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THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 27, 1920
SEEK IDENTITY
OF TWO ESCAPED
BLUFFS BANDITS
Police Allege Gangsters Es
Reaped After Killing Four
; And Wounding Three
Men in Pool Hall.
" 't-ntincn HluftJ detectives art
fitting clews to the 'identity of two
handiti vho are alleged' to have ac
companied Harold Roberts, John
M&Laughlin and Clifford Barrett to
the pool hall in "Little Austria
Wednesday niRht when tour men
were killed and three received seri
ous- gunshot wounds in a battle
which followed an attempted holdup.
Police say that four bandits, all
masked, stepped into the pool hall.
l-.arlier report stated tnat only
three gunmen appeared. The fourth
robber U said to have jumped into
toilet room when the shooting
started.. He later escaped in the
confusion and is alleged to have
joined ,a fifth member of the gang
who was waiting in an automobile a
short distance away.
. . Three , Killed in Battle.
.TIie attempted holdup was staged
'it Pete Potkonak's pool hall, 1005
Fifteenth avenue, at 8:.W YVednes
' day evening. About 25 Austrian
Were in the placiv at the tiinc In
the resulting battle three men were
tilled, one .suffered wounds from
which he died yesterday and three
fcthes are now in thet Jennie Kd
inmidson hospital w,ith serious bul
let wounds. , "
. "My boy was a good boy, he was
rjean-minded and hardworking, ft
wan the influence of pool halls and
oldef companions that caused him
to become mixed up in this awful
affair." '
; I his was tlie comment made yes
terday by B. F. Roberts, 511 Voor
his street, Council Bluffs, engineer
at the Bloomer cold storage plant
And father of Harold Roberts, 21)
years old. alleged boy bandit who
Was killed in the gun battle Wednes
day night at a pool hall in "l.ittb
Austria."
I- he dead, other man Konerts. are:
'Pedro Jiminez. 1804 Ninth avenue,
Union Pacific section forcrnan.
C.Steva Kilibarda. 1606 Fiftieth
tr john Kedarman, I8U4 Ninth ave
nue.
;: Married But Two Months.
".Young Roberts had been married
t two months. His bride was
Miss Annie Russell, timekeeper at
the Milwaukee railroad shops, where
Iw was employed up until the time
his death. His pretty, young
widow was heart-broken this morn
ing at his. parents' home, 511 Voor
his street, where they have been liv
ing since their marriage.
; "Harold wt not s bad man," she
ohbed, "I can't understand how he
fflpprned to do this awful thing,
lie didn't have to bold up people,
fet -worked hard every day and wa3
making good money.'
i.'.'I pleaded with my son to spend
h,fs evenings at home with u and
to not treutient pool halls and as
sociate with questionable char
ters," said Mr. Roberts. . ,
$Z i Brother Killed in France.
"I had only two hoys and now
J&haVe lost both of them. Harold's
?fothcr, I.bring, was killed in
Vance while in service.' And now
Harold is dead. I think we will move
away from this city."
John McLaughlin, 17 years old,
alleged by police to be the youngest
of the three gunmen, is lying at
the Jennie F.dmuiidson Memorial
hospital with three bullet wounds
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through his chest. He is not ex
pected to live.
McLaughlin has been working for
three years as car repairer at the
Union Pacific shops, supporting his
widowed niolhcr, Irs. Mjttic Mc
Laughlin, with whom he made bis
home a 1908 Third aveuue.
Father Killed in Omaha.
Clifford Barrett, 28 years old, said
to he the third, bandit, also is in a
critical condition at the Jennie Ed
miiudson hospital. He is suffering
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fnjm a bullet wound through the
abdomen. His liver was torn and
surgeons say that it is improbable
that he will recover.
Barrett is a son of Mrs. A. J. Bar
rett, 649 Franklin avenue. His
father was killed by a fall from a
building in Omaha two years ago
this spring. He was not married, but
supported Jiis mother by working
in a Bluffs garage.
