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i - DOES NOT REPRESENT OMAHA’S ATTITUDE Prominent Citizens Promptly Issue Declaration That Order Will Be Preserved and Avow That Mobists Are Guilty of Murder. Declaration that order will be pre served and that the disorders of Sun day night do not represent the spirit of the people of Omaha was made at a meeting of representatives of business organizations at the city hall Monday morning. It was attended by representatives □ of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce, the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben and other business men. The meeting authorized the following statement: “The disorder of last night does not represent the spirit of the people of Omaha. Prompt action has been taken by the public authorities, supported by the law-abiding people of Omaha, to prevent further outbreak. “First—The city authorities have been authorized to add from 300 to 500 more to the police force. Further additions will be made as occasion may require. “Second—The sheriff has been in structed to appoint special deputies to remain in charge of the court house and guard the public property there. “Third—In response to a call from the civil authorities in Omaha and in the state of Nebraska, General Leo nard Wood has instructed Colonel Wuest to have the streets of Omaha patrolled by regular troops of the United States army. “Full protection will be afforded to all persons threatened with disorder _. and no further attacks or outbreaks of any kind will be permitted. Arms carried by private citizens must be surrendered. No crowds will be per mitted to congregate where disorders may arise. “Fourth—Those persons who took part in the mob violence last night are in the eyes of the lav; guilty of mur der. Civil government will be imme diately restored in the city of Omaha and all criminal participants in the mob will be promptly prosecuted. “EVERETT BUCKINGHAM, “FRANCIS A. BROGAN, “RANDALL K. BROWN, “HOWARD H. BALDRIGE, “TYLER BELT, “J. E. DAVIDSON, “S. S. CALDWELL, “L. C. NASH, “JOHN W. GAMBLE, “GEORGE BRANDEIS, “Committee.” SPECIAL SESSION OF GRAND JURY CALLED FOR OCTOBER 8 A special grand jury to met in court room No. 3, Douglas county court house Wednesday, .October 8, at 11 a. m., was called Tuesday aft ernoon by the seven judges of the district court to investigate and in dict persons implicated in the loot ing last Sunday night when the court house was burned and Mayor Smith beaten. Twenty-three men will be called on the grand jury. Sixteen of them will he selected to sit on the jury. Evidence Is Sought. All persons who know anyone who was implicated in the crimes of Sun day night are requested to bring their information to the authorities—the _ county attorney, judges or police. “That is an act of good citizen ship,” said Judge Day. “We believe there are hundreds of good citizens who, deprecating the acts of the law less element, will assist the authori ties in bringing to justice those who are responsible for the assaults and fire.” The charges to be placed against those indicted will be of the most serious nature. Arson will be thej crime charged against the men who set fires in the court house. Assault with intent to do great bodily injury will he" the felony charged against those who beat up Mayor Smith and attempted to lynch him. Manslaughter will be charged against the men who strung up the Negro. . - , The October term of the district court, which was to open next Mon day, has been postponed for four weeks. The petit jurymen who had been notified to report at the court house next Monday have been in formed that they shall report four weeks later. Court activities will have to be curtailed. Several of the seven court rooms probably will be used tempo rarily for offices of the burned-out departments of the county. Judge Redick will hold criminal court in his private offices in urgent cases, the large criminal court room being tem porarily the county treasurer’s office. tf ARRESTED FOR CARRYING r CONCEALED WEAPONS The following four Negroes were ar rested for carrying concealed weap ons: Howard Brown, 1636 North Twenty-fourth street; Allen McClair, Twenty-eighth and Corby streets; R. P. Horne, 2107 Clark street; H. E. Halts, 2601 Erskine street, and John Baker, 2515 Parker street. 