Omaha daily bee., 1908-04-10
POLICE MAKE BIG ARREST
Capture Man Whom They Believe
Killed Josephine Rummelhart.
OTHER LIKE DEEDS LAID TO HIM
Chief DOnRhue Certain He Attacked
Miss Gran and Regards His
Capture as of Most Im-
portance.

Attempted assault and murder OF Mrs.
Annie Grsbowski. south end Of Twenty
fourth street viaduct. three weeks ago.
Two other assaults on women in the
last two months
Attempted assault on little daughter Of
Assistant Chief OF the Fire Department
Dineen in 1900
Assault and murder Of Miss Josephine
Rummelhart Twenty-sixth and Dodge
streets, October I, 1906.
Ben Marshall, porter in a saloon at Six
teenth and Leavenworth streets, was cap
tured by Detectives Davis. Pattulo, Ma
loney and Van Dusen shortly before noon
Thursday while trying to make his escape.
Evidence which Chief Of Detectives Saw
age has gathered points to Marshall. with
scarcely the shadow OF a doubt, as the
man who attempted to assault Miss Molle
Gran, telephone girl, Monday night,
He is the man arrested and tried for as
sault Of the little daughter Of Assistant
Fire Chief Dineen in 1900 Because the
girl was only a child no convicting evil
dence could be secured and Marshall was
only sentenced to ninety days in jail.
Chief is Firmly Convinced.
Chief OF Police Donahue believes firmly
that Marshall is the man who on the
night of October Z, 1906, crept up behind
Miss Josephine RummeIhart at Twenty
sixth and Dodge streets. struck her a stun
ming blow on the head. dragged her away
and assaulted her and then cut her throat
Since the bold assault on Miss Gran last
Monday night Chief Donahue and his men
have exerted every effort to locate the
man who has been perpetrating crimes OF
this nature with reckless persistence.
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Every officer was on watch. Thursday
morning Policeman Holden saw Marshall
in Reimers' saloon. He called for Miss
negro, who was washing the saloon win
dows. She said he was the man.
The moment the negro saw the girl he
dropped his brush, rushed into the saloon
secured his hat and coat and disappeared.
Immediately Chief of Detectives Savage
sent out his entire available force of plain
clothes men on the trail. The four de-
tectives named surrounded the negro on
South Nineteenth street He was making
toward his room at 1898 South Eighteenth
street.
Circumstantial evidence brands Marshall
unmistaksbly as the negro who attempted
the assault on Miss Gran. The rope which
he placed around the girls neck when he
seized her and with which he attempted
TO strangle her he dragged her away
was secured by the detectives. 1t is
| ragged but stout rope, about six feet long
and with snap at one end. This rope was
taken to Reimers' saloon and shown to
Reinler.
F1f that isn't my rope I've got one just
like it," he said.
He went to a drawer where he kept the
rope and it was missing.
Answers the Description.
Marshall Is about five feet four inches
tall. This is the description given by Miss
Gran of her assailant. 1t is also the de-
scription given by Mrs. Grabowski.
| 1t is the description given by the only
two persons who saw the negro in the
vicinity of the Rummelhart murder just
before that crime occurred.
| Chief Donahue, Chief of Detectives Saw
age and all the department are relieved
! by the capture of the fiend.
"I consider it one of the best and most
important captures ever made in Omaha, "
said Chief Donahue. II have lain awake
at night many a time in the last month
toFmented by the thought that we might
wake up in the morning and find that this
man had committed some horrible crime
| like the Rummelhart murder. 1 myself
worked until after o'clock Monday night
in an effort to trace the negro who at
tackled Miss Gran"