Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-09
ESCAPE OF "SIXTH0 !.
JEWEL R0BBER IS
MYSTERY NO MORE

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he made his way to the roof, edging
along with the bullets hitting the
shingles and the caves trough all
around him. He was reckless OF his
personal safety and kept on after
Williams gave up to attempt to get
away.
Leonard made his way to the rear
of the house and reached the ground
by jumping off the roof of kitchen
in the rear. 1t was growing dark and
he made his way unobserved to the
east and descended the icy, slippery
banks of the bluff, in the vicinity of
the Missouri Pacific round house. He
stumbled and fell on a path, which a
nimble-footed goat could hardly ne
gotiate, and finally rolled down to the
railroad right-of-way below, bruised
and scratched.
The temperature at the time was
IL below zero. In the cold and in
darkness he made his way to the Mis-
souri, river, which he crossed afoot,
on the ice.
went Through He'll"
II went through hell on the trip |
made that night" he told his conf
dant. "A fierce wind swept up along
the river and it blew the fine, dry
particles of snow into my face and
blinded me. / had no coat or hat and
the biting cold penetrated me like a
knife. I narrowly escaped plunging
into air holes in the ice and being
drowned several times. lost sense
of direction and nearly gave up be-
fore l was half way over.
"But the thought of the dicks on
my trail and the prospect of long
stretch in stir gave me the strength
to keep on my way. At last | stum-
bled against the bank on the Iowa
shore and had hard time climbing
up. My knees and hands were
skinned and bloody and my legs felt
like blocks of wood, they were so
numb.
y madt my way across the bottom
until ! came to shack. | knocked
in the door, which was opened to me
by an old man and found him and his
wife living alone. The place was one
of squalor. I asked for coat and
hat. The old man pointed to grimy
pile of bedclothing and told me he
had no coat to spare but / could take
quilt. He only had two. l could
not do it. He gave me cap and l
started out again.
Was Nearly Frozen.
"Where I went that night, through
the freezing cold, which left me only
half conscious, I do not know. Any
how, daylight found me at Missouri
Valley. There had to seek warmth
and something to eat. My ears, the
side of my face, my hands and feet
were frozen and I was cared for there
by the officials until l could get in
touch with the gang"
All this time the Omaha police were
looking for the mysterious sixth"
man.
Leonard received money from
friends in St. Paul, where he went to
hospital to recover from the shock
and injuries of exposure to the bitter
cold. Later he got out and then dis
appeared from the ken of his friends
and the police. 1t is thought that he
will remain in hiding until the interest
in the Omaha 'sjob" dies away.
Had Wild Career.
The Malashock robbery was not the
only stunt" of the kind in which he
figured in Omaha On July 18, 1905,
he held up the Clark drug store at
Twenty-fourth and Seward streets. He
robbed four of the men who happened
to be there at the time of the jewelry
and money they had on their person:
An alarm was given before he could
get out of sight and police set out in
chase of him. There was gun fight
and he surrendered. On July Fl, of
the same year, he was bound over to
the district court in the sum OF s., $500,
which he failed to furnish.>
While in the old county Jail await