Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-28
THREATS Of MOB
TO LYNCH NEGRO
NOT FEARED HERE
Officials Express No Alarm
Over Report Of Attempt
to Storm County
Jail. :

lard Hoffman, cripple, stoutly de-
uies 4he charges.
Though. threats Of . mob to storm
the county jail, where he is in a
closely guarded CELL, have been rife
city and county officials feel nc
alarm over the situation.
Miss Lobeck was the victim oil
one of the most brutal attacks in the
history of the city when she was as.
: saulted by negro in Gibson. an
Omaha suburb, Thursday night.
Police Start Cleanup.
). Aroused by the numerous attacks
upon white women in the city by
negroes during the past three weeks,
detectives have made wholesale
arrests Of Migrants during the past
two days. Forty-six Migrants, the
greater number Of them negroes,
were exiled from the city yesterday
morning upon the request of Chief
of Detectives, Dunn. Is
Following a compromise between
Special Officer eastman for the
! Union Pacific and Police Judge
Fitzgerald, the Migrants were given
employment on the railroad instead
Of jail sentences. The men left in
special coaches on Union Pacific
train No. 9. Two special officers for
the railroad accompanied them.
None protested his exile.
Police Save Negro,
Brown was saved from lynching
only by the timely arrival Of three
automobile loads Of police at the
home OF Virginia Jones, white, 24l8
South Fifth street, where Brown
lived. He was identified by Miss
LAbeck and Mr.. Hoffman as the
girls assailant.
A iong-barreled revolver, which
,the negro is said TO have used to
hold young Hoffman at bay while he
.comitted the outrage upon the girl,
was found in Browns room. The
Identical clothes. which Miss Lobeck
said her assailant wore, were .lying
beside the bed in which Brown was
hiding when the mob stormed the
house.
Following failure Of the police to
apprehend the girls assailant mob
of 400 armed men under the leader
ship Of Joe Lobeck, brother of the
girl, and Frank B. Raum, 502 Ban
croft street, started systematic
search Of the railroad yards for the
negro. At the suggestion of Raurn,
four men investigated the home of
the Jones woman, which is known
rs the trouble house"
Mob Waits Outside.
AS Raum approached the back
door the woman and negro, Henry
johnson, later arrested for investi-
cation, escaped from the house. The
four men entered the house and
found Brown in bed. Paul Gillispie,
Fourth and Bancroft streets, >"cov-
cred" him with a revolver while the
men questioned the negro. A mob
gathered outside. Meanwhile call
had been sent to the police. An
emergency car with Officera Bosen,
Sinclair and Lightall was rushed to
the scene.
The officers took Brown over to
the home Of Miss Lobeek. The mob
followed.
Hes the man. He's the man."
the girl cried when she saw him.
Mr.: Hoffman also identified Brown
rs the girls assailant and the re-
yolver as the weapon the negro
used to hold him off. Brown was
also identified by Miss Louise Lo-
beck, sister of Agnes Lobeck, as the
man who was seen lurking about
the scene of the assault shortly be-
fore the crime was committed.
Lynchinfg Party Looms.
When the mob learned Brown had
been identified as the girls assail4
mt, . strenuous effort was made to
take him from the police. The key
to the emergency car, standing in
front Of the Lobeck horne, was
stolen TO prevent the officers MAXI.
ing : sudden getaway with the
black. A rope was tied on to the
rear wheels also.
When the officers attempted to
lead Brown to the car one of the
mob threw q rope about his neck.
Officer Lightall snatched it off. The
officers drew reviewers and hurried
Brown back into the house. Officer
Boscn went through the crowd to
find the lost key to the car. Several
minutes later he darted off in the
emergency car to send in a riot cali.
Telephone Wires Cut.
Two patrols loaded with police ar
rived in charge of Sergeant Samuel
son. Brown was secreted to one of
the patrols and hurried to- the sta
ton; According to police reports,
the telephone wires leading to the
Lobeck home had been cut by the
mob to prevent calls being sent to
the station. The police also report
many men appeared in the mob
wearing soldiers and sailors uni-
forms.
Brown was not excited when he
was brought to the county Jail. He
was placed in solitary confinement,
where he laid down and went to
sleep Immediately. Il amt the
man." he declared to the jailer. He
said he works as coal hustler, car
sttHS~Sooi hoAh "oSOho " thS SCt-
ars of houses.
The Jones woman and Johnson,
with whom Brown lived, were ar
rested later
Chief of Police Eberstein talked
with Brown yesterday.
/ don't know whether he is the
man or not" the chief said after
ward, HE denies it. He told me
be was at home in bed when the
ASSAULT occurred. Others, | under
ltand, say he wasn't. We will have
10 make further investigation.
Police say Virginia Jones told
Them that Brown was not at home
81 evening the night of the crime.
Chief Deputy Foster has the reg
slar day and night shifts on duty
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