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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-03
Guest at Plaza Hotel Says
Negro Youth was Shot at
Command of Paul Sutton
Other Witnesses Positive That Fatal Bullet Was Fired
by One of the City Officers and Not by Special
Policeman Homan-Negroes of the City Indignant
at What They Term "Cold- Blooded Murder"

was ordered by Detective Arm
strong to kill Scott as he fed from
the alley across Thirteenth street.
Armstrong was chasing the racing
negro and Holman was walking
north in Thirteenth street. Kill that
black Armstrong was
said to have shouted at Holman. The
Union Pacific detective fired one
shot into the air, according to his
statement and according to the story
told by other eye witnesses.
Witnessed Entire Affair.
Scott was shot before he emerged
from the alley on the west side of
Thirteenth street, declared Tom
Bevington, Az South Thirteenth
street, who witnessed the entire at
tair from his door which opens into
the alley short distance from
where the boy fell.
II was preparing to go to bed"
said Mr.. Bevington, when heard
a shot. which sounded like it came
from the direction of the Plaza no.
tel. I fastened to my door and saw
several men racing down the alley
from Fourteenth street. Scott had
reached the mouth of the alley on
the west side of Thirteenth street
when another shot rang out. l was
standing only a few feet from the
man, and am positive that it was this
shot which killed the bell boy. The
fugitive seemed to turn half way
around just before he was struck.
He was pleading with his pursuers
not to kill him. The boy staggered
across Thirteenth street and dropped
dead a short distance up the alley.
Says Didn't See Boy.
Holman was standing on the
north side Of the alley and on the
west side of the street. The negro
was shot before he emerged from
the alley on the west side of the
street. Holman seemed to be hiding
out of range of the bullets which
were being fired by the policemen.
In my opinion, the Union Pacific de-
tective did not see the negro until
after he was shot by one of the
policemen.
II do not know which one of the
city detectives fred the fatal shot.
l believe it was one of two men,
however, who came up almost i'm
mediately."
Detectives Armstrong and Brig
ham were the officers who followed
directly behind their victim.
Saw Youth Fall.
Roy Stewart, who is a guest of
the St. James hotel, the windows
to whose room opens on the alley
and Thirteenth street, declared he
witnessed the affair from his room.
Il heard several shots fired up the
alley in the direction of the Plaza
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-03
Record of Man Who Was
Leading the Morals Squad
When Boy Was Murdered

of the detective who
administration charged with grating, protecting
conspiracy quenng disordy houses He discharged
following prolonged hearing before the city commission Later the
represented by Elmer Thomas his losing fight hold his job
police and for years he has been of Com
missioner Ringers hired press agent.
Employed BY Ringer.
employed while by Mr. Ringer and Thomas
expense 1t announced the he would be
CURED uniform and walk beat when attention called
would his appointment the detec
tive force However instead of requiring Sutton to walk beat
do placed directly under the orders of Elmer Thomas
his orders from Elmer Thomas and he reports
Thomas instead of police headquarters all other police
do.
Has Sanction of Mayor.
This declared has the sanction of both Mayor
Smith and Police Commissioner Ringer.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-03
n YEAR OLD Man
DIVORCED FROM
WIFE, AGED 50
Peter HoImberg Says House.
keeper Married Him Only
for Money-Judge Gives
Her AIimony. q

Seventy.seven-year-old Peter
Holmberg was granted divorce
from his 60-year-old wife, Augusta,
by District Judge Sears, yesterday,
and was ordered to pay her $500
and attorneys fees.
The decision in the case was
reached by arbitration. Ross Shot
we'll. attorney for Mrs. Holmberg,
and John Battin, attorney for Mr..
Holmberg, agreed to certain stipu-
lstions in the case and Judge Sears
gave his decision without testimony
ON the stand by either side.
The aged couple mere married on
January %, 1914. She had been his
housekeeper for number of
months. Mr.. Holmberg alleged in
his petition that as housekeeper
she seemed to have all the qualifi-
cations that he wanted in wife.
But after the marriage, he alleged,
she changed. He said she made fun
OF his appearance, threatened to
send him to the poor farm and was
more interested in his property than
in him. She declined to go to
church with him as she had before
their marriage, he said, and was in
terested in younger men more than
in him. He said she collected rent
from his houses and kept It.
Worked in Laundries.
In her cross-petition. Mrs, Holm
berg said she had to go to work in
laundries and other places to get
money to live on after their mar
rage. She alleged he had not even
bought her 4 calico dress during
their married life. She expended
the rents that she collected only on
household necessities, she declared.
Mrs. Holmherg stated that before
Mr.. Holmberg. He also ownes
a will, giving her all bis property.
They lived at OILS North Twenty
second street in house owned by
Mr.. Holmberg. little, bald ann,
house at 1909 Ohio street.
"Any woman" said Judge Sears,
who would marry that ancient man
really oughtn't to have a cent OF
Mr.. Helmberg, a little, bald man,
wearing glasses, speaks no English,
though he has been in this country
from Sweden 80 years. He is very
feeble.
Mrs. Holmberg doesn't look her
90 years. She is also Swedish.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-03
Alleged Pickpocket
Captured After Long
Chase Through Streets

