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Ex-Convict Who Chained Young Women m Omaha Shar k Terrorizes Uapitai City Homes.Sheriff J. C. Emery and Chief01 i' ^ * A. O Whiti in * on.' mon witn othet oitueis in Nebraska, yesterday received des-! -ri^iVe data on ired Brown, a * who shackled two womenand held them prisoners in an Omaha hut Brown i* not benved L to be in this vicinity, although M he is still at large.Lincoln, NebL* May 30. —* Fred ;Hi own, alias Qua Grime*, paroled j eonviet wanted in Omaha on thoj *charge of kidnapping two young wo- | * men and for the theft of an utiloino-M Ult, I* hi 111 In Lincoln, where hop1 w as traced yesterday, if the story! « told the police tonight by Mrs. Vio-jf let Dmgnmu is true, Mrs. JJingmanj told tii** officers a man she I* confi-• b dmmi was 111 o w ii, met he r on t he ! (Hi reef in the northeast section of the!*'city.8lie says she made an attempt to detain him# but that he drew a gun ami compelled her to release herhold.Hho says she met the same man .main in »he vicinity about dusk this evening faiid again attempted to capture him, calling on bystanders to assist her, but they paid no attention to her request, Brown, it it was theformer convict, Mrs. Dingrnan says, a second time broke away running up t he smhway of a business btitiding, When the police arrived no j v trace of the stuped could be found. Authorities are represented as crediting the story told by Mrs. Diogman.iaafcJVf1nAtK\rtComb CityPolice today combed the city in beared ol Brown hut without definite clue further than that given by Mrs. Dmgman. One suspect was detained at Iiavelock during the day, but waslater released.If Brown is still here, and many believes he is, he has changed his I clothing since he stole the automo-j bile yesterday and later wrecked the! machine colliding with a milk wagon -Mrs Dingman said her identification of lirown was quite positive;that she was well acquainted with hi appeal'; nc« letiu • .-he a/d her j husband at one time lived in the same j a pa 11 n lent house with Brown. j*%*he search made during t£$i4ay J1in,a i,nt r*itv rfiiie** Ktrite and eonii-lt;Icalled out city police, state and conn ty chputy .diet itfs, railroad police,! penitentiary authorities and many fcitizens. At one time three hundred people were congregated about 20th 1 and O st reets, near the place where P later in the day Mrs. Dingman attem pled to detain the suspect. 'This led to the report that Brown had been ! 1 sunounded b ya mob and was hold-'1 fllg ii off with a revolver. At the!time Mis. Dingman made her inef-|. • » . p! e hilt a few 1people were in the immediate vicinity. IPanic In HomesInterferences in Du -earch for the hunted man wer* frequent during the day. At one tifin* an automobile load of officers was sent in haste to the north part of the city, where it was said a man who resembled Brown was seen running toward the rail-, road tracks. It proved to be another! man.Households in the vicinity wheiej Brow n had been reported seen during the day were in a state of semi-panic and fiequent calls for the police led to unfounded rumors.The de\elopements of the afternoon made it quite certain, in the belief of the police, that Brown spent the flight in Lincoln following the theft of the automobile yesterday morning. Tonight the police expressed the belief that Hi own had escaped from the city but the search for him continued with considerable vigor.
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Beatrice Daily Sun
Beatrice, Nebraska, US
Wed, May 31, 1922
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