Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-12-19

very large man. with blonde hair. He Is,
physically, a splendid specimen of a man,
tall and straight as an arrow, six feet one
inch In height, bony. sinewy, and strong
as an OK. He has an eye peculiarly bril-
liant and piercing and yet very unsteady.
a rather low forhead, heavy square jaws
and prominent cheekbones. He is of &
very brutal nature, one of the instances OF
this characteristic occurring March 24tl
last, when he knocked a man down
In a west side saloon and vel
nigh stamped the life out OF him
He is rcvengeful. scheming, subtle, shrewd.
ferocious and intense In his hatred Of
enemies. He weighs 1876 pounds, Is OF
light complexion. and has a prominent
wart on his right cheek. He went to Chi
cago some years ago and secured employ.
ment in the North-side street railway
barns. -Four years ago. through the in
fuence of Alexander Sullivan, he obtained
a position on the police force, where he re
manned until arrested. Knowing the
strength of his influence he oyerstepped
discipline when it interfered with him,
and did about as he pleased. He is married
and has one child.
Patrick O'SulIivan Is the companion of
Dan Coughlin. He is described as hav-
ING the eye Of the eagle and the glare
of the serpent. He was born in Galena,
ILL.,, thirty-0ne years ago. He is ) feet
II inches high, weighs 139 pounds, and
very dark complexiOned. During the
entire trial he sat ~sphvnx-like, sullen and
sulky, seldom changing his position
and never looking up. He went to Chi
cagO ten years ago, and for a time drove a
! North-side street car. He left that oc-
cupatiOn to enter the employment of the
Lincoln Ice company. with which he re-
manned until five years ago, when he
started In the ice business for himself. He
has been very active In politics, and is
claimed to have been one of the ring
leaders in the street car strike. He has
been a member of Camp 20 for two years.
He is unmarried. Little is known of his
early history.
Martin Burke Subscribed by a Chicago
paper as an illiterate, coarse, r~ufianly
fellow, the professional cut-throat and
assassin, Just such a man as the cOnspira-
tors would select to do the bloody work
for them. The most striking features
of his face are the receding chin,
the big mouth and the thick lips, alto
gether to suggestive of the blood hound.
He was born in County Mayo, Ireland.
ne Is 70 Years Olu. y lGcG IL IIC1l6S IdI,
weighs 172 pounds, and has dark-brown
worked at odd jobs, and frequently went
under the name of Delaney. A year ago
he joined Camp 20, and shortly after Sc
cured work in the water department of the
city. Since Feb. 8 he has done nothing
except one days work in Joliet last
May.
John f. Beggs, the gentleman of this
brood of assassins, is 81 years old. He
was born in Lowell, Mass, is 5 feet 81
inches tall, weighs 149 ponds and is of
forid complexion. His record is
bad. In Cleveland he was sent to
the penitentiary for betraying a
young girl. He married her in prison
and she obtained a pardon for him. and
they lived together for a short time, when
he deserted her and went to Chi
cagu. He secured employment in a
Lake street drug house at S. per week,
the position being obtained for him by
the Prisoners Aid siciety. Hewas a law
yer in Cleveland, and after a short resi-
dence he was admitted to the bar and was
by Alexander Sullivan put In possession Of
considerable practice. His wife in Cleve-
land, in the meantime secured a divorce
from him and he married again here.
Feb. 6. he was. through Mr.. Sullivan's in
fuence, made senior guardian of camp 20.
and two days later the famous secret com.
mittee was appointed. He lived with his
wife at All West Madison street. He has
no children.
John Kunze, the little German, is 9
light-complexioned little fellow of about
% years of age. but looking little more
than % or "a. He is small, slender and
sallow, weighs about 135 pounds, and is
one of those small, boyish young men who
think it is manly to smoke cigarettes and
be tough. He is a very PLAUSIBLE young
fellow, and when arrested for larceny 9
little over a year ago, induced a young
lawyer to defend him on an assertion that
he (Kunze) was shortly to come into
possession of a large fortune, out of which
the lawyer would receive a fat fee.
Nothing has thus far been seen OF
either fortune or fee. Shortly after the ex-
plosion at Shuteldt's distillery he ingratia,
ted himself with Dan Coughlin by declar.
ing that he saw the man who threw the
bomb and could point him out. Dan took
him to Peoria to find the miscreant, but
whether Kunze pointed him out or not /,
not known. At any rate he was never ar
rested. After the trip to Peoria, Coughlir
and Kunze became very intimate Kunzt
wanted to be a detective, and Coughlin
found many ways to make him use
ful