Show DID MURDER HAWN Chicago Police Arrest Ernest Erest Hoffman Hofman Negro and ExEm u playe of Dead Man SAID SAI TO HAVE MADE THREATS Widow Ilo I bl lie Shooting I mig ami 1111 Police tuI lee Kay Sot Sa It I t Support hIm Ii r Theory lI h hor mc t tOr Of or Or Suicide Chicago o July Jil Jill hurt HofT HoC man a Li I negro chauffeur formerly cm em employed by ly tir Ir Hawn was vas WI arrested hero late hate 1110 today tol 18 as s a suspect In connection with tho tIme railroad presidents death Hoffman was us discharged last Decem Decent December December ber mind and Ind as no I late na as IS lost Monday Is I de do declared 0 dared ard to have hao threatened Mr lr HawI life IC The Tho of oC Hoffman whoso whose real namu 1111 It was trIte IM learned IH lie gresl Stevens won WIl made 1 I on oum ni Information supplied by 11 H II I P Cullen a n friend of oC tho former Monon lonon president Cullen swore to 10 un mini affidavit to 10 the Ihl effect that ho lie heard hourd the th negro referring to III Mr Rawn Cut n Ill lIi 11 get et that white man lal Ill lii Il gut get him hi un Stevens was employed by ho h Mr Ir Hawn from fl m May Mi 19 to 10 December A st Chief of oC Police wild multi 1111 that thal aside from this the tho d had bad no evidence against Igl Stevens Although too III ill to attend her boo lain hus husbands bands band funeral Mrs MrM rl lila Ida 1 11 U O 1 Hawn Hawl widow of it the time Monon road president today loly made a n detailed statement of oC oCth the th shooting of or Mr r at nl his sum summer mer timer home holo In Iii II morning of or last In lt week k In II a I general way WI this beam out olt the thc stores of If the thu death of ot Mr r as an lS told by b his bin H It I U Coburn Mrs HI I says 1 shin she and her hor husband were w r awakened bv by h u a I noise on omu Oi the first Ill floor noor of ot tho house that Mr r Hawn picked up u his revolver start started started ed cd down stairs Then toys BIR Mrs Mr I Hawn she hoard heard ho rd n mi I noise of or some come lome sort curt lurt ap apparently n p on OIl fl the stairway und mind a n or smote shots hotl Time Tho ho police IMle however haxe ha seized II I upon uron three Ih points In Ill II Mrs Mm ln statement that they tl thit consider of f Importance In Itt II connection with wih the tim th investigation of or tIme the IIII death duth The Th first Is Ii I the time declaration by b Mrs Hawn that he she Is U certain of ot having heard but one Ino shot eliot the time second Is her assertion that Mr her hr sonin olIn olInI law lanI I preceded her down dowl stairs and that he haul had hll turned on Oi tho thin lights before sh shimu aho bud bod tho the reached her husbands body antI and third Is the thio statement that Mr r Hawn Jawn wes was wn found lying on en his hiM bock back Ik The Tho To pollen police say city II these three Ihre points J sup support support port their theory thel that Mr I killed himself Friends of oC the tho family Insist that Mrs 11 description de of or what occurred Wednesday morning 1st iii I further evidence that thit th t Mr Ir was waA murdered Mm Mrs 11 Hawn Jawn Bald that on time the night pronoun previous to tn the tho shooting she Ahe and her hr had heard a n noise similar to the tho ono nile on which site she hO aroused them wilry chIc lr Wednesday morning The noise nolo on omi tho time first night was wan something like Iko the th shutting of f a 0 door loor said ARII Mr Mrs Ir Hawn On time the th second night there then was H si f sort lort of oC creeping re sound 1111 whether It I was maN the tho sound mound of or walking I cannot tell lol you I 1 toM told my toy I husband not lot to t go 1 down Iown He 10 I it did 1111 not nol pay In any nn attention to me lImo le but hul kept kepl on walking through tho thin dark I got ot up UI und toil sat pat at on 01 the tue til edge of oC the bed Id It I did Ill not nol secom a 1 second lont when trIton I heard hurd him creeping down Iown and all he h haul had time to pet get It to tt the thu ll first Ir t landing when I heard a terrible scuttle I jumped anti an and III at nt the time I screamed I heard a I shot 1 T tins wn no ito 10 dazed that I move mo tar for a n see sec second ond amid Ild before I 1 got ot down thorn there tro my myson son Mon Mr Ir Coburn got down iloan dOln In iii 11 the dark antI and lie h turned on eta Oi thel Detectives In the th employ of or Incur Insurance ance companies remained In Winnetka over or night |