Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-11
REWARD IS LARGER
Fifteen Hundred Dollars Now offered for
Capture Of RummslhArt Assassin.
CITY AND COUNTY ADD THEIR PRoFFERs
Pslics Have No Tangible Glue, but Are
Etill Hard at Work.
CHIEF SAYS RANSOM WILL DO GOOD
outh Omaha offosrs Are on Trail OF
Rivsrvisw Park Dsspsrado
CHIEF SAYS RANSOM WILL DO GOOD
ERNEST WILSON MOI THE RIGHT MAN
He with Others Held on Suspicion
Are Released and Police Are
After More Suspicious
Characters.
ST, 500 REWARD

%t, ,SVV NGNwAN0
This reward win be paid for evidence
leading TO the arrest and conviction
OF the person or persons VINO muir
dered Josephine Rummelhart In tho
city OF Omaha on the night OF sat
urday, octoDer 6. 1905. The fact tnat
the victim OF this brutal murder was
poor working woman without rich
or influential frienas has prompted
the oner OF this reward for which
tns following contributions are pledged;
ehe Omaha Bee. ................ $4,000
Omaha ENaional hank. .......,. ou.0o
fitst NaEohat Bank. ........... oo.oo
J. l.. BEanuets y Sons. ........s 5000
ahe hsnnSSt ooanpany. ......... s0'vo
Thomas hiIpaLriok q Co. ..... 5000
9ytne-lAan.nlsr Dry Goods Co.. 5000
Lee-Glass- ANDERSEN %. ......'. oo'oo
"a. u, smith u 90. Co.............. 5000
City OF Omaha a................. .ooV'Vo
Larry Tuesday morning The Zee.
| Joined forthwith by nine other bust-
ness firms, made mp fund Of $500 as
q reward ana tuesday Night the ooun-
oil, on the mayors Recommendation,
added $500, anu wednesday morning
the county commissioners added an
l. other 5000.
reward of $500 each for the appre-
hension of the murderers of II. Z. Burke
and Josie Rummelhart was offered by the
| county commissioners AT hhctNbhe
Wednesday. The resolution adopted by
| the board is as follows$
! Whereas. Two most atrocious murders
| have been committed in this county dur
! ing the past week in the staying OF a. Z.
! Burke and Miss Josie Rummelhsrt; there
Resolved, That the county clerk be and
| he is hereby directed to ofter reward OF
| $500 in each case for the detection %! APP
! prehension of the perpetrator OF either
| crime THIS resolution to take eject froni
and after pubhcation-
The history OF the fourth day OF the hunt
for the man who on Saturday night last
most brutality murdered Miss Josephine
Rummelhart reads about the same as
those gone before at its close Wednesday
night The person who committed the de ID
Is still at large and the police arc SUI
trusting their vigilant efforts, which have
never fof a moment relaxed tince the d1te
OF the crime. or the offer OF rewards
which have been made, win soon bring
the welcome news that the culprlt has been
found
Ever since Sunday, when Miss Rummei-
hart died. all other work upon which the
police were engaged has been laid asioe,
almost exclusive attention being given to
the running down Of her murderer. The
case still holds the uppermost position in
and only such matters as are Of the most
urgent Importance have been given
precedence, and then only for the shortest
possible period Uniformed patrolmen who
have proved themselves esnecially fitted
for detective work are still kept on the
streets in plain clothes looking up clues
and finding new ones. The regular
schedules of police duty on the three dsiy
shifts have been entirely abandoned for
the time
Arrest Expected Any HOur.
| An arrest in South Omaha in the Rum
melhart murder case is expected at any
hour. The police of that city have locateu
one of the hiding places of the man they
believe to be guilty Of the attempts at
criminal assault in Riverview park They
expect TO capture him soon.
The Omaha police are anxious to get this
man. as they think he may be able TO throw
some light on the murder. The nature OF
the crime shows at least a strong proba-
bility that the murderer and the assailant
OF women In the park were one and the
same man.
Ernest Wilson was arrested by Omaha
officers Tuesday night on the theory that
he was the man who terrorized the Rlver-
view park vicinity. The South Omaha ofi-
GERS took a look at him Wednesday morn
ing and said he was not the man. They
said they were hot On the trail OF the real
eulprit and expected to have him at any
time. Wilson viii be held on a larceny
charge.
Jesse Horne, who says he halls from,
South Omaha, was arrested Wednesday
morning by Officers Horne and Delehanty.
Horne is a very black negro ana in many
respects answers the description Of the
man seen picking up the stick near Twenty
fifth and Farnam streets Saturday night.
He Is about 25 years of age and 10 fairly
well dressed. wearing dark suit and a
soiled stiff hat He is held for investiga-
ton.
Five Men Turned Loose.
Jim Diggs was released Wednesday
morning alter an investigation. Bud
Roland and sam Meyers, the southern
negroes arrested MONDAY afternoon, were
also discharged Nat Crowdsr. the coloIed
man from Creston. la. has proven an abb
but is still in Jail as a Yagrant. Ben
Wright was released. H. Il. Thomas, an
amateur sleuth. who Dragged in a saloon
, at benson 10 the IuiIu or Information
ne possessed regarding the identity OF the
murderer, was also given his liberty. Il
, having been learned he knew nothing about
the case.
The police have run 20 earth practically
all OF the stories that have been told by
excited citizens Detectives Mitchell shep.
herd. Maioney. Davis. Patullo and Nc
! |. Donald, after a nights rest, were put al
work bright and early Wednesday morn
ing to looE for some new clue.
Many unfounded stories originate in ths
terror OF women, who have to be on ths
streets alone after dark, A report caine tc
! the station that two girls had been chased
by a negro Tuesday night at Thlrty-second
and Pacific streets. An investigation by
detectives Mitchell and Shepherd Wednes.
day morning revealed the fact that a white
! man had asked two girls now 20 reach d
: certain street number and they becams
r frightened and ran away.
No Tangible Clue.
. I'VE have absolutely no new eluss a. &