NORFOLK DAILY NEWS;
Norfolk, Nebraska;
Wednesday, February 23, 1921
page 2


RAILROAD MEN
ADMIT HOLDUP,
BLAME WHISKY

CARRICO AND FLESNER SAYS
CRIME WAS RESULT OF ATTEMPT
TO HAVE SOME FUN

BOTH MEN FACE PRISON TERMS

Loot Taken From M. & O. Brakeman
is Returned From Hiding Place--
Amateur Robbers Had Families
and Jobs

Price Carrico, brakeman, and Frank
Flesner, roundhouse worker, both employed
by the Northwestern railroad, were bound
over to the district court in Justice
Norvell's court at 10 o'clock Wednesday
morning under $2,000 bonds each on
charges of highway robbery.
Carrico had pleaded guilty to the charge
of robbery and Flesner to being an
accessory.
The men held-up and robbed E. J. Reed,
M. & O. brakeman, in the South Norfolk
yards at 10 o'clock Tuesday night with a
shotgun. They obtained a gold watch and
$40 in cash. This loot was recovered by
the police. The watch was hidden behind
a telegraph post on South First street
about two blocks from the Carrico
residence and part of the cash was
hidden in a kodak in the Carrico home.

Reveals Hiding Place

The police say that both men confessed
after they were arrested early Wednesday
morning and Carrico divulged the hiding
place of the loot. Carrico is 27 years
old and Flesner is 35 years old. Both
live in Norfolk, are married and have
families. Carrico's father is a cripple
and notwithstanding the loss of both
hands has worked hard for a living. He
is heartbroken over the affair.
The police did rapid work in running
down the robbers. The railroad yards
were combed soon after the report was
turned in at the roundhouse by Reed who
later identified Carrico as the man who
held him up. Before he was arrested,
Carrico bought Reed a meal in the Nelson
restaurant in South Norfolk. Policemen
Hennessy, Schiebe, Jones and Olds
collaborated in the early investigation
and were joined later by Chief Pilger.
According to Reed's story, he had left
the caboose which was in charge of
Conductor Martin Oesterling, on the coach
track and had walked sixty feet toward a
switch he was going to throw for the
engine which had not yet arrived. He
noticed one short and one taller man in
the darkness but paid no attention to
them. Suddenly he was struck in the
stomach with some object and looking down
he saw what appeared to be the barrel of
a rifle or shotgun. He thought it was a
joke and pushed the muzzle of the gun
away. Then the man who held the gun said:
"Stick 'em up --------, you can't fool
with me."

Handkerchief Masked Face

Looking up, Reed said he saw that the
man holding the gun had his face masked
with a red bandana handkerchief. He could
not see the taller man who was standing
behind him.
"And I stuck my hands up quick," Reed
said. "Then this man ordered me to give
up my watch. He then asked me if I had any
money and when I told him I had, he
ordered me to dig it up. When I handed it
to him, he ordered me to 'beat it.'
I walked off slowly, and he told me again,
'beat it' and when I said I was going he
said for me to run, which I did." I ran to
the caboose to get a shot gun we had there
and when I came out again the two men had
disappeared. I ran to the roundhouse and
telephoned the police who came immediately.
"About 3 o'clock in the morning this man
asked me to come into Nelson's cafe where
he bought me a meal. I suspected he was the
man who held me up and I just played him to
get information."
Reed told the police that he was positive
Carrico is the man who pushed the gun into
his stomach and took his valuables.
When asked how he happened to have cash
with him, Reed said he had just been paid
off and had sent $50 home and had kept the
$40 for the purpose of buying a new suit of
clothes.
When Northwestern headquarters were
notified of the hold-up, it was believed
that another "joke" had been pulled off.
The fact that the men had surrendered the
money put a different light on the matter.
"I am satisfied that the two former
hold-ups were jokes," Chief Pilger said,
"but this one is a pretty serious affair."
Reed is 23 years old and lives at 414
Park Ave, Omaha. He was in the way car
with other members of the crew when he
went out into the dark yards to turn the
switch.