The motorman and conductor of a
North Twenty-fourth street car
after a long chase finally overlook
a man at Sixteenth and Webster
street, who is alleged to have picked
the pocket of E. F. McKinna, 4949
North Twenty-fifth street. They
were passengers on the street car.
According to Policeman Aloud.
to whom the man, giving his name
as Joe Benson, South Side, was
turned over by the street car crew.
the man confessed to picking Nc
Kinna's pocket, while they were
jammed close to each other on the
rear platform Of the car.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-03

hotel" he said. Then 1 heard the
men racing down the alley, l think
it was the third shot | heard when
| saw the boy fall in the alley across
the street. am unable to say who
fired the shot which killed Scott"
Stewart declared he heard De-
tective Armstrong shout at some
one to kill the fleeing negro.
Burt Schroeder, bell boy at the
Carlton hotel, who was at the po-
lice station early in the morning
when the report of the murder was
received declared it first was
thought Herdzina had killed man.
Send the stretcher to Thirteenth
and Harvey Streets" the desk ser
geant ordered, "Herdzina got him
self a man."
1--WE are going to see that justice
is done at any cost" declared Rev.
John Albert Williams, pastor of the
colored St. Philip the Deacon Epis-
copal church, and president of the
local branch of the National Asso-
citation for the Advancement of Col
ored People.
Scott was murdered in cold
blood. I have my opinion, and it is
a decided opinion, as to who is re-
sponsible for this. crime. Our So
ciety is taking all active and keen
interest in this affair. We are going
to the very bottom of it. Some one
is going to suffer for this murder.
The limit has been reached in Oma-
ha recently and no more white
washing can be tolerated"
c. c. Galloway is chairman of a
committee representing the organi-
cation in an investigation which is
being conducted by representative
colored people of Omaha. 1t was
announced that delegation of ne
groes would attend. the inquest,
which will be held in room No. l at
the court house at 9 o'clock this
morning.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-03

Eugene Scott, negro bellboy who
was shot to death early Monday
morning following police raid on
the Plaza hotel, was killed on the
order of Detective Paul Sutton, who
was in command of the six police
! men assigned to raid \ half dozen
downtown hotels Sunday night, ac-
cording to the statement of Mrs. L.
Roberts of Minneapolis Monday
night to Michael Dempsey special
investigator for the county attorney.
Mrs. Roberts, who is guest at
the Plaza hotel, also repeated her
statement to James B. Kilkinney
and a reporter for The Bee.
The woman declared she heard
Sutton call to the officers on the
floor beneath him to shoot and kill
the fleeing negro
Was Ringing Alarms.
Mrs. Roberts is the woman SUIT
ton said he saw the bellboy deliver
ing whisky to. The detective was
talking to her in the corridor on
the second floor. Scott, who was
ringing his Western Union alarm
bells, was stopped as he passed the
couple.
What are you doing, boy?" SUIT
ton is quoted as saying to the boy.
81 am ringing my bells" Scott
responded.
you have too many bells to ring
around here" the detective is said
to have commented. "Just wait
there until ! get through talking to
this woman"
Scott is said to have ignored the
command of the officer, whom i. IS
believed he did not know, and start
ed for the staircase leading to the
next floor, where his duties required
him to ring another Western Union
alarm. Sutton started in pursuit,
Mrs. Roberts declared, the boy be-
came frightened and quickened his
pace. The detective was out-dis-
tanced and he called to the officers
on the floor below to stop the boy.
Kill Him! Alleged Command.
knock his head offl Shoot him!
Kill him!" Mrs. Roberts declared
Sutton shouted to his men on the
first floor.
Scott made a dash through the
front door, ran across Fourteenth
street into an alley. He was followed
by Detectives Herdzina, Armstrong
and Brigham. Ten minutes later the
bell boy was lying in the mouth of
an alley a block distant dying with
bullet wound through his heart.
The police arrested Edgar Hol-
man, a Union Pacific detective. and
have been making every possible eff
fort to have it appear that Holman
killed the boy.
According to witnesses, Holman
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-03


