The daily gazette., 1882-06-09
N TNSOLYED MYSTERY
-,oNAL LIGHT ON DENNIS
NoDIn,aIIAGHER's DEATH
STRANGE CASE ALL AROUND
,.0ra, Yesterday-The Story Of the
ne VINO Rescued the Dead Mans
Man VIZ W.. when the skiif Upset.

:. c.noro, of Dennis j. Gallagher took
llle ra.terday ,a, afternoon from his late
~ ,5..os nm Robinson street. The funeral
llsl'V i' ,,sre arr conducted by the Rev. z. j..
fS,sr' y,S "J of St. Mary's Roman Catholic
nsl' and the interment took place in the
ulyn, '5,ai Cemetery. The funeral was very
nsud w. uattended. The deceased was a prom
" member of the Reliance Fire Company
unmhars nrI from that organization were
", %,n' as well as delegations from other
W, anmnonqs an and u large number of
El,as l.,or1av r talk ran very high about the
un, ] case and many were the conjectures
aSceG as to how the suspicious and horrid
n",.tances a',0.u connected with the case could
n,ia;nrd away. The majority of people
~ accent the theory that Gallagher was
~ o away with by bis companions, and his
uanio4. a are as much at loss TO account
ps brick, tied to his arm as any one
uany are of the opinion that the four
ma Jprseymen who found the body are
III mistaken about the bricks or have
II that story to get up hoax at the ex-
~ of tbe authorities, However, they are
rpputable young men, and their state
nd before the Coroner's jury are not
bbted bv people living in Penpsville.
Fhose who knew the relations existing
Meen Gallagher and his companions say
\ nothing Of the kind would be likely to
II place, as the men were the best of
hds and there was no reasonable motive
Them to tie bricks to man and then
N the boat in order to get him into the
n and drown him. Out of justice It
hi be said that the actions of Darragh
lGnenee have not been those of guilty
They had been hunting for the body
and low, and Darragh has been paying
expenses of the finding of the body.
GAZETTE reporter took a boat and
Eld down to the mouth of the creek yes
lay afternoon to find the man who
|ud Gallagher's three companions when
boat upset on that fatal Friday evening.
name !, Charles Klinck, and he is in the
'OyOf Isaac Neveling X Son, contractors
The construction of the Government
al the mouth Of the Christiana. Klinck
strong young fellow and his story tends
prov suspicion from Darragh, Greenlee
Pekey. ~ '|'l4f
[ was about a quarter of q o'clock"
be the reporter, "that | heard the
halo as the boat went over. She upset |
i 9W yards outside of the Christiana
and the men We're struggling in the |
all around her. ] got n boat and |
doul as quickly as l could TO the place, |
when got there the three men, Dar-
, Crcnlee and Peekey, were lying on
bottom Of the boat which was upside |
took them off and they at once |
henced to talk about companion who |
been IN the boat and who they declared |
drowned. They were drunk and the |
seemed to have sobered them a little. |
lcy talked and acted wildly and wanted
Pup into the river SO badly that had
pc l,l,e 10 keep them from jumping into the
ld it seem to you like they were sincere
\ being All accidentl' ~
! lld. have heard suspicious advanced,
''hlnk 1t altogether accidental. Why |
nearly went wild at the thought Of
companion being drowned, and when |
y 'leFe they ran up along the bank
y The city as hard as they could.
agl anl Greenlee were pretty drunk,
Ile other man was not. They said
asA ordered the boat to sail up the
over
I. n
ppe 10 rennsgrove state that the men
10 drunk when they left that place that
Iletr lird to persuade them to remain
er.lNs that it was not safe for them
VI 'hs river in sail boat.
O0T Ngdin will go to Pennsville this
"a 70 investigate and collect testi-