Telegram-herald., 1890-09-20
MURDERERS
They Were Handcuffed Yesterday
70 Two Burglars.
AFEW UNPLEASANT PRELINlslRIES
now the Rogu uss Gallery al Police Heaa'
qusrtsfs i Kept ssPplied-S0nsiets
Photographer snd DescrlP-
Gi0ns T&ke2-
stand up peMann. .

The scene MAS the back ONCE stpohee
headquarters. The dramAts personae
we're the TELEGRAa-HERALD man, Deiee-
tiyes smith. Gates, Cast snd Kennedy,
Fred Weber. headquarters clerk. =
policeman or two, two burglars, Nm.
Washington, colored, and Clifford Lee,
white, and the Two murderers, John
DeMann and William Egan.
Detectives Smith and Gates had just
returned 20 headquarters with The un-
sayory quartet from photograph gal
lery, where these gentlemen, who viii
for some time 10 come be ''desd 10 the
world, had been having their pictures
taken 10 adorn the rogues gallery. Poor
devils, they had submitted TO the pro-
cess quietly enough, except Negro
Washington, who had AT first eyinced a
design to be troublesome, but on fur
ther reflection had decided that molss-
ses catches morefiies tha b vinegar. and
had acquiesed IN the operation under
protest. The four criminals were being
carefully examined and written de-
scription taken, TO serve, if necessary,
for further naturalization. This IS the
invariable and necessary detail
practiccd with all Of that ilk
DeMann mad only few short hours be-
fore been convicted on the charge OF
murder IN the second degree and been
A lsF.
IN the state prison az Jackson. Nm.
Eagan IS the self confessed murderer OF
/ Patrick O'Connor, awaiting trial and
sentence. Washington ana Lee are the
two men who recently burglarizcd VIM.
BedelPs house on the corner OF Good
rich and Sheldon-sts. Lee confesses TO
the crime and has turned states evl-
dence against his companion. The for
mer was severely cut IN the leg IN es-
Gaping from the house and llmps along
on a cane. There you have them, two
murderers and two burglars, in chains.
"Stand up, DeMann Show me your
hands :"
II was Detective Smith who spoke,
and the examination had begun.
Eyes, gray; hair, dark brown; fore
head, slopng back; height, 3 feet IL;
stoopS when ne walks, scar on neck,
p years and over. Every popularity,
tooth missing, a scar, a scratch, DIS
coloration, was mInutely noted down.
One by one they answered the impera-
tive summons, "stand up" aud went
through the ordeal. Here WAS the op-
portunity TO observe their dlfferentchar-
acteristics. The negro, Washington,
! answered under protest, but answered.
/ He assumed dogged air, and was IN
| clined 10 be impudent, while his rest
| less, black eyes were continually roam
ing around the room, until they met
another pair of eyes, when they would
drop, not voluntarily, but as If against
their owners Ill. a peculiarly of the
man is a fine blue black hair, which.
while not wavy, is not kinky, and IN
dubitably betrays the fact that Wash
ington has treacherous Spanish blood in
his veins.
His partner, Clifford Lee, is light
complexioned fellow, not bad looking,
with gray ewes, light blonde mustache,
| ard absolutely nothing TO distinguish
! him from hundred you might meet IN
a days walk. lie was self-contained
watchful and cool. He answered the
| questions put by the officers, willingly
| and without hesitation. His sang froid
was perfect. One would have thought
he was an entirely unlnterested specta-
tor lie is dangerous, and he has
squealed.
Poor trembling Egan. Where nov is
the gay spark of the dances? Where
the care free young lrishman; whose
greatest trouble was TO decide wnicn
dance he would attend and which grl
he would favor. He Is woefully broken
down. and, IN the language of the fra
ternitv, is "weakcner" who lacks sand
When not directly spoken 10 be seems
10 draw into himself and SITS silent and
d isconsolate, his sunScn eyes, from
which the light has gone out, fixed or
the floor, Obvious of all that IS passing
around him. HIS cheeks have lost their
color, his form is shrunken, his gaii
shufflIng. Years seem to have passed
over his head since the fatal night
when in the heat of Jeslons rage, in.
famed with liquor, he slew O'Connor
Utterly crushed and mIserably broken
with quiyeriDg lips, he mentally re
| hearses bis crime and its penalty. Per.
haps his thoughts wander to Younger
and innocent days, perhaps TO the fear
ful future. perhaps 70 the poor ole
widowed mother out IN Bovine.
lie broods and broods, and. unIes
bis frame Of mind can be changed, no
long after the hopeless doors Of th'
penItentary clsng behind him. VIM
Eagan. only @ years old, viii hec0m'
rsving mad.
He answers the questions put % bin
/ civilly. and relapses into painfn
/ silence, the only sign that be is alive i
the long heaving of his chest as Of on'
VINO sobs inwardlv.
In marked contrast 70 Egan "a ~,
! Young murderer. DeAsnD. lie Is light
F.. fifppant Jokes with thc officers. an
declines 70 Re cast down. Zach qnes
/ ton "a answered with a joke. ard tb'
/ smile rarely ieft h.s lips. lie q 3 mpu
hoy oulv "a wears cid. Once the re
porter remarked - him that bv GOO.
conduct he could reduce his ffteeF
wears 81 imprisonment to eleven year
and eight months
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