Carrico Aids Search

The report of the hold-up took a score
of railroad men into the search. Carrico
appeared with other railroad men and
helped search the railroad yards, the bunk
cars, and joined the police in searching
freight trains for the robbers. Two men
who were beating their way through the
city were rounded up by the man hunters.
After the yards had been carefully
combed a party of railroad men accompanied
the police and boarded an extra freight
eastbound at 1:30 Wednesday morning. When
this train was out of the city about a
mile it was stopped by the officers and
searched.
One prominent railroad man who was on
board the train and who was a member of
the searching party said that the police
did very efficient work.
"I cannot help but compliment those
officers," he said. "Carrico was with us
and we never suspected him. I asked him in
a joking way what he was doing up at that
hour of the night and told him that honest
folks ought to be in bed. He mumbled
something which I did not understand. I did
not know that all of this time the
policemen were suspecting him. After we had
searched the train and found nothing, we
walked back to the station. Carrico left us
there and went to his home which is only
about twenty feet from the tracks. The
policemen went right on up town."
The facts in the case are that the
policemen were staging a little game
throughout the search, according to a story
told by one policeman. When Carrico went
home, the policemen doubled on their track
and watched the Carrico house. They were
rewarded later by the appearance of Flesner
who left the Carrico house and went to his
home on Second street. Then Carrico was
arrested and identified by Reed and later
Flesner was arrested.

Blames Moonshine Whisky

Price Carrico in an interview with a
News representative in the city jail
Wednesday afternoon declared that he and
his companion, Frank Flesner were the
victims of moonshine whisky and had no
real intention of committing a hold-up.
He stated that he and Flesner had
purchased two pints of moonshine whisky
for $8 and that after drinking it at the
Carrico house they decided to go out and
have some fun. He said he borrowed a
shot gun from a neighbor and they started
up the yards toward the roundhouse. At
that time he said there was no talk of
holding up any one, even for a joke.
"We just decided to go up to the
roundhouse and have some fun," Carrico
said. "We then met this man whom I thought
I knew and I walked to him and he just
threw up his hands and gave me his watch
and money. He told me that was all he had
and if I didn't believe it I could search
him.
When asked if he told Reed to "beat it,"
Carrico said he might have done so, he did
not remember.
"I didn't know he got any money,"
interrupted Flesner, "when he stopped him
I just walked on, I was afraid."

Decided to Hide Watch

Carrico said that after the hold-up he
and Flesner walked back to his (Carrico's)
home where Mrs. Flesner was visiting with
Mrs. Carrico. He said that they examined
the watch and then decided to hide it.
When asked about the money, Carrico said
he was endeavoring to think of some way of
getting it back to Reed, but he did not
know his name.
"But I didn't know he had any money,"
again interrupted Flesner.
Then Carrico said he and Flesner drove
out with Flesner's car which broke down
and they met policeman Hennessy who asked
them if they had seen two suspicious men.
Later, Carrico said, he met policeman Olds
and Reed and he bought Reed's meal and kept
on figuring on how to get his name and get
the watch and money back to him. Flesner
had gone to the Carrico home and Carrico
said he went out with the man hunters who
were looking for the bandits.
"When you were on the extra freight train,
why didn't you tell your brakeman about your
difficulty?" he was asked.
"I guess I didn't know enough."
"Have you been worried about it?"
"I haven't slept a wink all night,"
he replied.
Carrico said after he left the men who
helped search the freight train he returned
home and later Mr. and Mrs. Flesner returned
to their home. Afterward the police arrested
him and he told them where the money and
watch were located.
"If you were innocent, why did you plead
guilty?" he was asked.
"I don't know, I thought that was the only
thing to do," he replied.
It was intimated that the plea of guilty
will be changed. The penalty for the crime
is from three to fifteen years in the
penitentiary.


THE LINCOLN EVENING JOURNAL;
Lincoln, Nebraska;
Friday, April 19, 1929
page 18

TRIED FRAME DRY OFFICER

Price Carrico, Clem Dominisee.
Held on Charges at Norfolk

NORFOLK, Neb.--(UP)-- Two men faced
charges of conspiracy to violate the
prohibition law Friday as a result of
an attempted "frame-up" of E. J.
Macklin, state "undercover" man here.
The men, Price Carrico and Clem Dominsee,
are alleged to have planted several
bottles of liquor in Macklin's home and
then entered complaints against him for
illegal possession. Macklin was arrested
but the case against him was dismissed
after State Sheriff Condit and Assistant
Attorney General Ryan made an
investigation and found that Macklin had
been "framed."


