THE BEE : OMAHA, SATURDAY, . JULY 19, 1919.
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NEGRO ON TRIAL
CHARGED WITH
ATTACKON GIRL
Colored Man Guarded by Five
Deputy Sheriffs as Bessie
Kroupa Tells Court of
Assault.
Ira Johnson, negro, guarded by
five deputy sheriffs, tat in, county
court yesterday while Miss Bessie
Kroupa related the details of his al
leged assault upon her, July 7, in
i deserted spot east of Tenth street,
near Canton street.
Outside the court enclosure sat
an angry woman, Miss Kroupa's
mother, who rose to her feet sev
eral times, muttering threats, and
was soothed by two of her daugh
ters. Another daughter sat near
Bessie while she was on the wit
ness stand and comforted her sev
eral times when she broke down
and cried.
The state offered evidence from
Miss Kroupa and from George
Kyrel, a laborer, who found her,
bound hand and foot, after the
negro had left. Both of these iden:v)
tified the prisoner positively as the
man who committed the assault.
The defense did not offer any wit
nesses and County Judge Crawford
bound Johnson over to the district
court under $5,000 bond.
Court Room is Filled.
The court room was filled, many
of those present beinjr negroes. The
defense of Johnson is being man
aged by the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People.
"We are doing this in the inter
ests of justice," said Rev. John Al
bert Williams. "If this man is in
nocent we want to see that he has
a fair chance to show it."
Frank Howell of the law firm of
Smith, Schall & Howell, conducted
the preliminary defense, assisted by
Frank Sheehan of the same firm.
Deputy County Attorney Slabaugh
conducted the prosecution.
Miss Kroupa was very nervous on
the witness stand and at times broke
down and wept
She said she was going to work
at about 12:30 o'clock noon, on
July 7, when she. met the negro on
Tenth street.
"I was afraid when I saw him, but
I didn't want to turn and run back
then," she said. "Just' after he
passed me he threw his arm back
around mv neck. I tried to struggle
but he choked me and then dragged
me about 120 feet east into a clump
of shumac and threw me on the
ground and tied raty hands. Then
he assaulted me.
Pleaded With Him. yl ,
"I pleaded with him all the time
to let me go, but he wouldn't. After
that he tied my feet and then he
sat down a'minute and wiped his
face with his " handkerchief and
wiped off my face, too."
Miss Kroupa's ideatification was
not as positive as that of George
Kyrel, a laborer, who lives in that
vicinity and who testified that he
saw the weeds pressed down at a
point along Tenth street while he
was out looking for milkweeds to
feed to his ducks and geese.
"So I went in a little ways and
there- I saw Miss Kroupa standing
with her hands tied and gasping
for breath," he said.
He released her and then assisted
her to her home, 4113 South Ninth
street.
"I saw the same man at Tenth
and Canton streets about 11 o'clock
that morning," he said. "I am posi
tive it was the same man."
Johnson seemed entirely uncon
cerned with the proceedings and un
conscious of the angry glances
thrown at him. He watched the
pretty witness and her pretty sister
closely throughout the testimony.
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The committee on fire preven
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Underwaters, in a report received
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system be installed in Omaha. This
same recommendation has been
made by the Committee in its re
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years.
An extract from the report reads:
"As reported in 1913, the fire alarm
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small cities and is little used in
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"Fire alarm system is very inad
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too infrequent to expect effective
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has greatly increased, tfie fire in
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1913.
Another recommendation reads:
"That company officers make quar
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essary combustibles and other
hazards, making detailed written re
ports on approved forms."
There are 110 fire alarm boxes in
use, the system being operated by
the telephone company on a yearly
contract with the city.
Chief Salter stated that a modern
fire alarm system would cost aP"
proximately $100,000, and he rec
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for the business district. A legisla
tive enactment four years ago,
which provided for the motorization
of the fire department, carried with
it a provision for a special levy for
a fire alarm system.
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My HEART and
My HUSBAND
Adele Garrison's New Phase of
Revelations
of a Wife
The Way Lillian Played Her Cards.
"Loathes I" I interrupted her, my
voice cold, deliberate, although I
felt as if my brain were seething.