Eye Witness Interviewed.
Nick Depor, 35 years old, a Mexi
can laborer living on Sixteenth ave
nue, is probably wounded fatally.
Louis Ortego, section foreman and
the only eye witness that police have
interviewed, said that the bandits
were the victims of their own guns.
In the pandemonium which reigned
when many of the Austrian failed
to put up their hands and one of
them grappled with one of the
bandits, shots went wild and result
ed in the killing or wounding oi
the seven men. he said.
Police say that many of the in
tended victims probably carried guns
antf that some of them may have
actually engaged in a pitched battle
with the bandits. No evidence can
be found to substantiate this theory.
however.
Ducked Under Table.
Pete I'otkon'ak, proprietor of ths
pool hall, told police that he ducked
underneath a table when the gun
men came in the door and that be
saw none of the details of the
shouting.
.'vccoruing to urtego s storv there
were about 25 men in the pool hall
when the three bandits appeared, all
wearing black handkerchief masks
across the lower parts of their faces!
and carrying guns. Jl
W hen the robbers cried, Stick
fin up," many of the men standing
near the front of the hall complied.
Others did not sec of hear the gun
men and one of them tired several
The Way Lillian "Scampered Off"
With Madge.
I drove as fast as 1 could toward
home, for my interview with Alice
Holcomb had consumed more time
than 1 had expected, and I dreaded
the comment, good-natured and
caustic, which my disappearance
with the car would call forth from
the circle of relatives and friends at
the house.
But it did me no good to hasten,
for when I turned in at the entrance
I sfiw that all of the party were sta
tioned on' the veranda. Al I walked
up the path I knew from the grins
on the faces of Dicky and his
brother-in-law, and the dimpling
smile of Mrs. Durkee that I was in
for a bad quarter of an hour.
"Well, how's Barney Oldfield?"
LDr. Braithwaite boomed the question
atross the intervening stretch of
grass plot, and little Mrs: Durkee
promptly testified to her approbation
by a girlish giggle,
"Woman! How much did this trip
cost me?" Dicky as$umer a menac
ing manner. "Confess, now, what
the traffic cop nailed you fori"
"I hope the merry villagers were
properly impressed .with the new
car, dear," Lillian put in slyly.
I put both hands high above my
head.
"Don't shoot. I'll come down," I
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shots into the ceiling to attract at
tention and emphasize their de
mands.
Roberts is said to have walked
down the line of tables, poking
victims in the ribs with his gun and
forcing them to put up their hands.
Whcu he came to Pedro Jimines,
now dead, the Mexican foreman
grappled with him, locking the
young bandit's arms behind him.
One of the other gunmen noticed
the situation and began to shoot
in that direction. Jimines, said Or
tego, wheeled around and placed
the bandit between him and the
shooter as a shield. A shot struck
Roberts in the chest and pierced his
right lung and heart, killing him
ifistantlv.
The Mexican dropped the body
and was himself struck by bullets,
Jfe tottered, grasping the edge of
the counter, then fell to the floor
and died.
Austrians Create Panic.
Steve lKilibarda, the third dead
man, was shot while crouching
a corner in the rear of the hall. He
crawled on his hands and knees
through the rear door and his body
was found several feet in back of
the building.
As soon as the firing commenced
a panic was created by the Aus
trians in their efforts to rush out of
the building. The room was found
deserted bv police when thev ar
rived on the scene. Sixteen bullet
holes were counted in the walls.
ceiling and fixtures.
Barrett, with a bullet hole through
Ins abdomen, made his escape from
the charnel house and succeeded in
reaching the home of Mrs. Martha
Johnson, 1512 Eleventh avenue, six
blocks away. He knocked at the
door and staggered into the house
in a semi-conscious condition. Mrs.
Johnson phoned police and he was
taken to the Jennie Edinundson
hospital, where .surgeons operated
upon him at once.
McLaughlin May Die.
