Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-07-28
.HOLD-UP ON SMOKY"
OFFICERS FIRE NINE SHOTS AT
DISCIPLE OF JESSE JAMES.
NO ONE WAS HURT IN GUN PLAY

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Colored Man Robs Emanuel Higgins
and Runs Amuck-Fires at Officer
Nelson Police Busy on Saturday
Night.
From Mondays Daily.
Nine shots were fired at q hold-up
man on the "row" early Sunday morn
ing and no one was hurt. Officers AXel
Nelson and w. H. Black were the
marksmen and the target was black
man who held up Emanuel Higgins
and "Colie" Davis, securing 81 from
the former. All that is known about
the man who acted as target is that
he is a poor shot, a
fast runner, and that he
wore q red shirt. He may have since
changed his shirt, but the fact remains
that he is a fast runner as he got
away from the officers, and that he is a
poor shot, as he fired twice at Officer
Nelson and scored two misses. A col
ored fellow by the name of Brazil was
arrested yesterday on suspicion of be-
ing an accomplice of the hold-up ar
fist. He was given a hearing this
morning in police court and was given
three days for vagrancy, there being in
sufficient evidence to connect him with
the robbery.
1t was busy morning in police court,
two men being up for the alleged theft
of a suit of clothes; Frank Hutchinson
and his wife, formerly Marie Johnson,
| were up for disorderly conduct and Ev-
erett Ostin was present to answer to
| the charge of disturbing the peace by
striking his wife, The bold bandit of
the row" was not present, but his hat
| was there with bullet hole through
the crown.
Excitement on the Grow"
Smoky Row" is not easily excited,
but late Saturday night there was all
kinds of excitement in that select
elderly colored man, was sauntering
down one of the avenues of that vicin-
| ity when he was stopped by man
| with a big gun and requested to de-
liver. One dollar was the size of his
pile and it went to the man behind the
gun. Collie" Davis was the next vic
tim, but the ghost hadn't walked for
| Collie" as yet and he was "all in The
woman with him also aided in attract
ing from him the attention of Jesse
James disciple by yelling veriferously
in the key of G.
Higgins Acts as "Tec."
Officer Nelson was notified and he
Immediately started upon the long
| watch. A few hours afterwards, Hig-
gins, the man who was touched" for
the dollar spied his man and he started
| for an officer. He found Officer. Black,
| who Immediately started after the
man. He flushed the bad one down in
| the brush and gave chase. Officer Mel
| son was standing on the corner of Col
| lege and Mill when he saw a black
| man tearing through ''Kitten" Young's
residence on the corner. He called to
| the man to stop and was answered
with two shots. Axel then opened fire
and he sent seven shots after the fee
| ing man, who was chased up the tracks
| and through the yard of the Swift
chicken warehouse. Officer Black was
standing in the shade of box car and
soon the fleeing man crawled under
the high board fence short distance
away. AS he arose to his feet Officer
Black fired twice and he missed. The
last seen of the hold-up man was a
glimpse of his red shirt speeding down
| the railroad tracks to liberty. During
the excitement the Coon dropped his
hat and it was seen that ball had
passed through the side Of the crown
in thn
The Suspect Held.
| The man arrested on suspicion of
| being an accomplice of the bad one
was down on the "row" yesterday
telling the chocolate colored damsels
that the man was his "paP' and that
they made their living that way. He
told the Judge this morning that he
was only 'joshin'" He was held on
the charge of vagrancy and in the
meanwhile his connection with the
hold-up will be ascertained.
Suit of Clothes Taken.
Early Sunday morning John Jones, a
young man who resides in West OF
tumwa, reported that suit of clothes
which he had just purchased, had been
stolen from him while he was in a
gambling house Acting Night Captain
Gallagher had short time previously
seen two men walk up the street car
rying bundle and he shortly after
| wards discovered them at the Park
hotel The men, who gave their names
as Pat Brosnan and Pat Mcmahon,
were arrested and the suit of clothes
was found spread out in their room
AS the prisoners were being taken to
| the station Brosnan attempted to
strike Officer Sutton, who was making
the arrest, and the officers club was
broken over his head as the result.
Jones did not file charges against the
men, as they stated they had been
drinking and took the bundle by mis-
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