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THE BKK: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY. OtU'OBKR 26. 1921.
$1,000,000 in
Registered Mail
Taken by Bandits
3'hrfa Arnwd Men Ilold Up
Truck Drivr r Near N. Y.
City Hall and Mate
Getaway.
New York, Oct. 25. Three armed
binditi In in automobile forced the
driver of a mail truck to nop on
lower Broadway late last night
while they rifled the truck of four
pouches of registered mail valued at
$,O()0,0OO by postal authorities
The truck was on in way from the
city hall nation to the I'ennsylvania
railroad terminal with 17 pouches oi
mail. It of them containing regit
tered matter. The driver had gone
nly a few blocki when a green auto
mobile containing three men drew
alongside. They confronted him
with drawn revolvers and ordered
him to slow down. -
Took Key From Him.
At Leonard street two men. jump
ed from the automobile onto the
truck and ordered the driver to get
down from his seat. One held a
revolver to the driver'a head, he
said, while the other pointed hit
weapon at hit stomach.
Forcing the driver to turn over
the key, one of the bandits unlocked
the rage and pawed over the pouchit
inside. Selecting four he transferred
them to the automobile which stood
at the curb with itt motor running.
After threatening to "blow hi
braint out" if he moved, the driver
said, the trio moved, off Broadway
avest through Leonard street ana
disappeared. . '
The driver, frank navranicic,
said that after satisfying himself
his life was no longer in danger he
got hack on the truck and drove to
the Beach Street police station. A
general alarm for the green automo
bile was sent out at once and postal
inspectors summoned.
Driver is Detained. '
The driver, when questioned by
postal inspectors, said that he hnd
looked in vain for a policeman. The
wholesale drygoods district around
Broadway and Worth street Is gen
erally deserted at night and there is
little street traffic after business
hours.
ifavranick was able to furnish the
postal inspectors with part of the
license number of the car.
He has been a mail driver for
three years. He was detained by the
postal authorities in order, they said,
to have him at their disposal to iden
tify suspects who may be gathered
in by the police.
$5,000 Reward.
Washington, Oct. 25. Reward of
$5,000 to any person bringing in
"dead or alive any one of the three
automobile bandits who late last
night heldjup a United States mail
truck in New York was offered to
day by Postmaster General Hays.
Reports to the postoffice depart
ment were said to indicate that so
far as was known the loot of the
bandits did not exceed $50,000. The
full strength of the department's in
spection force was at work attempt
ing to clear up the case. , , ,
"Booze" Runners Tell
Story of Operations
(Continued from Face One.)
broad daylight, without waiting for
cover of dark.
"We do this in order' to, cover
ground more quickly," he explained.
"I've traveled six days' with only
three hours of sleep,", he declared.
"The few hours of rest we get we
snatch by pulling into a side road in
some out-of-the-way place and sleep
ing in the car."
Rohrer Probes List.
Towns on Auld and Murphy's
"run," deduced from their books, arc
North Platte, Paxton, Grand Island,
Hastings, Red Cloud, Riverton,
Venango, Giltner, York, Sutton,
Seward, Ord, Kenesaw and Aurora.
Names of prominent Nebraskans
on their lists in these places include
newspaper editors, capitalists, whole
sale grocers, harness and hardware
merchants, cigar stand owners and
printers. '
Each of these names will be in
vestigated, U. S. Rohrer, federal pro
hibition enforcement officer, an
nounced yesterday. - ;
"It we can prove Auld's state
ments to be true, or 1hat these men
gave orders for liquor, I shall cer
tainly prosecute them for conspiracy
to violate the prohibition act," he
declared. ,.
Fined and Rearrested.
Names of 12 Hastings men fur-
hished him are the names of some
of his life-long acquaintances, he
asserted. Rohrer's home was for
merly in Hastings. , '
Some of these may be subpoenaed
as witnesses in the federal case
fcgainst the two bootleggers, Chief of
Police Martin opined.
The two pleaded guilty and paid
$100 fines before the county judge at
Grand Island Monday, but imme
diately were rearrested on a federal
charge, on telegraphic orders from
Rohrer. One of the men is 28 and
the other 40.
Promotion Tests Given
. Omaha School Children
Semi-annual mentality tests of all
the children in the nuhlie s-hnl
were held yesterday under super
vision of Leon O.' Smith, an assist
ant superintendent . The tests are
given from the third to eighth
grades, inclusive, and comprise read
ing, grammar, arithmetic, etc
It is a scientific way ot putting the
children into their proper grades,
the test determining whether a child
should be advanced or held back.
At a recent meeting with all the
teachers Mr. Smith made arrange
ments for the tests.
Box Car Thieves Foiled
By Plattsmouth Police
Plattsmouth, Neb., Oct. 25. (Spe
cial.) 'Box car thieves were foiled
in their attempt to make away with
several hundred dollars worth of
automobile supplies which had been
thrown from a Missouri Pacific train
t the outskirts of town when citi
aens observed-the stolen merchan
dise and notified the police,
Beauty in. Love Suit ,
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The remarkable beauty of Mrs. Lillian Hendrick. of Washington, D.
