Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-11
JUDGE REDICK
ORDERS PROBE
into ''FRAMEUP"
II Want Every Aspect of This
Case Gone lnto," He
Says in Charge to
Grand Jury.
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when they emerged from the star
chamber session.
Mayor Smith admitted he read the
article exposing the corrupt and
criminal methods employed by Cap
tain Haze and othsr policemen. He
admitted he read the confessions of
ERNEST Morris and Harold Thorp,
making clean breasts of the malic-
ious arrangement, and declaring
they had been induced to go before
the grand jury and swear to lies
concocted by Captain Haze and de-
signed to implicate the reporter III
the riot.
Nothing to Say.
II have nothing to say, nothing to
say at ALL" was the terse manner N
which the mayor dismissed the sub
ject, when asked to comment on the
situation.
Il have no statement to make"
declared Commissioner Ringer.
Chief Eberstein asserted he had
not yet heard of the case.
Haze, who is the man selected by
Commissioner Ringer to represent
the Omaha police department III
connection with the grand jury in
vestigation, did not appear at the
court house yesterday morning.
Following the exposure by The
Bee, Sheriff Mike Clark has issued
instructions to his deputies to re-
fuse Captain Haze and other men,
bers of the police department the
privileges which heretofore were
granted them in the county Jail.
In the past Captain Haze and the
other policemen working on the riot
cases have been permitted to inter
view the prisoners privately and at
their own will. In the future no
more policemen will be allowed to
talk privately to the prisoners, de-
clared the sheriff. When Captain
Haze or any other policeman wants
to talk to prisoners in the county
Jail they will be compelled to do
SO in the presence of the sheriff
or one of his deputies.
County Attorney Shotwell re-
fused to state whether or not he
would take up the matter of Cap
tain Haze's misconduct with the
grand Jury. Il do not care to make
! statement of my plans. at this
Time" asserted the county attorney.
4 may have something to say
Iater."
In the event the grand jury insti-
tutes an investigation of the affair,
i is said, the proper charges that |
will be preferred against the police
man are criminal conspiracy and
subornation of perjury. Both are
penitentiary offenses.
Captain Haze and several other
detectives, whose names win be !
disclosed later, are said to have
been trying to frame-up with pris-
oners in the county jail for weeks,
10 indict The Bee reporter in con-
nection with the riot. At least two
other prisoners were approached,
but refused to enter into the mali
.ious and crooked arrangements
by Captain Haze and his |
assistants.
Promised Their Freedom.
After Captain Haze succeeded in
prevailing on Ernest Morris and |
Harold Thorpe, the two prisoners to !
swear falsely agains. Mr.. Moore |
before the grand jury upon a prom |
Sc that they would be released from
Jail. one of the detectives working
with Haze remarked 1--WE have been
after for long time. We |
will get him this time sure"
This remark was made just after |
the reporter left room No. 20l in
the city hall, where he had gone at |
the instance Of Captain Haze, who |
lied to the reporter and pretended |
he wanted to obtain some informa- |
lion from him.
They had US over to the city |
hall at least a dozen times" de
clared Morris, before we agreed |
to conspire with the policemen to
send the reporter to the peniten-
tiary. They talked to US for days,
and finally when they learned that
neither of us ever saw the reporter,
Captain Haze agreed to cali him in
so we could know our man."
Both Morris and Thorpe have
expressed fear that they will be
prosecuted by the police, because
they have told the truth.
Free Newsboys.
J. Van Orden, Herman Remer,
John Monico and Forest KIDD,
who were arrested Sat-
urday night by Patrolman Bitters
for selling The Bee containing an
account Of the police frame-up, were
by Acting Police Judge
R. w. Patrick yesterday. The
court held that the boys were plain
ly within their rights when they
exhibited the newspapers on the
streets, and that the officer over
stepped his authority when he went
out of his way to prosecute them.
This is not the first attempt by
members of the police department
to prevent the circulation of The
Bee containing accounts of the
criminal actions of policemen.