The Paducah evening sun., 1910-10-31
PATROLMAN SAYS
HE WAS FIRED ON
RECEIVED THREATENING LET
TER IN McMANUS CASE.
Bloodhounds Were Unable to Fol
low ANY Trail hut the
Policeman's.
HE SEARCHED UP THE ALLEY

'Mr ogelvey-if you do not tend
to your own bizness find yourself like
Frank MeManis hes dead take warn
ing"
This letter addressed "Mr. Ogel-
lvey. Paducah. Ky" in the same
crude handwriting was received by
Patrolman Leslie Ogllvie October IS,
he says. At the time PatrOlman
lOgilvie said nothing about the letter
in the hope that il might have been
a prank, but he never ceased his
effort to solve the mystery OF the
death OF Frank McManus. Instead
of signature the letter was con-
lcluded with a crude skull and cross
bones. The letter was written on a
small sheet of ordinary cheap writ
ing paper. and was mailed In an en-
lvelope without any marks OF idenu-
ification. The handwriting Is legible,
but cramped as II the writer desired
to conceal his natural hand writing.
Early Sunday morning Patrolman
logilvie says he was shot at while
patrollhg his beat.
Patrolman Ogilvle gave his version
OF the shooting as follows: while
my partner. Patrolman Schroeder.
stood at Tenth and Jones streets /
walked west to Twelfth and Jones
streets and reported to the police
station at $3.50 o'clock. was re-
turning to Tenth and Jones street.
and when | was about two-thirds
across the alley between Tenth and
Eleventh streets. | heard "A bullet
whiz near my face Instantly !
dropped 10 the ground. as I was un-
prepared for such an attack. Three
shots We're fired in quick succession.
but as a fell saw the flash from the
last shot. and ! estimate that he
must have been 30 or 40 yards from
the mouth OF the alley.
"My pistol was IN the left pocket
Of my overcoat. and when I fell I
reached for IL. and as quickly as pos
sible emptled the pistol about the spot
I had seen the flash. After reload
ing my pistol walked up the alley.
but did not see anybody. heard
somebody waking in the lumber
yard as If they had jumped the
fence. called 10 Patrolman
schraeder. and went 20 the mouth OF
the alley on Tenth street. but failed
to find anybody.
In few minutes we went hack to
the box at Twelfth and Jones streets.
end fpforfaoJ Nf~bf f,,,f,s, fA.-f..
and asked him to have all the patrol
men close in and pick up all sus-
poets. We gathered I'm several
negroes cut on the streets. including
a negro woman, who was crazy on
coke"
Immediately after the shooting the
lfiremen on watch at the No. sta
ton heard the footsteps OF a man
walking rapidly east on Jones street.
while Captain Harry Rudolph. who
was awakened by the shots. peered.
out the window and saw a man walk
ing down the street.
Dogs Couldn't Follow.
In a few minutes after the police
headquarters was notified Of the
shooting. G. T. Riley, OF Wicklne.
whose bloodhounds gave an exhibi-
ton at Wallace park Yesterday. was
secured With the dogs he was
rushed to the scene in an automc-
bile in less than an hour after the
attempted assassination.
The dogs took the trial OF PATROL
man easily. and followed his foot
steps up the alley, but only once did
they get anything Ike a trail Of tho
shootist. They took the trall in the
lumber yard and on the inside of the
fences followed the trail to Tenth
street, where they went north to the
concrete sidewalks on Tennessee
root Al this nnlnf Tho hnn. mara