Show RUNNING DOWN DOWN THE TIE TIE- SLAYERS SLAYERS' OF PADDY OF PADDY TH THE PRIEST True Tale of What Is Re R 1 l by bj- N New ew York Pol Police ce Officials as One of the Best Bes Examples of Real Simon Simon- Pure Detective Work WT r oil ork r in the darkest corner corner cor cor- ner ncr of f a damp and inky black CROUCHED I cellar far over o on the west side of New cw York city a murderer toyed with the pair of magazine pistols that r were primed for Instant Instant In In- stant use Hi Hil Hig eyes were glued clued on the like ladder stairway that le led I into his burrow burro burrow bur bur- ro row and solemnly be he swore hed he'd kill the first man who attempted to enter the cellar that morning For fit five hours bours the tIle murderer lurked in hi his foul smelling lair He to together ether with j t the e ac accomplice om who ho stood tood at his side I F when he killed his hs r man had made their way war to t the cellar from the roof of of a t building several doors from irom the scene scene of or orI I the killing The slayer layer had urged d his ac- ac F f to make a ft inn Tun for it an hour or gr two before belore dawn he preferring to Jaylow lay Jay low until he could walk forth in broad brond daylight to the dive dire a friend of his kept 1 where herc he lie know knew w he be would be stowed away Way cafe afe from all prying eyes Ap s the slayer sayer crouched in his hi's corner r b lie r deliberately set to work to destroy i every et rf particle le of telltale lc evidence ence that thatA A lie he c mi might ht have bare Hl C about him He lIe had fired J shots hots at it the Jhc man he had bad just killed k i. Therefore it was expedient to remove I the be three empty shells from his revolver wipe t out its barrel and thus destroy all r evidence of its hain having recently been fired t- t empty shells were tossed into inlo a corf corner cornor cor- cor f nor ner of th the cellar and then the slayer layer F his pockets in quest of letters L notes or memoranda that might ten tend to toI I- I shed hd light on his past in the event crent of off r f his f A L well JI worn and nud much thumbed i v memorandum book was found in an nn inner pocket Jotted upon its leaves lea were many names and opposite some of three these were T addre es Two names names- John and John J. J Dowling appeared rc more frequently in the book than any I others and under the circum- circum Cg that book hook had much better be he bei i reduced to the tiniest scraps of p paper IJ r rp p i c J. J wage Cage by page seemingly the tho slayer CI tore that b honk k to bits The little parti particles i s of paper were strewn broadcast and 1 ab they I y lay 3 scattered about the cellar floor th the murderer r remarked marl with n fl chuckle The guy what nhat tries to put them piece piC i to together will tackle a n job vor e lh han hau l. l n a Chinese puzzle 1 It t just cant can't be bo did that's all there there is to that t. minutes D after two o'clock J Son n jl Jhc morning of October 4 1 1911 Licu- Licu f i C t. t D' D Kerr Ketr In an charge e of the ji Y 4 h Detective vc district et with head head- b a i ra i arter r s in the c West l FortY seventh Forty lIth j tU i street tr ct police station was n awakened to carn aru that Patrick known s. s Jb on one end of the city to the other as tI l' l P. P the lie Priest had been heen held up lip rU it i 7 ti two burglars iu in his S saloon at No Xo Tenth avenue and mortally shot hot Paddy known for his the the Priest was widely char charities ties and nud was highly thou thought ht of on the thc we west t side The acting captain of dev dc- dc v t hastily donning his clothes to get het et out and amI tate take personal charge of the theman theman man mm hunt at once concluded cd that with witha a n y victim as popular as Paddy he would wild f have hac little trouble in down n his for fot cn every r man luau and woman in that tha l part f f the city cit would aid in iu the thc search elch No o o sooner had bad m the murder been ec 1 reported reported re rc- re- re I ported c at It Police lolice Headquarters IJ than i S. S S Dougherty then Second Dour Dep ity lf Police Commissioner and in charge of If the Bureau of Detectives was ap 31 t priscil of it it lIe He called Acting Captain win Ken err on the telephone lin and told him he be bo 00 with him in less lees than an un hour Despite I suite itc the fact that Dougherty had hn to tu coine IDe all ull the way from hi his hay Buy home he Le was true to his word WIld and oud when lien his bis motor car ear haJt halted d before the thedoor thedoor I I door of the saloon where e the killing had I been blI effected he lie leaped c join joie I Kerrand Kerr clr ami and Detectives Barber Fitzpatrick and l Bur ur who ho were already at work In iu search of clews dews The l or murderers had bad wade wadea n a clean job of it There here wasn't a pos pos- clew tl to be picked up in that cad early caily morning search and not a sum stain footstep footstep footstep foot foot- step finger print nor any of the other agencies so 0 stron strongly ly relied upon by Li police po O JO- JO lice could be found to aid the detectives cs lien was wis was a LL ca case e that t would woul require noc no llO Co c end of hard bard work to unravel cl nail and as Do Dougherty erty and Kerr a agreed