Omaha daily bee., 1919-03-11
M IKE N N A.
TELLS HOW
GANG COT
CARS here
Confessed Auto Thief at the
Trial Of "Red" Neal Inn
pIiCateS Katleman
and Jones. Ii

William McKentfa, confessed auto
mobile thief. told a story yesterday
at the trial of Red Neal, which
showed the business of automobile
stealing in Omaha almost as mattera
of-fact as any legitimate business,
According to McKenna's story
Neal and Maurice Katleman were
the men higher up" He testified
that they ordered" cars and he and
his pal, L. c. Jones, stole the cars
on the Omaha streets, drove them To
Nebraska City and left them. by
agreement, "on the east side Of The
court house, with the cushions turn
ed up" From there, he said, they
were handled by Neal, who lives i'd
Peru.
Neal and Katleman are charged
with abetting grand larceny. Katle-
man runs haberdashery in the Rose
building, Sixteenth and Farnam
streets. The trial of Katleman is
to come later.
Meet Men Higher Up.
According to McKenna's story
yesterday, he and Jones met Neal
and Katleman by appointment about
September 10, 1918. With Neal and
Katleman, McKenna said, were two
two men whose names were Emmett
Clark and James Clark from Mis-.
couri.
'Those four were in Hudson
super six taxibac," said McKenna
I'VE got in with them and drove to
Shashay's road house on the CarteK
lake boulevard. | and Jones went
into the barn and brought out the
car, a Buick roadster that we lad
stolen at Fifteenth and Farnann.
who stole that carr" asked
County Attorney Shotwell.
81 did" said McKenna.
what did Neal and Katleman sag
when you brought the car out?"
"They offered US SIS for it. We
finally agreed to take it and they
told us to drive it down to the end
of the car line at Albright. We did
and the taXicab brought the other
four men down and they met is
there. We turned the Buick over to
the Clarks and then Jones and I
got in the taxi and rode up town
with Neal and Katleman
Price For Stolen Cars.
"On the way up they asked us ta
get more cars for them Neal said
they would pay US $3.50 for Oakland
and $l00 for Fords and we said wed
get them. some more.
McKenna declared that about Z
week later Katleman called him uf
at the home of his sister-in-law and
asked him to come to his store. Ar
irving there, he said, Katleman said
he had received a telephone call from
Neal at Peru that he wanted AZ
Oakland car and they should leav.
it at Nebraska City on the east sid,
of the court house and turn thi
cushions up.
$50 we went over on Harnel
street and found one between Seven
teenth and Eighteenth" said Nc
Kenna. I'VE drove it to Nebrasli
City, left it on the east side Of thl
court house, turned up the cushions
went to restaurant and had suppe
and then took the train for Omaha.
Wanted Another Oakland.
| McKenna said Katleman me
them by appointment at Sixteentl
and Harney streets and said Ii
didn't have the money in full, bu
gave them $40. On September q
he testified, Katleman again tol,
him that Neal had telephoned I,
send down another Oakland ans
that he would pay them in fui
when it was delivered in Nebrasr
City. Then ensued the theft d
which the present case is based.
car belonging to c. J. Tamulewicz
! McKenna related this in the sam
cool, businesslike manner as th
other thefts.
"We went out and found an OAK
land Six at Seventeenth and Far
am Streets" he said. $50 \. too
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