Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-10

ing on Davenport street, near the corner
OF Forty-frst street, and my attention ives
first attracted to him by his STOPPING as
close as possible TO the ground in the weeds
TO avoid being seen by a man on a bicycle
who was coming toward the corner on
Forty-frst street" said Mrs Lynch. After
the man on the wheel went by he turned
west toward my house. and after going
around the corner of the house entered the
front yard and sat for few minutes
my front steps. Then he came UP on the
porch and tried the front door, when he
saw me standing in the window. and then
went around to the north side of the house
and looked In our kitchen window. This
frightened me 90 1 got my revolver from
the front bed room, opened the back door
and told him he'd get taste of the re-
volver II he didn't get away real quick.
When he saw the revolver he moved away
from the house, but swore at me some
thing dreadful and continued swearing at
me as he walked UP Davenport street
toward Forty-first street where lost sight
Of him. a. he went over the hill"
/ negro with q stick.
Saturday afternoon Chief OF Detectives
Savage unearthed bit OF information
which has bearing on the mystery and
which he considers reliable. One Of his
men interviewed q girl who was accosted
by negro Saturday night shortly after 10
O'Clock on Dodge street half way between
Twenty-second and Twenty-fourth streets
Mr.. Savage will not disclose the name Of
the girl. She says the man had a stick In
his hand. He stopped her and asked her
II she knew where Mr.. Patterson lived
She was so frightened at the time that she
is unable to give g description. but she
plainly recognized the man to be a negro
More Negroes Arrested
A negro named Marshall Brown, about
10 years OF age, was arrested Tuesday aft
ernoon by Detective Patulla on suspicion
Of being implicated in the Dodge street
tragedy. The negro has q gray mustache
and gray side whiskers He claims to have
been working Friday and Saturday at
Tventy-ffth and Farnsm streets He IL
being held for further investigation.
Another colored man. giving the name
OF Ben Wright, was arrested Tuesday aft
ernoon at s1s Jackson street by Ofhcers
Goodrich and Aughe. He is a very heavy
set negro and very black. with bad cut
over the left eye, which was bleeding whcn
he was arrested. He is about 50 years of
age
7 Police officers are interviewing all street
ear conductors they can 10 md whether
any of them saw suspicious individuals on
( their cars the night of the tragedy.
south Omaha omcers Active.
! IThe South Omaha police since the report
of the atrocious murder Of Miss Rummel-
hart Saturday night, have been working
| quietly on the case. They, as the others,
| have only the most hlnsey Of clues TO
work on, but they are going on the suppo-
stion that, as In the case OF many who
| have laid the scene of their crimes In
Omaha, the crlmipai has sought refuge in
this city. The theory IL still further sup
! ported by the description OF . man covered
with blood who was seen about 1850 p. m.
/ by one OF the Ames avenue conductors
and upon whose car the bloody stranger
I rode to South Omaha. The police at one
! time almost had their hands on the man.
but at the time when nothing was known
| Of the crime in Omaha. The detective
| force was at work nearly all OF last night
running down a tip. Elsfeider made the
declaration that he would. II everything
| turned out well. have something material
to report before twenty-tour hours had
passed. He refuned to dvuige what
knowledge he possessed. AZ IN the other
\ cases in which calared men have been
suspected. oflcer Ballew has been workins
quietly among the South Omaha colored
population. and II any OF them know any
thing In connection with the crime he is
very likely to discover the clue. The
whole department is on the alert The
chief is working night and GAY In connee-
| ton with the officers.
| AZ q late hour Detectives Ferris aud
| Dunn visited South Omaha from the
Omaha department. ofieer Ballev was
called in on his beat and the two detec-
tives gave him a minute description Of a
man wanted. After that they held a con-
ference and the officer stated that ne knew
= man whom the description fitted quite