was taken to the New Al
cape the mob, he was removed TO the
southern Indiana rcformatory at JEFF
fersonvIlle.
Iu his cell at the reformatory the
prisoner refused to give his name and
talked only under pressure. He said
that he had been around Louisville for
several days. He said he did not know
Tucker, the chauffeur
Will Not Tell Name
81 won't tell my name ! have
seven brothers and sisters. Ny father
doesn't live with my mother. and all Of
them are not within six hundred miles
of this place.
~ never smoked cigarette, chcwcd
or drank, Oh, yes, ] smoked cigar in
CoSlugton ten years ago, but never
again. never was in trouble but once,
That was Mt Lexington, Ky, ON Hal
loween, long time ago
He seemed TO he confused, but is
apparently not insane. He confessed
that he planned the bank robbery and
says be had no assistance.
The most striking thing about the
bandit is his good looks and his red
hair. which is neatly cut. His face is
efempate- He is not over 90 years
old.
Tonight the bandit was Unidentified as
Thomas Jefferson Hall. and, according
to William i. Hall, his. father. tho des,
perado is but IL years old. The elder
Hall, who has n furniture store ut S02
South Preston street in this city. said
that young Hall was Il household ty
rant and not insane at all.
Gle IS simply mean, said the
father. The family is formerly Of
Knoxville, Tenn.
Statement of Father.
w. ]. Hall detailed his son S actions
for tho last few years. saying that dime
novels had been his constant mental
food The elder Hall said, however,
that Mark Twain's ''Iuck leberry
Finn bad first put "notionsn into
the BOYS head of doughty deeds to be
performed. Since then, with bis sub
scqueut reading, said the Jlndit s faith.
or, the boy had made the lives of his
family miserable.
Among young Hail s effects were
found 4 powerfully made cabinet lined
and QUILTED like u room. II is be
heyed that the boy expected TO escape
with his loot today. conccaling him
self in the box. which was consigned
to II. w. Smith, Knoxville, and cs-