Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-06

Officer A. II. Jackson on the witness
stand in the district court yesterday posi-
lively Identified Pat Grove as the man VINO
shot him the night Of June last, when
four patrolmen had duel with a man
supposed to be Grove, for which offense
Groves trial began yesterday mornlng
The number of spectators was considera-
BILE throughout the day.
Jaclxson told how he and Ofhcer Dan
I.sahv had been stationed at the corner OF
stxteenth and Leavenworth streets from
o'clock until II at night They were In
cftizens' clothes. Witness said he knew
prank Murphy, Groves brother-in-law. by
sirht. and recognized Grove from de-
seription when the two men came along at
or near II O'Clock that night. They passed
him at the corner and we're eating sand
wiches When they had gone south on the
vladuct he crossed over to the corner where
Leahy was standing and told him. There
poes our man" The two officers then got
on car and passed Murphy and Grove
about two thirds over the viaduct. Jackson
said the lights on the viaduct and on the
car enabled them TO have good view OF
the two men who were on the sidewalk
jackson told of watching the men sup
posed 10 be Grove and Murphy get bot
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and sit down on the curb to devour them.
When the men saw they were being
watched he said Grove threw down the
beer and reached to his hip pocket. Then
came the car with three Dams, Officers
Dayis Leahy and Baldwin, now dead.
Hit by the First shot.
The oficer testified that as the car stopped
one officer slid of. Murphy was advanc-
ing TO get on the car at the time. but when
he saw the officer he paused to beckon
Grove to stay back Then. said jackson,
Grove started 10 back away, at the same
\ time drawing his gun and shooting with
his right hand stretched across his breast
and with only his left side presented to
the policemen. Jackson, s9id Groves first
| SHOT hit him in the right thigh. bur tiiat
4, he worked his own gun until compelled to
| sit down. He said Grove drew first and
fired first, also that he must have fired
a dozen shots.
The state contends Grove had two guns
! and used the second after exhausting the
loads in the first. jackson said the man
who shot him backed off down a cindei
path with depressions on either side and
he disappeared into one Of these Low
places He said all four policemen were
shooting, to the best of his recollection.
At the afternoon session Mr.. Englisl
cross-examined Officer Jackson. He brought
out that the witness has examined ths
lights at Sixteenth and Hickory since thu
shooting TO post himself, also that he hac
never seen Grove to know him before thu
night of Juno 6.
Witness said the reason he made no at
tempt to arrest Grove at Sixteenth ant
Iseavenworth or at Sixteenth and william
or while he was sitting on the curb. wal
because he (Jackson) was under instruc
tions not to make the attempt UNTIL he ha6
sent for reinforcements. lie denied certain
assertions attributed to him in an ALLEGED
interview in the News.
Officer jackson said when the other thre,
policemen arrived on the car and got of
none had his gun out ready for action
About the position of his own gun wheI
the suspected man started to shoot. witness
said:
II might have started to get mine out, bu
he began to shoot before did
When Mr.. English asked If two or thre,
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