McLaughlin, who also made his
way from the pool hall after the
shooting was found behind a bill
hoard two blocks awav bv Don
Franks, 16 years old, 1502 Four
teenth avenue.
ror liod s sake, help me get
away!" Franks heard McLaughlin
moan as ne passed the bill board
He called police. McLaughlin has
a slim chance for recovery, sur
geons say.
Detectives today are investigating
the affair to determine whether any
or tne intended victims returned tr.
nre or me oanaits. tmpty car
tridges strewn about over the floor
indicated that guns must have been
reloaded dcrinsr the fight.
The bodies of the dead men were
taken to the undertaking parlors of
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v-oioncr .uiier. io inquest will De
held, according to a statement made
ly the coroner this morning, nend
ing changes in the condition of the
wounded men at the hospital.
"Laxative
&POMO
Tobloto"
laughed. "When even Lillian turns
against me it's time I surrendered.
What do you, want me to do
apblogize all around for not inviting
you to drive?"
"No," interposed little Mrs. Dur
kee. "We want an account of your
self. I should think you would have
had enough of motor driving today,
and here you're barely in the house
before you scoot off again without
a word to anybody, and stay until
Dicky has been telephoning every
police station within a radius of 20
miles."
My little neighbor delivered this
speech with a series of giggles that
robbed it of any hint of seriousness,
and yet I sensed that behind the
mirth lay a distinct childish curi
osity, one of the little, woman's less
pleasant characteristics.
I dronntd into a chair and put my
hands over my face in pretended
terror.
An Understanding Flash.
"I'll tell vou the whole truth," I
said, giving my voice an exaggerated
tremolo. "Lillian and I robbed a
bank and murdered four people
while we were gone, and I just re
ceived word that the bloodhounds
were on our trail. So I jumped into
the machine and ever since have
been twisting and turning around
the country to throw them off the
track. About 15 minutes ago I
drove through the brook just north
of Crest Haven and completely baf
fled them. I don't think they'll
trouble us now for a day or two, but
we certainly will have to work to
fix up an alibi.
Almost all all of the group seated
on the veranda manifested their ap
proval of this arrant nonsense by
laughter. They were evidently in
the mood, when anything, no mattei
how silly, would amuse them. But I
caught a flash from Lillian's eyes
and knew that she had comprehend
ed the message between the lines
which I meant her to get.
"I think you're horrid, Madge,"
pouted little Mrs. Durkee, whose
laughter, I noticed, was rather per
functory. "You made the cold chills
run right down my back." '
To the Rescue.
I knew that her baffled curiosity
had made her irritable, and I rc
selved not to give her a chance for
further questioning.
"Will somebody tell me when dinp
ner will be ready?" I demanded. "I'm
positively starving."
Dicky looked me up and down
with a speculative air.
"Can't you just see her in another
year or two if she keeps this tip?" be
asked. "Drives until she's so hungry
she has to stop, eats until she has no
inclination for any more strenuous
exercise than sitting in a car, then
drives again, ad libitum, and so forth.
Good-bye, Madge. I warn youl
When yo acquire jowls and a dou
ble cliiu J shall flit like a humming
bird out of your life."
"You mean like a magpie," Lillian
put in dryly. "And don't worry
about Madge getting too fat while
she has to listen to your brand of
conversation. It would wear any
body legally compelled to listen to
it to a positive shadow. Come away,
Madge, with your only true friend. 1
happen to, know that dinner isn't
scheduled for another hour, but I
have some aromatic spirits of am
monia over in my room if you think
vou arejikely to swoon before thei
Besides, vou have been promising to
show me that new knitting stitch for
two weeks. You'll just have time
to pound it into my head before din
ner, and it will take your mind ott
the beastly cruelty of the man
you're tied to."
Sue slipped her hand through my
arm and walked me oil the veranda
with a gamin-like mouc at Diekv,
sauntered leisurely across the lawn
to the Durkee home, and up to her
room.
As she turned the key in the lock
she smiled a little grimly: "Well,
what's the latest?" she asked.
