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THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1917. WOMAN DETECTIVE ON WITNESS STAND Mrs. Elsie Phelps Relates Plot to Enforce Money Demand; Court to Decide at Once. 1 (Continued From Fftf e One.) Chadron should have such persons as Crites and Mrs. Hood. Fisher asked me for my life history and laid lie wanted to help me." Brome asked, "Did you tell him?" "Not all." Mrs. Phelps resumed. "When I got to Chadron I 'phoned Fisher and Winckler called at the hotel and said: " 'Hello, Haitel.' '"I am not Hazel, I said. 'I thoiight they said they would send Hazel McVey,' replied Winckler. Then Winckler said, 'Tom Denison and Maloney are in on this. They are a good bunch to work for.' He told me he had been in Chadron a month and had nothing on Mrs. Hood. He said he had written false notes to mislead Mr. Hood. He told me he hardly knew Mrs. Hood, but knew she had a pretty back. Arranged for Meeting. "Winckler and I kept in touch by 'phone between the hotels. I had to stand for his foolishness because I wanted to know what he knew. He didn't know much. He urged me to hasten a party with Mrs. Hood and Crites. I asked him if he had a gun and he said he had a 'rod.' He showed me a loaded gun. I asked his purpose and he said, 'When. I get in a scrape I am going to protect my self. You don't know what a fight Crites might put up. -1 am afraid of armed cops, too.' "Winckler said he was anxious to go back to Omdia and urged me to hurry the Hood-Critcs party. Fisher told me he would have witnesses to prove the meeting of Crites and Mrs. Hood. He said Crites was "afraid of publicity and would do anything to avoid it. He told me Mrs. Hood re ceived $500 a month from her hus band and would do anything to avoid exposure. "Winckler said he could get $500 from Crites and ' Hood would pay $1,000 if he would pay a cent. He also told me Day would give $250 if Crites could be made to lie down on the bootlegging cases. . - Mrs. Hood Pleads Innocence. "Mrs.' Hood told me she would be E leased to go to Crites office to prove er innocence. She declared she had been watched by detectives. At Fish er's office it was arranged that I should open the side door of Crites' office at the time when the men were to enter. "Winckler liad a gun which he pulled on Crites. He handed Crites card and said he waa glad to meet him." ' Mrs. Phelps then related the story of "the late unpleasantness" in Crites' office substantially as testified to by Sutton yesterday. . . On cross-examinations Baker went into the history of a bath establish ment operated by Mrs. Phelps on Harney street in Omahat She ex pressed' indignation when tier place was referred to as a "bath parlor." "What do you call your bath place?" r ' ' - '' "A bath Institute.". "Sutton ever go there?" "Yes." "For a treatment?" V f 4 - "No, he and I investigated bath par lors and things together." . Before she left the witness stand she fold the entire Inside workings of the plot from her viewpoint and in cidentally revealed her own duplicity. Attorney Baker induced her to tell how she . and Sutton investigated bath houses in Omaha. "Some in Omaha are not straight," she said. "Sutton knew mine was a decent bath institute." , . Bath for Men and Women. "You said institute?" "Yes." "Is it a parlor for men and women?" "It is not parlor." , ' "Did you hear Sutton at 516 South Nineteenth street say that he is Ku gel's man and was going to get rid of Maloney and he (Sutton) was to be chief of detectives?" "I never was at that address." Last Surviving Cousin Of Lincoln Dies, Aged 81 Bloomington, III., June 1. Solo man Hanks, the only surviving first cousin of Abraham Lincoln, died atjiis home today, aged 84. "So you were to go to Mrs. Hood's House and 'get (.rites merer "1 was to use a woman's plan." "What is a woman's plan?" "Well, Dolan told me to get Crites any nay, even if I had to go to bed with him." "And you went and told Crites what was to be done to him so it could not be done, just like that?" holding small finger akimbo. "Just like that, with a smile. "You entered into a scheme with Mrs. Hood and Crites to get little Winckler to that ofliice?" Knew It Meant Blackmail. "N'o, I did what Fisher and Winck ler did to hold the party" "You took the money of i! z detec tive association and knew -you was to betray them?" "I knew that it war blackmail as soon as Dolan made his suggestion to me about Crites." Mrs. Phelps made a good witness and refused to be shaken, although her answers at times were not spon taneous. Stress was placed on her testimony that she knew Harvey Wolfe spoke to Maloney over the phone from Wolf s office regard ing this case. Although she heard Wnlf address fcome one bv the name of Steve, she said the circumstances of the occasion caused her to know Maloney was on the other end of the wire. That was the evidence the orosecu- tion used to connect Maloney with the alleged conspiracy and detective association. Mrs. Phelps insisted she does not drink, said she had no recollection of using the name of Clara Watson, knew Roy Swanson and Grover Bino, but ' did not know Bob Holloway, never was at the Riverside, had read of Maloney In the papers, but never was in his office. i Knew It Was Maloney. "When Wolfe said 