Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-23


formed. Ryan is supposed to have re-
fused to give them up, and hot words en-
| sued, though Hanley never said anything
of this to Davitt, but mentioned it to
Thomas Madigan, whose statement an
pears below. Hanley, the next day after
the sale, made threat of getting even
with Ryan.
THOMAS MADIGAN's STATEMENT,
Thomas Madigan was with Ryan from
about 10 o'clock yesterday morning until
the shooting, and as he saw
more of the unfortunate affair
than any one except Hanley and Ryan, his
story of the day as told GLOBE reporter
will be interesting.
L met Ryan about 10 o'clock at the cor
ner of st. Peter and Ninth street. After
watching the funeral procession of the
late Theo. Miller file into Assumption
church we went up to the saloon on the
corner of st. Peter and Exchange streets,
where we called for beer and sat down to a
table and drank it while looking over the
papers. While sitting there I told Ryan
that Hanley appeared very angry at him,
and that he had showed me revolver with
the remark:
Il will get away with him yet"
Ryan answered: "Oh 1 guess he won't
shoot. But he may go at me with a stick"
With this the matter was dropped When
the funeral procession came out of the
church we Went out on the sidewalk and
watched it pass. I'VE then went down
to the corner of Fifth and
Minnesota streets-where the shooting
finally occurred. Went inside and took
a glass of beer, remaining probably half
an hour talking about going cut west
somewhere together. When we left there
it was about II o'clock. Went from there
to the Davidson block, jackson street, to
try and find man who it was said, was en-
gaging men for government work on the
Yellowstone, but did not find him. Left
the Davidson block little before O'Clock.
and went back to the corner of Fifth and
Minnesota streets to see the person who
told me of this job. and see if L had got
the directions right, but the man was
gone. While standing there on the side
walk, a man named McAndrews came up
and invited US inside to have a glass of
beer. After drinking the beer Ryan and
McAndrews went out and were gone some
twenty minutes. When Ryan came back
James Murphy and two other men were
playing pool, and we sat down and watched
the play until about o'clock, when Ryan
asked me to go over to
the Sixth ward, where he had some
business to attend to. After
crossing the bridge, Ryan stepped into
Alderman McCarthy's store, Murphy and l
remaining outside. On coming out Ryan
said he had to see man named Moriarity,
who lived just beyond the Bluff school
house, and we all walked in that direction
until just this side of the school house,
some boys were playing ball, when Murphy
and [ stopped while Ryan went to find
Moriarity. After few minutes Ryan re-
joined US, and sat down and watched the
game for few minutes. We then recrossed
the river and walked down Third to Min
nesota, and up that street to Fifth. AS we
came to the corner saw Hanley sitting in
front of the saloon on beer key. AS we
got up to where Hanley was Murphy and 1
passed right along inty the saloon, while
Ryan stopped, saying:
Chow are you, HaEley?" at the same
time sitting down on the curb in front of
him.
heard Hanley answer. "Al'right. But
where are my books?"
'What books" asked Ryan.
''The shop books" was Hanley's reply.
There was some more conversation, but
l did not hear the words, but Hanley's voice
having grown louder, stepped to the win
dow looking out upon where Hanley and
Ryan sat, and turned the blind AS 1 did
SO Hanley rose to his feet whipped out
revolver from his hip pocket,
put it at Ryan's head
and fired. Following the shot Ryan ros g
up and started along the sidewalk toward
Robert street. AS he did SO Hanley,, fired
again, and then walked quietly in the OPP
posite direction. The whole thing was
done so quick that the second shot was
fired before 1 could comprehend what was
being done. When I did made rush
out doors and caught hold of Hanly with
the exclamation, "What are you doing ?"to
which his only answer was, "That's the
way do it." The rest you know.
Mr.. Murphy who joined Ryan and Madi-
gan, as told above, confirms Madigan's
statement of what occurred after, except
that he was inside the saloon when Ryan
spoke to Hanley and did not hear any of
the words that passed.
HANLEY REFUSES TO TALK.
A little before o'clock Hanley was re-
moved from the city hall to the county
jail, where GLOBE reporter soon after
called in the hope that he might be in
duced to make some statement
in reference to the unfortunate affair, but
all his powers of persuasion availed moth
ing, Hanley's only response being 81 have
nothing to say" The friends of Hanley
claim that he has been debilitated by his
sickness typhoid fever) and was not in his
right mind or he would not have commit
ted the murder.
| THOMAS HANLEY
is native of Ireland, but came to this
country early with his parents and settled
at Louisville, Ky. About twenty years ago
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