Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-04-15

Nelson were the only ones of the four who
knew where they were going. They asked
and OHearn answered that they were GO
ing up the street. While they were holding
up the drug store at Twenty-fourth and A
streets he said Warren took a street car
and went home to change his clothes. They
met again in the saloon at Fifteenth and
Harvey, and after a conversation which
Warren did not hear took the street car
for Cunning street
Nelson alone, he said, knew where they
were going. Before they got to Nineteenth
street Nelson got up and told Angus to
get off at Nineteenth and nodded when the
car reached there. Nelson did not get Off,
but the others did.
warren in HIS own Behalf.
The examination of the defendant, Joe
Warren, took up most of the forenoon ses-
sion. He told of his meeting OHearn at
! the Krug theater saloon between acts and
going to South Omaha with him. They
drank a good deal during the afternoon,
and in the evening he met O'HeaTn at
| Twenty -fourth and + streets, where he was
introduced to Nelson and Angus He also
denied anything was said there or in any
Of the saloons in his hearing about holding
up anyone or any place.
car he said he did not know where they
were going, but supposed they were going
some place to get some more drinks. They
| drank at Lausten's saloon and later at an
| other place, and then returned TO Lausten's.
| There" he continued, "O'Hearn said,
/ We will stick up this place Nelson told
| me to go to the back door and 'stalr any
| one who came up by asking them for a
match. He told Angus to stay at the front
| door. O'Hearn and Nelson went into the
front door and started toward the back
door, but / did not stop. l went on south
and did not look in at the door. ! walked
| some distance and heard shot and started
to run. Angus was so drunk had to help
him. He told me to 90 to Washington hall
to meet the others"
Help for Nelson.
| At the Dewey hotel where ne and Nelson
stayed all night, he said Nelson gave him
his gun. keys and some small change to
keep for him, as he was afraid the police
would arrest him on sight Warren was
to return the things at 2 o'clock Sunday
afternoon, but he was arrested before that
time and the things found on him. lie
said he had no gun Saturday night.
| on cross-eXaminaton he said he had
stopped work at the stock yards three
days before the murder and had gone o.
specializing. few months before he snC
Jay O'Hearn had gone TO Denver together
| for a short time. He said he happened in
the saloon, where he met the other boys
because he was on his way to a dane,
and stopped in to buy a drink. Aftel
meeting the boys he changed his min6
about the dance, because he had spent al
his money. and he went with them.
He said he followed them from saloon
to saloon, but did not know where the!
, | were bound for. When they took the ca
he said he supposed they were going som,
place to get drink. He got on at Nine
, tenth and Cunning because OHearn CAV,
:. him the signal to.
Expected Something.
. Did you not say in your statement 4
. the police that you thought they wer
going 10 do something when they tool
the carp County Attorney Slabaugh asked
e Il did /"
,, That something was TO drink more beer
: l supPOse7"
That's what ] thought we were goinl
: to dc"
He said after the murder he did not as
! any of the boys what had happened an
= did not know of Il until the next day
when he read II in the paper. Count
$ Attorney Slabaugh asked him II he ha
not forged six checks for so each an
= passed one on a man named Thomas, bu
q objections by the defense were sustained
I The objections were afterward withdrawn
: but Mr. slabaugh did not renew the ques
n lion lie also denied he made the state