Hemingray employee threw insulator at other boy; murder charges may result

CHARGE OF MURDER

MAY BE THE RESULT

Workman at Hemingray’s

Factory Fractured Boy's Skull

With Insulator.

WAS ANGERED BY SNOWBALLS

Man Who Threw Missile Says He

Did It Merely to Scare the

Boys Away.

Charles Hawley, aged 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hawley, of 203 Koontz avenue. In the east part of town, was hit in the back of the head by a glass insulator at the Hemingray glass factory about 10 o'clock Monday night and his skull fractured. The insulator is said to have been thrown by Clarence Moscow, a sorter at the factory and but for the boy's new woolen cap would probably have killed him instantly. Dr. O. I. Reasoner, the attending physician, says that his chances for recovery are small as the head was badly cut besides the fracture.

Young Hawley is a gatherer at Hemingray's, and with some other boys at the rest hour between 9:30 and 10 o'clock had gone where Moscow and others were at work. Somebody thew [sic] threw several snow balls through an open door and Moscow was hit. The other workmen say that he picked up one of the glass insulators which weighs twenty-three ounces and threw it out the open door into the dark. Young Hawley screamed and fell to the ground where he was picked up by his companions. He was in an unconscious condition and at an early hour this morning had not yet re­gained consciousness.

It is said that the injured boy was not the one who was throwing the snow balls and Moscow afterward told a fellow workmen that he did not intend to hit the boys but just wanted to scare them. He is also said to have meant to hit a man by the name of Bob Bailey but missed him and hit the boy.

FATHER HEARD SON'S CRY.

Robert Hawley, father or the injured boy, was at work in the ware-house near the scene of the throwing, and recognized his son's voice as he fell. He ran to him and picked up the unconscious body of his son and hurriedly ran to his home where he called Dr. O. I. Reasoner. When Dr. Reasoner arrived he found that the back of the skull was fractured and a deep rut which required several stitches. He says the boy's cap alone saved his life, as the glass would probably have brained the boy if he had been bare-headed.

Moscow continued to work after he had thrown the insulator until about 1 o'clock, when he complained of being ill and left the factory, sying he was going to his home, some place on East Seventh street, near Heekin park. His fellow workmen refused to talk freely of the affair, but said that Moscow was the one who had thrown the glass.

The Hawleys an nearly strangers in Muncie, having lived here only a few months. They came here from Roanoke, W. Va., and made a happy family of four, there being one other son be­sides the boy who was hurt. They did not notify the police immediately, ow­ing to a lack of knowledge of the Indi­ana laws, but as soon as the affair became known the police begun an investigation. Moscow will probably be placed under arrest to await further developments in the case.