Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-02

l asked the officers what the dis
turbance meant, they were unable to
tell me. One OF the detectives finally
said he thought the trouble was over
some booze. Sutton claimed the
boy was carrying booze in his shirt.
No whisky was found in the hotel or
along the route Scott fed. The
whole thing struck me as being very
unusual. The actions of the police
were beyond my understanding. If
the officers had been inclined to do
the thing in a decent way, they
would have come with a warrant and
notified me as the proprietor. !
would have been willing to assist
the policemen in every possible way.
Had they come to my place in the
proper manner Scott never would
have been killed"
Records in the Office of the West
ern Union telegraph Office show
that Scott was busily engaged in
the performance OF his duties just
before and at the time he was fright
ened by the detectives. who sneaked
into the building. Scott was re-
CURED to wind the burglar and fire
alarms every hour on each of the
seven floors of the hotel with the
exception of the first floor. There
is an alarm also in the basement,
which the boy was instructed to
wind every hour. When the alarms
are wound they are recorded auto
matically in the telegraph Office.
The records show Scott started in at
the seventh floor and was on his
way to the end of the hall on the
second floor to wind the alarm, after
performing the same duty on the
seventh, sixth, fifth, fourth and
third floors. He started in promptly
at | o'clock on the seventh floor,
and it takes about 10 minutes to per-
form this duty on all of the floors.
The records at the telegraph Office
show the boy wound alarms on all
of the floors but the second and in
the basement. 1t was nearly 10
minutes after | o'clock when Sutton
encountered the boy on the second
floor.
Scott still clutched the alarm box
key in his hand when he lay dead
in the alley a block away from the
hotel. The key was placed in the
basket with SCOTS body and taken
to Silas Johnson's undertaking es-
tablishment.
Three shots are said to have been
fired at Scott. Some declare four
shots were fired. There were two
empty chambers in Brighan's re-
volver, one in Armstrong; and one
in Holman's weapon. Herdzina's
revolver had no empty shells in it
after the shooting. Miss Eta Mon
sky, however, who occupied room
No. sol at the Plaza hotel, declared
she watched from her window Herd
zina reloading his weapon after
Scott was killed. This the officer
denies.
Statement by Holman.
"My revolver was a .38 caliber,"
declared Holman in the city Jail.
IT was walking in Thirteenth street
when I heard three shots fired.
Scott was running across the street
towards the mouth of the alley on
the east side of the street. One
Of the detectives in pursuit of the
man called to me to get him. l
fired my revolver in the air.
II believe Scott had been shot
before I fired my weapon. He was
staggering and seemed to be ex-
hausted. am positive I did not
shoot the man. I did not try to
hit the fugitive. l simply shot in
the air to scare the man."
The policeman had no right to
shoot to kill under the circum-
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