1 SHAYLER SOUNDS THE CHALLENGE By Rt. Rev. Ernest Vincent Shayler, (Bishop of Nebraska Diocese of the Episcopal Church.) At the beginning of a residence in Omaha, which is to continue for the remainder of my life, as bishop of Nebraska, I am confronted by the horrible blot of infamy and shame of Sunday’s terrible crimes. These crimes, comitted by a small number of persons, have cut into the very heart of decent society in Omaha, and dealt the city a blow from which it will not recover for years to come. The crimes have been disavowed and condemned by our business men. The determination to apprehend the lead ers of the mob has been avowed by those in authority. But the matter must not lest here. We need to view this thing in its entire seriousness to recognize the causes and to set forth the only cure. The whole world is at unrest. Un derneath the surfaces of civilization fires of lust, hatred, greed, bolshevism, riot, destruction and revolution are burning. Horrible flames shoot out in lynch ings, strikes, defiance of law, profit eering. The lawless are waiting for chances. Our local situation only fur nished the excure as do present day strikes elsewhere. THE ATTEMPTED HANGING OF THE MAYOR OF OMAHA WAS THE ANARCHISTS’ ATTEMPT AT DESTRUCTION OF LAW — OUR SUPREME SOCIAL SAFEGUARD. May I be permitted to call attention of our citizens to the fact that the majesty, dignity and serviceability of the law can never, and will never be observed until our people everywhere are willing to observe the law of God. This is the terrible soul of the situa tion, the manifestation of ungodliness, living without God and without good in the world. Will our citizens’ committee which disavows Omaha’s sympathy with mob rule; will our men and women who hang their heads in shame for the present; will everyone who disavows murder, destruction and anarchy, ask himself and herself how much he 01 she has contributed to the present condition by the neglect of the laws of God, the only' basis of human safety or human happiness? I confidently assert that every one not actively associated with God’s peo ple in God’s work, (we call it through the churches), has, however, unthink ingly, contributed to the conditions shown in their maddest and bloodiest form by the Sunday mob in Omaha. No man has ever needed punish ment by death or imprisonment who kept God’s commandments in his life. No man has evei paid less than a fair day’s wages, no man ever gave less than a fair day’s work who lived ac cording to the law of God. No man ever cornered the market, withheld the necessities of life, overcharged or con spired against the welfare of society who was a faithful member of any Christian or Jewish church. Therefore, in the responsibility which faces me, I call upon all men in our city and state to ally themselves definitely upon God’s side, and partic ularly do I request that all members of that division of Christ’s army over whom I have been placed, shall not only most strenuously live up to their bounden duty and service, but shall endeavor as never before to bring un fortunate men, women and children into the usefulness, happiness and public service of the Christian life which they themselves may enjoy. APPROVES NEGRO LEGION General Wood announced that he had approved the organization of a platoon of returned Negro soldiers, to act as a part of the force of Amer ican Legion volunteer police. Expressing regret that his pres ence in Omaha is due to so deplor-1 able an incident, General Wood de clared the mob violence heer to be simply a further expression of a gen eral unrest that pervades the entire country. “We had the same thing in Chi cago and at Boston,” he said. "The Boston situation was the worst, be cause there the officers who were sworn to uphold the law' precipitated its disregard.” — ATTORNEY GENERAL ARRIVE Governor McKelvie was in the in terior of the state on a hunting trip and could not be reached Sunday while the mob was in progress. As soon as he was advised of conditions he started for Nebraska’s metropolis. Governor McKelvie and Attorney General Davis arrived in Omaha at 3:40 o’clock Tuesday morning to start an investigation of the riots and the causes leading up to it. Reports from Lincoln say the gov ernor and the attorney general will attempt to determine the source of the blame for the lack of action on the part of Omaha authorities that might have averted the riots. Monitor office, Douglas 3224. REVISED LIST OF DEAD AND INJURED List of Dead. Will Brown, Negro, accused of the assault on Miss Loebeck; lynched and burned. Louis Young, 16 years old, shot through heart. Taken to Y. M. C. A. and then to Cole-McKay Undertaking company. H. J. Hykell, 47 years old, shot in abdomen; dies in hospital. List of Wounded Mayor Smith, in Lord Lister hos pital; cut and bruised about head. Resting easily. Police Officer Robert P. Samardick; badly beaten in afternoon. Police Officer Heinie Bosen, beaten and wrist sprained at Eleventh and Jackson streets. Special Agent F. A. Heisler, Union Pacific; beaten about head; struck on head with rock; arm sprained. Frank Dobin, 3018 South Eight eenth street; beaten and finger broken at Eleventh and Jackson streets. Unidentified boy shot in knee; at tended at Y. M. C. A. Taken home by f riends. Conrad Field, Fremont, Neb., re ceived emergency treatment in Y. M. C. A. Taken to Wise Memorial hos pital. Bullet removed from back. Do ing well. J. Nafsinger, Sampson, Ala., shot in hip; bullet removed at Methodist hos pital. Condition not serious. Harold