Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-20
WOMAN SHOOTS A FOOTPAD
Would-Be RObber Later Picked Up BY
Police and Taken to Station.
IDENTITY OF PLUCN WOMAN A MYSTERY
everaI who saw the AFFAIR Talk 20
Her and Learn All the PRrticu-
lars Except Her Name and
Residence.

A nervy but az yet unidentified woman
shot and rather seriously wounded a negro
footpad at Twentieth street and Capitol
avenue about 10 o'clock last night, and
then rode home in a Dodge street car In a
self-possessed and Unconditional manner,
leaving the car at Twenty-seventh and
Lake streets and going north, giving her
name to none. Shortly after 10 o'clock a
young negro. giving his name as George w.
Williams. with place Of residence at 1906
Chicago street, was arrested by Detective
Heitfeld at Sixteenth and Davenport
streets. He was found to have a bullet
wound in the thigh Just below the groin.
Surgeons Hahn and Vance probed for the
bullet. which they were unable 20 locate, It
having struck the bone and deviated. The
wound. unless some infection develops, is
not dangerous.
The shooting occurred just as Dodge
street car No. 4, in charge OF Motorman w.
NJ. Warren Of 1893 North Eighteenth street,
and Conductor Jerry Keane, living at
Eighth and Hickory streets. was leaving the
corner at Twentieth and Dodge streets on
It's way north.
We stopped at the conner TO let some
passengers off" said Motorman Warren,
and as we stood there I saw a man and a
woman in the middle of Twentieth street
opposite the demolished church. The
woman, / thought. tried TO go down Capitol
avenue and the man seemed to head her of.
She then turned back across the street and
the man closed on her. Then there was a
shot and he turned and limped down Cap
itol avenue. l expected to see her fall, as
I thought It was he WHO had fred, but she
followed him to the curbing and watched
him CO."
Woman Tells Her story.
THE woman got on the car to go home"
said Conductor Keane. "She said that she
had come up the avenue to take the car and
did not notice a man who was following her
until he demanded her money. She said: I
told him that ! had no money. and he said
for me to dig up or he would see what l
had. I said I'll give you something, and
pulling the revolver from a paper bag I
carry 1t In I shot him There we're sew
eral passengers on the car. and they all
praised her up and asked her how she came
to carry the gun. She said that she lived
alone and had ir for protection; had had 1t
for n long time, but never used It before.
She got off at Twenty-seventh and Lake and
went north. Nobody seemed TO know her"
Detective HeitfCld made the arrest Of
Williams without knowing of the shooting.
~ Saw II heeIo lHpluB dlOhb anu QuSS-
toned him. williams said that he had
been hurt and later added that he had been
shot. He said it had been done nearby on
the street. The detective secuted this as
sertion and his prisoner then said that It
was in South Omaha, where he works In a
packing house, that the shooting occurred.
and that It was four hours earlier. The
reason he laid to jealousy. At the police
station it was found that the blood from
the wound had not yet run down, showing
that II was but recently received. The
prisoner was charged with attempting
highway robbery.
The woman is described as of about 80
years of age. about 5 feet 4 inches in height
and fairly heavy. She wore a light tan
jacket and muller about her ears. She is
said 20 have been not at all nervous, and
TO seem rather proud of her achievement.