'Steve' over the 'phone your active fertile brain knew right away it was Malonev. did it?" asked Baker. " Yes, I knew it was Maloney. Conclusion of Crites' testimony waa followed by the nroduction of a letter on fishers othce stationery snowing ne asuca Mrs. Lowry ttusie Phelps) to 'phone him May 14. Baker contended that Crites communi cated with Sutton at Omaha through cuwara uavis, "I have no auarrel with Malnnrv. nor has he with me. What I know of him I have read or been told in connection ,with this case, said Crites. A personal memorandum, said to nave- Been taken tram Winckler, siatcu iiimi ne (ibu in mina a man who could tell me of Crites being Mrs. H.'s steady man." .The manner in which Mra. Phelnn played Winckler as a pawn amused the crowd. She contemptuously re ferred to Wincklers' operations as if he were a rank amateur at the detec tive game compared to her apparent consummate skill. Mra. Phelps Resumes Stand. Mra. Phelps resumed stand at this afternoon's session. Cross-examination by Baker: .. . '"Why did you return to detective association's office on Sundav. Mav 6?" "For definite ' instructions. Thev told me to go to Lincoln to meet Fisher and get the address of Mrs. Hood, before she was married.'' "Where was Wolf when you heard the telephone conversation with Stevei" In the next office, sittins near the door." 'Where was his desk?" 'I never took a diagram of the office." . , Did Not Tell It All. Tour talk with Fisher was prac tically all about himself, He save you a history of his life?" "Not all of it. Suppose he told me all of it?" "And you told him a history of your life?" i 'Not all of it." 'What did Fisher say to you con cerning what he wanted vou to do against Crites?" roa) T1BKD PKOrt.K. Konfortl's Arid rbMphat Ta very baneficlal for axhauald condl. tlona due. to heat, overwork or Inaomnia. Nunaloonolte. Advert leement. 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" "When you were discovered in Crites' off.ee, tell me how the men left." "LookcJ as if they were going head first. Tw.i went together and others down bannister." "Which one took live bannister with him?" I "I don't know which one was the strongest. I know that the mayor, sheriff and United States Marshal were there" "See any more of the fracas?" V'I saw Winckler go to Fisher's of fice and I old the mayor." Presented Card and Gun. "You stayed at Crites' office?" "Yes and later we went to the Hood home." "Did Winkler present Crites a card ?" "Yes and a gun." "Did Crites take the card?" "I think he did." "And then what?" "Winckler looked at White. He was frightened and disappeared." Did Mote say anything? "He just went." "There was no demand or reauest made for anything was there?" no. "You heard Winckler auraest rodav that when the bootlegging case could be stopped it might be worth $250 today, did you?" "Yes, Dut uif said tt would be no use." "When you met Dolan on the sec ond visit, do you say he was drunk?" tie was intoxicated, Mrs. Benjamin was with me." "She is the lady at the ?" "The institute." "Is she a nurse at vour hosDital?" "Not a hospital an institute. We have eight rooms. Want me to describe what we -haver Treatment for Neuritis. "Where do you put the people who are being treated?" "We have hospital slabs. We treat for neuritis, I suppose you have it rio-ht linw." Judge Slattery admonished the crowd to restrain outbursts ot laugh ter. Mrs. Phelps' suggestion that Judge Baker might have neuritis aroused the crowd to a high pitch of merri ment. Judge Baker began his cross-examination of Mrs. Phelps by asking: "You falsified when you got papers from Winckler on promise to return them?" "I lied to get the paper. Fart of my plana." . nni., 1;. .. uji" 41V J WU IUIUI 'I told manv lies to detectives of the Omaha Detective association. 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"If there is any place in Omaha worse than this bath house this court and community ought to know it," said Harrington. Mrs. Phelps insisted her institute was all that is proper, that women at tend and that attendants do not apply alcohol rubs to unclothed male patients. Patients are attended in a scientific manner. Much of the cross-questioning on the bath institute was so risque that women auditors gasped in astonish ment and men laughed. Bath house methods were gone into thoroughly. The witness admitted that she could not sav of personal knowledge whether she spoke to Steve Maloney on the telephone of the detective as sociation. She said she merely heard Wolf say Steve. "When you referred to Chadron as a hick of a town in a letter what did you mean?" asked Harrington. Just dittcrent trom Umalia. "You mean women, do not rub men in bath houses in Chadron?" 