The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-05-02
1sRed" Perkins Says He Knows
Men Who Killed Brave
Frisco Policeman.
MADE ESCAPE IN TAxIcAB
POLICE BELIEVE THE STORY re.
LATED az THE YOUTH AND
HUNT THE cABMAN TO COR
RoeoRATE THE STORY.
(Amcrican News Service,

San Francisco. May la newsboy
and writer Of amateur base ball news.
Frank Joseph Perkins, known up and
down the coast AZ Red" has supplied
the police with information which they
hope will lead them to the lair of the
desperadoes who shot and killed Pa
trolman David Brooks.
At first declaring he knew nothing
Of the affair, he later confessed he had
accompanied the bandits to near the
scene of the robbery, and had come
down town with them in taxicab aft
er the tragedy. He gave the names of
three men he accuses. and will be held
to testify at the inquest.
For the wife OF police officer. more
perhaps than any other woman. the
goodby she says before he goes on duty
may be the last. Through years this
thought has occurred to Mrs. Ottile
Brooks, widow of Policeman David
Brooks. who was shot by bandits.
Denied Last Look.
In the cottage at 1873 West Thirty.
second street, with its empty place, the
real tragedy Of the murder is poign-
emily evident. Besides the widow
there are three boys. David, aged elev-
en-: Walter, nine, and Frederic, seven
years Of age.
III could only have heard his last
words" said Mrs. Brooks, there would
have been some consolation, but this
was denied me. In the excitement
they neglected to call me, and my hus-
band died without me by him.
HE died bravely." 1t was suggested.
HE couldn't have died any other
way" she answered. confidently and
proudly. "But surely. II I had been
there beside him he might have open
ed his eyes to look at me even he
couldn't speak. That would have been
enough; I would have understood.
THE wife Of q police officer never
knows when she will say the last good
bye. have often thought Of this.
hoping. of course. that It would never
be applied In our family"
Aside from the general search for
the murderers the police have been
combing the city to find the taxicab
driver. the only man who could cor
roborate the remarkable statements OF
"Red" Perkins.
He gives the names Of two Of the
bandits % being John Harrison and
Harry Thompson. The third man,
he said, was Earl Roberts.
Saw Him In San Quentin.
Il saw John Harrison first in San
Quentin prison." said Perkins to Cap
l1us
in Sacramento in February. 1904, and
accompanied legislative committee
On . 1unket to San Quentin. did not
know Harrison. He was convict.
but he halted me on the streets here a
rev days ago. and told me he remem-
bered having seen me with the legisla-
tive junketers. He said he know me
because OF my deformities.
THE night Of the murder the gang
rot together and hired . taxicab. We
entered It at Seventh and Main streets
and rode to West Twenty-eighth street
and Grand avenue. We left the taxi
cab there and took street car back to
Twelfth and Main streets, where we
boarded q Hooper avenue car and rode
10 East Twelfth street and Central ave-
sue
..There We caught southbound Cen
trail avenue car and rode on II to Thir-
tieth street, where was directed to
get off and walk across the city to the
taxicab. was told to walt there. and
would get my story
THE men continued on the Central
avenue car and walked to where we
left the taxicab. ] found II had NOV
ed up to near Thirtieth street, and FOL.