C, named in a $1,000,000 alienation suit brought by Mrs. Dorrit Van Deu
sen Stevens Woodhouse, of Burlington, Vt., "is the cause of all her unfor
tunate troubles and attendant publicity,", according to Mrs. David Hen
drick, mother of the girl. Mrs. Woodhouse's suit was brought against Mr.
and Mrs. Lorenzo Woodhouse, hci; husband's parents, who, she charges,
sought to alienate her husband's affections from his wife and to form an
alliance with Mrs. Hendrick. Mrs. Hendrick is a divorcee.
Superior Shifters
Want Highways Built
Superior, Neb., Oct. 25. (Special.)
The first luncheon of the Shifters,
commercial organization of Superior,
which was held in the club rooms
with the new cafeteria system was a
decided success. The .invitation
from the Guide Rock Commercial
club for the men of Superior to at
tend a road meeting at Guide Rock
was accepted. The following resolu
tion was adopted:
"Resolved, That the Shifters of
Superior endorse the project to re
quest our government to build two
highways for the following reasons:
'To give employment to thousands
of men now unemployed; that these
highways are a vital necessity to
the United States; the expenditure for
jthis work will assist in stabilizing
conditions.'"
4 Tenants Killed
In Apartment by
Fumigating Gas
Deadly Fumei Seep Up Dumb
Waiter From Restaurant
Below Man Dies After
Drinking Wood Alcohol.
Cleveland, Oct. 25. Three women
and one man were found dead in an
east' end apartment building here
Iste yesterday, the victims, police
tay, of asphyxiation, caused by fumi
gating gat. They had been dead
apparently for 12 hours.
The dead are:
Frank Fryer, his daughter, Mahtl.
29; Mrs. J. W. Stcnhi and Mist Hel
en Ashlcman.
The bodies of Fryer and hU
daughter were found in a suite ad
joining that occupied by Mrt. Stenhi
and Miss Ashlcman.
According to the authorities, fumi
gation was started in a restaurant
which occupies the first and tecond
floors of the building late last night.
The gas is believed to have seeped
through the floors and up a dumb
waiter connecting the upper stories
and caught the tenants without
warning.
Victim of Wood Alcohol.
Philadelphia, Oct. 25. A man
supposed to be B. Doll, of 315
Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington,
D. C, was found dead in an auto
mobile here yesterday and anotoher
believed to be Roy Bechtold or H. E.
Strohm, Indianapolis, is in a serious
condition in a hospital. James E.
Trice, Wilmington, Del., and J. P.
Sloan, of Philadelphia were found in
the machine suffering from what
hospital physicians believe to be the
effects of wood alcohol. According
to the policcSloan said the party
had bought some drinks in Wash
ington yesterday afternoon and were
overcome on their way here.
Pursues Bandit in Plane.
Chicago, Oct. 25. Pursuing a
bandit who fatally shot a man who
resisted robbery and who was es
caping in an automobile he had
requisitioned, a' policeman called in
to service an airplane, late yester
day afternoon. The plane swooped
down until its wings almost scraped
the automobile, but the policeman
feared to shoot, as he might have
killed the innocent driver of the car,
into whose side the bandit had poked
a gun. The bandit finally leaped
from the automobile and ran into a
small house in Palos park. .When
the police surrounded the place, he
had fled. They traced him to the
city and believe they have him cor-
r.cred in hou.e. Hostilities will
open at daylight
Sis Passengers Killed.
Mexico City. Oct. 25 (By the
Associated Pre .) Government
troops were engaged today in track
ing a band of highwaymen which
la! night held up an express train
at Atzrapotialco, suburb of this
city, killing fix persons, wounding
five others and robbing the expre.
car of packages valued at 200,000
pesos. The robbers tied in automo
biles and vanished into the hill.
The express shipment was guarded
by soldiers, and when the train was
stopped by the highwaymen, the
troops engaged in a sharp fight with
the outlaws. So far at known, all
the killed were soldiers. It was be
lieved here last night that there were
no American passengers on the
train.
Rock Bluffs Citizens Are
r Tightened By ISegro Hunters
Plattsmouth, Neb., Oct. 25. (Spe
cial.) Five ncgroet from Omana,
limiting in the vicinity of Rock
I! luffs frcightened the people there,
who called the officials here. n
vrtigatkn revealed the men were
barnilets, but three of their number
ere found to be without proper
hunting licenses and were arretted.
Mail Car Rolled.
Carbondale, 111., Oct. 25, An ex
press and mail car on the Illinois
Central railroad was broken into
near here today and robbed of an
undetermined amount ft parf post
waiter,
TrlCity Band Concert U
Given at PlatUuioutii
rUttimouth, Neb, Oit. 25. (Spe
tlal )-ftwem 3,00i) a"d 4.000 peo
ple were present t the Masonic
llomt grounds to dear the trl ch
band concert of PUttsmouth, Clrn
wood (Iowa) and Pacific Junction
(Iowa bands. The band numbered
upwards ol U) mnjibm and included
in its personnel Arthur C Steven
son, cornriUt, of Omaha.
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Wednesday,
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