The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-03
INDIANA WITHOUT
JUSTICE HAWKINS
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plans. officials say. probably were
upset when Dayton police took a
hand and arrested him before he had
completed his defense plans.
In view Of the fact Hawkins de-
faulted his bond when he failed to
appear for trial before Judge Ferdi-
nand A. Geiger in Federal Court
1t appeared that he would have diff
ficulty in providing the $4,000 bond.
Determined to Resist
Financial ruin and breaking health
have failed to shatter his determine.
ton to use every possible legal tech
nicality to avoid removal to Indian
apolis for trial on the same charges
of conspiracy to use the mails in a
scheme to defraud for which four
teen former officials and employees Of
the Hawkins Mortgage Company and
it's subsidiaries were convicted re-
Gently at Indianapolis.
At the commissioners hearing.
which resulted In at least a tenn
porary victory for Hawkins, he an
nounced his intention of carrying
the battle against removal to the
United States SupFeme Court if
necessary.
Both he and his attorney, Warner,
announced they would attack the
legality Of the indictment, the juris
diction Of the court, the manner in
which Judge Geiger was selected to
try the case and the organization OF
the grand jury.
Practically all these questions
were raised before the case against
sixteen other defendants went to
trial at indianapolis and were de-
cided against the defendants.
Denounces Judges
Hawkins was outspoken in his de
nunciations of both Judge Albeit B.
Anderson and Judge Geiger and
postoffice Inspectors.
Perhaps you have heard of the
man who said the difference between
Anderson and Geiger was that one
beat you to death with a, club and
the other smothered you with pill
low" he said after the hearing.
At the hearing on an information
for removal filed by e. j. Connolley
operator of the bureau Of investiga
ton of the Department Of Justice of
Cincinnati, the Government was I'M
represented by counsel and Warner
made the best Of the opportunity to
fight the proceedings bitterly.
Postoffice Inspector John We'll
born, of indianapolis; 2. L. Osborne,
Chief of the Bureau of Investigation
OF Indianapolis; John Eckert. who
holds the same position at Cincin-
natl, and Connolley attended the
hearing.
They were disappointed at the
postponement OF the case and
Hawkins was j'lbilant.
Police authorities seemed relieved
whea Hawkins was taken off their
hands and turned over to Sheriff
Howard B. webster and Deputy
United States Marshal Carson Pratt
Talks With Mother
Hawkins, although extremely
nervous showed no emotion until he
was told that his mother Mrs.
Genevra Hawlins. had come from
Portland to see him.
Tears came<in his eyes and he re-
tanned self control with difficulty.
Later he broke down when he met
her at the jail They talked for
more than an hour.
Shortly before he had sent her a
telegram asking her for $500. When
arrested at the Hotel Haynes,
Thursday night he apparently was
penniless. However. when he was
searched $40 was found in a shoe.
There are two stories of his arrest.
Detectives say they were attracted
by his suspicious actions on the
street and followed him.
The other story is that a hotel
employee became suspicious of long
distance telephone calls placed by
Hawkins, registered as L. J. Hart,
Detroit. Mich, and told police.
Police say Hawkins told them he
had spent the past three months at
washington, d. G.; Detroit. Mich;
Baltimore, Nd, and Orlando. Fla.