The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-11-05
Another Murder In Sandwich.

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| Another Marder In Sandwich.
SANDWICH, Ill., Oct 30, 1881.
A very sad and distressing case of probable
murder occurred in this usually quiet city
Friday evening, Oct 81. A man named James
Brogan shot young man Is years OF age
named William Henry.
The circumstances, as learn them from va
rious persons, are about as follows;
Brogan is about % years old, is unmarried
and boarded and lodged, as also did Henry, al
the boarding house of widow lady named
Mrs. Capt G. L. Fish. Both men were mould
ers and worked IN the moulding room of the
Sandwich Company. Brogan was green
hand and did about rs much work as the more
experienced men, and was constantly made
sport of by several Of the boys" who were
working there, among whom was the young
man Henry Brogan swOre he would not
stand it any longer, and Friday afternoon fire..
queRtly gave vent to threats that indicated his
possible action. Meeting the city marshal, j.
H. Shafter, late in the afternoon he told him
about his illfeellng toward Henry and re-
marked, you'd better come around this eve.
ming as am going to give you job" The
marshal told him he chad better keep quiet,
and go home and keep still; that he should
not have any trouble with the young man.
etc. Brogan went away mutterlng threats
against Henry. While at the boarding house
at the supper table Brogan remarked that
some one in the house "would have silver dol.
lars on his eyes before morning" which was
then understood to refer to Henry.
AT the house is an outside and an inside
stairway. The inside one landing in the room
Iof Henry and the outside one IN the room OF
Brogan. Soon as he had finished his supper
Henry started from the table and went up the
outside stairs to get his overcoat. He passed
sooner had Henry gone up stairs than Brogan
sprang from the table and ran up the inside
stairway into his room, where he Immediately
got his revover--a 2.calIbre "bulldOg"-from
his trunk and with lamp IN one hand went
INTO the room Of Henry aud told HIM that he
would give him three minutes to leave the
room or he would snoot him. Henry started
for the door, but stumbled and fell with his
head against the door. The partial shutting
of the door blew outthe lamp and at the same
instant the lamp was extingulshed Brogan
fired. The ball entered the body
The condition of Henry is very critical aud
the doctors in attendance say he cannot live
long. .na...A ns s.
In a few minutes several persons were at
he scene, and City Marshal Shafter and ex-
City Marshal Abe III. Hill arrested Brogan
and locked him in the city jail where he re.
NAMED over night
Saturday morning Messrs. J. A. Tolman and
S. p. Sedgwck called upon the wounded man
and took his statement of the affair in writing,
had HIM sign and swear to IT for possible use
hereafter.
Mayor +. $. Mosher sent Officers Shafter
and Hill with the prisoner to Sycamore Sat.
urday forenoon, to be placed IN the hands of
the sheriff tor future safe keeping 1t is well
for the prisoners safety that the mayor thus
early caused his conveyance to the county Jail
for If Henry dies his assassin would not
be alive an hour afterward. Public sentiment
at SomOnauk and here Is fearfuly aroused
and nothing short of Henry's death would as
suage such desperate community. AS it now
Is, the fevercd, eXasperated feelings Will cool
down, quiet will soon be restored and every
thing run smoothly along until perhaps an.
other such cold.blooded shooting shall take
place.
A demoraIized maudlin public sentiment
tends to blunt public justice; yet II desperate
public sentiment sometimes revolutionlzes So
ciety and gives it a little sense.
Lynch law Is a sad indication of the respect
of u community for law, yet it often indicates
that wrong and injustice will not be suffered
any longer.
Mrs Laura Ann McOmber 1t is rumored
will get q divorce this week and resume her
former name of easier.
Mr.. G. G. Cooper, of the law office of Sam
uel Nicholson, of Ottawa, was In attendance
upon our Circuit Court last week. He got
judgment in his suit vs.. Frank Minard for
$50 and his bother for 6 or head OF cattle.
The report Of Supervisor W. l.. Summons,
In October, 1881, shows that gentleman to have
expended l,57764 in the prosecutions IN the
Allen murder case. The fees paid witnesses
NJ INC tiiSi at oeutNd uulOuuteu 10 dUOut Sl,-
200 making total of nearly $2,700 expended
in that suit.
Our druggist j. II, Miller, was married
Thursday evening to Minnette McAllister, at
Champaign, Ill. .... t..-.,. ..
The Sandwich Library Association will give
a course Of six lectures tor 81 the coming
winter.
An Amusement Association is started here
being headed by III. +. Bloodgood, Fred S.
Douglas, and others. EXUNo.
Nearly Miracle.