Wheeling Register

Rules in the Streets of Birmingham.

LIFE OF MURDERER HAWES

Bought Ten Times Over by Innocent Blood.

THE MOTHER AND CHILD FOUND,

And Their Dead Bodies Call for Justice Until Thousands Will With Frenzy,

CHARGE FIERCELY ON THE JAIL.

Repulsed by a Gatling Gun in the Hands of Officers-Fearful Execution Done---

Thirteen Men Killed and Others Die From Their Wounds---

A Horrible Massacre

BIRMINGHAM, ALA., December 9.-A crowd which had been collecting on the streets for several hours last night, at midnight advanced to the county jail with the intention of lynching H. R. Hawes, charged with the murder of his wife and child. Many of the best citizens tried to reason with the crowd and prevent trouble, and some lost their lives in the attempt. When the crowd was within a few feet of the jail door and had failed to heed numerous warnings, the officers opened fire on them, killing 3 men instantly, fatally wounding seven and wounding more or less seriously about 30 others.

The following is a full list of the killed and wounded:

M. B. Throckmorton, postmaster and a very prominent and popular citizen. He leaves a wife and one child.

An unknown negro was shot through the lungs, and died this morning.

J. R. McCoy was toward the front of the crowd when the firing commenced, he fell at the first volley.

A. B. Tarrant was shot in the back, and died shortly after.

A. D. Bryant was shot through the heart. He was standing rather near the front, and was doing his best to restrain the crowd from going any nearer. He fell at the first volley and died instantly.

C. C. Hale, was shot through the hip thigh and loin. He is dying.

Col. Bert Smith was shot through the right lung, he died this morning.

Lawrence Fitzhugh, a civil engineer was badly wounded. He was shot through the shoulder, he is thirty years old.

Charles Bailey was shot through the head, it is thought fatally.

A. J. Schiede, a mechanic, was shot in the left side just under the shoulder. It is thought that he will die.

Chas. Jenkins was shot in the back of the head. He lived until 10 o'clock this morning. Jenkins was 20 years old.

Branden, at the hospital, wounded in the thigh and abdomen, died at 10 this morning.

J. W. Montgomery received a slight wound in the left jaw.

Mr. Barkley was shot through both legs below the knee while sitting on rear porch of residence.

Chas. Bailey, a brakeman on the Louisville and Nashville railroad, was shot in right side. His home is in Boston. The wound may prove serious.

John H. Merritt, at hospital, shot through calf of left leg.

Matt Kennedy, at hospital, shot both legs below the knee. The right being badly shattered.

J. W. Owen, at hospital, shot through right thigh.

J. W. Gilmore is thought fatally wounded through the bowels.

Frank Childers is dead.

Albert Sath, colored, was shot in the back and seriously wounded.

Mr. Wm. Youngblood, Mr. Alexander and Ed. S. Cooper, reported as killed or wounded, are not hurt.

W. A. Bird was shot in the shoulder the ball passing entirely through him and coming out near the spinal cord. Mr. Bird is 30 years old and unmarried.

Col. Thos. G. Jones, of the second regiment of Alabama state troops, arrived here this morning with five companies and is confident of his ability to prevent any further attempt at mob violence. There was much excitement for a while last night, but it has subsided somewhat to-day.
A MARTIAL CAMP.

Armed Men With Gatling Guns Keep the City's Peace,

BIRMINGHAM, ALA., December 9.- There is comparatively quiet to-day though the feeling is intense and the authorities have taken every precaution to avert a repetition of last night's horrors. Sheriff Smith, in an interview said he deeply regretted the occurrences of last night but felt that he had simply done his duty, in upholding the majesty of the law. He said he gave the mob ample warning, and did not give out the order to fire until it was absolutely necessary to do so, and that after the mob had begun to fire upon the jail.

Mayor Thompson, who was only inducted into office last Wednesday, issued a proclamation this morning, expressing sympathy for the families of the victims of last night's tragedy and deeply regretting the occurrence but favoring the maintenance of law and order, and appealing to all who love peace and good order to refrain from public assemblage and remain in the quiet of their homes. The death of Postmaster Throckmorton which occurred at 8:30 this morning has added to the sorrow of the community. He was one of Birmingham's most popular citizens and leaves a young wife and one child. He served as agent for the Southern Express Company and ticket agent for the Louisville and Nashville R. R. Co., and was appointed postmaster by President Cleveland some eighteen months ago.

To-day and to-night the city is a military encampment. Civil authorities have practically stepped down and out, and Col. Jones, of Montgomery, with thirteen military companies is absolutely in charge of affairs. The jail is guarded by state troops, with picket lines extended for several squares in every direction, and at each approach there frowns the countenance of a Gatling gun. Mounted scouts are sent out of the city, and at regular intervals acquaint Col. Jones with the condition of the public mind and prospects of armed rising by the people. Fire bells sound, military alarms and soldiers in uniforms and armed with Winchester rifles have cleared the principal streets and driven back the thousands who have all day been looking toward the jail. The military was ordered out by Governor Seay from Montgomery and with Chief Executive Col. Jones is in regular telegraphic correspondence.