(Continued Tonuirow.)
Industrial Festival
At Vancouver Seeks
Visit by Omaha Mayor
"Will wonders never cease?"
isked Mayor Smith yesterday when
he read a telegram from Van
couver, B. C, offering to pay all of
his expenses in connection with a
visit to a "great industrial festival,"
to be held in the Canadian citv,
April 19 to 24.
Man Hurt in Street Fight
Dies in Edmundson Hospital
Elmer L. Hall. 32 years old. 210)
South Twelfth street, Council Bluffs,
who was shot in the back in a fight
near the Emmet house on Sixteenth
avenue and Sixth street, died at the
Edmundson hospital Wednesday
night.
Hall was a member of the Car
men's union and had lived all his life
in Cbuncil Bluffs. He was a car in
spector for the LTnion Pacific.
He leaves a wife, two daughters.
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William
AT THE
THEATERS
T'
HE Goldirtan company of Yid
dish players will offer a drama
of red-blooded men and women
fiercely loving, fiercely fighting, in
tensely hating and better men and
women for this very fierceness and
lovableness in their nature, entitled
"Bought Love," at the Brandcis
theafcr tonight.
Mabel and Dora Ford at the Or
phcum this week are ottering a
group of four dances. Three are new
creations and the fourth is a step
dance winch used to be done by
them in association with their two
brothers, when the quartet w'as
know as the Four Fords. Two other
acts are featured. One is presented
by Charles E. Bensee and Florence
Baird. Miss Baird is especially ef
fective as a comedienne. Clara Mor
ton, formerly one of the four Mor
tons, appears effectively in a "Solo
curtain rises at 7:55 o'clock sharp.
All the costumes, scenery and
properties in the "Paper Dress
Revue," at the Empress, are made
entirely of paper. The scene shows
the interior of a paper shop and
the story has to do with a theatrical
producer in search of novelties in
costumes for a new production he
is undertaking. The six pretty
models appear and show what paper
can do in the making of costumes.
Songs and - dances enliven the pro
duction, as'wcll as sufficient comedy
situations.
This afternoon and evening Peter
S. Clark's 'Oh, Girl!" company will
give its two final performances. To
morrow matinee one of the very
high spots, in .the Gayety's season
arrives the annual weeks engage
ment of "The Auto Girls" (1920
models), purposely booked for the
week of Omaha's big auto show.
Frank Hunter is the principal chauf
feur in chafgc of the fun and is ably
suoDorted bv a wonderful cast of
principals and the famous jov-riding
beauty chorus. The production is
elaborate in every way and just the
thi-.e for Omaha's big gala week.
No lovers pf fun and good music
and dancing should miss Come
Alonor Marv." which comes to the
Brandeis theater Saturday and Sun
day. The company numbers some
4n neonis with a well known musical
comcdv cast and boasts of a bevy
of beautiful girls who not only sing
and dance well, but appear in one of
the most startling and expensive cos
tumes ever seen iu musical comedy.
"Tiger Rose," written by Willard
Mack, staged by David Belasco.
with the original New York and
Chicago production, is to be pre
sented a,t the Brandcis -theater Tues
day night by a Belasconian cast.
"A Daughter of the Sun," the
story of a Hawaiian butterfly, a
massive scenic production carrying
a carload of special scenery, will be
seen at the Brandcis on Thursday,
Friday and Saturday, March 4, 5
and 6.
dashing 1 adopted daughter of a
French nobleman. Each delineation
is said to be distinct and a tribute
to Miss Dalton's . prowess as an
emotional actress.
Sun The fashionable atmosphere
of high social life in New York City
has been lavishly produced in "The
Walk-Offs," a photo offering at the
Sun theater this week. It is a ro
mantic love story with May. Alli
son in the role of a young society
woman without money, "a walk-off,"
who has been bred to the shallow
standards of society which the man
who loves her, a wealthy, young
red-blooded Kentuckian, detests.
