The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-03-15
The Tissue Of Lies Unrav'
elled.
Four Men held for the Murder
Bernard Eeeney confesses to Striking
Three Blows.
THE VERDICT.

shielding himself at the expense of others.
By patient investigation and the use OF
some strategy the truth, or very near the
truth, has been reached. 1t seems to
have been an uuprogoked attack by O.
drunken party of lawless men, who. in
their then condition, had no respect for
law, order, or human life.
In addition to he testimony already
published We give 10 full the testimony OF
Cayanaugh. or dublin Jack, as fOlr
lows:
John Cavanaugh, sworn, aged q,
said: | am a tinsmith and reside IN DaV
export. Yesterday declined to make
statement. | wish to make a statement
now. was down in Pat Murrin's saloon,
| in Davenport, at work with my brother un-
| til twenty minutes after seven on Tuesday.
| met Tom, Paddy and Mike Heeney in
there; they asked me if would come over
the river with them; at first declined but
they pressed me to come and at last con-
sented. l asked where they were going.
They said to friends house. l asked if
to dancer They said mo, to private
house." learned on the bridge that it was
cousin of theirs that they were going to
We went on the levee, in Rock Island, and
| wanted them to take drink. They de-
Glued. we then went to their cousins
W hen we went 10 Nike introduced pe to
all who were in the house. and then sent
out for keg of beer. Paddy and Ber-
nard Heeney went after the beer; | think
the little boy went along; am not sure
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house. We had dance in the house be-
tween ourselves. after that we had
some talk. Terrence Flanagan played
the flute, and, after a while, we sent for
another keg of beer. l and Bernard
Heeney went after the second key Be
fore we went for the beer l hadn't suth-
Gent money and Nike called me into
another room and gave me SILVER dollar.
When | went out Bernard said, Nike IS
going away and you shouldn't ask him for
any money" | then gave Mike back the
dollar and Little Paddy gave me half a
dollar. When we went back, the man
did not have a full keg. He let US have
what he had aud gave US whisky and CT
CARS apiece to make up the difference.
When we went back, there was a kind OF
quarrel among the others about that dol
lar and Mrs. Flanagan took my part.
Mrs. Flanagan ordered all out. but the
young girl said it was her house and that
she was paying for it. We drank none of
the whisky. Bernard had the bottle in
his pocket. To the best of my knowledge
it was about ] o'clock when we left the
house. We all left together: Mike Hee-
ney, Pat Heeney. Thomas Heeney, Ber-
nard Heeney, Thos. Ross and the two
girls. We stopped on the saloon corner
about half an hour. We were dancing
iigs on the sidewalk. There was talk
about going into the saloon but the mar
, said he had no more to drink. The mar
was looking out of the top window. NJ
one said anything about going IN forcibly
that l know of. Nothing more happened
until we got to the corner where the police
; man was, to the best of my recollection
We did not turn more than twice, cominl
down. CA diagram of the supposed routt
was here drawn but the witness could no
D give description of the route.) | met thu
z policeman on the side walk, eighteen fee
from the corner. Mike Heeney and it'll
Tommy were twenty feet ahead of me ant
Tom Ross was with me. the balance beiDl
r behind, Several were ahead and behinC
uS. uo Il6GuCy pOyS WCIC ZIG uLSb VIII
= met the policeman. We all came up to
= gether, when they were speaking to tn
policeman. The policeman came up AM
a. stopped them and wanted to know wher
. they we're going. I'VE said to ITO Dav
export" He wanted to know if we hst
been to 8 dance. Mike Heeney said mo.
| came up and said, why don't you g
alongW The policeman said, No, wal
< a while" | asked what was the matter
b He said, ''Oh, nothing" 1t looks suspi
8 cious to see you out this time of night.
=. went to pass, but he touk me by tn
/ collar. ] jerked away and ran to til
corner of the street He followed ant
e struck me. fell, and be OF
. top of me- Then be laid Oh
top, with my arms pinned to my eides ant
struck me two or three times on the head
;, | began to bleed pretty bad and Paid,
: Heeney called to the policeman to let M
up. Tommy Ross came and tried to pul
Il the policeman off, to get me up. Tn
= first thing l knew | heard crack
thought another policeman had come t
= help and thought the crack was struck a
my head. looked up and recognized tn
: man who struck the blow. He struck him
think, four times altogether. He wa
: Bernard Heeney. This was while th
policeman was on top OF me. Bernard
struck him on top of his head with
long cane with a crook The crook wa
up. (The cane was here shown and th
witness thought it was the one used.) /
y was sharp sound, like the breaking of
stick, / looked up and could see tn
crook. The blow on the policeman's heaC
stunned him and Tom Ross pulled tn,
C policeman off and Bernard pulled N,
partly out. There were only three at tn,
y fight and the rest were eighteen feet away
on the corner. When | got up. Iva
weak from loss of blood. The three pres
ent 10 the fight were Tom Ross, Bernard
Heeney and myself. did not see th,
= two girls. Mike Heeney, Tommy Heeney
and Paddy Heeney were eighteen fee
= away. The language Of the policeman
was that we were suspicious characters anC
he had right to hold us. Some one sale
he lied. He took hold of me and Ton
Ross-we were nearest to him. | don
remember much after | got the blows
Is was stunned. We all scattered
After walking along on the side
we met another policeman. He told us t,
halt. We asked what was the matter
He said, ''Oh, nothing; / want to look a
you" He took out his revolver and
made break, going into vacant lot, anC
TON Ross went the other way. TIL,
policeman fired two shots at US, but didn'
!, hit any one | wasn't pursued and wen
across several vacant lots. l met a maj
and asked him the way to the river. FL,
directed me to 60 that way, and, by goinI
: that route, | reached the river. / strucl