"Loathes as he would a cobra. You
are evidently cherishing the delusion
that I know nothing of your history
or of your treachery of years ago.
Acting upon that delusion you have
been extorting sums of money from
my father, simply because he loves
me so devotedly that he does not
wish me ever to see you, to know
that you exist."
If I had planned deliberately to
infuriated the woman who had "slur
red my dead mother my success
could not have been greater than
the result which followed my pas
sionate declaration of my father's
real sentiments toward herself and
me. x ,
Evidenty the 20 years which had
elapsed since the ending of the
sordid chapter of her association
with my father had not dimmed
the tigerish jealousy of him and
hatred of my mother which had
actuated her in that long-time. That
both jealousy and hatred were root
ed in her own vanity and mercenary
calculation redeemed by no gleam
of the real divine spark of love
which sometimes illumines an oth
erwise sordid intrigue did not
serve to cool the rage which ap
peared to be consuming her at my
words.
Lillian Intervenes.
She made a quick movement to
ward me, her fingers working per
ceptibly. "You lying devil P she screamed.
"I'll tear your eyes out if you hand
me anything more like that What
do you know "
Lillian had moved as swifty as
she, stepping in front of me as the
infuriated woman launched her ti
rade of invective. In the background,
Allen Drake had made a swift step
forward, but at Lillian's movement
remained where he was, the picture
of indolent inattention, although I
knew that he could and would reach
the woman and shackle her in an in
stant if the occasion required such
strenuous action.
"We'll just wind up this reel right
now," Lillian said decidedly. "You're
clever at melodrama, Mrs. er Rob
bins, but, unfortunately, our taste
runs to innocuous, comfortable com
edy dramas. So please don't bite
any more chunks out of the land
scape. Instead, we'll get right down
to brass tacks for a few minutes.
Madge, dear, please take that easy
chair near Mr. Drake and compose
yourself. You're wasting valuable
emotion and nerve force on some
thing distinctly not worth while."
I never have heard a tone so abso
lutely flaying in its effect as the cool,
emotionless drawl in .which Lillian
couched her ultimatum. The angry
woman before her was shrewd
enough to see that no weapon in her
emotional arsenal was penetrating
enough to pierce Lillian's armor.
She turned her eyes on Lillian with
a calculating stare, evidently debat
ing what was best to do, waited a
long moment before she spoke.
Playing "the Ace."
"You're making a good bluff on
deuces," she said at last. "Suppose
I call you. Let's see your hand. You
can bet the last cent in your coin
purse that I don't give in till I'm
beaten, and then the cards have to
be stacked against me."
"They don't have to be stacked,"
Lillian retorted coolly. "We hold too
high cards."
"All right, play 'em."
Lillian stepped to the table, picked
up a little pile of cancelled checks
and other papers, ruffled them, and
handed two or three to the woman.
"Payments of Mr. Graham to you
recently," she said quietly. "Exhibit
A."
"Not good enough," the woman re
torted. "I tell you those are pres
ents on account of his affection for
me. You can't prove them other
wise, because even if I'm lying you
don't want to let him know his pre
cious daughter has seen me."
"You're lying all right," Lillian
returned evenly. "And that's only a
ten-spot anyway. But before going
on to the next one, let me tell you
something you evidently don't know.
Mr. Spencer has for years been
known as Robert Gordon. He has
been so high up in the service of
his country that the biggest men
obeyed him like a schoolmaster. He
has the power to throw you into
jail a mile deep if he wanted to and
keep you there 100 years. But he
idolizes this daughter of his as he did
her mother before her make no
mistake about that. Weve worked
together. I know his story, know
that he has lived in agonized re
morse for 20 years because of the
wife he lost, to whom he never
dared return because of the wrong
he had done her, but whom he
adored- hopelessly, devotedly.
"And because he -didn't wish his
daughter to know even that you
lived, he has submitted to your
blackmail we 11 just call it Dy its
right name. He is getting old, isn't
his former vigorous self or he would
never have fallen for your extor
tion. And now I'm going to waste
a minute more time on you. We'll
play the ace right now."
She nodded to Allen Drake. He
walked to the door and cajled softly
to the man in the hall.
(Continued Monday.)
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