Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-10-30
Cilinsky Is
Convicted
of Murder
Omaha Man Must Pay PEN
atty for Killing of Sheriff
In Gun Fight After
Bank Robbery.
$4,000 Taken in Raid

Jackson, Mich, Oct. 2o.-(Speciai
Telegram. )-Davc Gilinsky of Oma-
Ina was found guilty of first degree
murder by a jury for the killing Of
Under Sheriff Harry Worden.
Gilinsky was arrested July 20 at
Mack Island after Under Sheriff
Harry Worden had been instantly
killed in a gun fight with four men
who were found in room over a
club house adjacent to the Mack Is
land hotel dividing the spoils OF a
robbery two hours earlier, in which
upwards of $4,000 was taken from
the Grass Lake bank, II miles from
Jackson.
William Mcintyre, proprietor Of
the hotel, stated that William E.
Harris and Walter Wilson ha !
been stopping at the hotel for several
days and two days prior to the rob-
berry were joined by Gilinski. who
registered as Dave Rosenberg and
by Dock Stowe, who was known as
Tom Jones. John Fuller, Grass
Lake. merchant whose store is ulree
doors from the bank, testified That
lpt saw the car standing in front of
I ie bank at the time of the robbery
With man waiting at the wheel and
the engine running. He identified
Gilinski as the driver.
Officer Blames Gilinsky.
When the officers, Harry Worden
and Verl Kutt, reached the door of
the room over the club house they
were met by Harris who attempted
10 keep them out by saying THAT
there were girls in the room who
were not dressed. When Kutt and
Worden became persistent he threw
the door back saying, "are you all
set?' and grabbed Kutt. The two
locked in a struggle across the
veranda, falling down the narrow
stairway. Shots rang out at the
door and Worden fell with a bullet
through his heart. Kutt testified
that as he tumbled down the stairs
he distinctly saw Gilinski with a blue
steel gun in his hand and cried out
to him, don't shoot, there has been
blood enough shed already"
A witness who was near the dance
hall short distance from the club
.louse testified that he saw Gilinsky
lump out Of the window followed by
Dock stowe, who fell and broke his
leg and crawled off into the marsh
where he was later captured. Depu-
" Sheriff John Smith. who was on
lis way to Grass Lake with physi-
clan, who had been called by Kutt,
Jaw Gi!insky coming up beside the
road with no hat and wet to the
sSaist. The officer stopped and
asked him wher,, he was going. G;-
,iusky asked to be driven to the car
line, stating that he wanted to 90
% Jackson, that there was trouble at
he island, that "the sheriffs are
.,l,ooting hell out Of everything"
Bullets Are Identical.
Smith ordered him into the car
and he was taken back and Identified
nv Kutt as the man he saw on the
veranda with gun the moment
after Worden fell. Occupants OF
another car found a revolver in the
road short distance from the point
where Gilinsky ras caught and
claimed by the prosecution to be
lis property.
Capt. w. H. Proctor of the Mas
achusetts state police, noted fire
arins expert, showed the jury en-
larged photographs of two bullets
one taken from Worden's body and
;!,c other pushed through the barrel
oi the gun claimed to be Gilinsky's.
Marks on the two bullets were
shown to besidentical,