The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-01-24
STATE TAKES new TURN
CHANGE HAWlEYCHARGE
From Thursdays Daily.

From Thursdays Daily.
p. j. Hawley and his wife when
brought before Judge A. r. Pau
late yesterday afternoon, the state
was not ready to have the defend.
ants enter pleas to the joint charge
which had been preferred. In brief,
this charge was uttering checks on
banks wherein they had no depos-
it or credit This is a gross misde-
meanor. 1t appears that the old law
gives the punishment for tt is crime
as one years Imprisonment in the
county Jail or fine of $1,000 The
revised law, however, fails to desig.
nate where the Imprisonment shall
be. Because of this defect of the
law the authorities did not wish to
prefer this charge of gross misde-
meanor against Hawley and wanted
him to plead guilty to a charge of
grand larceny in the second degree.
Refused to Plead.
Hawley refused to plead guilty to
this charge and the case was laid
over. 1t was thought last night that
hearing would be given him to-
day, but County Attorney Schmitt
was in municipal court all morning
and nothing was done about it,
| Late this afternoon Mr. and Mrs
| p J. Hawley We're in consultation
with their attorney, c. J. Laurisch.
Sheriff Anton Osten received a
! telegram from the chief of police at
Montevideo this morning saying that
he had two men who answered to
the descriptions of Hawley and Nc
Closkey. and asked what to do with
them. The sheriff wired back a mi
mute description of McCloskey and
expected to hear whether the man
| in custody was he, but up to late
this afternoon had received no fur
Their word from Montevideo.
The Letter HawIey Wrote.
Sheriff Osten today received the
following letter from Chief of Po-
lice Brick of st. Cloud:
Enclosed l am sending you a
letter that was left at the
Jews house where we went to
find Mrs. Hawley's trunks. The
| Jew woman down there told me
that she was too badly frighten-
ed or she would have given me
the letter when we were down
there. Hawley also left about
} forty automatic SO cartridges.
several twelve gauge % and As
calibre shells at the house, but
no gun as far as / have been
j., able to find out. l also send
nf oi
-, pers; hope you receive them.
Yours respectfully, Edw. ],
Brick
This is the letter Hawley wrote
to his wife in st. Cloud:
st. Cloud, Friday, 1918
! Dearest Alyce: You cannot ap-
preciate my disappointment at
getting here and finding you had
| left You either did not pay at
tention to What | told you down
there or else you just don't
care a -. ! am all tore UP.
| You wrote me January that
you had rented room at 81
/ per week and that you only had
/ Sc and had not paid the land
lady yet. Now how in you
then leave here | can't under
stand. That is if you behave
yourself. only knows I am
worried enough as it is without
having any more of it heaped
upon me. This experience is a
! perfect hell and that's the best
of it. Now / am going to leave
here on the first train and you
know where | am going. / will
not take any trunks as | have
not got the money to do so.
You left them here, now you get
them. I am so - mad I can't
see straight. .... ...
Now you know Bess told me
to write her at Grand Forks. n.
ID. Well, / am going there,
and you can wire me there just
as soon as you get this letter
and then wait for an answer
Write me when you wire SO as
j will get your letter if | don't
get your wire, as ] will have
my mail forwarded. l told you
positively to stay here until
sent you list of the people in
Minneapolis, and not to leave
here unless I sent you that list.
| | will send you some money
when | get il, but for Gods
sake be careful. / fully believe
that your movement of yester-
day will get me in bad again.
! | am all in myself as | have not
had any sleep for two nights
and this is a - of a fine
bunch of stuff to run into feel
ing like I 10. Now blame your
self. p. j. Address N. L. w.,
Gen'l Del G.. F.
! This letter was addressed to Mrs.
II. l.. Walton, 119 South Fourth
street, st. Cloud, MINI.
Mrs. Hawley has three trunks stored
at the Coy bus barn. These are
the trunks that were brought here
several months ago by her and which
for few days were the subject
of much controversy. They were
brought here from st. Cloud on
Tuesday night.
Mrs. John McCloskey stamped her
! foot and talked saucy to Sheriff An.
ton Osten last evening when he
sought to talk with her about the
I disappearance of her husband Her
answers to questions put to her by
the sheriff were short and they in.
dicated that she was in anything
but a pleasant frame of mind She
admitted to the sheriff that she
talked with McCloskey on the rear