The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-07-15
uEder arrest.

uEder arrest
Miss ilirsch was taken to the Emer.
genCy hospital whore she made
statement OF the affair to Floyd h.
Jacobs, assistant prosecuting attorney
Although fast losing strength, she
signed a typewriter copy OF It, She
was then taken to the General hos
pital. She gave the police descrip.
ton of Baker.
When the shooting occurred Mrs.
Hirsch, the girls mother, was sitting
on the back porch and Emil Meyer.
butcher at 1921 Independence. and
relative of the family, was in the hall
into which was a door leading from
the room occupied by Miss Hirsch and
Baker The latter overheard the con.
versation leading up to the shooting
and witnessed the actions of the two
just before Baker fired.
Arrived From Topeka.
Ruby had just returned from n
visit to Topeka" Mr. Meyer said. "aud
| went up to see her. came in the
back way and stopped for moment
in the hall to exchange a few words
with Mrs. HirsCh. | heard loud talk.
ing i'm the front room and hcsitated
for a moment before | started in
Il heard Baker say. You did me
dirt, didn't YOU Then Ruby explain.
ed to him that she didn't want to have
anything more to do with him and
that for that reason she did not keep
an engagement he had tried to make
with her.
They talked a minute more and |
understood from their conversation
that while i'm Topeka she had asked
him to lend her money upon which TO
come home. He had sent it to her and
in the letter told her that it was sent
on condition that she meet him at a
downtown hotel for dinner on the
evening of her return to Kansas City. 1t
was her failure to keep this engage.
ment that angercd him, evidently.
Started for Money.
Just as | started in the room he
said something about the money again
and she said she would give it back to
him right away. She got up to start
for her pOcketbook and was directly
between Baker and myself when he
drew a revolver and commenced to
fire. The second or third shot passed
by my head and instinctively | lodged
back into the hall. Ruby had fallen
to the floor and think he fired at her
once as she was falling.
when | looked back into the room
he was running out of the door lead
ing to the front hall. This is the last
saw of him."
Several persons who were on the
street saw Baker leave the front door
of the house and turn east, walking
rapidly. They had heard the shots,
but thought he was going for physi-
clan and no attempt was made to stop
him.
Neighbors in the apartment house in
which Miss Hirsch lived with her
mother, her sister, Mrs. Mabel Nigro,
and her brother, Robert Hirsch, rush
ed into the apartment at once and
| took charge of the wounded woman.
Meyer, who witnessed the shooting,
devoted his attention to Mrs. Hirsch
and kept her from the room where
| her daughter lay. The latter did not
| learn who had been shot for several
minutes and then became hysterical.
| She was taken to the apartment of
| Mrs. A. Shukert, in the same building,
and given medical attention.
Double Shock to Sister.
Mrs. Mabel MICRO, the sister, left the
house just as Baker came to the door.
She had barely reached the street
when she was called back by neigh
bors who learned of the tragedy. She
is a sister-in-law of Sam Nigro, who
Monday night shot James Hedderman
at the saloon at Fifth and Campbell
streets. The double shock has broken
her down and her condition also ne
cessitated the attention of physician.
The physicians at the general hos
pital considered it doubtful if Miss
| Hirsch would live.
All four of the bullets remain in her
body, her condition being so danger
Gus that it was deemed inadvisable to
probe for them. One of the bullets,
probably the last fired, entered the
back, just below the shoulder. 1t is
believed this ball passed through the
lung and it is from it the greatest
danger is expected. OF the other
shots, one entered through the lips.
another through the right jaw and
another through the left side of the
| neck