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."
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"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?"
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"He said Crites opposed him in law
suits and poseJ as a woman hater,
but was not. I was to compromise
Crites so he would lie down on certain
laws. Bv eettina Crites in a com
promising position it would aid Fisher
in geiting a.uivurtc lur iwi. jiuuu.
"What specific thing were you to
do to compromise Lrites;
To Compromise Crites.
"I was to get Crites in a comprom
sing position with Mrs. Hood, and if
not with lier, then with myselt.
"Who fixed the date for the com
promise?" "Mr. Fisher and Winckler."
"tn pursuance of that you told
Crites about it?"
"Yes, I went from Fisher's office to
Crites.' "
"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."
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'I told manv lies to detectives of
the Omaha Detective association. My
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Attorney Harrington put Mrs.
Phelps through a severe cross-examination
regarding the bath insti
tute, whereupon Attorney Brome said
it was an effort to insult rather than
to discredit the witness.
Tells Bath House Methods.
"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.
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