Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-04
Shotwel May File
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the various revolvers expressed tn
opinion that the bullet which cause,
the death of Scott was fired from
an automatic revolver. Tho bullet
in Brigham's revolver weighed Ia
grains. Holman's weighed l47 grain
and the bullet taken from Scott.
body weighed 143 grains. Numerous
witnesses declared the shape and thu
weight of the bullet taken from tn.
bellboy's body indicated nothing.
No Right in Hotel.
The sum and substance Of the case
as developed at the coroner's inves.
| tigation, showed that the police in.
stituted an unlawful raid on the
Plaza hotel. the county attorney ad.
mitted. They had no right to &C
into the hotel without a warrant" he
said. "They had no right to modest
the bellboy, who was not shown to
be engaged unlawfully, and there
was no excuse for shooting at him
as far as I have been able to see"
The fact that Scott was engaged
, in registering his danger alarm calls
at the Western Union telegraph Of
fee was not brought out at the in
vestigation. The county attorney de-
clared this feature of the case, as
we'll as others, were not regarded as
necessary to show that the police
overstepped their bounds when they
instituted an unlawful raid which re-
suited in the death of Eugene Scott.
Police Captain Heitfeld was the
first witness called at the afternoon
session.
"Sergt. Rose reported the killing to
me after he had received call from
Officer Herdzina and the coroner's
physical were called on to exhibit
the bullets from Holman's and Brig
hams rcvolvers. The bullets from
the two weapons we're compared
with the bullet which was taken
from SCOTS body.
Though he received both Hol-
mans and Brigham's weapons, Capt.
Heitfeld told the county attorney he
did not know that Brigham turned
in the same revolver which he car
ried at the time Scott was killed.
Mrs. Roberts declared she had
been staying with her husband at
the Plaza for about three weeks.
She said it was after midnight when
Sutton and three other officers en-
countered her on the landing be-
tween the second and third floors of
the hotel. The bell boy was COM
ing down the stairs just behind her.
Il was not talking to Scott" she
said, when Sutton engaged me in
conversation" An attempt was made
to confuse the woman in Identify
ing Sutton. She was positive in her
statement, however. II did not know
him at the time" she explained, but
he came back to my room alter
wards and told me the bell boy
had been killed"
Mrs. Roberts looked straight at
Sutton, who was standing behind
County Attorney Shotwell's chair.
No further attempt was made to as
certain whether or not the woman
could identify Sutton.
Orders Scott Shot.
Sutton stopped Scott between the
second and third floors" continued
Mrs. Roberts. There were three
other men with him. They were
standing below us on the steps. Sat
ton told the boy to stop. Scott re-
piled he was busy and continued on
beyond the reach of the other three
men. Then it was Sutton called out:
"'Hit him over the head-shoot
him These were his exact words.
Sutton did all the talking. The
other officers had nothing to say"
Mrs. Roberts told the jury that
when Sutton returned after Scott
had been killed, he asked her if she
had heard of the affair. She told him
she had not and remained in her
room.
At this juncture Sutton whispered
into the ear of the county
attorney, who asked the witness II
she had heard the sound of break
ing bottle or falling glass as the
bellboy ran down the steps.
Saw No Battle.
THAT is the first intinlation |
have heard of such thing" re-
Piled the witness. II heard nothing
but the noise of the fleeing bellboy
and the sound of the commotion
caused by those I learned afterwards
were chasing him. | saw no bottle
in the boys hands, or about his
person"
Drop Accusation Against Woman
Mrs. Roberts is the woman SUIT
ton told the reporters the night of
the shooting he saw taking whiskey
from the bellboy. Mrs. Roberts has
denied this, and Sutton has not at
tempted to accuse the woman of this
offense since. He dropped the ac-
cusation without all attempt too ex-
plain his effort to further charge !
Mrs. Roberts with improper con-
duct.
J. A. Shanahan declared he plain !
iy heard Detective Armstrong call
out Kill the -" He |
said Brigham fired the first shot up
in the air. The witness was not |
sure whether or not Brigham fired
the second shot in the air or point
blank at the fleeing bellboy. Shana-
han declared he witnessed the affair
from Fourteenth street at the mouth
of the alley. The witness asserted
he did not see Scott running after
he saw Brigham fire the second shot.
He declared Holman was standing
on the north side of the alley at
Thirteenth street. After he reach
ed the scene, Shanahan declared, he
heard Holman exclaim two or three
times, you said to get him. He
said Brigham told him Holman kill
ed Scott and that Holman told him