population. The minority treaties
will safeguard the political. religious
and linguistic rights of the repub-
lies minorities, transferred to new
sovereignty under the treaty Of
peace.
The league of nations is not the
only protector of Austria's rights.
The league, to which the allied and
associated powers hope that Aus
tria will be admitted at an early
date, will not only protect the rights
OF all signatories to the treaty, but
creates a means whereby such ad-
iustments as facts or changing cir
cumstances may prove to be neces-
sary. if the peace settlement itself
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-03
CFoWder Has Hay Fever;
Seeks Relief in Colorado

Colorado Springs, Sept. 2.-To Sc
cure treatment for hay fever. from
which he has been suffering for
some time, Maj. Gen. Enoch H.
Crowder arrived here Monday night
from Washington.
General Crowder has placed him
self under the care of a physician.
No callers are allowed and it will
DT several days before he will be
able 10 see any one outside his i'm
mediate family.
While here General Crowder, will
visit his mother, Mrs. Nellie c.
Crowder, and his sister, Mrs. F. H.
Tinsman..
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-03
RECORDS READY
FOR BIC FIVE"
PACKER P ROBE.
Investigation of Profiteering
and Hoarding Of Packers
Begins in Chicago Before
Judge Lands.

Chicago, Sept. 2.-Investigation
of profteering and boarding on the
part of the big FIVE" packers, sugar
operators and others charged by the
Department of Justice with respon-
sibility for prevailing high prices of
food, was scheduled to begin today
before a new federal grand jury
sworn in by Judge Lands.
District Attorney Clyne announced
the government was ready to pro-
coed and said that at the opening
of the investigation complete rec
ords OF the Cudahy Packing COM
pany, dating back to 1912, will be
laid before the grand jury. These
records apply to DO different cities,
it was said.
Fear Generalization.
Washington, Sept. 2.-Independ-
ent packers assailing the Kenyon
and Kendrick bills before the senate
agricultural committee today de-
clared that federal regulation
through a licensing system would
utterly demoralize their business.
Says Crest of Prices Here.
St. Paul, Mimi, Sept. 1.-The
crest in the high cost of living has
been reached, prices have already
started downward and will continue.
The drop later will be consider
able" said ]. Ogden Armour, the
Chicago packer, in an interview
here this afternoon
Cudahy Company Fined
Milwaukee, Wis, Sept. 2-Cuda-
ny Brothers company, packers, to-
day pleaded guilty in district court
to % violations of the cold storage
law and was fined the maximum
amount on each charge, totaling
$1,000.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-03
More Oversee Arrivals

The following Omahans recently
arrived in New York from over
seas:
Casua1s:
Private Jack A. Sorenson, l22h
South Thirteenth street.
Capt. Ralph P. Campbell, 2712
North Fifty-sixth street.
Company B, Third supply train:
Lieut.. George Knight, 842 South
TWentY-hrst street.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-03
Renfrow's Case Continued

The case against Louis Renfrow,
proprietor of the Carlton hotel,
charged with keeping and maintain
ing a common ill-governed house
and violating the state hotel law,
was continued in police court yes
terday until Thursday morning.
The hotel was raided Sunday night
by the morals squad, without a
search warrant.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-03
Regular Sherlock Holmeses

Cigars and candy valued at over
$500, stolen Monday from the store
of c. E. Gunnnell, 1928 Spalding
street, were found yesterday by
detectives in a cornheld at Thirty
third and Spalding streets. The po-
licemen followed tracks of foot
steps leading to the field from the
store.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-03
Too Much Mother-in-LaW,
Saws Man Held for DesertiOn

Too much mother-in-law is given
as the reason for the desertion of
his wife 10 months ago in Chicago
by J. P. Conley, who was arrested
yesterday by detectives in down.
town department store. where he is
employed as a salesman. Conley is
being held pending the arrival of
Chicago officer to take him back to
the Illinois metropolis.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-12-03
Early Indian Agriculture.

