Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-07
AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA
Sam Byzsr and James Harrey, Col.
ored, Confess Series of Burglaries,
SEVERAL COMMITTED IN OMAHA
Fred steckmeyer Mistakes Daniel
HOOfer for Rival for Mary seoIa's
Love and Attacks Him with
Brass sEInucks."

brass ehmuCkHs'
Confessions to ten burglaries, five OF
which were committed in Omaha and
South Omaha. were made last night by
sam Buyer and James Harrey, two negroes
jailed as suspicious characters by Chief
OF Detectives Shehan Of the South Omaha
police department. The men will be held
for trial in the district court.
Byzer and Harrey were arrested satur-
day. They were unable to give good &C
counts of themselves, but stouty main
tanned their innocence OF any crime Tn
der examination last night they confessed
that they are the men VINO entered the
home OF william Springer. Z11S X street,
and stole SEQ the night Of January %. They
said they committed one other burglary In
South Omaha, three in Omaha, three In
Kansas City, Mo-; one in Atchison, Kan,
and one in Falls City, Neb.
Makes Assault on Wrong Man.
Mistaking Daniel Hoofer in the dark
ness for a hated rival for a girls atfec-
tons, Fred steckmeyer. an employe Of the
Armour Packing company, struck Hoofer
in the back Of the head with a set Of brass
"knucks" at Twenty-fourth and N streets
at 10:45 o'clock last night. Louis In
with steckmeyer at the time. The two
were arrested on charges of assault and
Hoofer was locked up as a complaining
witness.
Hoofer and his wife and Harvey Will
Jams and Mary Soda were on their way
home from a show when the assault was
made. According to their story they were
walking along peaceably, when lndutcher
and Steckmeyer ran up behind them and
Steckmeyer struck Hoofer.
When arrested Steckmeyer said
Williams went with this girl for
couple Of years up until two month ago
Then they broke up and | started going
with her. / have heard around town that
he said he was going to kill me IL / went
with her, so / thought I'd whip him. When
/ ran up Hoofer kind OF stopped and
thought he was Williams and hit him"
Steckmeyer said Miss Soda is a pretty
girl and worth fighting for, and in sup
/ port of his statement exhibited 20 the po-
lice a photograph Of the young woman in
dispute.
Beats Wife and Board Bill.
| After having beat his wife and his board
bill, Tom Holman of Omaha fled to South
Omaha, where his parents reside and where
he is well known. and sought protection
at the South Omaha police station last
night The Omaha police telephoned the
South Omaha police to look out for Ho-
man. The result was that the South Omaha
police were waiting for him with open
arms when he arrived. They placed him
in Jail He will be brought to Omaha
for hearing in police court this morn
ing.
Reaching his fathers home in South
Omaha Holman telephoned the police sta
ton that he wanted to come down and
have a talk with the Officers his purpose
being to secure their protection from per-
secutions of his wife. They told him to
come on. He came.
Demented Man TerrorIEeH Women.
After terrorizing a dozen women in the
north part of South Omaha for half an
hour, a man giving the name OF Charles
Haynes and claiming Omaha as his home
apparently demented, was taken into Gus
tody by the South Omaha police at {
O'Clock last night. The man suffers with
a Authorization that enemies are pursuing
him with murderous designs. He swore
that they have chased him for hundreds
OF miles.
BY boldly walking into their homes the
demented man badly frightened several
women. He appears harmless but they
could not know what violent tendency he
might develop. When male members Of 6
household drove the man out he would
proceed to another home. He will BIB turned
over to the commissioners Of insanity.
Quiz Murder Case Suspects.
Six suspects have been arrested by the
South Omaha police in connection with the
murder of Peter Maumoff the Pole whose
body was found on the Rock Island rail.
road tracks south Of South Omaha last
Friday morning. The men have been rigidly
questioned regarding knowledge of the af
fair. The examination has not proceeded
far enough to justify the police in say
. ing whether or not the perpetrator OF thC
crime is one of the six. One of the mer
; so far has refused to attempt to give
satisfactory account of himself on the day
preceding the finding of the body. Tn,
police are Withholding the names Of tn,
suspects.
Magic City Gossip.
Coal-See Rowland. Phone South 7.
A meeting OF the city council will b.
, held this evening.
8 A meeting Of the Board OF Education will
t be held this evening. The warrants 70
February will be allowed.
Phone Bell South s6s, Independent + 1856
. for a case OF letter Gold Top. Prompt de
z livery TO any part Of city. William letter
The Ladies' Aid society Of the YounI
$ Mems Christian association will meet witt
. Mrs. II. q. Kiddoo, 81 North Twenty firs
, street, Tuesday afternoon at 23O
The funeral of Daniel Mccarthy was hell
this morning at Z o'clock from the home o
J his daughter, Mrs. John Fitzgerald, 23l2
q street, to ST. Brldgets church, Intcrmen
( will be in Lincoln, Neb.
= The death OF Mrs. Mary b. Bezousek
aged 20 years, occurred at her home, NJ
{ South TWenty-first street Sunday after
I noon The funeral will be held at $50 Tues
I day morning from the home to the ChurC
q OF the Assumption. Burial will be In 81
. Mary's cemetery.