Omaha daily bee., 1908-03-16
LONG CHASE AFTER A WOMAN
Omaha Officers Succeed in Catching
Lou 0Neill.
POLICE AUTOMOBILE
RACE
when stopped by Omcers at BIniI
woman Fades Away in Dark,
but KIinEer re-
matned.

Three detectives, two automobiles, a
town marshal, a sheriff and other forces,
after an all-night ana all-day chase, cap
tured Lou o'Neili who is one of the two
women accused OF relieving w. y. Story
Of his roll of s4OO.
story came up from ithe razorback
region Of Arlxansaw, where he had been
working on a farm. He started out to
see the sights. Marie HILL, the O'Neill
woman and Charles Klinger, seeing his
wad Of money, cheerfully volunteered to
show him the sights After imbibing
freely OF good liquor they took an Au-
tomobile ride In the northern part of
the city the, woman took story's roll
as a memento of the happy occasion end
dumped him out on the pavement. He
found his way to the police station and
the police soon had Marie Hill arrested.
But the O'Neill woman and Tlinger. who
were, said to have the major part of the
wad OF money, had disappeared. They
were heard OF on the Iowa side, but they
eluded the police and detectives.
Saturday the police found that an auto
mobile had been hired to take the O'Neill
woman and Kllnger TO Sioux City. Cap
tain Dunn Immediately telephoned TO
Blair telling Night Marshal Brooks TO be
on the lookout for the fugitives.
Marshal stops Auto.
II was 2 O'Clock Sunday morning when
Marshal Brooks heard the steady chug-
chug of an automobile. Drawing his
trusty revolver he lay in wait on the
main street and Just at the psychological
moment he ordered the driver to stop.
The order was obeyed and the marshal,
exhibiting his star, ordered the passengers
TO alight.
Then the oNeill woman showed the
stuff she was made Of Getting out of the
side OF the auto opposite the marshal
she gathered up her skirts and went
racing through the darkness like deer.
She ran straight for the livery stable,
routed sleepy boy out of his cot, slipped
him greenhack and ordered him to hitch
his fleetest steed to his best buggy.
This was done and Lou O'Neill and
the boy drove out and away while Mar
shal Brooks and an excited posse of citI-
zens were searching the town for her.
In due time the boy came back and the
marshal seized him and the boy gave up
the information that he had taken the
woman to Prizes lake.
Sunday Captain Dunn sent Detectives
Donohoe and Mcdonald to Prizes lake
They went and reported by telephone that
the woman was not anywhere in the
house. Captain Dunn ordered them to 20
back and leave no hole unsearched. The
detectives did so. They saw a trap door
which looked rather unpromising but
they obeyed orders. Detective Mcdonald
being the least fat OF the two, mounted
ladder and poked his head through
the trap door. There crouching in a cor
ner was the fugitive. She refused to come
down until she saw the detective taking
off some of his garments TO admit Els
body through the small hole.
Run UD n Tree at Last.
''Ill come down." she said.
This was about Sunday noon. The
suburban trains were not running. but
walking was good and the two detectives
and the woman walked to the car line in
Florence.
Meanwhile Detective Steve Malouev had
been dispatched in an automobile to Blair
to get Klinger and bring him back. Late
In the afternoon, when Captain Dunn was
beginning to wonder what was keeping
Steve, man arrived in an automobile
Il saw Maloney," said the man "Yes
he was headed for Blair all right. Ma.
chine was broken down; team pulling n
out OF mud puddle. Maloney still at the
steering wheel; troubled look on his face.
words coming out of his mouth"
But the fugitives have ali been baqeed