Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-17

ask witness a few questions. which was !
granted. He asked:
Captain how long have you been po- !
lice ctticer?"
sixteen years"
Having in mind all your experience in
such cases, did we at any time feel that
we would be able to convict these men?"
I'VE never did
was there at any time single item
OF evidence suppressed from the knowledge
of the county attorney"
Not a bit l might have told the county
attorney that | believed we could prove
that they had been in the city at that time,
but that was when we thought the girls
would be able to identify them"
Here Assistant County Attorney Dunn ad-
mtted the truth of witness account
WAS the disposition Of the reward ever
discussed between us?"
Never, except as a means Of getting hold
Of the men. We had to give $500 in re-
wards at Joplin before we could get our
men away, as they were wanted there for
something. l didn't know II could ever
get cent of it and l didn't care
Other witnesses OF the afternoon were Of
fcers and detectives who had worked on the
hauled a trunk to the depot the morning
after the robbery, and Mrs. Bachelor the
woman who had charge OF the rooms at 1913
Harney street where 1t Is believed the sus-
pects lived while they were in town. The
last named made an uncertain identinca-
ton Of the men as the ones who were in
her rooms. She knew them sufficiently to
tell which had engaged the rooms. On
cross examination she testified first that she
had never talked with anyone about the
case and then later admitted in stumbling
way that she had talked to detectives, men
sent from the county attorneys office and
with the assistant county attorney himself.
Asked IL man from the county attorney S
office had not told her they were trying to
convict two men and wanted her to help.
she answered that she supposed So" Later
she denied these admissions.
Hcmminr Bobs Up Again.
| An interesting side Of the prosecution
comes from Des Moines, where Ezra Hem
ming a former reporter on the World
Herald and the principal figure in a black
mailing case tried not long ago, is working
in the interest of the World Herald and
the county attorney. Hemming was at one
time a detective or at least he pretended to
the title, and his mission to Des Moines is
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damaging in regard to the Omaha police.
To that end he is telling the police officials
there that the Omaha police accuse them
of shielding the fur robbers, and in every
possible way he is trying to bring about fric-
ton between the officers of the two cities
Hemming has aroused the suspicion of the
police to such an extent that they tele-
graphed to Omaha, asking If Hemming is
wanted here for anything. The authorities
there take no stock in his statements.
Shukert on the Stand.
| Shukert, the dealer whose furs were sto-
, len. was the only witness examined Monda!
morning He testified in regard to the loss
, and the manner in which the robbery mus
have been perpetrated, and also in regard tc
, the fences and doors between the goods ant
, the outside world, and many other mino1
r circumstances. The furs were worth $1,000
to him, but he did not think tina. any one
I else could realize more than 81, 900 by sellin.
k them in a lot. He first saw the goods agaiI
. when Chief White showed them to him il
t the Monadnock building, Chicago. He iden
e titled them.
t In regard to the reward, Shukert testified
: that he had made two separate offers, tn
4 first of 81, 600 for the return of the goods
e and the second of $4,000 for the goods ant
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G made the second offer he had an understand
$. ing with Chief White and County Attorne
e Shields that there would be no prose
o cution II thirty five garments out G
G the forty-two were returned. He was led t
q make this offer by the statement OF Chic
d White to the effect that there was no
e enough evidence to convict anyone, but tina
1t the goods could probably be recovere
n through the friends Of the guilty persont
,e Shukert told the chief to let the men go an
n get the goods
'e Questioned as to his conversation with tn
of chief regarding the reward, Shukert testi
% fed that he had discussed the reward wit
ID the chief when 1t had been offered for th
ef goods and the conviction of the robbers, br
IS when the agreement was altered so that th
70 men were to be allowed to go free there ha
n been no talk of the reward and it was nj
4. afterward spoken Of by himself or the chic
le Witness was cross questioned closely on tn
as point but was sure OF his statements.
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