Bulletts, grocery clerk, 2910 St. Mary’s avenue. In St. Joseph’s hospital. Shot in leg. Not serious. Police Officer Andrew Trapp, badly beaten. Treated at central police sta tion and taken home. J. R. Feere, 1105 Pacific street, shot in leg. Was on third floor of court house when shot. Police Officer Dworak, South Side, was struck over the head with a gun. He was taken to Y. M. C. A. and then to his home. Injuries not considered serious. John Hudspeth, 1333 South Twenty eighth street, shot in shoulder; not serious. Arthur Hall, 16 years old, 4910 Twenty-eighth street, badly beaten at Twenty-fourth and Grant streets. Police Officer W. J. Turner, South Side, left leg broken by shot. Detective Jack Graham, shot in left hand and neck. , Pete McDermott, fireman No. 16, overcome by gas in court house. Res cued by Johnny Lee and taken to Y. M. C. A. Not serious. Captain R. Dunlap, fireman, beam fell on shoulder. Man thought to be Fred Morasko, shot. Taken to Y. M. C. A. and later to hospital. Extent of injuries un known. James Baides, mail clerk at Union station, Estabrook apartment No. 4 on Cass street, between Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets. In St. Joseph’s j hospital. Shot in leg. Not serious. Clifton Weston, 4820 Pierce street, bullet in right breast. In Lord Lister hospital. Condition serious. T. J. Curry, 127 South Thirtieth street, shot in back of head; taken to Lord Lister hospital . Policeman Frank Zurak, 4618 South Twenty-second street, struck on head. Taken to St. Joseph’s hospital. Steve Sullivan, 1816 Chicago street, rigst ankle sprained. Attended at Lord Lister hospital. Lloyd Allen, North Seventeenth street, shot in knee. Taken to Lord Lister hospital. Elmer Reifenberg, 802 South Thirty first street, shot in knee. Attended at Lord Lister hospital. Roy Pierce, Hotel Rome, cut by fly ing missiles. H. O’Heam, address unknown, bruised by falling stones. Jack Knapp, Hotel Loyal, cut by fly ing glass. Policeman Scott, overcome by smoke j in court house. Policeman Crandall, shot in right side at Seventeenth and Harney | streets. Suffered flesh wounds. Police Sergeant Morris, cut by fly-1 ing stones. Ed Hawley, 1524 North Fortieth street, overcome by smoke while lead ing county prisoners down stairway. David Jones, Clearing Hous<^ Auto company, said to have been shot. Harry Fillmore, sailor, 4628 Capitol avenue, was struck across the short ribs by policeman’s club. Two unidentified persons were taken to the Clarkson hospital. They were not seroiusly injured, according to. hospital authorities. Ross Boomhower, Waterloo, la., a ■ prisoner in county jail, shot while on roof of court house. Two unidentified prisoners who were wounded, but later escaped. Sheriff Clark unaware of their iden tity. Battalion Fire Chief P. M. Cogan, cut by flying glass when members of mob shot through windshield of his car. Gilbert McMurray, fireman, 216 North Twenty-sixth street, several vertebrae dislocated by rock which fell on his neck. Taken home. Fred Christensen, Benson, internal ly injured, shot in shoulder, probably dislocated. In St. Joseph’s hospital. Police Officer J. W. Muldoon, badly 1 • beaten about face and shoulders. Police Officer Bill Coulter, badly beaten. Slight hemorrhage. Police Officer Lon Troby, struck at base of skull with brass cuspidor. Stunned. Police Sergeant William Russell, clubbed over head at Eleventh and Jackson streets. Chief of Police Marshal Eberstein, struck on forehead with large rock. Police Officer E. C. Robey, leg sprained and bruised. Police Officer Baleau, Negro, club bed and beaten. I RE WIRES MORE SOLDIERS NEEDED This telegram was sent by Acting Mayor Ure Sunday night to Senator Hitchcock, Congressman Jeffries and Governor McKelvie: “Situation at Omaha continues se rious. Courthouse gutted by fire. Mayor and many others seriously in jured. Stores over city rifled of fire arms. Probably 1,000 to l,g00 rifles and revolvers in hands of mob who are threatening further violence in various Negro sections. Fifteen thou sand Negroes in Omaha, large per centage armed and ready to fight. Three hundred Fort Omaha troops under command Colonel Wuest, 90 from Fort Crook. Colonel Morris in command now patrolling threatened districts. Understand battalion from Des Moines here tomorrow a. m. “These troops must be kept in pa trol service several days. “Use every effort to have 1,000 troops permanently quartered at Foit Crook. City authorities unable to cope with situation. This wire sent after consulting citizens committee and commanding officers. (Signed) W. G. URE, “Acting Mayor.” VICTIM OF MOB DECLARED INNOCENCE TO THE LAST Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 1.—Will Brown, the Negro lynched by Sunday’s mob for his alleged attack on Agnes Loe back, died with the words, “I’m not guilty,” on his lips, according to those who saw him last alive. | ONE THOUSAND | ? 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