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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 22, 1923)
EACH OTHER FOR ESCAPE Ami Meanwhile Deputy D^fhes Into Iowa in Pursuit ol Prisoner on “Tip” From Woman, Nobody in Sheriff’s Office Knows; Taxpayers Pay for His Ride; County Officers Unworried. _ * POLICE NOT NOTIFIED OF ESCAPE; COUNTY BLUNDER, THEY SAY Barton Edwards, penitentiary prisoner, who escaped from jail Tuesday with $3no given him by another prisoner to buy the latter’s freedom, is still at large— ’ Sheriff Endres and Jailer J. Q, Sherry pass the buck as to who Is to blame for the escape County Attorney Henry Beal declares he can do nothing in way of Investigation unless a complaint Is filed County Commissioner Unitt declares "something ought to be done” -but what Nobody knows "In the Meantime.’* And in the meantime Larry Flynn, the only one who knows the name and address of the woman declared by Endres to have given his office the "tip” that Edwards fled to Ames, la., is somewhere in Iowa. "Until he returns I will not know the name of the woman,” declared EndreS Friday morning: Jailer Sherry was reported confined to his quarters in the jail at the court house ill. His deputies know nothing about the case except that the prisoner is gone, they say. In the meantime it has come to Here’s Another Story of the escape of another county prisoner from the county hospital became known at noon tn hospitnl became known at noon Fri Kimball arrested H. C. Werimnont, 314 South Twenty-sixth street, on a warrant from Washington, I). t\, where he was indicted for em bezzlement. Seven months ago he was ar rested in Omaha charged with for gery. He was placed in county jail, and trial of Iris case was post poned several times. Finally he became ill and was removed to county hospital. The hospital, ac cording to Carey Ford, special in vestigator for the county attor ney’s office, received no orders to hold the man. He recovered and walked out of the hospital. light that one of the trustys also having the liberty of the building is "Singing Mike” La Porte, serving time for manslaughter after trial for murder. He drives the jail elevator. Escaped Three Days Ago. Edwards escaped from the county Jail Tuesday noon. Omaha police were advised of the escape for the first time when they read of it in the newspapers Friday morning. Every detective in Omaha knows Edwards. He was arrested here In November. 1922, on a charge of for gery, preferred hy the Scott Bury Packard company, his employers. "If the police department had been notified immediately, Edwards never would have reached Ames, la., his first stopping point,” declared Inspec tor of Police Jack Pszanowskl this Still Another. John Lynch, sentenced to SO day* in jail on a charge of petty larceny in municipal court this morning, escaped while being taken to county jail. He was arrested on the larceny charge by I^arry Flynn, special officer for the Brandeis store. He broke from the officers and fled while on his way to the court house. He evaded pursuit. morning. ‘‘It looks to me like the county's blunder.” Endre* Blames Sherry. Edwards, who was a trusty at the county Jail, made so by Jailor Joe Sherry In spite of the fact that he was a penitentiary prisoner, effected his flight through trickery. He told Nick Pasovlh, another ^trusty, he could “spring” him, so that he might spend Christmas with his wife and children, for »800i Dasovlh caused is home to be mortgaged for *n00 and turned the money over to Edwards. That was about Tuesday noon. It was the last anyone saw of Edwards. At last reports, he was passing through Des Moines, la., sev eral laps ahead of Deputy Sheriff Larry Flynn, sent In pursuit, the county paying his bills. Sheriff Mike Endres blamed Jailer Joe Sherry for Edwards’ escape, de L D t $ T Y Colleen Moore •nil Kenneth Harlan Borrah Minevitch World’* Great**! Harmonica Soloid With New Numbers RIALTO ORCHESTRA OF 21 daring that a man serving a peniten tiary sentence should not have been made a trusty. Sheriff Endres did not say why the information of Edwards’ escape was supressed. Jailer Sherry, on the other hand, passed the buck right back to Sheriff Endres. Sherry Explains. Jailer Sherry was ill at his home this morning. Over the phone he said that when he was first commit ted to jail Edwards was placed in the tiers, but that later his health failed and that at the request of several persons. Including Sheriff En dres, he made him a trusty. At the time of his escape Edwards was working with another prisoner in the basement of the court house. “I’m going upstairs,’’ he told the other man. He went to the Union station. He made an application for parole, which was to have been heard in February. Trusty for Year. Edwards had been a trusty for more than a year, the sheriff said. He met Dasovih while the two work ed in the jail laundry. Edwards often was sent on errands. Soon after the discovery that he had gone, the au thorities questioned a woman who had visited him frequently. She told the officers he had been to her home, but said he had to go right back to the Jail. Endres doesn't even know who she Is. he said. They traced him to the union station ahd from there to Ames, la., thence to Lies Moines. Edwards, who has a wife and three children in Hastings, was convicted more than a year ago. He was ap prehended in a small town near Gal veston, Tex., after a spectacular flight from Omaha after he tl said to have married another girl and to have spent several hundred dollars belonging to her. The news of Edward's departure was a bigger blow to Dasovih than it was to the officers. Instead of spending Christmas at home with his wife and children, he will be at his regular place at Jailer Sherry’s din ner table and the day will be globmier than ever with the mortgage against