The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-03-16
Surprised
in Act Of
Looting Car
Train l. Halted Six Miles
From Omaha When Sus-
picions Of Mail Men
Are Aroused.
Shot While Escaping

An unidentified negro was shot ant
, fatally wounded by a mail clerk OF.
. Union Pacific No. 6 at Summit. 4.
point on the Lane cutoff 10 milez
west OF Omaha. about last night
The dead man. according TO Post.
Office Inspector ". NJ. coble. was sur
pr.sed IN the act Of tampering witt
mail in q storage room Of one Of ths
cars
He was shot with six-shooter fire1
by John G. Kuil. 2o16 Avenue \.
Council Bluffs. when he attempted fo
escape.
Found in Car.
According TO the story told b
Coble. Kull was making a trip of IN
spection. when he came upon the
storage car, where he found the ne
gro. The man had locked and barri-
caded the door. When the mall
clerks tried TO force an entrance. the
negro tried 10 rake his escape By
leaping from a side door Of the car.
When he failed to heed orders to stop
Kull fired. The negro fell mortalix
wounded, with a bullet in the abdo
men. and he died after the train
reached Omaha az $50.
coble refused to say whether TIE
negro offered resistance.
"Kun was justified in shooting.
said Cob1e. that's the only comment
l care to make.
Tampering With Mail.
Ia .e
mail. some Of il registered mail. some
of 1. plain mail" continued Coble. y
cannot say how valuable il was
- Under his arm. Coble carried 3
package about "a inches long and i
inches wide. which appeared 10 con
tain mail
No. IS the fast mail train which
runs from Ogden 10 Omaha yester-
day Il carried u cars. kuIl Is a
clerk in a car which is In charge Of
/. Curtis Cook scr Grand avenue
Other clerks in the car were A. J.
Anderson, s214 North FourteeHfh
street; II. G Madden. slo1 Florenes
. boulevard: ". T. Corbourn. 4la3 North
. Thirty-six;h avenue. and ". K. Linn.
Seal Was Broke.
According 10 the story told tc
Omaha police By Cook. mail CLERKS
frs noticed at North Platte that a
seal on one Of the storage cars had
, been broken. A. Grand Island they
entered The car through a ves;ibule
door which they found open. But
they found nothing
Then. when the train reached Sun
nit, kull in making his inspection
trip found the door Of this same car
locked from the inside
The train was stopped immediatels
and clerks armed themselves and pr
pared 70 force an entrance
/ Al this point. the negro threw open
a sidedoor .et the car and made a
dash for liberty. CLERKS accompanies
| their commands % halt with two
shots over the aeeing mans heas
When he failed to stop. kull fired the
shot which brought him down.
Loot in Suitcase.
IN his leap from the car. the resro
olung 10 suitcase which Cobie toll
police contained jeweiry. SILK ard
small amount Of money taken fram
registered packages Cobie said he
could make 10 estimate II the value
O. the loot.
i After the negro was shet. mail
. clerks searched the tram and from
the blind baggage removed 4 whifc
man who gave the name e Joha
I Dengar and said his home was in Ruf
talo y y. lie was lodged IN the
Omaha city all
pengar who : an Austrian =.
he boarded the blind baggage At North
Platte with the intention ot beating
his way TO Omaha.
Denies Part in Crime.
lie denied knowledge q the -
who waa shot.
4 lie said his first intimauo1 szaS
f anything WAS wrong was when 1ae
train stopped Al summit and De
heard the shouts ef the clerks aaG
the firing OF the shots. \ few nlo-
ments later he MAS se,red.
cohle laid he did not believe Den.
gar wis Involved with the neEr,.
t 'Probably bum beating his way.
as he SAYS" said Cahle
Hold Inquest To-day.
The body 81 the dead nsSra wss
I removed te the Jones & GO. unorEnr.
Ne papers which mlSht load 10 his
Identification were found on him.
County Attorney Hoai announced
that an inquest via lie held al
{ o'clock today. but that Tor TIRE ngc~-
ent he was accepting the word 1.
4 peStoffice Inspector Cotle Tat &
was justified in the shoouns aud that
he would not ouiey huh held
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