Evening star., 1922-10-20
CHAIN MAN GUILTY. ] Il ! |
IN KIDNAPPING CASE.
Two Women Ten Story Of
Their Imprisonment in
Shack.
ARRESTED AFTER CHASE
Hairbreadth Escapes End in Cap
ture]ury Urges Life
. Sentence.
ARRESTED AFTER CHASE

OMAHA, Neb., October 2o-Fred
Brown, Omaha Chain man." today
faced a sentence Of life imprison-
mont for KIDNAPPING with intent to
assault Mrs. Jean jenkins. twenty
one years old.
In returning . verdict of guilty
as charged" late yesterday, after
forty-four hours deliberation. and
recommending life imprisonment. the
Jury ended one Of Nebraska's most
spectacular criminal cases.
Browns ability to elude apprehen-
sion when apparently cornered al
tracted wide attention. In his pur-
suit Nebraska odicers employed
avery available method of travel. and
his capture was effected only after
he had been dangerously wounded.
Made Many Escapes.
In striking contrast to the terror
caused Nebraska citizens by the
varying reports Of Browns success
in his efforts to get away from the
state stood the almost dwarfed
stature Of the man and his mild de-
meanor throughout the trial.
Testimony offered In the trial was
to the effect that Brown picked up
Mrs. Jenkins and her friend kasnryn .n
McManaman. offering them q ride TO
an outlying amusement park. put
forced the women to accompany MIN
to his shack on the outskirts OF
Omaha, There he was said to nave
forced them into pit Deneath tne
them. Testimony further showed that
Harry Boyd. a neighbor. endeavored
to release the women and also was
chained by Brown. who threatened
the life Of the would rescuer.
Brown is said to have stolen tho
car of BOYD with which to make
getaway. He was accused OF having
stolen other cars in. Lincoln ana
Omaha, Neb, and Rawlins. Wyo., near
which town he was captured.
surpri.ed at Verdict.
On the stand Brown caused laugh
tor by his description of the scare
he. had caused officers who sought TO
arrest him. He tied up sherin ana
his deputy in eastern Wyoming and
declaI . an Omaha policeman, after
having placed him under arrest at
the point of a shotgun, allowed him
to 20 when Brown merely asked 1t.
Following his conviction Brown
declared himself surprised at the
verdict and reiterated his defense
that the women had accompanied him
to his home willingly. that they had
been there several times prior to the
claiming episode and that their
corning his possession OF aAeged
stolen jewelry unless he divided with
them was the cause of the claiming:
The two women told omcers that
while they were awaiting 1or strees
car Saturday evening. May "a. Brown
drove up in an automobile and offer
ed to take them to nearby park
where they were going: The girls
accepted and said that Brown drove
past the park a. and d. fofsed ohssi them 10
When they arrived at the shack. the
women said, Brown fastened them
in chains, put them in a hole under
the shack and attacked them. They
said they remained in, IN tns s,,ndss nG'e e
morning. they said, Brown brought
them from the hole and put them
In the loft.
Captured by Posse.
Near noon on Sunday Miss Nc
Manaman saw Boyd working In
field nearby and signaled to him.
When Boyd came he was captured
and chained with the two women.
Brown then left the shack and Boyd
released himself Sunday evening and
telephoned the sheriff. The sherins
officers searched in the vicinity of
Browns shack throughout Sunday
night. On May 80 the search shifted
to Lincoln. Neb., where it centered
for two days after Browns capture
was attempted by woman.
State officers took hand. and June
1, the chase shifted back to Omaha.
Air mail planes. followed on the
ground by automobile loads OF om-
GERS, searched for him. but Brown
was not located.
Then the scene shifted to western
where Brown bound two
Sidney, Neb., officers with their own
suspenders, stole their automobile and
escaped into Wyoming. Tho end OF
the chase began on the evening OF
a ranch forty miles north of Medicine
Row. Wyo. Here Brown was recog-
nized as the "chain man." Sheriff
Cooper, at Medicine Bow. was noti-
Aed and he. in turn. notified Sheriff
Sanders, at Rawlins, Wyo. Two
carloads of officers met at the
burnett ranch, where Brown had
stopped, began pursuit, and shortly
a afterward found Brown, his car
stuck in the mud. sixty-two miles
north Of Medicine Bow. Seeing the
oficers approaching. Brown gran, but
fell as two bullets pierced yhis body.