Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-07-24
CHAUFFEUR HELD
 FOR MURDER Discharged Negro Had Made Many Threats Against the Dead Presidents Life TELLS OF SHOOTING Wife of Late Head of the MOnOn De. scribes Details of a Scuffle and
 of Revolver Reports.
TELLS OF SHOOTING

Chicago, July 22-Ernest Hoffman, a negro chauffeur, formerly employ ed by Mr Rawn, was arrested here late today as a suspect in connection with the railroad presidents death. Hoffman was discharged in Decem- Der last and as late as last May is declared to have threatened MT. Rawn's life.
 The arrest of Ernest Stevens, also known as Hoffman, was made on in- formation supplied by H. P. Cullen, president of the Commercial Mercan- tile Company of Chicago, friend of the former Monon president Cullen swore to an affidavit to the effect that he heard the negro referring to MT. Rawn, say:
 I'll get that white man, d-- him; III get him."
 Stevens was employed by Mir. Rawn from May, 1906, to December, 1909, when, it is said, he was discharged for disobeying orders. Assistant Chief of Police schuettler said that aside from this, the detectives had secured no evidence against Stevens.
 Although too ill to attend her hus- bands funeral, Mrs. Ira G. Rawn late today made detailed statement to a stenographer of the shooting of MT. Rawn.
 Tn a general way this statement bears out the stories of the death of MT. Rawn as told by the dead mans son-in-law, R. G. Coburn. Mrs. Rawn says she and her husband were alwak- ened by noise on the first floor of the house. that MT. Rawn picked up his revolver and started downstairs. Then, says Mrs. Rawn, she heard a noise of some sort, apparently on the stairway, and shot or shots fir ed
 The police, however, have seized l upon three points in Mrs. Rawn's statement that they consider of irn- portance in connection with the mys- terious death.
 Three Points Convinced Police.
 The first is the declaration by Mrs. Rawn that she is certain of having heard but one shot; the second, her assertion that Mir. Coburn, her son-in- law, preceded her downstairs and that he had turned on the lights before she reached her husbands body, and the third is the statement that Mr. Rawn was found lying squarely on his back.
 The police say these three points support their statement that MT. Rawn killed himself. Friends of the Rawn family insist that Mrs. Rawn's description of what occurred We'd nesday morning is further evidence that MT. Rawn was murdered. Mrs. Rawn said that on the night previous to the shooting she and her husband had heard noise similar to the one which aroused them early Wednesday morning.
 ''The noise on the first night was something like the shutting of a door," says Mrs. Rawn "On the sec ond night there was sort of a creeping sound, whether it was the sound of walking I cannot tell you. told my husband not to go down. He did not pay attention to me, but kept on walking through the dark.
 Shot as She Screamed. Tt was very dark, but could hear him walking, and I got up and sat or the edge of the bed. It did not etem second when I could hear him creeping down and he had time to get to the first landing when I heard terrible scuffle.
 So then I jumped and screamed and at the. time I screamed I heard shot. I was so dazed that could not move for second and before I got down there my sOn-in-law (Mr. Cohurn) got down in the dark and h.. turned on the lights.'
 '''honoh nrivate detectives in the employ of the Rawrf family caused