Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-20
TRACES OF TnE nAN RoBBER.
Police Secure Evidences of work of
Man who shot brown.

Wan Who shot brown.
The police secured evidence yesterday
evening which satisfied them that they only
missed capturing the desperate who at
tempted to rob the State Savings bank
Tuesday afternoon by a mere chance. =
few minutes after Assistant Cashier Browr
had been shot and The bandit had made his
escape from the bank through the alley at
the rear the cry was raised that the fellow
had been seen to enter the cellar Of a va
cant building fronting on Fourth street.
Chief Bixby. accompanied by an officer,
rushed from the bank to the house named
and revolver in hand made a search OF the
cellar of the building where it was said
the fellow was hiding. The search, how
ever, failed to reveal the desperate. The
building in question Is an old one-story
frame structure owed by D.. c. Bloomer ana
was formerly occupied by a man named
Jensen as a carpenter shop. From the eel
lar entrance to the shop could be had by IA
hole in the floor. The bandit evidently
found this hole and gained the street by
climbing through the broken window III
front.
Last evening two small boys playing In
the building found an old macintosh coat,
a new cloth cap and a steel chain on the
floor behind a door. There seems to be lit
tie doubt that both the macintosh and the
cap belonged to the man who attempted to
rob the bank. In the pocket of the mack
intosh were two 3S-caliber Smith g. Wes>
son cartridges, the bullets of which are
Identical with the ones picked up in the
bank after the fusillade. Most of the de-
scriptions given of the man as he was seer
to run down the alley had Dim wearing Il
y dark macintosh, and Mr.. Brown also de-
scribed him as wearing either a long over
coat or a dark macintosh. The cartridges
in the pocket, however, seem to be almOs:
| positive proof that it was the garment worn
by the desperate.
The cap is a cheap cloth affair of a rather
light drab color and is quite new. The
macintosh is old, worn and torn in places.
TIE chain is such as farmers frequently
use to place around a gripsack. At one end
of 1t a key was attached.
A pair of CHEAP smoked spectacles were
found in the alley a short distance from the
sank. These are believed to have been
thrown away by the bandit as he rushed
from the yard at the rear of the bank. Sew
eral persons who saw the man through the
window from Broadway stated he wore
glasses, but Mr.. Brown said he could not
remember whether the fellow did or not.
1t now looks as if the attempt to rob the
bank was a deep laid plan Of probably two
professional crooks and that they had pre-
viously investigated the surroundings and
had thoroughly learned the lay of the land
so as to easily make good their escape after
the hue and cry had been raised. 1t is now
thought they were aware of the vacant
building where the macintosh was found
! and had arranged to use 1t as place to throw
off their DISCUSSES. The police think it not
at all improbable that the fellow was in the
| bni16ipu whilp thpV wore searching the
cellar.
All but three of the suspects gathered in
Tuesday night were let go yesterday morn
ing. The three men who are still in custody
| pending Investigation gave the names OF
John Mcguire, c. p. Walker and L. w
Brownell. None of the three, however, is
: thought to have been implicated in the rob,
berry.
Chief Bixby received word from the mar.
shall at Minden yesterday morning that three
men, one OF whom answered the description
of the fellow who shot Mr.. Brown, had beer
arrested there for stealing clothing from on
of the stores recently burned. Chief BiXbS
went to Minden and last evening brough
the three men back with him, as they hat
each been sentenced to ten days in tn,
county jail here. These three men reached
Minden early yesterday morning and wer,
shortly after arrested for stealing. So ia
neither of them has been identified as tn,
man wanted, and it is not believed tina
either Of them is the man who attempted tC
rob the bank here.
Mr.. Brown, except for the pain Of thu
wound in his arm. was feeling little the
worse yesterday for the experience he haC
undergone, and he expects to be able to re
sumo his place at the bank in a few days
The directors of the bank held a meeting
last night and decided to offer a reward o.
$500 for the capture of the man who shor
Mr.. Brown.