Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-13

Lee-Glass-Andressen Co ....... 5000
M. z, smith a Co Co 5000
city OF Omaha ............... 5OO'Oo
County of Douglas ............ 10000
state OF Nebraska. .......'.' Soo'Oo
sI.5OC Reward.
Five hundred dollars reward will be
paid by the relatives of the late Her
bert q. Burke for information lead
ing to arrest ana conviction OF the
parties who killed him at or near
Florence Pumping Station, Sunday
evening, October z, 1906. Address
George Burke Company, South Omaha,
Neb.
This, with John steel's $500 and the
county's $500, make. $500 reward
offered for the murderer OF Burke.
We have absolutely no clue to the
murder of Josephine Rummelhart.
There Is nothing new in the case at
all. We are getting lots CT tips, but
none Of them pan out. We are doing
all we can and expect to land the
criminal sometime, but when no one
knows. As there seems to have been
no witnesses to the crime il IL going
to be a most difhcult matter to locate
the criminal. No efforts, however, viii
be spared ana tho work will not be re-
laxed.-Chief of Detectives savage.
Another clue which the police believed
would put them on the right track of the
identity of the brute who murdered
Josephine Rummelhart has been exploded.
Another man who wore bloody clothes on
the night the horrible crime was com
mitted has established his innocence.
Friday morning a telephone message
was received from Albright that a bloody
shirt had been found in lumber yard at
that place. officer Shepherd at once went
to Albright and brought the shirt back to
the Omaha police station, where it was
discovered to be the discarded garment
OF an employe of packing house.
The man with the bloody clothes who
was seen OH a South Omaha motor car
after the murder Saturday night and who
later appeared in drug store of thai
city, now turns out to be Harry Holsley,
dope fiend. The blood upon his person
and clothing came from a hemorrliagc of
the nose. lie is now serving a rty-day
sentence in the county jail. having been
sent up Monday morning Oh a charge of
vagrancy.
After His Cocaine.
Holsley went to the drug store and told
the drug clerk he was sick and finally tried
and he was driven from the store The po-
lice investigated him thoroughly and
learned he could not possibly have had any
thing to do with the murder.
This leaves the police as much in the
dark ever insofar as the identity oi
the murderer is concerned. The plain
clothes men are still covering the city and
arc keeping a sharp lookout among the
large number of colored men employed al
the Union Pacific cutoff. There arc about
1900 people at work on this new road
At the same time the impression Is grow.
ing among the officers that the man who
committed the crime is one who is familiar
with the neighborhood and probably he haC
laid in wait for his victim for some time
having carefully planned his work. This
is the belief of Chief Donahue, and while
the outskirts are being watched carefully
and the suspicious chara cters are beinl
rounded up, the immediate neighborhood /,
not being overlooked. The chief figures tho
brute must have known no dog was likely
TO bark at him in the alley into which ht
carried his victim. He must have carefully
selected his place and he must have known
the habits OF the persons who use the barr
near the scene OF the crime. Furthermore
the chief reasons, the man may have beer
close 20 his own place of abode and at One,
changed his clothes and made away will
the bloody ones. Reasoning along thes,
lines the chief has a theory that it may
not have been imported talent, but hom,
talent that committed the act.
supply of Suspects.
The supply Of suspects in the Rummel
hart murder case is gradually diminishing
and the police say they have absolutely n,
good clue at present. II is evident from
the prevalent gloom around police circle
that the authorities are becoming mucl
discouraged as the chances OF making al
important arrest become more remote eacl
day At present the police have no on
held for investigation, as Charles Davis o
Atlanta, Ga, and Joseph Wilson, who wer
arrested Thursday on suspicion, were re
leased by Judge Crawford in police cour
Friday morning. each man having provet
his innocence of any completely IN tn
crime
The detectives are still busy running
down clues however, but they say non
of the information which they now hav
gives promise Of important developments
Chief OF Detectives Savage said he believes
almost every citizen of Omaha had seen
suspicious acting negro some time since tn
murder. II is the opinion Of number o
the officers that the murder was not com
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