The Red Cloud chief., 1912-03-21
HAVE THE FIRST DEFINITE CLUE
TRACED FROM PEN TO 4 POINT
IN LINCOLN.
Rode Through Storm In MIX Wagon
Chief OF Police Hunger Has
Narrow Escape--AiI
Track Lost.

Lincom.-The first definite clue in.
dicative of the movements Thursday
evening of the Conyicts who murdered
Warden Dclahunty and his two assist.
ants that afternoon came to light Fri.
day evening when it was made known
that they had been sheltered at tho
home of Joseph Dickman, bookkeeper
and dairyman, living at 2109 Van Dorm
streets. The three half.frozcn men in
convict garb came to the house at
about $3.50 Thursday afternoon. threat.
ening Mrs. DiCkman and the hired
man and cautioned them not to make
an outcry. They received supper
there and were taken at about l0:30
O'Clock to Twentieth and X streets,
where they were last seen.
When the storm RACED outside, the
three hunted men remained in tho
hickman home. A telephone call re-
ccivcd at the penitentiary drew the
sheriff and a posse. including Sam Me.
lick and city Detective Schmtt to
some haystacks about two blocks
from the Dickman place. The inform,
ant Of the sheriff had seen three men
making toward the stacks. The posse
searched the stacks and the immedi.
alto vicinity. When the searchers
were exhausted by their efforts in the
deep snow. and decided that the clue
had proved fruitless. they debated
whether to proceed to the Dickman
home. whose brilliantly lighted win.
dows quarter Of mile away invit.
cd them, or to go an equal distance to
the home of Bishop Then. II was de-
cidcd to go to Tihcn's residence as II
was known that there was a telephone
there and the officers hoped to secure
Il train back to town.
The posse left at about . O'Clock. AZ
10 o'clock the three cOnvicts, their
prison garb covered from sight by
| blue Overalls Communicated fro mthe
| Dickmans, hidden from sight In the
interior OF milk wagon driven by ono
OF the boys. started for the city Be-
fore leaving Mrs. Dickman was
| warned.
Now no telephoning or calling for
help. IL you do the first man who
gets his is this boy of yours. II you
tell the police anything about this.
we'll get YOU" The terrified woman
again promised silence.
On the journey to town the con.
victs talked about blowing up the gov.
ernor's mansion, but were dissuaded
by the boy. who said that the drifts
were too deep. Finally tho overloaded
wagon was stuck In a drift at Twenty.
third and Randolph streets,
Chief Hunger was returning from
the police station at about II O'Clock.
He saw the wagon in the drift and
glimpsed the boy driver in front. He
asked the young man IL he needed
help.
Yes" said the lad, revolver
touching his ribs. He had been asked
who the man approaching them was
and had replied that 1t was the chief
Of police.
you tell him who we are or that
we're here and you will 60 FIRST and
Hunger after you." Gray told him.
From the inner recesses Of the milk
wagon the revolver of Shorty" Gray,
from whom Usher Heilman had prob.
ably met death earlier in the day,
covered the chief. Luckily for him
he did not see the men covering be-
hind the drivers seat. He seized the
heads Of the horses. led them past the
worst OF the drift and then told the
boy that by proceeding up the next
alley he should reach the paved streets
without encountering any drifts.
The convicts with their captured
vehicle took the course which the Of.
ficer Of the law had unknowingly
pointed out to them. They proceeded
to paved street. drove north through
town and finally reached q lumbey
yard near the corner Of Twentieth
and r streets near the Rock Island
tracks. n