Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-25
ARE INDICTED
Twenty-F -Four Bills by Federal Grand
Jury Arc Given Out.
CATEGORY OF CHARGES LONG ONE
work for the session g. Completed
and Judge w. II, Munger Lets
the Jurors Go to TheIr
Homes.

The federal grand jury FOR the Omaha
district finished its work Saturday morn
ing, returning thirty-six indictments and
seventeen no bills. The jury was thanked
by Judge W II. Munger for its faithful
attention to the work assigned Il and at
u:1O was discharged for the term.
Twenty-four OF the indictments were
given out. the remaining eleven being with
held from publicity, as the indicted parties
are not yet under arrest.
Charles Brown. alias Charles Msngan,
charged with breaking into the postoffice
at sumner. Dawson county. with intent to
commit robbery. He is charged with Sc
curing S2s. Charles Davey Is charged with
forging a $50 money order at Harrington,
payable to P. Bunger. ]. II. Davis is ac-
cused OF using the United States mails for
purposes to defraud through advertising
for agents for the Mun-Clure Publishing
company OF Chicago and securing money
from his victims as an advance for secur-
ing their Jobs. He is an Omaha party. but
the Mun-Clure company claims that he is
not connected with their concern nor has
he ever been.
Breaking Into POstOmce.
Homer Morris and Howard Provo are
indicted for breaking into the Walthill
postoffice with intent to commit larceny.
Ebenezer G.. Hager Of Omaha is charged
with opening, OBTAINING and destroying a
packet of value that had been entrusted to
him as mail messenger from the South
Omaha postoffice. Solomon c. Odell, alias
Bud OdeIl. of Homer is asked to explain
how he could conduct the liquor business
lawfully in that locality without first pro-
curing a government license. Frank Miller
will have to explain to the United States
Is.4~saN a,,,pN ~. h. AA,,.h
property from Fort Crook regular army
soldiers against the law in such cases made
and provided. There are six counts against
MFR. Miller in the Indictment.
Joseph Mateska is charged with seeking
to go into the lumber business in SCOTS
Bluff county by stealing 1000 feet of lum-
Der from the government irrigation depart
ment up there, the lumber being valued
at S45. Mrs. Bojo Wlaisavljeick, a Greek
woman, has an alleged counterfeiting case
to clear up. Mfs. Wlsisavljeick formerly
kept a boarding house in Chicago and sold
1t out, receiving as a part of the purchase
money a 500 note of the Farmers and
Planters bank of Savannah. Ga. This she
was unable to dispose Of in Chicago and
when she came to Omaha and opened up
a Greek boarding house on South Thir-
tenth street she undertook to get rid of
the bill by various devices and eventually
landed in jail and subsequently gave bond
for her appearance before the federal
grand jury. 1t is understood that Mrs.
wlaissvijeick has recently repented of the
error of her ways and is now willing to
plead guilty and take the consequences.
Bills against Indians.
The remaining fourteen cases of the
twenty-four given out for publication are
indictments against various Indians for
introducing liquor onto the Omaha and
wnnebago Indian reservations. They all
bear names of the American aboriginal
classical variety and are Louis French,
John Priest, James Lightning, Joseph
Tebo, Peter Sharp Back, Andre Sharp
Back, Thomas Penny Face. Joseph Long
Tail. Joseph Wolf, VIII Sun, James Nal
Tory, Furnas Robinson, Oscar Hamblin and
Peter Humphrey and Paul Big Head, the
two latter being included in one indictment.
The other eleven cases relate to certain
pension frauds, one or two postoffice cases
and the remainder are liquor cases.