Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-30
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Under Examination suspects DO Not
Agree ~ TO Whereabouts.
Tlggs, Deland and steingger give con
fictinR statements az to their whereabouts
early Sunday morning at the time Of the
murder Of Cohn and the Saturday night
previous and have admitted having COM
mitted several desperate holdups. In ex-
animation by Captain Dempsey and the
detectives the boys plainly show their care
fulness In avoiding knowledge Of the muir
der.
From letters showing their general char
acter to be criminal found in their room;
from descriptions which have come to the
police OF holdups corresponding to them
almost exactly, the police are confident
they have the persons responsible for the
death Of Cohn and an appalling string OF
desperate highway robberies.
the arrest or the boys came about
through their stealing fruit from a stand
operated by an Italian known as Mike, at
III South Fifteenth street. The italian has
complained to the police many times dur
ing the last few weeks about the loss Of
fruit and had implicated three boys.
Stealing Bananas.
Patrolman Ferris returning from a meet
ing Of the Modern woodman OF America
CARRIED IN the lodges uniform passed by
the fruit stand last night just as riggs
Deland and steIngger seized some bananas
and run. officer Ferris overlook Steingger
and took him to the police station, charged
with petty larceny.
shrewd questioning by Desk Sergeant
Marshall drew the information from the
boy Of the whereabouts of his partners,
Deland and Tiggs Captain Dempsey de-
tailed Detectives Murphy and sullivan to
so into the place and arrest them. One
Of the boys was away, The detectives
awaited until he arrived and the two were
taken to the police station. The detectives
took from the room besides a large guam
uty OF ink binding rubber and stationery
materials number OF letters written
evidently by Tigss while in st. Louis to
Deland shortly after he came to Omaha.
Letters Are TelI-Tale.
Two OF the letters show that the boys
are members Of a gang of desperadoes,
which organized in ST., Louis, and chased
a lot OF telegraph posts down. And every
day the papers are telling about Niger
they have caught and say the police have
write q letter to Ed also. / wanted to go
to New Mexico this spring IL you would
come down. have bought me a gun and
ought TO have been with me Sat l had
$50 and went in pool room. shot I
6Smes s2d Paia for ana M when n. came en-
making them 10c bctties OF Falstaff run
down my gut like Niagara Falls and got
was feeling a lust 10 fine and U started erar
game in the back OF the pool room and
the owner kicked my - out; Then !
- and q niger wenoh polSed me in my
Jaw and I hit her and knocked her down
and she got after me with butcher knife
cop pinched her, but got. out Of his
ing and believe me had = cuttln n;
broke l.. r. 1921 S. 9th st.
Letters stall.
Asked about the letters Deland told
Captain Dempsey that they were a stall
on the part Of Buzz" to get railroad
ticket TO Omaha Tiggs is familiarly
spoken Of by the other two men as BUZZ. y
The second letter IL dated February s
At st, Louis
Dear Carl: For God sake, kid, send me a
ticket Just as soon as possible, for l am in
OF a fix with the police; for my
stepfather has kicked me out and told the
police on me for being In the gang ana
out OF town no way--but n you can send
me a ticket right quick can get away.
| am staying at hld's house and they
out by the police there, have started to
gather here,
According TO the letters the gang muir
dersd a bartender during holdup, wrecked
street car on an elevated road hurting II
through the roof OF saloon below.
These acts are told OF in the following
letter written evidently By Lemuel Tiggs
ST. LOUIS. Mo- Jan. &c. lsl1-Heno
carr; say you, Tor ----- - get that idea
Of sending me a ticket to Omaha out OF
that nut OF yours. Just wait till about the
10th OF April; then YOU will see me and a
Nd about my size and age hitting the pike
This kid Is thought by the police to be
Steinger). I had might as well tell you the
reason | wanted you down here. 1t is like
this: Me and two kids stole wagon load
or pigiron and sold II and J wanted you e
get in the game, too. one kid got caught
and got three years for not telling on us
tell you kid that l am doing some mighty
---- dirty tricks down here as the old ganE
has Bot 10 gather again and we take any
thing we set our hands on. Two OF this
fellows held up a saloon and killed the
bartender and the police shot one and got
him, but the other one got away and they
had me and twelve OF the other fellows