Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-04-24
RED CROSS WORKER KILLED
Members Of San Francisco Relief Committee
Shot BY Members Of Patrol,
OTHER MEMBERS OF PARTY INJURED
n. O. TiIden ana Two Others in Auto
mobile Are Fired UBon as
They Return from
MenlO Park.

one OF the most prominent members OF the
general relief committed, was shot and
almost instantly killed in his automobile
about 70 o'clock last night. while returning
from Menlo park. BY men supposed to be
members OF the citiaens' patrol. Hugo Ats
chul coachman who was in the automo-
bile was cut in the face by bullet and an
other ball pierced the seat and struck r. q.
Seaman, acting lieutenant of the Second
company Of the Signal corps, in the back.
The force OF the bullet had been spent and
Seaman, who had been sent on special
duty with Tilden, picked the ball out Of
his cartridge belt. The shooting occurred
at Twenty-second and Guerrero streets.
Three men, suspected of having done the
shooting, are under arrest at the police
station at Twenty-second and Mission
streets
Active Relief workers.
Tilden was a prominent commission mer-
chant Of this city and one Of the foremost
workers in the general relief work. He
had taken his three children and a nurse
from the Fourteen Mile house, where they
had been since the earthquake. to Menlo
park, where he has a summer cottage.
His automobile had been used as am
bulance in conveying sick and wounded, to
the hospitals and was carrying the Red
Cross flag partly displayed on his car
Besides this he had the Red Cross insignia
on his right arm. According to Lieutenant
Seaman, Tilden was his own chauffeur and
left Menlo park about 9 o'clock. At TWEEN
| ty-eighth and Guerrero streets they were
challenged by the first of the chain Of
patrols and upon calling out RED Cross"
were allowed to pass At Twenty-fifth
street a second guard challenged them
and Immediately gave way upon perceiving
the Red Cross nag. Crossing Twenty
second street at about fifteen miles an hour,
according to Seaman. six men stood in the
middle Of the road, separating when the
car got within fifty feet OF them. When
| within ten feet of the guards. Seaman
claims they began shooting without warn
ing or challenge and kept up firing after
the car had passed them. Shots from in
front took no effect, with the exception Of
bullet grazing the face of Tilden's
friend.
shoot at AssaiIants.
1.-THE machine had gone about fifty feet
past the patrol" said Seaman. when the
car stopped suddenly. Tilden fell over to-
wards me saying, well, they got me-they
| killed me- Topped. back in the seat and
rolled out Of the car l jumped up and
| fired Ave shots In Quick succession at those
who were still shooting beyond us. At the
same time that, Tilden fell in my lap a
! bullet struck me in the back and nearly
! knocked me out of the seat. / put my
hand to my webb cartridge belt and picked
out the bullet which came through the
seat. A doctor came running from a
house nearby and after examining Tilden
said he was dead. Several policemen came
running up and arrested two Of the men
who did the shooting"
II. II. Brann OF Branni & Pryor sailmak-
ers, and who resided nearby was awak-
ened and pressed ihto service as chauffeur.
Tllden's body was placed in his car and
taken to the central police station at Bush
and Fillmore streets. Owing to the auto
mobile constantly breaking down # took
Seaman two hours 10 reach police head
quarters where the body was placed on an
improvised stretcher and taken to the Elks
emergency hospital on Bush street between
Fillmore and Steiner.
Prisoners Talk.
Alltschul, whose right cheek is swollen
where one OF the shots grazed it, stated
that Ttlden stopped the machine when the
shooting began, jumped out of the car say
ing Il am shot-they have killed me, "
ran to the sidewalk and fell dead.
The three men under arrest for doing
the shooting are E. S. Boyneton. a tele-
phone inspector for the Pacific States Tele-
phone company; George Simmons and Nal
com Vance. They are young men and mem
bers of the citizens patrol Boyneton de-
clares that he did not see the Red Cross
flag on Tilden's car and when the latter
did not stop when challenged, he fired TIL,
coachman in the car then began shooting
and Simmons and Vance replied The
killing Of Tilden has created the creates
indignation.
Three men. arrested for the killing o.
Major Tilden last night. were taken b.
Chief of Police Oman in an automobile Il
Fort Mason this morning and turned owe
by him to General Funston.