Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-20
Possible to Explain Shooting on
Theory They Were ouarreling
Among Selves.
P. SCHROEDER HAD REVOLVER
May Have Been Snatohed from
Pocket by Rapp, Who
Fired First.
wREsTED FROM HIM
THIS IL Substance of Chief of Police
Dunn's Explanation OF Tragedy
In Light OF what IL known by
Those who Saw shooting.

with police reporters for the three
daily newspapers portraying the
characters of the victims, and Chief
OF Police Dunn, Chief of Detectives
Maloney, Captain Dempsey and De-
tective Fleming for an audience, the
triple murder of last Wednesday
night was re-enacted at 10 o'clock
last night under the direction of the
men and women who we're eye-wit-
resses to the shooting, re-enacted just
as the witnesses saw It, except for the
shooting
The stars in the sky overhead
represented the "houselights" and
proscenlum Of the outdoor theater,
where the dramatic playlet was given
last night. Twenty-third street and
Pierce was the "theater" and the
stage was the exact spot where
Pete Schroeder Fred Schroeder and
William Rapp fell mortally wounded.
flushed and staring women round
eyed youngsters clinging to their
mothers skirts stolid and reticent
men putting stolidly at pipes filled
out the audience.
Changes View Of Police.
The "playRctlng" was done to give the
police u coherent idea Of the .tragcdy--
something that has been almost impos-
sible heretofore because OF the tumble OF
detail and revised and revised again
stories Of witnesses and relatives. The
outcome was that the police now believe
that there arc no other persons connected
In the tragedy except those now in the
coroner's morgue.
George Selix, 225l Pierce. whose home is
nearest the scene of the shooting, has
always maintained that the three men
shot each other to death His words we're
oorroborated by Mrs. Connolly. next door
neighbor who saw most of It, and Mrs.
Alice Quade who was also a witness.
Mrs. Quade says she heard seven shots
fired; the other two say there were only
six. Upon this point alone rests the only
difference In stories.
George Selix, at the request of Chief
Dunn placed the three newspaper men
In attitudes exactly the same as those
of the three men now dead. The officials
iNAilfu W NHN lIouA poTCu OF tne EenA
home, where they could see under the
same difficulties that met Selix, when
the pistol battle was in progress.
Hears Flrst Shot.
They had jug OF beer. the three
OF them, and they were sitting there on
the sidewalk drinking and squabblnE
with each other. could not hear their
conversation, except at intervals. and
then it was without meaning TO me.
Just before the shooting commenced.
heard the exclamation; You lie. damn
you Then l heard a shot and then
another. Then two more. An interval
OF perhaps a minute elapsed and then
two more shots were fired. l saw the
man who fired the last shots. He was
wearing a stiff straw hat and a light
shirt. The man he was shooting at was
on his feet in the road, which is about
five feet away from the sidewalk and
three feet below IT, lie was wearing a
light shirt too.
Who Did shOotinRs
"A man wearing dark clothing was at
the side of the man doing the shooting.
When the shooting stopped, the man in
the road crawled away towards the south
and the man In the straw hat, and the
one with the dark clothes went west
together hating every few PAGES. Soon
after went outside. found no revolver,
but only a torn shirt sleeve, which the
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