When the white men first arrived in
this country they found an aboriginal
population mainly sedentary and agri-
cultural The Indians were mostly
farmers, peacefully disposed and dwell
ing in villages. Predatory and unscrupu-
lous, after the manner of his kind, the
intrudlng Caucasian drove them to war
and forced them to adopt rowing and
unsettled mode of existence,
Corn was their principal crop-a ce-
real unknown to Europe. How ex-
tensiyely they grew 1t may be judged
from the fact that in 1855 the British
destroyed 10000 acres of maize plant
ed by the Senecas.
The Indians Of pre-Columbian days
pursued agriculture on a cooperative
plan. Large fields Of corn were made
up of hundreds Of individual fields.
The squaws stirred the fruitful earth
and planted the grain. At harvest
time the men and boys helped to gath.
er the ripe ears.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-12-03
BIGLICK

Rev. A. r. Burnett, of Burke.
preached an interesting sermon here
Sunday. He will preach again the
4th Sunday in December.
A. n. Hill and family spent last
Sunday with homefolks.
Willie bradley, of Crossville. was
here Sunday to see his little brother.
Elmore, who has been quite sick.
Saturday Nov. Is the ladies of the
community met with Mrs. Virgil Hale
and formed then selves Ito a society to
be called the Ladies Aid of Biglick.
The object of the society is to help
the sick and needy persons in the
community. They are to meet the
third Saturday in each month. They
elected Mrs. Carrie Murphy, President.
Mrs. Vigril Hale, Vice President.
Mrs. Nora kerley, Secretary. After
a good dinner and pleasant day spent
in sewing for needy family they ad-
journed to meet with Mrs Ike Bur-
CESS.
Mrs. Tom Hale is visiting her
daughter Mrs. Arch Hale, of Li1ary.
Nov. 21. SNOWFALL.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-12-03
THINK TERM IS EFFEMlNATE
Some Tennis Players Object to Word
"Love" as at Present Employed
In Scoring System.

There is talk among the overlords
of tennis of finding another word than
"love" to mean nothing" in the scor-
ing system, for, although it may sur
prise many to hear 1t, the game Is
sometimes spoken Of as effeminate,
and this bit of Technology is held re-
sponsible. Nobody has ever explained
why "love" means nothing" in tennis,
but there is a footnote in an old and
rare book about card-playing which
refers to an old Scottish word "luff,"
which meant nothing" and this per-
haps, may have been somehow trans
ferred into the game Of tennis. Or,
again, the term may be of far eastern
origin, where a word sounding like
'love" was used in the old form of
tennis that was once popular in the
orient Whether or not the termin-
ology undergoes change, the game is
in no immediate danger of falling off
in popularity, and the repeated shout
ing of these seeming endearments
across the tennis net has occasioned
much innocent Observation-Disclosures
Science Monitor
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-12-03
TYPIFIES TRIALS OF ISRAEL
"Ths Only Kid" Song story In Pass
ever Services. Believed 70 Have
That Significance.

Some commentators say that "Tns
House That Jack Built" Is only Q
Jingle taken from "Chad Gadyoh." or
''The Only Kid" q nursery doggerel,
which later became q Jewish legend,
observes the Detroit News. II has
found its way into the "Hagodah," the
Jewish book used the hrst two nights
of the passover service Of the Jewish
people. After the service is over and
the dinner eaten, the father sings
aloud, '"rhe Only Kid" with his chit.
dren following him. Then he trans
lates It into English or Yiddish for
those Of the family who do not under
stand Hebrew.
1.-THE Only Kid" tells Of kid eat
en- by a cat; of dog which bit the
cat; Of stick that smote the dog,
of a fire that burned the stick. Then
It tells Of water that extinguished the
fire; Of an or that drank the water;
of butcher who killed the OK, of the
angel Of death who killed the butcher,
and finally of God who killed the
angel. The legend Is supposed to rep
resent Israel's trials, with Israel cast
as 1.-THE Only Kid" and the butcher,
the cat, dog. are and the stick as his
ltormentors, who are in turn killed by
God
'The Only Kid" has q swing and lilt
to It resembling 1.-THE House That Jack
|Built." which gives rise to the belief
that the latter is copied from 1t. Some
soy the Jewish legend Is an old GER
man ballad sprung from a French
song.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-12-03
CAN YOU GIVE ANY LIGHT?
Man Came to This County In July and
Foul Play Is Suspected.

