Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-04-29
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mobile that night He was positive that
he had not and that If one had gone by he
would have heard It
The four reports from the detectives are
as follows:
OMAHA, Neb, April q, 1s11-Afr. ]. j.
Donahue, Chief of Police: Dear Sir: This
Pierce. There met Curtis Ingram, con-
ductor of Dundee car on which young
kidnapers Tuesday night Ingram left
Dundee at 10 p. m. At Fiftieth and Dodge
streets young Smyth boarded his car,
which got to Fortieth and Dodge at 1914,
where he got off In getting on the car
Smyth in a way fell on and was noticed
by the conductor as being put on and It
that he had been kidnapped. The conductor
looked at him surprised, when young
Smyth again said that he had been kid
naped. did you not read. all about 1t in
the papers that l was TO be kidnapped.
They got me-" Smyth then went on and
told a story that at $50 p. m. at Sunder-
automobile with three others and took him
to a shack away out in the country after
out another man took after him with a
gun and run him four miles to a car. Mr..
Ingram says young Smyth was in no way
excited or exhausted from a four-mile run
getting away from a man with a gun.
Ingram says that he wanted to go with the
boy to drug store at 4oth and Dodge to
telephone the police or his folks In reply
young Smyth said that his father no doubt
had tended to this; that he had money
| for his fare and took transfer for north
on Fortieth street. 1 saw him go into the
drug store. H. HEITFELD.
OMAHA, April q. 1sn-Mr. J. J. Dona-
hue. Chief of Police: called on G. w.
Barnes. who runs drug store at Fortieth
and Dodge, this afternoon. He says that
young smyth came into his store about
| 10:B Tuesday night bareheaded and told
him that he had been kidnapped by a Swede
and three Italians. They got me-" he
Wrs Mr. Rarnes aseS bi a ~ Ss sSop 9s
| telephone the police or his home. He would
not have this. Mr.. Barnes took no stock
in his story and paid no more attention to
him. Young smyth went out with Block
home. H. HEITFELD
Clark Williams, 4522 Hamilton street:
called at his house again last night. 1 was
told after he thought the matter over he
remembered of seeing young man passing
down lizard street and he watched him
going so far west as the railroad tracks
OF the Missouri Pacific belt line that cross
| Forty-foErth and lizard streets. Mr.. VIII
lianms describes the young man as being
16 or Is years old, wearing a light raincoat
and light cap crushed down in front. He
said he could Identity him again II he was
dressed the same as he saw him passing
down lizard street; he said he watched him
and the young man saw him watching him.
| asked him II he knew Bernard Smyth.
| he said he did not / did not tell him how
Bernard Smyth was dressed as / did not
house to find out how Bernard Smyth was
dressed when he passed by his house. when
he and his sister saw him. He described
him dressed the Same way as Mr.. Williams
| saw him when he passed by going east on
| Lard street. Mr.. Williams said II we would
bring that boy TO the chiefs office dressed
as he was when he passed west on lizard
street the evening of April Is at or near
$3.50 o'clock, he would know him, and will
be glad to 90 any time to meet the boy at
the chief of policies office. He also said
that Mr. Smyth was out to see and have
talk with him at the Sunderland Bros.
Ioffice about seeing the automobile as spoken
about by Bernard Smyth in his report to
the police He told Mr.. Smyth that his
boy was not picked up by an automobne
| at the corner. If an automobile passed
hear II and also see It, as he was In the
coal yard about $50 feet west OF the office
and he was looking for an automobile, as
Mr. Sunderland has automobiles he would
they did not have such thing around
there that evening. When he was told
about II the next morning by one OF the
boys delivering the newspapers he went
out TO investigate and see II he could see
any tracks OF an automobile around the
place, but ne could not seen any signs OF
Il. He said he told Mr.. Smyth that his
STEPHEN MALoNEY.
| ~OMAHA Neb., April e. 1911.-Edward
Underland, E01 Cunning street, and his sis
ter, Agnes Underland, saw Bernard Smyth
passing by their hohuse. going west to
| Forty-first, then north TO lizard street He
| said he spoke TO Bernard as he passed by;
| he didn't see any one following him
/ Agnes said TO her brother. If Bernard
smyth is afraid of being kidnapped what
| is he doing by going down that way,
guess / will follow him. but her brother
Edward would not let her. Edward didn't
| see any one following him This was
little after o'clock in the evening.
| "STEPHEN MALONEY."