The sun., 1910-07-23
TWO ARRESTS IN RAWN CASE
NEGROES SPECTED or uTR-
DER TOR REVENGE.
IlIInols Central Attorneys who Accused
Dead Man ef Gsnspirae, Refuse 70
Reueraie THeir Charges Mrs. Ra~u
Describes the kIIIing OF Her Husband.

down on a MYSTERIOUS tip received nv
Coroner Hoffman and haste ned sscretly
tO the city hall, where they arc being
suhJ J-ctsd To a severe Rrillng
Coroner Hoffman refuses to give the
name .': his infoT mant hut savs h- ~
man of such prominence that his informa
tIon carries great weight
The letter TO the Coroner said Ra wn
had been slain by a negro from motives
Of revenge
One of iii. negroes under arres, - Ernest
stevens. aged -. who worked in Rawn' &
stable from May. 1910, 10 December. 1919,
and was discharged u p Cullen. a
prominent commission merchant of ~
Dearborn street Identifies this negro as
one he overheard swearing thar he would
set that fellow Rawn
q The negro. who ~ a graduate of south
Carolina college and of Armour Institute.
had failed 10 make payment on ring he
had purchased. and after his dismissal
Rawn IL said to have told 'he collectors
where he could be found For this the
negrn - said 10 have sworn he would kill
Rawn. MIR Ra~n discharged him for
taking hrS automobile ont al night for
JOY riding.
Witnesses have Leen found who saw
two negroes lurking IN the vicinity Of the
Rawn home and nelghbors heard two
men discussing some crime in the Ra vn
shr'Ibbery on the night OF the tragedy
The negroes came out from Chicago on
the last suburban train. Residents OF
Winnetka who Saw them were - i'm
pressed by their evil appearance that they
sought to inform the authorities. but for
some reason this was not done
coroner Hoffman attaches much inn
portance To tha clue he Teceived and 60
IN" arrest uf the two negroes
ILLINOIS Central attorneys who yester-
day SAID they had positive proof that Mr..
Rawn was the head, front and brains of
IN. conspiracy which robbed that com
pany 81 81 JOn 90 to-day refused TO re-
rerate the charges All apparently we're
acting under instructions not To DISCUSS
ths case
Insurance companies holding straight
lIf. policies 80 S7. .gD on Rawn will pay
without contest Accident companies
carving sIIO.HD will awrit the Coroner
inquest and verdict mean~hil. conduct
ing their own Inve-tig CATIONS.
Tn. second bullet = found in AN open
X
were fired. may not be a bullet Oplnion
- divided among thoss who havs in
spected II
Coroner Hoffman this evening disposed
~ sensational stories that {. Furness
Hately would he dismissed ~ foreman 81
the Grand Jury which wall invest gate the
Ra wn tragedy Mr. Ha'ely. a neishbor.
has heen very active IN behalf of the
~ :icken family II was ne who thought
To scrap~ the ashes IN a crate facing the
spo; where Rawn was killed and found
a battered piece ot Lead which. IL u claimed.
vas the bullet fired by REwn AZ his assail-
ant.
MR. Rawn. propped w in the hed she
has not left since the death of her husband.
q day told ~ IN" tragedy She said
Mr. Rawn and I had spent q very
happy evening We had our children
all around Va and We cam" upstairs,
think about II O'Clock. and retired
DO not know how long ~ had heen
asleep hut Ne were both awakened by
he same NOISE hut said nothing to each
other until I heard him move.
We had heard the same noise he night
before and Mr. Rawn GO; up. but came hack
and SAID he thought II did not amount
q anything. and thought ] would wait
and see what he was going TO do. No ]
lid not let him know I heard the nois" at
all and pretty soon he got up from the
bod
1 said to MIR Rawn. What are YOU
going to do; He said. ! am going to
investigate am tired Of these noises
oh. don't go said Shut the door and
oCk ~ We had our door wide open.
He sa 4. No. I am gong ] said. IL 10
Toohshness. and hy that time he had got
Iui
i, did not seem n second when could
lsa- hIm creeping down and he had about
inc - get 10 the first landing when 7
leard q terrible scuffie. SO then jumpsd
~ end screamed. and my son and
laughter were IN their rooms; and AZ the
ime ! screamed heard a shot. at least
heard something Whether ! heard a
hot or shots ! don't know, hut ] heard
shot. this awful sCuffiing and the shots. )
md was 80 dRzed thar ! could not NOV"
or the second. hut my son jumped right
nj of bed and went down there
That H. MIR Coburn was suggested
Yes and before I got down there he !
.ot down there IN the dark How he |
ver got down there ! don't know
lon Z know what he heard hut he got
Iown there after | screamed and then I
.ot down TO the first landing and look ed
own there and saw nv husband lying
here shot | ran down 10 him and NV
on by that time had turned on the light
rouble and said whv Ralph the doors
re- all open There has been a burglar IN
ome one has been IN He sa,d Yes.
mother father has been killed | said.
On rnaybe he IL just wounded No. he
aid no: IL - all over thought mavbe
ne man Jurt wounded him but he sho, to
al That was all From where I sat
n the stairs over nv husband I could see
lgh' through and see the door omen
That was after you reached HIM
Yes. after I sat down bv his body
After the completion of this part of the
tory Mrs Rawn was visIbly affected.
Icing revived with rostoTatives she was
sked n she cared 20 sreak further and
= once eN,r"ss"d "a willingness to answer
nv questions that might be asked
IN reply 20 questions Mrs. Rawn said
hFt her hIab; nd hGd owned the revolver
- took with him from the bedroom for
bout two years 'hA' IL had hecn bought
'h.n Dorch climbers had entered the
o,is- II u neiRhbor she ~ ii that while
nev were IN the country he kept the pis-
u on att ble IN the bedroom.
She s.ii that Mr. Rswn always slept
tell and had not hesn restleas on the
Igh' of the trr gedy
clerks for Brooklyn Coroner~.
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