The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-26
BAKER HAS SINCE DIED
OTHER NEGROES ARRESTED REFUSE
TO MAKE ADMISSIONS.
Doc Lung Killed and Robbed by
the Four Men-CantreIl Not
In 1.-THE Crime.

OLLIE SANDERS. twenty-six years old,
hostler and thief.
NIMBUS DAVIDSON, twenty-three years
old, laborer and thief.
JAMES ANDREWS, twenty-five years
DID, all-round thief.
JESSE BAKER, died in City Hospital
last December.
These four negroes murdered Dong Gong
Tschun. or Doc Lung. as he was commonly
known. on May 4. 1902, the detectives be-
lievs Three of the negroes. Ollie Sanders.
MIN Davidson and Jim Andrews, after be-
ing submitted to a rigid examination for
hours yesterday were locked up in sep
arate cells last midnight, charged with
murder. The fourth. Jesse Baker, who was
q black crook widely known in Indianap-
oils was killed by Herman Wright, another
negro. in a saloon brawl on Indiana avenue
That these four men were the ones who
entered Doc Lungs laundry the night of
May 4, slew him with a meat cleaver and
robbed him of a large sum of money, the
detective department has strong evidence to
show After three months of quiet but
none the less effective work, Captain Ger
Der and his assistants have drawn the net
so closely around Sanders, Davidson and
Andrews that there seems little doubt Of
their ultimate conviction. The evidence Is
remarkably strong. To a vast amount of
circunistantial facts garnered by the de-
tectives yesterday the confession of Ollie
Sanders. who, after a terrible ordeal in the
sweat box. weakened. and with the sweat
rolling down his face admitted that he had
stood guard while Davidson. Andrews and
Baker entered the laundry and killed and
robbed the Chinaman.
ALL BAD MEN.
Like Baker. who is dead, Sanders, David
son and Andrews are in the bad books Of
the police. For years their pictures have
been prominent In the rogues' gallery, and
many times they have answered in Police
Court TO charges of thieving. Sanders has
Done more or less work. Until arrested he
was employed in the stable of Andrew
schikendanz, at Alabama and Wabash
streets. He is single man, very black in
color. and of a shiftless. worthless turn.
Nimbus Davidson. known to the police
and colored crooks as MIN Davis is an all
round thief. He has figured recently in
numerous dive brawls and is covered with
scars made in knife and razor fights. OF
those arrested Davidson alone refuses to
talk The detectives say he is who
never "squeals." and who always stands
"pat." no matter how bad his trouble
James Andrews was brought to the police
station from the workhouse, where he was
serving term for larceny. His term would
have expired April e. He is also general
thief and has caused the police much an
noysnce IN the past few years.
Sanders was arrested Sunday and closely
questioned. but his arrest was kept secret
until the other suspects could be nabbed.
Davidson was found Monday without much
trouble and was put through severe in
QUESTION. Andrews was arrested yesterday,
and with him the detectives bagged their
last bird.
Doc Lung was not murdered by ghouls
Captain Gerber says that these men. who,
IN his opinion, are certainly the slayers of
the Chinaman, were none of them allied
with Cantrelrs gang Their arrest was not
secured on any information furnished by
Rufus Cantrell or by that singularly tai
ented individual who hides his identity
under the meaningless name of Wallace
Willis Simms. The three men now under
arrest were run down. Captain Gerber says,
purely as the result OF information fur
nished from time to time in shreds and
scraps by people who have no connection
with the ghouls.
WORK OF DETECTIVES.
Captain Gerber. Detectives Asch. Man.
ming. Kurtz and Lancaster have been hard
at work solving the problem of the murder
since Jan. l. During the first two months
their efforts developed little A few weeks
ago something tangible came TO light The
plot thickened. More and more circum-
stances pointed to three live men and a
dead man as the murderers of Doc Lung.
When the evidence became so strong as to
amount to practical certainty 1t was de-
cided TO make the arrests.
= Sanders was taken first. Recalcitrant
and stubborn for hours In the sweatbox.
persistent questioning finally broke his re-
serve and he told a story that was startling.
On his confession Davidson and Andrews
were arrested Baker, alike implicated.
was beyond the power of police and courts.
sanders's very name was kept secret until
last night In order that there might be no
miscarriage OF wsll-laid plans. The result
justified every hope OF the detectives.
Davidson and Andrews. while falling to
confess actual participation In the murder
itself. told enough TO implicate themselves
strongly.
The confession Of Sanders is illuminating
When he was taken Sunday he at first
denied knowing anything at all about the
crime. BY degrees the detectives pene-
trated his stubbornness and he broke down
and gave them the information they de-
sired.
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