Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-16
End Comes After Eight Days Suffering
From the Wound
lo1HER AssAILAuT MAKES CONFESSION
Harry Clark Joins Pinky eathriGht in
Telling Of Crime,
GArHRlGHT GIVES FULL ACCOUNT OF DEED
Tells Police All that Happened ana
is COrrobOrated by One Pal aud
the wife of the
laird.

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bright street car line, shot while resisting
three holdup men at Albright the night Of
Wednesday, March Z, succumbed TO his
wounds at st. Joseph's hospital at 1880
last night, making II necessary under the
law for his assassins to stand trial, II at
all. for murder In the first degree. since
his death ensued within ten days Of the
commission of the crime.
F1ury's gallant, almost superhuman
struggle for life. astonished his physician
DR.. A. p. Condor. and all the hospital
attaches who believed II impossible for
him ever TO survive the terrible wound as
| long as he did. Not at any stage Of his
suffering did DR.. Condor find warrant for
substantial hope of recovery. as the bullet
! had pierced vital organs and could not be
extracted. nor even located. for some days.
| However forty-eight hours before his
death the wounded mans condition gave
| ground for the slightest hope and universal
cheer was felt throughout Omaha and
South Omaha when this news was given
through the newspapers to the thousands
| OF people who were anxiously awaiting
| every bit Of news from the victim OF the
| dastardly criminals.
Flury died unconscious ana peaceful He
had not been rational for some time. The
previous night he had rested poorly and
was detrious. He never rallied.
|
were his sister, Mrs. Lizzie Men, 3sOl South
Twentieth street, and the mother superior
of the hospital The body win be taken to
the home at s421 South Thirtieth today
and funeral arrangements made.
Review of the Crime.
F'lury was shot about 1915 a. m. March
s. He was standing on tho rear of his
car at Albright as II was leaving the end
OF the line it's last trip Tor the night.
when he was accosted By an outlaw who
commanded him 20 throw up his hands.
Instead OF complying FURY pulled his re-
volver. Before he could FIRE he was shot.
the bullet entering the liver and kidneys.
Three men instead OF one had assailed him,
two. Of whom shot. Likewise three men
are now in the custody OF the fRws sus.
pected of this wanton crime, and one Of
them has confessed, while the wife OF an
other has incrimnated the trio. Those
three men are negroes. Cal Warren or
Vain, Clarence Gathright and Harry
Clark. The police believe the evidence
against them is conclusive. They also are
held for two saloon holdups committed the
same night. Gathright intimates two OF
them may also be the culpnts who shot
Frank N. Clarke. the Omaha banker
few nights before the South Omaha raid.
} Flury's action in resisting the despera-
does created a wave Of admiration for his
heroism. but is Iamented as a sheer sac
rifce of his own life The dastardly deed
aroused strong feeling among other streeg
carmen and that feeling has not entirely
! died down. Action was th-~'tehed last
] night
r Confession of Gnth. IRIft.
Having followed the statement Of Cal
Warren's wife. in which she ineriminated
Z rto C-afh sl,..
police Of South Omaha this eonfess.SS o
i which. after it was written -S4t, lie sub
scrbed his oath
On Wednesday, March Z, came down to
South Omaha about p. m. 1 got. OFF the
car at IA street and then walked down 10
' CALVIN Walns house, Iwenty-third and X
streets, where Calvin Waln's wife and
mother were alone l staid there until 1880
Mhen Harry clark and Calvin Vain came
in. Afterwards Clark stepped out again for
fifteen minutes and then returned; then
couple OF drinks. The three OF us tnen
o started out up y street and across tine
s xiaduct on West Q as far as the saloon on
; Thirty-second and q; then We tanned south
one block. ozark tnen said; I'VE ks.n 20
: over TO Ida Combs place while " .ye did
= not go there. On the way up he nad also
been talking about holding up a car, which
he had said he had done some time before
e Albright car line, That was on the 2sth
day OF February. He and Vain were to-
. gtethser VAIN went into the car and Clark
! motormen and conductor. were lying down.
Vain told me tilat he threw a gun on
4 money they would knock their heads on
o The mctorman told them he did not have
wanted TO keep II. They got IS from the
u motorman and the Tess from the con-
workman some of the money. Crhls re-
: fers to the first holdup case in Albright
h when Conductor Ruday and Motorman
After going a block south on Thirty
second and Q. Clark suggested that we
Or four men and a @ woman n'' were re in the
saloon. That was at Kings saloon. Clark
, got the money. about ST. and Waln stood
next TO the door. They gave me 81 cents.
Clark pulled the telephone wires down.
=, We went block south. down through
came TO the brick saloon at Thirteenth and
u streets. This was Grynn's saloon. Harry
ana told us everything was ali right. Six
=, or seven men were N the saloon, We
y went In at once. Clark and Vain ordered
l. searched the man and went behind the
= bar, while we held the guns on them.
i Clark gave me 81 90 Clark hit the man
"A in the saloon over the head with his gun,
d out. We went east on the niil about thfes
blocks, then to Twenty-seventh and Y
N streets, then we went east. passed the
le standing across the tracks. we went Z
of block south of the end OF the street car
,e line,
g We had masks on at the saloon and
n hoods 10 cover the hair. Ny mask Was pai,
blue with "a blue bib hanging down. Cfarl,
had a black mask and Vain also. Mrs
v VAIN gave us the hoods. Clark took the
hoods and masks afterWard We theu
started north "a where the car stood
n Vain and Clark put on their masks before
the car pulled IN. When Il turned IN on
was behind the sign on the south side OF
the track. / was walking up the road
, | When VAIN said Hands up." the con.
=. ductor commenced TO shoot VAIN theI
- winds around the back Of Ihe car, ahoOtinf
at the conductor. / did not know no wai
Is hit until / saw him at Or McCrauns once
.. I / ran up the road east, then north. thef
I up 20 town. Clark also did some shooting
le Clark dropped his hat IN 'front.' or The cal
~ and went hack and picked Il up. We onl,
=. ran about three blocks. We went to Wain'
70 | horlea after the shooting We aekad \