In the meanwhile citizens have not kept within doors. They have congregated in hotels or on street corners, and in front of bulletin boards. The streets have been a living maddened mass, and very little oratorical pyrotechnics could readily organize a mob, whose solemn duty would be declared to avenge the murder of popular Throckmorton, and those who fell by him. All along the walls of the city are posted petitions of various kinds signed by thousands of people. One of these recites at length the fact that Sheriff Smith had butchered in cold blood some of the best citizens of Birmingham by an act as unprovoked as unnecessary and asked Gov. Seay to immediately relieve him of his duties as sheriff.

Another petition reads: 'This is to hang him,' and was signed by thousands of passers by.

Great excitement was caused by the funeral cortege through a principal highway of one of the victims of last night's affray. The lengthy procession was headed by a brass band, playing solemn dirges. The post office building is draped in mourning and makes mute appeal to every passer-by. The military were called upon to arrest Smith and others implicated, but this was refused, and finally about 5 o'clock a citizen went before a justice of the peace and swore out a warrant for the arrest of Smith and his deputies on a charge of murder. This was served by the coroner who found Smith in jail, and the coroner himself took charge of the jail and in his custody that institution is at present.

During the day Capt. Bibb, who has charge of the Montgomery Blues, advised that the military take Smith and Hawes out of jail and carry them to Montgomery, away from the scenes of riot and for safe keeping. This was not acceded to by the officer in charge, there being no civil steps to that end advised.

During the afternoon the rumor became widespread that 1,500 miners from Pratt Mines, about five miles from Birmingham, would after dusk, march to the city, armed with guns, pistols and dynamite cartridges, and with the increase to their ranks that was expected, assault the soldiers, and with dynamite blow to atoms the jail. That such will be attempted is expected even by the military, though a successful finality is not anticipated. There are already ten military companies under command of Col. Jones, and the five others will arrive on special trains by midnight.

One precaution against undue excitement and consequent violence was taken this morning by the city council, who in special session ordered that all saloons and drug stores be closed until further notice.
HAWES' VICTIMS.

The Body of His Wife Found Heavily Loaded With Iron,

The following dispatch from Birmingham explains the cause of the popular indignation against murderer Hawes. It will be remembered that Hawes' wife and two children suddenly disappeared and immediately afterwards Hawes was married to a young lady of Columbus, Miss. A few days afterwards the body of one of the children was found floating in the lake at Birmingham. Hawes was arrested and held for murder, and search was begun for the body of Mrs. Hawes with the following result.

BIRMINGHAM, ALA., December 8.-The terrible mystery is solved. To-night Richard R. Hawes, heretofore bearing a respected name and character among his fellow-men, stands connected in the public mind of the most heinous series of crimes in the annals of the country. The populace is appalled and strong men's faces blanch as they recount the tragedy.

At two o'clock this afternoon the public mind, already wrought up to the highest tension by the developments of the last five days, was set afire anew by the startling announcement that the foully murdered and mutilated body of the missing mother, Mrs. Emma K. Hawes, had been found in the murky water of the lake at Lakeview, a suburban resort, and half a mile only from Eastlake, where the body of her daughter May was recovered. The rumor proved true, and in half an hour thousands of excited men, women and children hurried toward to the lake. The suspicion had gone abroad early in the day that likely the body had been secreted there, as it was only about two hundred yards from the Hawes home.

About eleven o'clock four determined men set to work to drag the lake with grappling hooks. Near eleven o'clock one of the hooks struck a heavy yielding substance, and soon the mutilated corpse lay on the bank. The combined strength of four men was required to land it. The body was WEIGHTED DOWN with heavy pieces of 'fish-plate' railroad iron tied around the neck and waist of the murdered woman. She was completely clad, and about her neck and waist were tied heavy scarlet cords known to have been at the Hawes residence, to which were attached six iron pieces weighing about ten pounds each. The back of the dead woman's skull shows the horrible story of the tragedy. It had been crushed in with some blunt instrument, presumably an ax. The entire occipital bone is crushed in and there is a gaping cavity that is only half concealed by her heavy auburn hair. Her right hand was badly skinned across the back, as if injured in a struggle for life, and the appearance of the face and hands indicate that the body had been in the water several days. The body, as soon as found, was taken to the shore and laid out with iron weights which held it to the bottom still.

TIED AROUND THE NECK and waist. It was neatly clothed in a dark colored dress, a short cloth sacque and a pair of button shoes. There was no covering for the head. The mouth and eyes were tightly closed, as though in natural death, and the features bore an expression of complete repose and naturalness, with the exception of being a good deal discolored from being long in the water. As it lay on the bank the crowd of curious and indignant spectators crowded around and momentarily increased until it swelled into a surging multitude. The feeling of HORROR, INDIGNATION AND RAGE increased with each movement, until it threatened to become a frenzy. Fierce threats of vengeance were heard coming from lips whose utterances the people of Birmingham have long since learned to know mean what they say, and strong men almost cried in the intensity of their excitement.

After the body of the woman was dragged from the lake another party searching around the house found secreted under the front doorsteps a tightly wrapped bundle of bloody clothes, about the fit of those worn by the youngest child.

THE BODY OF MRS. HAWES was brought into the city to-night, but so intense was the excitement that Mayor Thompson ordered it taken out again and secreted. Mrs. Hawes, nee Story, has returned to Columbus, Miss.