Omaha daily bee., 1922-06-11
Fugitive
Again Gives
Posses Slip
Officers Have Only Blind
!, MuA I, Follow-Brown
'S's,sS.L.. ID to Have Is.
> capped Lincoln.
Farmer Shot by Picket

Possemer Saturday had only blind
leads to follow in their hunt for Fred
Brown, chairman extraordinary and
fugitive de luxe.
The theft OF Ford touring car
from an unlocked garage at the farm
OF w. L. dc Shayel. tour miles north
OF Lincoln on the road TO Fremont at
l0:45 Friday night. caused them TO
believe Brown has fed Lincoln again.
Fred w. Lundsman. 50. Lincoln
farmer, who was shot by mistake for
Brown Friday night was reported
singing Saturday. Attending sur
geons said he had suffered so much
loss OF blood that his recovery is
problematical.
Although Brown is believed to
have been running rampant in Lin
coin Friday night after fleeing to the
capital city in a stolen automobile,
residents OF Benson and the territory
west of the suburb still are inclined
to believe he is in that vicinity.
Evidences OF Visit.
The fugitive who has eludcd
posses for two weeks now is believed
10 have foraged at the farm OF Al
Anderson, five miles up the Little
Pappio from Browns shack west
OF Benson, according to the sheriff's
office Saturday.
Deputies were called to this farm
| Thursday night. They were toic
by Anderson a mattress had been
moved from one barn to the hay
NOW of another and that egg shells,
ginger snaps, crumbs and other evil
dence OF fugitive sleeping there
had been found.
The officers left late at night, but
were recalled to the place at $50
Friday morning. Anderson said the
man had returned and moved the
mattress to a clump of bushes.
Neighborhood Alarmed.
"The spot is ideal for Brown"
said Deputy Sheriff Johnson. He
could 60 to the Anderson place from
his shack through the deep bed of
the creek.
Mrs. Anderson is so frightened
she will not remain at the farm day
or night. All farm houses in the
neighborhood are lighted up all
night through fear of the man."
| Lundsman was shot by Howard
Morris, national guardsman, and
Waldo Dingman, brother-in-law OF
the divorce who gfappled with
| Brown in Lincoln last Sunday, at
the Oak creek bridge near Lincoln
shortly after midnight.
When he failed to halt his car for
inspection they fired. He said he
thought they were holdups.
Holds Up Restaurant.
Two guardsmen halted Herbert
Cornell on his way home to Ray
mond, Neb., at Salt creek bridge,
when he drove at them and crashed
through the railing, leaving the car
half suspended over the edge of the
bridge. He escaped injury.
A man believed to have been
Brown held up Mrs. Edna Craig and
4NSltlC IICuCllIk III restaurant IN
the Lincoln neighborhood where he
used to live Friday afternoon,
forced them to cook him meal, ate
it, Dragged to them of having $4,000
in bank, made them put up a lunch
for him. and departed after paying
, for his food.
Stolen Goods Found,
They notified police. They said he
told them to have dinner ready for
, him at 2 Saturday afternoon and gave
them the name and address of Mrs,
Ida Anderson of Seattle as his sweet.
= heart
Possemen found $500 worth oi
stolen goods in a basement at Twen.
ty-third and O streets, which a mo.
torcycle officer searched Thursday
{ night after he had chased man he
> thought was Brown. On the floor OF
the cellar were receipts signed by
Omaha firms for purchases made by
Gus Grimes" the alias of Brown ir
Benson,