Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-08-04
NE NEEDS LOOKING AFTER.
The Strange Conduct of . Ds.tass from
Lowellytlis,

The Strange Conduct of . Dent1ss from
Lowelivtlis,
DIR. Welsh, the Loweliville (0.) dentist,
who processes to possess information %
prove the innocence Of ''Blinky" Morgan,
Is either knave or fool and should be
locked up. II his statement is true, he Is q
knaye for allowing an innocent man to
hang, and il 1t is not true, he should be
locked up for lunacy.
The following is his statement, rs II ap-
pears in Youngstown (0.) special TO this
mornings Commercial Gazette:
YOUNGSTOWN, o., Aug. "A CONNER
ctal Gdzette reporter this evening inter-
viewed Dr. n. q. Welsh, the dentist Of
Loweliville, this county, who wrote to Gen.
ersi Walcott, OF Columbus, saying that be
was In possession of facts to prove
''Blinky" Morgan's innocence and asking
him tO lay the letter before Governor
Foraker. DIR. Welsh said that on the night
OF February 81. 1887, he rode from Pitts.
burg 70 Rochester, Pa, on the Pitrsburg,
Fort Wayne i Chicago train, on which
Morgan, Robinson and Coughlan are sup
posed TO have travelled to Alliance, and
that 10 his certain knowledge neither OF
the men were ON the train. He says he has
known Robinson for seventeen years, had
seen Morgan before that time, and has
seen Coughlan since. and he Is posi-
tive THAI he is not mistaken. ae
went through the train to see If
there was any one aboard whom he knew,
and found no one but q Pittsburg crook,
whom he knew by sight. This same man
ne bad seen in the depot before the train
LEFT Pittsburg, in earnest conversation with
an Allegheny detective. When ne saw him
On the train he was talking with man De-
hind the smoking-car door. The second
man Welsh did not know. He refuses to
give the name Of the Pittsburg crook ut
present, and says that he is confident that
he and his companion were implicated In
the Rescue. Both men, he says, are known
In Pittsburg OF Allegheny. DR.. Welsh
says that he did not make his knowledge
known before because he was afraid he
would be arrested and charged with being
implicated In the robbery. He removed
from Wellsviile, o., 10 RayenDa, o., about
week after the rescue, and opened Q dem
TAI Office. He became Intimate with Q man
named Delhi, who, the following April,
was elected marshal. Shortly after his
election Delhi informed Welsh, in conf
dence, that the mayor had instructed him
TO keep close watch on him, as he was
suspected of being implicated in the Hulli-
gan murder. This scared Welsh, and he
hurriedly left town, leaving his Office
hxtures TO be sold at auction to pay some
debts he had contracted. Welsh
went to his parents home In Allegheny
with his wife, and remained there for three
months, when he returned to Lowellville.
he kept his knowledge OF the Morgan case
profound secret until last Friday, when
he wrote TO General Walcott. Welsh's &C
quaintsnce with Robinson began when
both were lads. Ten years ago they had q
quarrel, and have not communicated with
each other since. Welsh says, however,
that this fact did not influence him to re-
frain from testifying in the trial Of the res
cuers. Welsh says that the night he rode
Irom Pittsburg to Rochester he was on 0
spree with a young man of Rochester.