The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-11-15
THE Arrest OF Gerry Dunn-An Extra
ordinary Pursuit Gf Murderer.

One of tho most extraordinary pursuit
of criminal ever made has just been con
cluded by Chief James Irving aud Defective
Thomas Dusenbury, working under th
general direction Of Superintendent Kelso
and It is to the credit Of the police that thu
object Of this pursuit was murderer anC
not bond robber, so that no other reward
than consciousness of duty well performed
could await the tireless officials.
! All tho details Of the Rogers murder arr
| yet fresh in the public mind, and it will be
remembered that one James Logan, subse
qucntly known a. No. 9, was arrested by
| Captain Allaire for suspected completely in
| the crime. The evidence against him was
| of course wholly crcllmstantial, but il was
| to many minds so conclusive that he was
| generally believed TO be guilty, but, as il
we'll known, the inquest was concluded By
| his discharge. His connection with that
| tragedy, however, made him "a object OF
public interest, so that when nearly 4 wear
afterwards he was himself shot down by an
| assassin, the event became celebrated and
absorbing crime.
About l o'clock on the morning of
Wednesday, December 90, 1869. Logan.
with his mistress. Carrie Smith, went into
the supper rooms at No. % West Houston
street, and sat down at a table at which
Jerry Dunn and some of his friends were
seated. Dunn made some insulting remark
to the girl, which Logan resented, and hot
words enSlled between the two men. Dunn
continuing the insults, the girl got I'D and
went out into the street, where Logan fol-
lowed her, and he, in his turn, was followed
by Dunn and his two friends, who jostled
Logan rndely in passing. Logan angrily
asked what they meant by insulting him,
and Dunn, after few words had passed
between them, drew pistol and fired upon
Logan, the bullet entering the left breast
above tic nipple. Logan fell to the street.
and Dunn, turning away, had not gone a
dozen steps when he was seized by Officer
Crittcnden, of the Eighteenth precinct, but
he and his friends insisting that the mur-
dcrcr had gone back into the saloon, Crit
tenden went 10 look for him, and Dunn
went away to fly thut night from the city,
and led the officers, after Il lapse of ten
months, on the longest inland chase ever
made Tor an assassin.
Logan, it will Le remembered, was con-
yeyeri TO Bellevue Hospital, where he soon
after died, after making IN ante-mortem
statement, in which he infinitely described
his own wounding, and in which he expli-
city dcncd having had anything to do with
the rogers murder. That denial awakened
lnomcntary interest in him and his case,
in more recent events by the general pub
lie. But Dunn was well known to the DO
lice, and Il quiet search was made to nscer-
tain his Whereabouts, but without success.
aud it was finally dropped for more pro-
missing work. When Superintendent
Jourtln took command he renewed
the search for the missing man with his
usual Vi@or and acumen. but it was only Il
few days before his last sickness that he re-
crived any positive information OF Dunn,
and ii WAS not until stricken with death
that he learned that the fuoitivc was some
where in the West. After Jourdan's death,
Superintendent kclso and Justice Bowling,
who were possessed Of all the plans and
clues OF the deceased superintendent, took
up his unfinished work, md finally OBJ
tanned news that Dunn was in Chicago.
On the 18th day of October, In the same
mour he was made Chief Of the Detec-
tivcS, Irving, with DuScnbu'y, started on
the trail that had been found with such
protracted and persistent effort They
went first to Springfield, where they OBJ
tanned the warrant of Governor Palmer for
the arrest Of the fugitive. 1 hey then went
to Chicago, and stopping at the sherman
House, registered under false names. Keep
ing themselves Sllictiy inc0gnito, and aided
in every way 10y the local authorities, they
beat The >lums Of the city Tor two weeks
only to tnd al The end that Dunn
had left nc city III the previous
August and gone South. They followed
and traced through Chattanooga, Atlanta,
C0rinth- thence eastward and northward
to Baltimore and westward again tc St.
Louis, where he was found con>ortin9 with
Tom Allen, Barney Aaron, and other we'll
known characters. Irving and Dusenbury
STAYING Ill Chicago, wrote 10 Chief Of Police
Mcdonald, On st. LOUIS, asking the arrest
Of Dunn, ostcnsbly for vagrancv, but ut
the same time advising him of the real
state Of the case. Chief Mcdonald
promptly did as he was requested,
and Tuesday evening Dunn was ar
rested, and the next morning was
taken across the river to Illinois by
United States Detective John Eagan, and
delivered to irving and Dusenbury, who
that day took him To Chicago, and starting
next morning Tor this city, arrived ut Po-
lice Headquarters last evening, where they
delivered their prisoner to Superintendent
kclso. Justice Downing, who was present,
granted Il commitment to the Tombs, under
Indictment for murder in the first degree !;
but the prisoner was locked up ut Police
Headquarters last evening, and will not he
transferred 10 tie I0mbs until this morn
ing.
Dunn is known among the police as one
OF the most desperate OF the dangerous men
intestng this city. lie had been particularly
prominent rs bogus detective, delraudiDg
houses of iIl-lame, tor which offence he was
convicted before Justice Bowling and sen-
fenced to long term in the pcnitentary.
He Is also known TO have committed many
desperate assaults, and among them that
upon Gerson Colin, on election day, 1869. He
has been arrested many times for such Of
fences, and has several times been con-
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