Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-16
RUSTB INTENDED TO VOTE
Registered as Democrat at Primaries
Last Day Of His Life.
DANIEL DID NOT HEAR SHOT
City Prosecutor Passed Rustin Home
About Three In the Morning and
saw Nor Heard Person
or shot.

DR.. Frederick T. Rustin, shot on the
morning Of September 2. intended to vote
in November. one Of the last things he
did before his death was to register and
say he would vote the democratic ticket
straight.
To some this discovery, is taken to mean
that certainly the physician was not plan
ming to die, wlsen he told democratic
friends at the primary election booth at
Fortieth and Farnam streets on Tuesday,
September l. that he wanted to register
so he might vote the straight demOcta attic
ticket in November"
Herbert s. Daniel, city prosecutor, was
at the booth where DR.. Rustin registered.
He says the physician entered the booth at
6:45 In the evening, asked for a democratic
primary ticket and made the remark hat
he would vote for the good democrats"
In November.
"Dr. Rustin was seemingly in good
spirits" said Mr.. Daniel. How he could
have been planning his death and gone to
the trouble to register that he might vote
two months later / don't understand. We
talked some Of the ticket and. as DR.. Rus
tin was always a democrat, he spoke of
wanting to register that he might help out
some Of the democrats who were candi-
dates for Office
Daniel Passed Rustin Home.
Mr.. DAME remained about the booth
and other voting places until a late hour.
The hack seen In the neighborhood OF the
Rustin home at an early hour the morning
OF September 2 was evidently the one
called by the city prosecutor when he went
home around 3 a. m. Mr.. Daniel drove
by the Rustin nome to reach his residence
at Forty-second and Harvey streets at
about 3 o'clock. He says;
~ remember Of looking out on the north
side Of the carriage and Of passing the
Rustin home. l saw nothing and heard
nothing. When l reached home l read a
paper for fully, twenty minutes. My resi-
dence is within a block and a half Of the
Rustin home. ] did not hear a shot or
any commotion in the neighborhood, though
/ was probably within a distance to hear
a shot from a few minutes before 3 o'clock
until at least 800"
The statement OF the city prosecutor Is
taken by some officers working on the case
to confirm the theory that DR.. RustIn was
shot earlier than 3 o'clock. Driving along
the street from Thirty-eighth and Farnam
to Forty-second and Harvey, Mr.. Daniel
heard nothing and for twenty to thirty
minutes after three, he was up, but heard
no shot.
Hat Puzzle Cleared Up.
The mystery of DR.. Rustin's hat and how
At got on the hook In the han of his home
has been satisfactorily explained to the
detective department. The hat worn by the
physician the evening previous to the
tragedy, was picked up by a neighbor
woman when she went to the Rustin home
early on the morning OF the tragedy to as
sist Mrs. Rustin in any way she could.
Captain Savage of the detective department
said:
The woman who picked up the hat and
hung it up wants her name withheld for
I the apreseft..s We aid not make a search
for the hat previous to the time we went to
the house and saw 1t there. We went to
the hospital first. and then to the Rustin
home. The woman who picked up the hat
and hung it in the hall says it was in the
hall when she found it."
1t is supposed that DIR. Rustin had the hat
on his head when Mrs. Rustin found him
in the chair on his porch. That DR.. Rustin
fell at the doorway as she was assisting
him into the house, explains why the ply
slcian's hat was found in the hall to the
satisfaction of detectives on the case. They
believe the hat fell inside the house, from
the physicians head when he fell at the
doorway.
Rounding UP witnesses.
County Attorney English says the Off
GERS, at present, are spending their time
securing witnesses who know something
about the tragedy. He said he would have
at least six, perhaps more new witnesses
when the preliminary hearing is called next
Tuesday. The county attorney is taking
the statements of these witnesses as they
are secured by the detectives.
Tuesday afternoon the county attorney
began his Investigations at the Chatham
apartments on Thirteenth street. where
Charles E. Davis says he returned after
his trip to the west part OF the city and
his attempt on his own life within a short
distance of the Rustin home. Mr.. English
says he has talked with no one at the
Chatham, but understands Frank Graham,
clerk in the Omaha National bank, will
testify as to the time Davis reached the
apartments, and that the time according to
the witness. will be 3 o'clock or shortly
after. The county attorney will talk with
Graham.