Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-15

their number had been shot down in cold
blood. Discipline was perfect and their
concern and anxiety took the form Of a
determined effort to find the man who did
the work. There was no bunglinE or hest
fancy as Captain Mostyn and Sergeant
Marshall gave the orders which cast out
the dragnet and landed the man, though at
such heavy cost.
When the news of the second shooting
became known and the further fact that
the murderer had been caught there was
mingled pain and relief.
It will be well. however, for suspicious
characters to lie low for a time. for as
was remarked last light, 1.-The shooting Of
officers makes the force savage"
Women Identify Clark.
George Clark has been Identified as the
man who killed officer Smith by six
women who saw the shooting and then were
taken to the hospital to see him. Clark as
serts he shot at the officers on the bridge
because he thought they were holdup men,
but does not talk much on the subject
A 'murderous blue eye" is given by the
police as the chief characteristics Of Clark's
appearance. He is about five feet eight
inches in height, weighs 1GO pounds and Is
IS years of age. He has dark chestnut hair,
is smooth shaver and of medium complex
ion. He claims to be a cook by trade. An
anchor is tattooed on his right forearm.
TIL police believe that he will prove to
be an old-time criminal and are trying to
get n line on his supposed police record.
Thursday morning he was photographed
and measured according to the Bertillon
system, and an effort will be made TO find
out IL he is wanted in other cities for
crimes he NAV haya committed
Did Have C~onfederates.
1t was thought Thursday morning that
perhaps Clark had a confederate who
escaped after the shooting. However,
this theory was not given much credence
by the police, although residents on Ninth
street, between Dodge and Douglas streets,
say they saw a man run south on that
street Immediately after the officer was
shot. Clark ran east down Dodge street,
so 1t was thought that the other man might
have been his partner.
He ate supper at Townsend's lunch car
on lower Dodge street about II o'clock
Wednesday night and was seen by Detec-
tive Ferris IN a saloon at Sixteenth and
California streets earlier in the evening.
He had been drinking some, but was not
drunk.
A new hat worn by Clark offers food for
slight conjecture. 1t had hardly been worn
and bore the mark Of a Sioux City store,
yet Clark says he came from Denver.
The locket which Clark grabbed from
the Wilson woman's neck has not been
found yet. Reports saying that he secured
a diamond necklace were false.
Two other Such Tragedies.
The death of Patrolman Smith recalls
the cases of Detective Simon Drummy and
Patrolman Dan T~iederman, both of whom
met similar fates at the hands of des-
p%eradoes.
Drummy was fatally shot in South
Omaha by a negro whom he was trying
to place under arrest. This happened last
February. Tiederman was killed ten or
fifteen years ago under similar circum-
stances.
When Mrs. Drummy, widow of the de-
tective, read of the murder of Patrolman
Smith In Thursday mornings paper, she
almost collapsed from thought Of her own
bereavement.
Black crepe decorates the main entrance
to the police station and the rooms and
desks on the lower floor. Black ribbons
will be worn under the badges Of all 20
licemen for thirty days. Thus will the
police department show outwardly the
deep sorrow and mourning that has beer
l.occasioned by the death of their brother
| officer,