1 would not say that. Maloney Takes Stand. The defense placed Chief of Detec tives Maloney and Fern Marr on the stand as their only witnesses. In the prosecution stress was placed on Ma- loney's acquaintance with numbers of the Omaha Detective association and also the statement of Mrs. Phelps that while in the office of the association she heard the office girl, Miss Marr, say she had a call from Maloney to have Wolf telephoi.e him. Maloney testified Detective Pipkin came in his office occasionally, both during and after the later's service in the police department, on matters concerning stolen automobiles. He denied any connection with the de tective association and averred was never in the association's office. "My knowledge of the Chadron case came fir:: when I read the pa pers," Maloney replied. He admitted he knew Dolan, Wolf and Tylee. During cross-examination of Ma loney by Attorney Brome, counsel for the defense urged the court require the prosecution to observe rules of cross-examination rather than endur ance. Winckler Studied Finger Prints. Questioned about Winckler, Ma loney testified: "1 saw the boy around the station studying the finger print and Bertillon systems and understood he was trying to be a detective. I did not know until this case came up that he was in the employ of the Omaha Detective association." Maloney was quizzed closely wheth er he referred a Mrs. Wilson to Dolan or Pipkin on the occasion of her au tomobile being stolen. He said he could not remember whether he had referred her to them or them to her. The prosecution sought to show that Maloney wi. interested in the affairs of the detective association whose members are now on trial. Witnesses Flatly .Differ. "If the Omaha Detective associa talked with Steve over the telephone on May S, it was somet other Steve, he said. T7r Vfarr rtfliP ffirl Of the 2SSO- ciation, testified: "I was not in our office the afternoon ot May s, Dut was in Council Bluffs. I had no telephone rnnvrsziinn with Malonev nor had any call from him for Wolf." Among points empnasizea Dy airs. du.u. ..,, fi, rWtm that on the aft ernoon of May S she heard Miss Marr tell Wolf Maloney called him and .l u.nrA WMf ll Malonev on the phone and herself was given the re-J CeiVCr anu wnvciotu j about going to Chadron. A contradictory point in the evi dence of the prosecution related to the arrest of Winckler by Sutton on the evening of May 14. Sutton testi fied he arrasted Winckler on orders of Sheriff Canfield, while that official testified for the state that he had given Sutton no order, had not depu tized anybody to make the arrest and that he had been requested by Crites to arrest Winckler and had declined. Canfield added Winckler had no gun when searched, but he had papers, which were handed to Crites, but not returned to the sheriff. Bee Want-Ads Produce Results. Receiver Appointed for "Katy" Subsidiary Road St. Louis, June 1. Announcement was made today at the offices of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad that a receiver had been appointed for the Wichita Falls & Northwestern railroad, a subsidiary of the "Katy. The receivership suit was instituted, it was announced at "Katy" head quarters, when it became apparent that the subsidiary would be unable to . :. Aht and meet mter- est due July 1. C E. Shaft;, receiver for the "Katy,- was appointed re ceiver for the Wichita Falls. & North western. Postpone Hearing of New York Plot Cases New York, June 1. Hearing of the conspiracy charge to violate the se lective conscription law preferred yes terday against Miss Eleanor Wilson Parker, a Barnard college senior; Owen Cattell, Columbian university senior, and Charles Francis Phillips, a former Columbia student, was post poned until tomorrow by United States Commissioner Hitchcock to day at request of attorneys for the accused. ' Delicia ice cream pleases the Bride of Mystery to much that she has decicbd to have it in her home, after her marriage, whenever she has company. hehompson Leiden Store The July Fashion Books on Sale McCall'a and Ladies' Home Journal Patterns, in great variety are shown in the July Fashion Books now on sale. Patt.rn Section Bai.mant. Luncheon Sets Stamped to Work A number of attractive luncheon sets stamped on linen and cotton offer a way toward spending delightful summer hours in the em broidering. Miss Steenstrup, our experienced instructor, personally supervises the lessons, which are without charge. Daily from 10 to 12 m. and 3 to 5 p. m. Art Needlework, Third Floor The Sixth June Clearaway of Women's Apparel Omaha's Sale de Luxe offering genuine reduc-, tions on garments from our regular stocks. A Thompson-Belden sale is always honest and above board. Consequently it means more than the ordinary so-called "sales" that some houses have weekly or of tener. COATS $85 Coats $55 Coats -$45 Coats -$25 Coats $19.50 Coats l n . i Hawaii SUITS $75 Suits $55 Suits $35 Suits , $25 Suits Tailored, Silk and $42.50 $31.50 $18.75 $14.75 .: $55 $29.50 $24.50 '$14.50 $11.75 Woo! Sport Skirts Vz Price The Store for Blouses Lingerie Blouses, 95c to $25. i A large selection is offered at each price. Yonr choice is in no manner limited. New Tailored Blouses in linen, $2.95, $3.50 and $5. Exquisite Georgette Blouses are priced at $8.78, $10.50, $12.50. Dainty Novelty Voile Blouses Numerous groups of Blouses are for summer are but $2.50. reduced for the June Clearaway. A Thompson-Belden Blouse is distinctive and "different," no matter what the price. DRESSES . Those of dark Bilk Light silk dresses are are Va regular price. reduced ONE-THIRD. ' ' " - ' "" , iNew Neckwear for Every Occasion Georgette Collars, SOe to $4.28. Pique Collars and Collar and Cuff Sets, $1 to $3.50. Mull and Organdie Collars and collars with cuffs in sets, SOe to $2.50. 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