The following letter from Mayor W.
M. Hannah, of Hartman. is looking
for a man who came to this county last
summer and has not since been heard
from. The letter follows:
Hartman, Tenn. Nov. 10, 1919.
The Crossville Chronicle Emil
Skoglund, who came here from the
West with Mrs. Outa Osborne. about
q year a ago, and who bouhgt farm
in the Snow settlement, and looked
after the farm interests of Mrs. Os-
borne, left Mrs. Osborne's home near
Emory Gap, some time in last July.
for the purpose of attending to her
cattle on her farm in Cumberland
county.
The horse on which he rode returned,
but Mr.. Skoglund has not been heard
of. And am strongly of the opinion
that he was murdered. | have heard
that man was found dead some where
in the Cumberland Mountains. and was
buried without having been Identified.
/ have taken this matter up with the
Mayor of Warren, Minnesota, and
brother of Mr.. Skoglund, who lives in
Warren. and they have heard nothing
from this man,
| feel that it is our duty to give this
matter as much publicity as possible
and that everyone endeavor to find out
what has happened.
Yours very respectfully,
w. Nj. Hannah, Mayor.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-12-03
WILL ROAR TOWARD GERMANY
Position Of ScuIptured Lion on Fa.
mous Battlefield Of Waterloo ls
to Be Reversed.

The lion on the battlefield Of Water'
loo is to face the other way, and
before long 1t will stand with open,
ponderous paws roaring silently, after
the manner Of your fierce but consid-
crate sculptured lions, toward Ger
many instead of France. Fortunately
for the quiet of the countryside the
roar is imaginary or the lion would
long ago have become a nuisance
whichever way he faced. The lion
was set up by Belgium after the bat
tie Of Waterloo, and stood as a warn
Ing to France not to engage In any
more Nap0leonic dreams Of conquest /;
and year after year 1t looked toward
France, while behind 1t Germany pre-
pared for the next effort to dominate
other nations. It maintained its atti-
tude while Germany carried through
the program that separated Alsace-
Lorraine from France; but presently
behind the lions back Belgium began
to fortify, and eventually left him in
the ridiculous position of looking in
ono direction while the Belgian fortia-
cations looked in another. A tame
lion, one might say. roaring for the edi-
fication of tourists and with no per-
sonal feeling about it. But now Bel
gium decides to turn him round and
let him roar toward Germany as
solemn reminder of the unwisdom Of
dreams Of world conquest.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-12-03
lndIans Were First pentistsf

Why do Americans have the best
teeth In the world? Why did the dam
|dlhed kaiser insist on an American
|deptistl The Indians taught US.
DR.. Marshall Il. Saville OF Colum.
bus university digs into ruins, diseov'
ers: Long before Columbus was born,
even fifteen hundred years ago, the
Aztecs had perfected dentistry to an
art. They filled cavities, made crowns
and bridge work. Aztec dudes bad
conspicuous holes in their teeth filled
with gold or turquoises--as perfect f1t-
ting a Job as you could get today.
They left records showing that they
even used coca, from which cocain6
e extracted, as a local anesthetie
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-12-03

very ancient, and many very old ones
have yielded most interesting relics.
coins documents, etc.-placed within
them evidently as memorials likely
to be instructive to subsequent gen-
erstions.
The Great Pyramid, which was de-
signed as q tomb for a monarch, waA
expected to endure forever. and so its
cornerstone could not have been ex
lpected to contain any such memora'
IbNia.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-12-03
Surveyors Use AirpIanes.

Four airplanes are being used to sur
vey the extensive forests of Labrador
to determine the value Of the wood
pulp represented by the growing trees.
Aerial photographs will be taken of
many parts Of the peninsula for use
In compiling statistics. The surveying
party, which left the United States re-
Gently for Nova Scotia, is composed
Of 40 persons and is headed by man
who served two years as captain in
the British air forces.-Popular Me-
chanics Magazine.