Omaha daily bee., 1919-04-19
Police Officer Shot During
Gun Battle With Burglar;
Wound May Prove Fatal
Detective Lies at Point Of
Death in Hospital; AS
saiIant Hit in Four
Places.

City Detective Cary c. Ford. 32l
North Thirty-hfth avenue. was shot
in the abdomen and perhaps fatally
wounded in a running gun battle
with Ray Jensen, alias Joe Johnson,
Madison, S. D., at 5 o'clock yester-
Gay morning in the Municipal Tri-
angle park, Thirty-hrst street and
Dewey avenue.
Jensen was slightly wounded four
times by bullets fired by Detectives
Ford and A. " Lundeen.
Drives to Police Station.
After being wounded. Ford
stepped into the emergency Car the
detectives were using and drove to
the police station.
He fell in a faint on the station
garage floor from loss Of blood.
He was rushed to the Lord Lister
hospital, where he was operated
upon. Early this morning he wss
resting comfortably. IF he pulls
through" says DR.. E. c. Henry, 1t
will be the result of sheer grit
Attempts to Escape.
Jensen, confessed burglar, at
tempted escape three times from the
clutches of Detective Lundeen, who
escaped the bullets fired by Jensen.
The burglar was taken to central
police station, where his wounds
were dressed. He will recover. He
suffered gunshot wounds on the
head, through the right wrist, in the
right shoulder and in the mouth.
His only words at the station were:
They'll never know who I am"
A diamond ring, ladies' watch.
money and mesh bag, sto' IN at
ESQ o'clock this morning frc-n the
home of Mrs. B. L. Curry, 1902
Davenport street, were found or
Jensen, besides gold watch which
was taken at 4;45 o'clock Yesterday
morning from the home of H. Fl.
Allen, 4lo7 Farnam street.
The burglar used a ladder and
climbed through the second story
window into the Allen home.
Detectives Stop Burglar.
The gun battle started at Thirty
first and Farnam streets when De-
tectives Ford and Lundeen, driving
an emergency car, stopped Jensen to
question him when he was seen lott
ering east on Farnam street.
Detective Lundeen, a participant
in the battle and who captured Jen-
sen after he attempted escape, even
after having been wounded, said:
AT the corner of Thirty first ana
Farnam streets, we stopped to ques-
ton the fellow. I stepped out of
the car and showed my badge to
him. He Immediately darted away,
headed for the park. | went after
him and fired twice in the air. Ford
jumped back into the car and cir
cled east around the block to head
the fellow off.
Turns and Fires.
IL chased the fellow into the park,
over ruts and mud holes into hol-
low. Just as he went into the hol-
low, he turned and fired at me. He
missed. l chased him to the park
work house, just as Ford came he
hind me in the car.
Ford jumped out. I yelled to
him that | was all in. Ford darted
past me directly after the fellow.
"He came out of the hollow. We
three were then on level ground, the
burglar still running. Suddenly he
turned and fired three times at us.
I fired twice more at him and he
fell. Ford fired several times when
the wounded burglar fired again. /
said to Ford: Did you get him?'
Ford replied: I think l have, but
he got me-
Goes After Gunman.
"And Ford sank to the ground. |
knew the burglar was wounded, so
helped Ford into the car and told
him | was going after the gunman
That was the last l saw of Ford
until he was in the hospital. When
returned to get the gunman, he
was gone. I saw him skulking along
a fence in the rear of the home of
C. X. Smith, 537 South Thirty-frst
avenue. l went after and caught
him on the porch of the home"
Jensen begged Lundeen to shoot
him, saying: II was born in a peni-
tertiary and Pm going to die in
one"
Omaha police have no record of
Jensen. The only charge placed