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Show FUGITIVE DYING! IN CENTRAL AMERICA . FORMER CITY DETECTIVE OF CHICAGO HAS CONSUMPTION. He Was Charged With Jury-Bribing, and Since Ecape From Mobile Had Not Been Heard of. Chicago, April 0. Dan Coiighlin, former for-mer city detective, alleged Jury-briber ami fugltle from justice, is dying, or may bo dead in Central America, according ac-cording to a news article in the Tribune Tri-bune today. , "Since his sensational escape from capture at. Mobile. Ala., three days ago," says the Tribune, "he has been living at Puerto Cortes. Honduras, under the alias of Jim ' Davis. He worked until about three months ago as foreman of a railroad construction gang. v "Just after New Years flis big boned frame began to waste and the doctors told him.he had consumption. When Coughlin ran a saloon here he weighed 25o pounds or more. .Fifteen days ago he w eighed ninety pounds. "Coughlin was hoi In want. He had a trained nurse and the best the little town could give in medical aid. The doctors Jiad warned him that death was certain and imminent. ' " 'Big Dan' seemed resigned to fate, and only expressed sorrow at the prospect pros-pect of dying away from Chicago. Ho was mum on all his troubles, legal and otherwise." - , ' In May, 18S9. Coughlin, then a city detective, came into national notoriety in connection with tfic Cronln murder. He was Indicted as one of the conspirators conspir-ators and was convicted. After serving serv-ing three years in the Joliof penitentiary, peniten-tiary, he was given a new trial and was acquitted. Soon afterward, ho Started a saloon Lind ran it several years. While In this Mbuslness, he was Indicted for attempl-' attempl-' ed Jury-brlblng .in connection with a J personal injury suit against .1 railroad. He was held to the grand jury in $10,-000, $10,-000, hut fled, and nothing wps heard from him until about three y ars ago when he was arrested at Mobile. ! A Chicago letectlvc was scut to Mobile Mo-bile with requisition papers, but before his arrival there, Coughlin had been discharged on a writ of habeas corpus. It was learned that he took a tramp steamer to Central America, but nothing noth-ing more was heard of him until the news that now comoB. |