Show ALLEGED TO HAVE KILLED TWO WIVES AND YET NO PROOF CAN BE PRODUCED Man lan Accused in Norfolk Va Found to Be Also I Resting Under Same Suspicion in Oklahoma NORFOLK Va Sept 19 Charles Charlea F. F HI Ruth TI alias Charles Charlea F F. Osborne Is la not nol I Ithe the luckiest but in man many p perhaps perhaps per per- r- r haps tho the most remarkable wife Vito murderer murderer murderer mur mur- derer on record record- For the past three months this m mans man's ns n's name has been on the lips Ups of oJ every gossip In this elt city It Is asserted by the time Chief of ot Police and every everyone one familiar with his career that he has no less than four tour murders to his isis credit yet ct the police Eay say there IE Is reason to believe belle that he will vill escape the clutches of ot the law aw and that too S In the face tace of ot the fact that Judge Hanckel who presides over ocr the crimInal criminal crim crim- inal court here herl and the Commonwealths Commonwealth's Commonwealths Commonwealth's Commonwealths Commonwealth's Common Common- wealth's Attorney John G. G Tilton have both publicly expressed It a aa their fiJn Yn that ho Is a u murderer of ot the deepest deepest deep deep- est cat and most merciless 9 character Changed His Name Osborne or rather Hiatt for the latter lotter lot lat ter It has been proved Is his real name came to this city about a Q year ago He lie gave cave the name of or Osborne to the people whom ho met and his last wife It Is presumed knew him b by no rio other She was a a. handsome woman oman and soon roan made a Q great many friends In the neighborhood of or Bermuda street street an old residential section of or the town where I she Bho he and her husband rented out furnished furnished furnished fur fur- rooms Osborne told the people he met that he had been a cowboy but hut after some Mme difficulty he obtained a position as a n aboss aboss boss carpenter The couple prospered and Mrs Osborne became a leading spirit In a a. local womans woman's club Mrs l Osborne seemed to be deeply attached to her husband and all of or the spare money that ISh she could lay lilY aside alde she In Invested In- In vested in insurance for him Called for Help One morning shortly after atter 10 o'clock three months ago Osbornes Osborne's cries for tor help alarmed the tho neighborhood In which he lived and when the police arrived ar ar- ar- ar rived they found his wife wICe dead In bed bcd with aitha a pistol wound through her left temple Many suspicious circumstances surrounded surrounded sur Sun rounded the case and the Coroners Coroner's jur Jury after a a. two days days' session ordered that Osborne be held for examination In Police Pollee court The alleged d murderer was arraigned am but he was eventually dismissed Mony fony residents were vere not satisfied with this action and a a. local newspaper began to look for Cor evidence of his former career Afraid of ot Burglars In the Police Pollee court Osborne stated that his wife was afraid of or burglars al always as kept a pistol under her pit pil pil- pil low On the night of or her death he lie said mAd she Khe suffered from nightmare and mend shot herself accidentally or on purpose Meantime however the case had been noised abroad and a resident of or Sal m. m N. N C. C named med Adams S came here and ani Identified Osborne as 1 Hiatt who he lie said ald had killed a a. wife an and a man named Cook In Oklahoma Th Oklahoma authorities were comI communicated com corn with and a n. Sheriff Sherif and deput deputy deputy dep dep- I ut uty came here with a requisition from the Governor of or Oklahoma for the al alleged alleged alleged al- al desperado Faulty Indictment Advices received here from Crom O. O T T. state that h he was vas arraigned in court there and the case a against him for tor killing his first wife dismissed because because be be- cause e of or a fault faulty Indictment On the strength of ot the alleged murder mur- mur icier der here however he was held and a anew anew anew new indictment will probably be brought As nil all the witnesses s against him are either cither dead or out of ot the theay way ay It is not likely that he will be convie con con- vie ted The story of the alleged Oklahoma wife iCe murder is Is If Ie anything equally re revolting re- re as the one related here and the two tt stories have a strange resemblance The man moved to O. O T. T with his family in 1893 and soon afterward afterward after after- ward formed a grocery partnership pl with Butler Buller Price a a. resident of ot that place Released on Bond In the summer Bummer of or some of or the members of ot the community became very much excited over the sudden disappearance die dis app appearance arance of ot one ne Allen Alten Cook who whore whore- resided re- re sided Bided on the claim adjoining the one on which Hiatt lived Searching parties were instituted and Cooks Cook's bod body was finally found Cound buried burled in a a. cornfield near his shanty Hiatt and A A A- J. J Montgomery were ere arrest arrested arrested ar ar- ar- ar rest rested charged with being parties to this killing At their preliminary hearing hearing hear hear- ing not ot a 3 single le thing could be he produced produced produced pro pro- against Montgomery and he was released Hiatt was bound over o to await the action of or the District court courtin in Perry O. O T T. T He lie found no trouble in producing bond for Cor and was released but when hen he arrived home he found that his horses s had been beers stolen and what little property he had was scattered to the four winds by his enemies Hiatt and his family occupied a little house a block north of oC the courthouse in Stillwater and there it is said the tho eventful night was pass passed d In which his wife was walt killed According to Hiatt's stor story the next morning after aCter the killing tho the clr circumstances circum um- um I stances were as follows CI Accident Mrs Hiatt awoke during the night and in lu looking out of or a window town toward Id I'd where hero their team of ponies wa was wag tied to a 0 wagon she else could only see sec one of ot tho the ponies so ISO she went to the bed and awoke her husband telling him that one ono of ot the animals was waa gone He lie arose hurr hurriedly Ty grabbed his trusty Winchester Winches Winches- ter ten and went Into the yard He found that the pony ron was ae lying on the far ar side of the wagon wacon but he ah also o found that their cow was loose The cow had been tied to a peach pe tree lie He laid the gun down caught the cow tied her again then therm picked up the gun and went to the tho house By this time his wife had bad lain down again and arid was probably asleep Upon I stepping to the threshold of the bed- bed loom door he raised the tho gun sun to let Jet the hammer down and just at that time limo the weapon discharged sending a bullet bullet bul bul- let into his wife's head bead The bullet upward and forward breaking the skull direct directly over the right eye ec killing her Instantly The Coroner at that time probed ever every clue to the bottom to find evidence evl evi- dence of ot murder but failed and tho the Coroners Coroner's Jury returned a verdict cx- cx Hiatt of any crime |