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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 11, 1924)
MATE ARRESTED; SHE IS “OFF” MEN Sarnies fran'i ha? had “tough '.Jch'’ !n tiatrimonv. aha laatiflad tn itomtfic *ala*tona court* In August. ;*:i. irhas .ha wai t* and an ix p! i> roraing ir. an Omriba. hot si. ' ah. jiat * aodlar, Oa rga Smith, aiul oua ri.i ilm H. waa taken back to Taaaa aa a <laa»: tat. Sr. a ga» a a ahowanct from hia pay. In July. t*i». h*r baby wan born. Some lima later ahe met another man. CharlM Frantz. Me begged her to nia . y him and showed her a flip ping, aha eaid, stating that bmith had been aenlenced to priaon for bigamy. « Believing that this released her, she married Frantz. I-ater he was also sent to prison. .Vow, »t Mrs. Frantz says she has had enough of men. Bee Want Ads Produce iUeulU. -— Clyde Finan. Smith Killer, Gets 15 Years Youth, 23, Pleads Guilty to Luring Trackman to Death in Septem ber, 1921. Clyde Finan, alias Newcomb, 13, in district court Friday morning, paid the penalty for the murder he com mitted in a lonely railroad cut near Sixtieth and L. streets the night of September 2, 1921. County Attorney Henry Beal rec ommended a, sentence of 15 years In prison. "Have you anything to say -why sentence should not be passed?" asked Judge Fitzgerald. "No.” said the tall, mlid-looklng prisoner In his soft southern speech. "Fifteen years in the penitentiary at hard labor," the court pronounced. With the sentence came a story of a casual boast which led a slayer to prison as surely as the eyeglasses In the i.eopold and Loeb case. Finan was serving a term In the Oklahoma penitentiary for forgery when, In a boastful moment, he con fided to a pal that he had murdered William E. Smith, a street rail way trackman, In Omaha in September, 1921. Secret Was Out. The pal didnt1 keep the secret. It came to the attention of officers nearly three years after the body of Smith was found. A month ago Oma ha police turned over the sl«nd,r clue to County Attorney Beal. The law hadn’t forgotten the un punished crime. And, though the lead was not promising, Mr. Beal ordered his special Investigator, Carey Ford, to leave no stone unturned In the case. Ford went to Olenwood. la. His In vestigation there strengl liened tbe clue. lie went to Wichita, Kan., and pur sued investigations which convinced, him that Finan's hands were stained with Smith's blood. lie then con fronted Finan himself In the Okla homa reformatory. Finan denied the crime at first, but he wa* extradited and brought to Omaha by Ford. Here he confessed. Saws Found In Shoes. On the way north. Ford noticed that his prisoner’s feet seemed to be troubling him. He kept Ills eyes on those feet. Finally he ordered Finan to remove his shoes. Concealed in the soles he found a set of hack ee ws. It Is believed Finan expected to be placed in some email jail over night on the trip, and hoped to make his escape with the aid of the saws. In his confession. Finan Implicated Ernest Clark as one of the murderers. Clark was tried by Beal in district court here and acquitted nearly two years ago. Jurymen declared Beal "had no case at. all." Clark now lives In Iowa, but he cannot be ‘placed in jeopardy" more than once. The third member of the trio that lured the street railwayman to his death on the night of September 1921. was Hay Asher, who confessed to his part before he died in the Kansas penitentiary, where Beal helped to put him on a charge of automobile stealing « year after the Smith murder. The original charge against Finan here was first degree murder. Beal changed this to second degree on Fin an’s agreement to plead guilty. Finan did not seek to justify hlm-^ self. Asked by the court how rnucfl' education he had, he replied, "Not much." "Why didn't you go tn school?" 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