Search for Hungarian Makes Commotion, Discovers Garlic Scent

Council Bluffs, Iowa, 1908

FUTILE SEARCH AT MIDNIGHT

Austrian Grading Camp Near Transfer Raided by Police

Four members of the South Omaha police force and two detectives of the Council Bluffs station conducted a fruitless search Monday night for a Hungarian wanted in Omaha for stabbing another man in a fight Sunday night.

The affray is said to have taken place at the Kilpatrick grading camp three miles west of South Omaha. Two brothers, Dan and Ivan Detlich, were alleged to have badly wounded two other men.

Monday evening word was received by the Council Bluffs police that the Austrian who had done the stabbing was reported to be concealed in one of the house-cars situated near the former site of the Omaha elevator south of the Union Pacific transfer and that four South Omaha officers would be over in about an hour to investigate the report.

At 11 o'clock the Omaha men arrived and, guided by the Council Bluffs detectives, started out to look for their man. Upon arriving at the ruins of the elevator two of the men went to the home of the man who had sent the report. He pointed out to them the string of cars in which the fellow might be found. A thorough search of these produced nothing more than a great commotion among the Hungarians and a noisome agitation of the scent of garlic.

After satisfying themselves that there was no man there answering the description, the party plodded back to the transfer station, foot-sore and weary, and arrived just in time to miss the last car. They finished the remaining sixteen blocks on foot, humming cheerfully betimes, bars from "Forty-five Minutes From Broadway."

—The Daily Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Iowa, March 11, 1908, p. 5.