Omaha daily bee., 1898-12-14

house and then saw Cox kick in the door,
enter and in few minutes leave on a run
and hide behind a barn. The other onicers
ran to a cornHeld and watched Geppner and
Van Haller get their horses, mount and ride
| away.
torney.
| Pretty fast" was the answer. "He ran
so fast that he stumbled. He got to his feet
and ran behind a barn, looked back around
the corner Of the building and then ran to a
house farther on. looked back again and
went to another house still farther away.
"Did Geppner and Van Haller run to get
their horses?"
mo. they walked fast
On cross examination Davis said that he
yelled to Cox while he was running,
| you're a coward! Why don't you shoot
| him?' He said he had been arrested by
| Cox and convicted OF charge OF assault
with intent to do great bodily injury.
what a Woman Saw.
Mrs. Dora Newland, who lived at the time
at Forty-sixth and Chicago. saw the pro-
ceedings much as Davis did Cox broke
| In the door and moment later. she having
left her window during the interval, she
saw him behind the barn. One Of the fugi-
tives was trying to open the barn, while the
other was on guard with a revolver In each
| hand Both then mounted horses and rode
away, firing couple Of shots.
| L. f. Dwyer Of 202 North Forty fourth
saw a man with light overcoat running
down the hill, while a couple OF men were
shooting at him from the house. The man
with the light overcoat lodged behind a
barn and made another sprint when the two
men left the house, apparently toward him.
| The two men walked to the barn at a mod
crate gait, opened the door, bridled couple
| Of horses mounted and rode slowly away,
| shooting a couple more shots at the man
| with the light overcoat as they departed
| Later Dwyer met the detectives and asked
who the sprinter with the light overcoat
| was Cox answered: "That was me- made
| HI Of good run. didn't I?''
"How did Cox rum" asked the assistant
city attorney.
Cox ran and stumbled with the men
after him." was the answer. when they
| stopped he got behind the barn. When they
came toward the barn again he ran further.
| The men went back into the house again,
| stayed there three or four minutes and then
| came out. When they rode away Cox went
! back to the house. The men shot at Cox
but did not see him face them or shoot at
| them"
THE man with the light overcoat ran
right smart" testified Mrs. Sarah Moore Of
Forty-fifth and Cass in answer to the usual
| query. HE ran about as fast as he could
| down the hill"
"Did you watch Cox all the while he ran
| from the house to the barn?" was asked on
| cross-examination.
81 tried to-" was the answer that raised a
litter among the spectators.
Mrs. Moore said she did not see Cox shoot
until the crooks were riding away through
| a railroad cut.
Instructions from Their Superior.
Captain Donohue delivered a knockout
| blow to one or two Of Cox's assertions to the
effect that he did not know what he was
going against when he tackled the Geppner
| house Donohue had sent Dempsey and
Savage to the house early in the morning,
put they failed to secure admission. Later
| Cox telephoned to the police station that
ne had been at the house and that the occu-
| pants were In when he and the officers tried
| to enter. A search warrant was therefore
| Issued names that had been found chalked
on the house being inserted. After the
| sh'ottng Cox told Donohue the circum-
| stances OF the ARRAY, relating how after en-
! terins he had been confronted with two
! men and two guns and how he and his
| companions sccoted. He declared that he
| had run behind the barn to secure an ad-
vantageous point from which to shoot the
crooks and had exchanged shots with them.
AT the time. at least, when Geppner and
Van Haller were riding away, they did not
shoot at Cox. Mrs. Nancy Mcdonald of
Forty-sixth and California streets testified
tnat they shot downward. She said also
that while the officers were scatteriuR-one
TO her barn, another to her house, a third to
cornfield and the one in the white over
| coat down the hill-Geppner and Van Halter
had plenty Of time to bride their horses
| and ride leisurely away.
THE detectives went into the house
was the description OF the ARRAY given by r.
n. Moore. Il heard a couple of shots and
! then they came jamming and pushing to get
out. A man with light overcoat on went
down the hill as hard as he could. Two
men followed them out of the house and
seemed to be shooting around their feet.
me men walked to the barn and got on
their horses"
sylvester Mcdonald, who was working on
Coxs premises on the day Of the shooting.
gave testimony similar to that Of the other
witnesses. He delivered himself Of some
.Ai"s now no"sNeT, u xcliowS: "A few
days after the shooting I was talking with
Cox and asked him II had to obey the
subpoena to appear before the board in his
hearing. He said did not have to II I did
not want to-"
Stories Repeated.
J. R. stine. the mail carrier, who occupied
reserved seat ct some distance while Cox
performed his disappearing act, related sub
rtantially the same story he told at the triaf
OF the other oficers a week ago. He saw
the oficers on the front porch while Cox
read the warrant and then kicked In the
door. He testified In regard to their subse.
quent entrance and uncersmonious exit. His
version Of Cox's dash to the shelter of the
barn and the other incidents OF the retreat
was similar to that which was already In
evidence. Subsequently when he stopped to
leave mail at Coxs house Cox had called him
in and questioned him, after which he had
told him that the board had no power to
compef him to testify and requested him not
to appear.
On cross examination the attorneys asked
II 1t was not his opinion that II the others
had supported Cox the men might have been
arrested. The witness replied that 1t looked
TO him as though the fugitives might have
been stopped II Cox had supported himself.
Detective Kayaor oova yarx,