The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-07-23
DISCHARGED
CHAUFFEUR .
ARRESTED
|SUSPkcT IN CONNECTIONS
WITH DEATH or
RAWN
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WIDOW OF DEAD MAN
MAKES STATEMENT
Begged Husband Not 10 Go
Down Stairs to IsveS-
tlgale Noises
(By Associated presa.)

(By Associated Prasa1
Chicago, July -, Ernest Hoffman.
Ia negro chauffeur, formerly en-.
ployed by MI Rawn. was arrested
here late Friday rs 4 suspect IN con-
necti.n with the railroad Presidents
death. Hoffman was dlschargei De.
cember last aud as late as last May
Is declared 10 have threatened Mr.
Rawns life.
The arrest Of Hoffman whose
real name, II was learned, Is Ernest
! Stevens, was made ON Information
supplied by IL. Z. Cpllcn. a friend Of
the forme. Monon president Cullen
sworc to an afiidayit to ihe eireot
that he heard the negro referring 70
Mr.. Rawn. say. "l'll get him.
stevens was employed bN sir Rawn
from May. 1906, 20 December, 1903,
when, 1t is said he was discharged
! for disobeying orders.
Assistant chief OF Police Schuet
tie. said that aside from this the
detectives had secured nD evidence
against stevens.
Although too III to attend her mus
bands funeral, Mrs Ira G. tawu,
widow of the Monon road president,
made detailed statement of the
shooting of NJ Rawn ut his summer
home in Winnclka last Wednesday
,cornklg.
In general way this statement
bars out tho gtories Of The death OF
Mr. Rawn as told by the gSal mans
son-inlaw, r. q, Coburn. N 8. Rawn
says she and her husband were Qwak'
ened by u noise on the first floor of
the house, that Mr. Rawn picked up
his revolver and started down stairs.
Then, says Mrs. Rawn, she heard y
noise 0f some sort. apparently on the
stairway and shot. OF shots.
The police, however have sliced
upon three points in Mrs. kawns
statement that thoy consider OF inn
portance In connection with the in
vestigation Of the mysterious death
Police Picks Flaws.
The first Is the declaration by Mrs.
Rawn that she is ce tain of having
lheard but one shot: the second Is her
assertion that Mr. Coburn. her son-ln
Law, preceded her down stairs. and
that he had turned on the lights be-
fore she reached her husbands body
and the third Is the statement that
M. Rawn was found lying spnarely
on his back
The police say these three points
support their theory that Mr.. Rawn
killed himself Ffiends Of the Ram
family insist that Mrs. Rawn's de-
scription Of what occurred WedneB-
iay morning Is further evidence that
4 Nj. Rawn was murdered.
Mrs Ragn said that OF The night
previous 10 the shooting Sire aud her
husband had heard noise similar
60 the one which she says aroused
them early Wednesday moums.
The noise on the first night was
something like The shutting Of q door
/ said Mrs. Rawn. 'Oil the second night
there was i sort Of creeping sound:
4 whclheg II was the sound Of walking
cannot tell you.
Il told my husband moi to 30 down
He lid not pay any atienllon TO me
| bnt kept on wAlkgg ths0ligb tie
dark / got up and sat on the edge
Of the bed It did not setnI a second
when conid hear him creeping
4 down, and he had time - get 10 th'
first landing when heard q terrible
scuffle. Jumped and sercaned, ant
at the time ! SCREAMED heard
!, SHIT | was 80 dazed thai | cunldn'
+. move for d second, and beIore ! go
down there my 4on (M c0burnl
4 got down in the dark and he turne'
On the lights"
Detectives IN the employ OF insnr
ance companies remain ID Wiunetki
ever night
Exposure Of Graft Hinted at.
That the death Of ] g, kawn, prcsi
dent of the Monon rairoad, viii r.
: suit In the exposure Of system Q
,, graft and oorrdptgn in nigh rsilroal
circles VAS the statement made y
prominent railroad men here. A.
cgfdlng 10 the statements the AtpcI
leldets were defrandcd Of thousand
! uf doiiars bJ the operations Of SON
biz railroad men.
lnslilinpis Central circles i ls sal
HAT tfiawl mas Husiuhki3 .iivpIYed aA
Ntdhi Ettff htp uNdtii hl1tH titti tAIA
gfissWwnfe n II c0Innfonlyf brhcNn
sHlbai H. tuii'uItti'd sNfeIae to escail
stc hIaiuc With would follow N d
tirsiiJn
Railroad supply men have added
new chapter 10 tue story which
hourly growing more ebuplex an
dramatic They say thai The bis
ness hletfpds of the railroads nee
pveyhaHIlHg III cvugsa they rIiaff
| that they canuot sell one dollar
worth cf goods without making
2 10 q. &c ~ssile ~ i-l..s' r'sssr"st ~
Gals
III N the meantime the mystery ot II
\ affair IN tbs Rawri homo IL GROWN
deeper with every new development
A secona bullet y said to have be-
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