Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-11-12
Negro Chauffeur Who Refused to Aid
Him Shot in Back.
ESCAPE IN sKTFF
MAKES
He is Soon 0verhauled by Police in
Motor Boat.
OFFICER AvERTs LYNCHTNG
Mob which Gathered on bank f. Told
Prisoner is Dead-PartIy Iden-
titled as Louisville Furni-
ture Dealer.

LOUISVILLE. KY, Nov. III Garry
Fawcett cashier of the Merchants Ma
tonal bank of New Albany, Ind, was
killed, John X. Woodward, president of the
bank, was dangerously wounded and James
r. Tucker, a negro chauffeur of Louisville
was fatally wounded this morning when a
young man, partially identified as Arthur
Hall, a Louisville dealer in second hand
furniture, entered the bank and after COM
manding everyone to throw up his hands
"and get in the vault began shooting.
Mr.. Fawcett died almost instantly after
being shot through the neck and chest.
woodward was shot through the liver and
intestines AMI Tucker was shot through
the body and may die.
Following the shooting the murderer
rushed from the bank and tried to make
his escape in an automobile which he had
taken from the curb in front Of the resi-
dence of its owner, Mrs. Walter Escott, in
Louisville, forcing the negro chauffeur at
the point of a gun to drive him TO New
Albany. But the chauffeur, paralyzed with
terror and apparently incapable Of action,
sat still. The robber jumped from the car
and sent bullet through the negro's body.
Turning to the river bank a distance per-
haps Of two blocks, the youth ran with the
speed of a deer He quickly appropriated
a skiff at the dock and was on his way to
the Kentucky side before the frightened
citizens of New Albany knew what had
transpired.
Police Capture Man.
An alarm was given through a mega
phone on a dredge boat and in a short time
the police of the little city had started in
pursuit in a fast motor boat, capturing
their man. and had brought him to shore
only to confront the new peril Of a lynch
ing.
BY a clever ruse, however, Captain Adams
of the police stood off the crowd of 200
which crowded around the dock as the
police boat landed. Commanding the pris-
oner to lie down the captain announced to
the crowd that the man had taken poison
and was dead, meanwhile carrying him to
the patrol wagon and giving the word to
drive ahead. The bandit was taken to the
New Albany jail. a few moments later he
was removed to the southern Indiana re-
formatory at Jeffersonville to escape the
mob, which would not be quieted and which
had assembled around the jail
| In his cell at the reformatory the pris-
oner refused to give his name and talked
| only under pressure. He said that he had
been around Louisville for several days
He did not know Tucker, the chauffeur
and declared that he was not implicated II
the attempt on the bank.
Refuses to Tell Name.
Il won't tell my name. have sever
brothers and sisters. My father don't live
with my mother and all of them are no
within 600 miles of this place.
Il never smoked a cigarette, chewed mol
drank. Oh, yes, ! smoked a cigar in Gov
| ington ten years ago, but never again.
never was in trouble but once. That wal
at Lexington Ky, on Halloween a Ions
time ago."
He seemed to be confused, but is appar
emily not insane. He confessed that III
planned the robbery of the bank and say
he had no assistance.
The most striking thing about the bandi
is his good looks and his red hair, which
is neatly cut. His face is effeminate H,
is not over 20 years old, five feet six inches
tall, wears lemon-colored shirt with col
lar attached, black four-in-hand tie, darI
trousers and a belt.