In its story there is intensely ab
sorbing and human interest.
H. Hall, of this city, two brothers,
George Hall of this city, and Will
iam Hall of Beardsley. Minn., and
one sister. Miss Edna Hall, at home.
Three Die in Blast.
Manitowoc. Wis.. Feb. 26. The
third victim of an explosion in the
plant of the Aluminum Manufactur
ing comDanv Thursday mornine
died of her injuries tonight, increas
ing the death toll from three to four.
Little hope is held cit for the re
covery of four others
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COKBKTT 111 '-MIDNIGHT WAN,
and srood short feature.
mHF. latest Enid Bennett picture
Xto be shown in Omaha bears
the interesting title of "The
Woman in the Sui;; ase," and it will
rnntinue the stellar attraction at
the Strand the balance of the week.
The story centers around a viva
cious young boarding school miss,
who has always made more or less
of a pal out of her father and is
shocked to discover the photograph
of a comely woman, not her mother,
in lus suitcase. The picture bears
an endearing inscription and con
vinces Mary, the heroine, that her
fattier is carrying on an affair with
the siren. She determines to rescue
him.
Moon If you want to see a grip
ping, dramatic picture with human
problems set forth with all the
story teller's art, then visit the
Moon theater either today or Sat
urday and view "The alley of To-
morrow, starring uiiiiam Kussen.
Herein this athletic favorite, with
Mary Thurtnan and a cast of star
caliber, puts upon the screen the
tragic hesitations that harass a man
when love clashes with his heredi
tary duty to kill' his sister's be
traver the brother of the woman
l.e loves, the very man to whom he
owes his own escape from death.
Rialto JVith Dorothy Dalton
playing three distinct roles and the
scene of the action varying from
the upper stratum of Parisian life
to the Indian jungle, "Black is
White," a picture production offer
ing at the Rialto the balance of
the week, is furnishing much novel
entertainment for npvie farts. Miss
Dalton portrays the faithful, retir
ing wife of an unreasonably jealous
husband, a fragile invalid and the j
Empress Sylvia Breamer and
Robert Gordon are admirably cast
in the spicy romantic comedy, "Re
spectable by Proxy," which is now
srliowing at the Empress theater.
The story revolves around a young
southern heir who is wedded in
haste to a fourth-rate actress whose
acting "off-stage" was far from
fourth-rat;.
and Saturday, is giving the public
a photoplay treat of unusual inter
est. Hobart Henley, the producer
director, produced and directed the
picture from the original short story
by Edna Ferber. One of the out
standing features, among the many
splendid points of "The Gay Old
Dog" is its fidelity to detail. Down
to the finest point, every detail in
costuming' and furnishing has been
carefully observed.
BYSTANDER SHOT
AS TWO ENEMIES
SETTLE QUARREL
Bullet Passes Through Leg of
John Lusso and Hits
Louis Salerno.
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Boosters.
Roy Gruen, 1207 South t Sixth
street, shot and slightly wounded
John Lusso, Seventh and Fierct
streets, and Louis Salefno, 17 year
old, 723 Pierce street, during a quar
rd between Gruen and Lusso la
night, according to police report.
The fight was the result of an ole
quarrel, police say. Last night Lusso
attempted to throw 'Gruen from a
house where he was watchman,
claiming that he was attempting to
steal property in the house.
Gruen, who is a night watchman
at. the Elfonso Cannella dry good
store at Sixth and Pierce streets,
went to his room and secured a re
volvef, returning to the Queen pic
ture show, and was attacked by
Lusso in the street.
Gruen shot and struck Lusso in
the right leg, the bullet passing
through and striking Salerno, who
was watching the fight from the
corner of the street.
Tolice were summoned and all
three men taken to the police sta
tion, where a charge of shooting
with intent to kill was placed against
Gruen. A large knife was taken
from Lusso and he was booked on
an assault and battery charge.
m r. . . rrl r .
muse l nc Aiuse tneater in pre
senting "The Gay Old Dog" today
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