Dick Hawes Hanged

Bikmin'oiiam, Ala., March 1. - Dick Hawes was hanged yesterday for the murder of his wife and two children on December 4, 18S8. He made a statement that a previous confession was true. He said he paid John Wylie 530 to put his wife and children out of the way, because his wife refused to leave as promised, having heard of his intended marriage to another woman. The trap feil at 12:30; life was extinct in thirteen minutes. [Hawes murdered his wife and two daughters, drowning them in an artiücial lake near Birmingham in December, 1888. Two clays after the commission ot the crime he married a young girl iiamed Story, of Columbus, Miss., and was on his wedding tour when arrested. Attempts were made to lynch him and resulted in a riot, the sheriff and his posse flring into the mob and killing twelve citizens. He was tried, convicted and sentenced to death, and on January 12 last Judge McClellan, of the Supreme Court, rendered a decisión afflrming the verdict.l