Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-23
Careening Down Bluffs
Streets at 60 Miles an Hour
James Cosgrove Arrested
After FuSiI|ade of Bullets.
ELUSIVE OMAHA MAN
AGAIN OUTWITS POLICE
Roy Kelly Jumps From Car and
Hides in Railroad Yards
Cosgrove Held for HoIdup
on Carter Lake.

A fusillade Of shots by Council
Bluffs police officers halted thrill
ing sprint through the streets of
Omaha and Council Bluffs of an
automobile driven by James Cos
grove of Omaha and a companion
whom police declare to be the no
torious Roy Kelly. who has sue
ceeded in eluding the police of both
cities for the past six months.
When the car was finally stopped
at Thirteenth street and Broadway,
Council Bluffs, man said to be
Kelly jumped from the machine and
escaped in the railroad yards. Cos
grove, after being stopped, put up
a desperate fight and was not sub
dued until beaten by police.
Auto Going Fast.
Officer Lon Troby of Omaha first
noticed the auto travelling south on
Fourteenth street on the wrong side
of the street and at high rate of
speed. Between Douglas and Far
nam streets it crashed into another
car occupied by man and woman
and, turning into the alley. went to
Thirteenth street and escaped by
crossing the Douglas street bridge.
Officer Troby secured the license
number of the machine and tele-
phoned to Council Bluffs FOR their
arrest.
When the machine passed the
Bluffs police station at a high rate
of speed, the officers ordered Cos
grove to stop. but only received a
sneering laugh as the car went ca
reening down the street. They gave
chase i'll police auto.
Almost Hit Cop.
At Broadway and Pearl street the
traffic officer on duty stepped IN
front of the car, ordering them to
stop, and when they increased the
speed of the machine he narrowly
escaped being run down, He turned
and opened fire on the speeding car
just as the polio: car followed them
down the street. The officers in the
police car also commenced firing as
they followed the machine down the
street.
The bullet-riddled car stopped at
Thirteenth street after being tenn
pararily delayed at the Northwestern
CLOSING by block signal. The man
who was accompanying Cosgrove,
and whom Bluffs police say answers
the description of Roy Kelly, then
fed
The machine Cosgrove was driving
he says belongs to Floyd Shelton,
Morris apartments, Omaha, and was
being used with his permission. The
back Of tile machine has several bull
let holes, the gasoline tank is pune
tured, one tire was shot off and sew
cral bullets lodged in the seat close
to where Cosgrove was sitting.
Ask Cosgrove Held.
Sergt. Frank Rose of the Omaha
department last night requested the
Bluffs police to hold Cosgrove for
investigation in connection with the
holdup of number of Omaha NOV
.ng picture magnates Sunday night
on Carter Lake boulevard. He is
said to answer the description of one
of the three highwaymen.
During the entire time of his trip
through the streets the police say
Cosgrove never drove the car less
than 40 miles an hour and while
making his escape in Omaha and
while being chased through the
Bluffs streets increased the speed to
90 miles an hour.
Cosgrove was charged by Bluffs
police with driving an automobile
while intoxicated. This charge in
Iowa carries penalty of one years
Imprisonment in the state peniten-
tiary.
Ordered to Leave States.
Cosgrove was twice indicted by
the Council Bluffs grand jury and
was sentenced by Federal Judge
Woodrough to leave Iowa and Ne
braska not later than Tuesday. His
present confinement will prevent his
obeying the court order.
The indictments for which he was
convicted in Council Bluffs we're
conspiracy and representing a peace
officer 1t was charged that he
twice went to the William Roden-
berg farm near McClelland. where
he searched the farm for whisky,
representing himself as a sheriff
and another time as state agent.
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