Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1867-09-04
The Durkin Murder.
ARREST OF THE SUPPOSED MURpEr

ARREST OF THE SUPPOSED MURDERER
II became noised about yesterday that a
telegram had been received, stating that a
man, arrested as the supposed murderer Of
~br. Durkin, was aboard the express train
from New York on the D., L., g. w. r. r.
due here at P. M. The news created
considerable excitement. The train was
an hour and half late, in consequence of
an accident to the locomotive, but this on.
ly increased the excitement. Mr.. Lorenzo
Zeidler was in charge of the prisoner, and
before they could cross the street they
were surrounded by crowd so eager and
boisterous that IL almost seemed as if the
prisoners safety might be endangered
No attack Was made. on him, however,
The officers started up Lackawanna avenue
with him, with the idea of putting him in
the city lookup, but it was finally thought
better to take him to the Wilkes Barre
Jail, and he was accordingly taken to a
room in Zeidler's building, and detained
until the 7:l0 P. M. train, when Lorenzo
Zeidler took him to Wilkes Barre.
The prisoners name is understood to be
@bCo DCA0u'utCis tuOuSu hC cOluCliihCo
calls himself Robinson and sometimes
Dougherty. He was arrested at White
Hall, n. Y. where be has been since
June llth. He is supposed to be the
same man who was heard of soon after the
murder at various points on the Penna.
Coal Company's r Il. and the Delaware
and Hudson canal, and who was at that
time unsuccessfulIy pursued by officers
frow this city. 1t is said that the brake
man on the Lackawanna & Bloomsbury
RR. can identify htm as the man who came
up from Wilkes-Barre with DR.. Durkin
on the night of the murder-May 18th.
Mr.. John Zeidler also recognizes him as
the companion of the Doctor when the lat
ter called for his key at 10 clock on the
night of the l4th.
The prisoners wife-whom he left early
in June for another woman-says he told
her that he killed the Doctor and got from
him $500. 1t was through his wife that
Delameter was discovered to be in White
Hall,
On the other hand, the prisoner stoutly
asserts that he was never in Scranton be-
fore, and that he can account for every
hour of his time from the 22d of April to
the day of his arrest. He says that he
commenced work in the mines of A. Pardee
& Co., near Hazletou, April %, and work
ed there steadily without losing a day, un-
til the Sd of June. He gives the name of
the "boss" in the mine, and asks to have
him called and examined. Of course, if
credible witnesses from Hazeton corrobor-
ate this, it will establish an alibi and clear
the prisoner He says he went from Ha-
zleton to Berwick and Wilkes Barre, and
thence to New York, and from there to a
small town in Ulster county, where he met
girl with whom he lived illicitly, for a
few days, and then started for Whitehall,
where he arrived June llth, and where
he has remained ever since. The prisoner
is about 30 years old, and by no means a
vicious look fellow. He cannot read or
write, but is ready of speech, and shows no
signs of nervousness or fear. He served
in the New York Militia aud l20th New
York Volunteers, during the war.-Scran-
ton Republican.