Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-12-26
Two men
SHOT DEAD
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A'OIIDA
Frank GIynn, Home on Christ
mas Visit, Found Murdered
Following HoIdup; GIieves
Killed After Crap Game.

Two men were murdered in Oma-
ha Christmas day.
Robbers tried to hold up Frank
Glynr of Topeka, Kan, at Sixteenth
and Cunning streets early yesterda!
morning and shot him as he tried
to escape.
Walter Glieves, colored, was shot
by Will Thomas, alias Clark, follow
ing crap game at 272l R. street,
South Side.
Frank Glynn came to Omaha from
Topeka, Kan, to visit his father, w.
S Glynn, 36l2 Jones street.
Police say he was shot in the left
breast by highwaymen while rum
ming when the robbers attempted
to hold him up. A watch, a dia-
rnond ring and some money were
found in his pockets and a diamond
ring still remained on one finger.
Frozen Body Found.
Glynn's partly frozen body was
found by Miss Marie Melcher, a
Western Union Telegraph company
e,nploye, at $50 a. M, as she trans
fcfred street cars, directly in front
If the Swanson undertaking estab-
lisimert, 1925 Cunning street. She
told a street car crew who notified
the police.
Glynn with M. f. Anderson of
Irvington, Neb., William Bruce, Sun
shine apartments, Seventeenth and
California streets, and another man
whose name is said to be Peterson,
spent Christmas Eve in a soft drink
parlor at 1902 Douglas street.
They remained till 1890, when
the four hired a cab in which they
rode about the city till about 2:3O.
Leave Drexel Cafe.
Following the ride, the four went
to the Drexel cafe, Sixteenth and
Webster streets, where they were
supposed to have an engagement
with some friends.
According to the stories told by
Bruce and Anderson, the party left,
the cafe about half an hour later,
Peterson starting south on Six
teenth and the others north.
GlynE was in the lead. AS they
neared Sixteenth and Cunning
streets, two ren stepped out and
commanded them to hold up their
hands.
Glynn started to run and one of
the robbers fired three shots after
him. The robber then returned and
helped his partner search Bruce and
Anderson.
Talks With Watchman.
A watchman at the Linseed Oil
company says that Glynn called
there about o'clock and asked
how to reach Fourteenth and Doug
las streets. The watchman asserts
Glynn appeared TO have been drink
ing He probably wandered about
after being shot.
The police believe that the man
who killed Glynn is the one who has
been holding up drug stores and
pedestrians lately.
Detectives learned early this
morning that someone living at the
Reio hotel, l607a Cunning street,
saw the holdup but did not notify
the police. The case was deeply
mystifying until Glynn's compan-
ions were found and the story OF
the holdup was revealed.
Glynn came to Omaha six days
ago to spend Christmas with his
father, w. S. Jones, 36l2 Jones street
According to the father, Glynn had
500 with him when he arrived. He
told the police that his son had been
more or less" intoxicated since his
arrival. He attributes his sons visit
and his continual intoxication to a
quarrel with ibis wife.
The dead man is "a years of age
He formerly was an expressman on
the South Side. Two brothers. a |
sister and the father are the sur
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