the home, coupled with all the rest of his misfortunes. A fiood lesson. Sheriff Kndrea this morning said he did not know whether Jailer Sherry will he punished for permit ting a prisoner to escape or not. "It's a serious thing, but I think it’s a good lesson for Sherry," he said. Asked concerning several other penitentiary prisoners serving as trusties and permitted to leave the Jail in connection with their work. Sheriff Entires declared that they were model prisoners. One of them Is Ralph Bonacd, sentenced to the penitentiary after he attacked his wife with an ax. “Not • Serious Thing.” “It’s not a serious thing," said the sheriff, laughing. Other trusties sentenced to the penitentiary are Ollle Mortensen, who pleaded guilty to the slaying of his wife and was given a 10-year sentence; Alex Davis, sentenced for auto theft, and "Singing Mike” La I’orte, sentenced a year ago for the slaying of his sweetheart. "La Portels a model prisoner, too,” the sheriff said. “When we tell him to sit down he sits down, and when we tell him to stand up, he stands up." Edwards Is the third prisoner to es cape from the county Jail during the Th« Omaha Drama League Presents Walker's Portmanteau Theatre I in REPERTOIRE Ev’bii, 50c-52.50; Mat., 50e$2. ^ Special Ratal to Members am vss7v The Supreme Mystery Play ' “The Leavenworth Case” Matl. (Mon.-Fri.) 25q; Eve*. (Sat.-Sun.-Mat.) 30c Here’s Man Wha Fooled ’Em All at County Jail Itarton Edwards. -- first year of Sheriff Endres’ term in office. Two prisoners have escaped from the county hospital during the same period. "Outrage,” Say* Unitt. County Commissioner Charles Unitt declared this morning that some ac tion should be taken in connection with the escape. “It's an outrage for the sheriff of a county the size of Douglas county to permit long termers to be trusties,” he said. Sheriff Endres admitted he had no knowledge bf the provisions of Sec tion 9716 of the Nebraska statutes, fixing a fine of not more than $500 or imprisonment for not more than 10 years for any sheriff, coroner or jailer in custody of a prisoner charged with or convicted of an of fense made punishable by statute, who voluntarily permits the prisoner to escape. County Attorney Beal said he will take no action unless complaint is filed hy some citizen of Douglas county. Would Have Been No Use. Commenting on his failure to re port the prisoner's escape to police, the sheriff said, "We got a tip right away, and found out he had left town, so it would have been no use. We sent a man after him.” He exhibited a note, written by Sherry, reporting the escape of the prisoner. The note was dated Decem ber 19: "It grieves me indeed to Inform you that one of my prisoners. Bar ton Edwards of Hastings, Neb., whom I was using as a trusty around the jail, ran away after securing some money from another prisoner working with him,” the note reads. "I took this man out of the tiers after being confined almoat a year, and whoee health was failing, after receiving letters from the sheriff and county attorney at Hastings, and also frorfi Judge Leslie, stating that in their opinion he was O. K. “He was a model trusty and has a ^vife and three small children. He _x.__—t— ~~ rcr fooled me and all the others around the jail. "Hoping we will be able to run him down, I remain, "Yours truly, (Signed) "J. G. SHERRY.” -% At the time of his arrest on the forgery charge Edwarsd told police a wierd story of wine, women and song—and funny little white pills. He said he went on a party with several women and some other men, and that when he complained of a headache one of the men gave him some little white pills. "That was the last I remember until I woke up In Dallas, Tex.,” he said. "There I found myself with this pretty Httle woman, garbed in an expensive fur coat. I was surprised, and she asked: ‘Why, (don’t you re member me? Don't you remember our wedding?’ "I grasped her by the shoulders and pleaded with her to tell ms all about it. She did. I don't remember going through it all. I sent the girl home.” Shortly afterward he was arrested and returned to Omaha on the forgery charge. Brothers of Fremont Man to Share Estate Fremont, Neb., Dec. 21.—Two pov erty stricken brothers in Germany, Frederick and Heinrich W&hlers, brothers of John Wohlers, Scribner farmer and recluse, who dropped dead last spring, will have much to be grateful for this Christmas, when $1,835.03 and 80 acres of Dodge coun ty farm land, their dead brother’s es tate, falls into their hands by a decree in county court. County At torney John Gumb today announced the money now is en route to the brothers. Wahlers, a bachelor, living alone on his farm near Scribner, was found dead in the yard near his home. He left no will and no relatives claimed the body. County Attorney Gumb was appointed administrator. Investiga tion revealed two brother* residing in Germany. In addition to $900 each, the broth ers will receive the money that is derived from the sale of 80 acres of land. As aliens, they are unable to take possession of the property. At torney J. C. Cook of Fremont was appointed to look after their inter ests by the German consul. The fhrm will foe sold by the state. E. H. Gifford, Former Representative, Dies Pawnee City, Neb., Dec. 21.—Form er Representative Earnest H. Gifford of Ia>wlston died at his home near there, following an Illness of several months. Mr. Gifford was a representative from Pawnee county to the legisla ture during the terms 1919 and 1920 and 1921. Last winter he was elected director of the first district of the Farmers' Educational and Coopera tive State union and was serving In that capacity at the time of death. ; I i t i ■ . »i Listen to Two Splendid Orchestras | In the Brandeis Restaurants jj Ttalian Renaissance Room *! 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