THE LINCOLN EVENING JOURNAL;
Lincoln, Nebraska;
Thursday, May 2, 1929
page 5

RAID MANY NORTHEAST
NEBRASKA VIOLATORS

Condit Aids Local Officers in
Arrests---Sixteen Are
Taken at House in
Norfolk

State Sheriff Condit returned to his
office Thursday after several days spent
in the northeastern part of the state,
and as the result of the arrests made
with the cooperation of the county and
city authorities, three persons have
been fined, two sentenced to thirty days
each in jail, and three bound over to
district court on a conspiracy charge.
Fifteen people were arrested at a house
in Norfolk where liquor was alleged to
have been sold. They were held for
investigation and released. Gretha Ring,
who worked at the place, was fined $100
and costs, but the proprietors were not
apprehended.
William Nichols and Clem Dominissee of
Norfolk have been given thirty-day jail
terms on charges of sale of liquor, and
together with Price Carrico, have been
bound over on a conspiracy charge. It is
claimed that the three conspired to cause
the arrest of E. J. Macklin, state
evidence man, on a charge of being drunk
and having liquor in his possession.
Carrico, it is stated, signed a search
warrant to have the state officer's home
investigated. Evidence was found, Macklin
was arrested and later released. The
conspiracy charge carries a $1000 fine or
a year prison term. Dominissee was also
bound over on a felony in connection with
a liquor charge.



KEARNEY DAILY HUB;
Kearney, Nebraska;
Wednesday, October 9, 1929;
page 6

Price Carrico, Who Tried to Slay Wife, Known

Price Carrico, arrested at Norfolk after
an alleged attempt to kill his wife,
formerly lived in the vicinity of Shelton,
residents of that city who learned of the
affair said today. Carrico aimed a revolver
at his wife following a quarrel Saturday
night, and pulled the trigger. The cartridge
failed to explode.
The husband had walked into a friend's soft
drink parlor several times, pleading with his
wife to return to him. It was the fourth time
he entered that he tried to shoot her.
Carrico is a brother to Arthur Carrico,
shot and killed at Tilden in 1926.

KEARNEY DAILY HUB;
Kearney, Nebraska;
Saturday, October 12, 1929;
page 11

CARRICO'S WIFE IN A SUIT

Former Shelton Man, In Jail, Faces Divorce

Price Carrico, formerly employed near
Shelton, who now is held in the county jail
at Madison after his attempt earlier in the
week to shoot his wife, is defendant in a
divorce suit filed in district court at
Madison by Mrs. Margaret Carrico.
Mrs. Carrico charged that the defendant
had irregular employment and failed to
support her. She said he was frequently
intoxicated and treated her with extreme
cruelty. She was forced to make a living for
herself, she contended. She also charges
that her husband entered her place of
employment and drew a revolver and snapped
the trigger with intention of shooting her.
No criminal charges have been filed
against Carrico.


NORFOLK DAILY NEWS;
Norfolk, Nebraska;
Monday, January 11, 1932;
page 5

Elbert Price Carrico

Elbert Price Carrico died suddenly at 11:30
Saturday night at the Traveler's Hotel,
where he had been temporarily making his
home. Mr. Carrico, who would have been 41
June 25, had had several illnesses due to
heart trouble which, with other
complications was given as the cause of
death.
Police and Dr. C. J. Verges, city
physician, were called to Carrico's hotel
room after his body was found.
Funeral services will be held at the
residence of his parents, 1204 Blaine
Street, at 1:00 Tuesday afternoon and at
the Baptist church in Battle Creek at 3:30
with the Rev. P. M. Orr of Lexington,
formerly of Norfolk, and the Rev. D. M.
Dicker, minister of the Norfolk
Presbyterian church, in charge.
Among those who survive are 3 small
daughters, Vera, Dorothy and Clarice; his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Carrico Sr.,
and eight brothers and sisters, Walter,
Mrs. Grace Leonard, Mrs. Gladys Faulstick,
Mrs. Clyde Evans, Harold and Mrs. Blanche Nichols of Norfolk, Mrs. Myrtle Young, Cheyenne, Wyo.; Stephen Carrico, Yakima, Wash.