one in only detective work of the Highest could bring le results bout About t ten ii hours boutS after the murder had bad Icen Il committed Kerr turned up p two nan ic a who admitted d that t the had seen t tO two O other men enter the saloon a few fe minute before tho the Priest was stuck stuck up till rn nd shot hot down own you nu know kno knoth th these c two men if J you 11 saw them again the detective c k l. l Would we know them Well I reckon One of them guys was as so tough hed he'd be scared stiff If he caught a glimpse o of Ills his own image in a looking glass The Theother other fellow was tough all right too but the other was the limit The lie detective got ot a fair description of f the two men he be wanted and at once spread the police net far and wide Paddy the Priest died a few hours after after after af af- ter te-r remon removed d to the Flower Hospital Hospit Hospi Hospi- t tal l and without gaining consciousness s ili there rc wn wasn't nt a single eyewitness eye eye- t witness to the actual killing and the detectives ad only a bare description to work upon A hou house e to house search in ill the immediate immediate imme imme- diate dille vicinity of the murder ha had been heen in instituted in- in All the resi residents had been heen interrogated but there Wits was none who could tell ten of the presence of a s. flin single Jc ai r 9 7 1 t tM M i ra r Y i n r j i iS 4 7 i S. S t t t al t V L c 4 C t ta a rr r.r. i 4 r rt i 1 r 6 JJ p 4 5 i i I t 1 1 Y I l G i. i f t i I 4 r Z ti r IN t 1 a 1 i tt S 'S s R I His Eyes Were Glued on the Stairway suspicious person in that neighborhood All 11 who lived lind thereabouts could rca readily account for their movements and even enn the thc m m men vii ll T who Tho ho admitted that they had seen een the two men enter the saloon had a i well substantiated alibi and could account for their il mo as S there had has been a afire afire fire in the neighborhood and they had aid aided d the firemen 11 at nt this blaze From the thc d description given gi en hive him by the these c two men meu tile the detective e went to Police Police Po Po- lice headquarters quarters and after scrutinizing I scores cores of photographs in the Rogues Rogues' Gallery Guller finally picked out one om- as ns that closely answering the description of the thc tough lough gU guy Certainly the face depicted on the thc little card card was tOIl tough lough h enough to please plea any one dud and us as Kerr expressed it it If the man who killed Padd Paddy was tougher to looking than this chap then I know Imo I have hare m my work cut out for me in taking Lima him The rhe portrait selected by br the detective e was that o of or 01 Happy Jack a n well known burglar and andI our only out o of A Auburn Prison Irison after uter a n MX six I years years years' term I less ss than titan a mouth This his was sh shown to the men who WIO hn had had dc th the two mo men entering the time I saloon just jUit before the murder r an and each said he was wah positive c that that was WUI one of the lie men although they would prefer to see ec time the mU mug iu in person 1 Thirty six six hours after the murder of a n woman omun living at ato No o. o 50 1 04 West st third Fifty street treet told Detective rc Kerr Keir that while cleaning up her cellar she slie had hac found three empty cartridge shells I lying in ill n a corner and a n number er of little scraps straps of paper which she he had no recollection of having ing iu seen been there before The defective was as in that cellar within ton tern minutes and on hands h S and knees he ht eo cre covered every ery in inch of it until he bud had every tin tiny scrap of paper that could coul be he found lying biD loose as well as the three shells One Oue glance at the shells shelLi was sufficient sufficient sufficient suf suf- to prove that they were of the same game calibre re ay a j the bullets which killed Paddy time the Priests This was either a n clew or ii it coincidence In either cither event the detects detective ye e intended to play it for all it was waa worth After fler hours of toil Detective Kerr had several f pages of the memorandum book ook pieced our ou and upon them appeared the I I names of John Jahn and John J. J As soon as ns be he spied the tho nume I he be Im knew w he wa was on the right tack for or hd he not Dot picked out ont Mul- Mul raney's photograph horn from the Gallery GaUer- on the description a stranger had given iven him 5 Grab and we will have ha I Paddys slayer was the time order Kerr issued is uc to his bis hl men when he returned to his quarters in jn the t station It h was only a question of n a few hO hours before a 3 complete line was got ot on Mul- Mul mucy's haunts and his comrades A A. stool pigeon was pressed Into service and it was the thc the detectives detective's or orders era that no arrests were w to b be made madl until both men simultaneously Matters Matters Matters Mat Mat- could cold be picked up had bad become slightly complicated when it was wan learned from the stool that a u third Uli man had hind I figured gur in the mur mur- der Still another order was issued that all three must be pinched and the arrests nr- nr willIe wade at the same tune time f rests should 10 be There can cnn be bo no getaways in this cage ca e