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.
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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?"
"Mostly because I didn't want lo,"
said the young man.
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