the thc detective c in charge told his men mell aud tonics we grab srab than all together together to to- gether there will be somebody on th the outside out ont outside side to frame up Ul alibis or otherwise c gum Jum UD up tile the cards nr s for u us when we try to complete our case casc W We c are up against itus it itus itus us it is and aud we tIC wont won't b borrow trouble I Iran Iran Iran ran across CrO B t the o name of Marty larty Fay in that book u also o so 60 suppose you rop be bc on the lookout for him Hes He's a bad one anyhow anyhow any any- how and will bear watching The trail was WM picked ut in Harlem I Detective Barber Darber learned that the names I of Dowling Dowlin and nod Fay were well known in the thc vicinity of Lexington n ton avenue an and street treet and that they frequented many of ot the saloons of that 1 vicinity hours after the police I were in in possession of this information tion a n nIsto Isto stool l pigeon was ms buying drinks for the three c men wanted and aud nine d days Ys after the the thc murder a squad of detectives closed in on the quartet at nt Park avenue and lOath street an and after a sharp but decisive decisive de de- cisi c struggle arrested l Dowling Dowling Dowling Dow- Dow ling Fay and Charles The latter atter was the stool pi pigeon eon BO eo ff of course he was released at once and flatly denied any knowledge of tho the murder of oC Paddy Padd tile the Priest Each denied emphatically that he had been in that part of oC the city on the tho night of the murder or that he h knew kne anything about the memorandum book that ha had been found It was simply a case of identification now no and since the two men meu who had seen the slayers i h 1 i enter Paddys place w were re so 80 positive they ther would kno know them at fight the detectives breathed d easily and felt sure that their labors were at an nn end cud A conf confession confession con con- f Clion would speedily t follow the tho identification identification iden iden- tion they ther ar argued The prisoners were taken to the West seventh Forty street police station Dow Dowling ling it seems bad hul no criminal record record record rec rec- ord although both and aud Fay had wd done time Hmo for burglary Harry y Murray and ind John Toliu hickey the two identifying witnesses es were sent for The lime suspects were stood in iii line with other prisoners and n Murray and Hickey were asked if nuy my of the men b before forc them were the time ones they had seen cen enter Paddys saloon Both oth men eyed Mul raney au and Dowling narrowly but hut finally turning away from the line said to the detectives detectives- The Time men we WC saw are arc not Dot in this bunch This came as a crushing blow to the tho detective fo in charge f of the case The Thc de description given i Cn him by these men fitted to n a nicety nice Furthermore they hall had looked photograph over ocr and positively identified it There waa some Mme force at work and the detective e detailed two men to shadow ow the Uw wilnes witnesses es after they left the police 4 1 l fF 4 station An hour later one of lot these th dete detectives report reported d that Hickey had said Bald to a R. friend after Ica leaving ing the lineup lineup line line- up up- up Those are the guys that t t killed Paddy all right but I l' l would just as u lief put my head hend in A l noose as 38 to identify them I wouldn't be he alive two hours to tell the tho talc Somebody y had bad hot got ot to the witnesses in that brief space and aurl so frightened them that no matter what offers of protection protection protection pro pro- the police offered them hem they couldn't be in induced uc d to identify th the men they knew to h have TC murdered th the man both these witnesses had been deeply obligated ted to Without interruption and aud Dowling Dowlin were wore grilled by detectives for forty eight hours There was no moo up let-up to the inquisition When one detective worn out by his ta task k gave go i in in another r was waa there to take his place Although tine time and again the prisoners were d directly di taxed with the murder er and md car care taken to com cony cou inee ince them what a conclusive con elusive case the police had bad a against them thein would Invariably cry out Well if you IOU have hare got such a d d- d fine case what in lire are you rou bothering us for We Yc want ant to go 0 to sleep so o get out and give gire us a a. chance h H HN N NH H- H 5 Convinced d b beyond Jond a shadow of doubt that they had the right men the detectives detectives de de- cs knew in their they hadn't a case e that would Woud stand up Uti five fie minutes after r a n lawyer got busy bus bU I. I There wasn't a II single eye witness to the killing so far faras farS faras as S they knew an and further th the cartridge shells and the torn memorandum book were wele the time only i e evidence cn e they had so IO far This wouldn't t take them very crr f far r in a acourt acourt acourt court of law and two of their prisoners they ther well knew were sufficiently well er versed ed in criminal p procedure e ure to realize that the police were up in the air nir unless s one of oC th them m caved cavell in and p gave e up rue die true story of the killing Three days after his arrest Dowling lay worn and |