Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-24

''Where's your rosy cheeks and brigh
eyes. You must have either suffered terribly
or been terribly abused to have made sucl
an alteration in your appearance.
Following Up the Thread.
Her daughters residence was next sought
out, and she being found, corroborated
every particular of the story which was told
| by Mrs. Dunn and Mrs. Osborne, hel
mother.
The next morning, accompanied by Mr..
Miller, I visited the Office of s. E. Adams,
who was formerly prosecuting attorney fol
Cuyahoga county, Ohio, one of the fore
most members of the Cleveland bar. Ac-
companied by Mr.. Miller, Mr.. Adams
| police officials make a search of the police
records to see whether any charge had been
lodged against Mr.. Miller or any record
made of the shooting OF Frank Dunn on the
night of the 23d of March, 1881. No charge
had ever been lodged and no record had
ever been made. Mr. S. E. Adams the same
day took the affidavits of Mrs. Dunn, Mrs.
Osborne and Miss Ashley which were
listened to and compared with each other in
the presence of Detective John McTighe
and myself.
The next step In following up the chain
necessary to prove this mans innocence
was the locating of Frank G. Dunn. His
wife had heard of him as being newspaper
publisher in the City of Detroit, State of
Michigan. A glance over a newspaper
directory in the Cleveland Leader Office
give us the information that Bathrick s.
Dunn published the newspaper called Satur-
day Night in Detroit in 1890. A telegram
sent over the Western Union wire to
Detroit came back marked "can't find"
A Cbusa ir, NI;cbiuan
Taking the steamer City of Cleveland for
Detroit that night we arrived in Detroit
the next morning, where after consulta-
tion, we formulated a plan which within
three hours put us in possession of the fact
that Frank c. Dunn was located in Cincin-
natl, O., to which point we at once pro-
ceeded.
Arriving in Cincinnati Mr.. McTighe
visited police headquarters, and enlisted
the services of Edward j. Moses, one of the
best known detectives of the Queen City.
Mr.. Moses came to the hotel, and after list
ening to Mr.. Miller's story, accompanied by
Mr. McTighe took his departure, and in
the course of half an hour summoned my
self and Mr.. Miller to a 'Squire's Office,
where Mr.. Dunn was found, and after some
conversation recognized Mr.. Miller, and
expressed his willingness to give the affida-
Wit which is part of this story. 1t was a
curious thing to witness the meeting be-
tween those two men, one of whom had al
most been sent to ''that bourne from which
no traveller ever returns" by the accidental
shot of the man who now, with trembling
hands, awaited the mans reply after he re-
quested him to make an affidavit to the
truth of the statement which would help to
clear his fair name. This was given in our
presence.
From Cincinnati the journey was taken
up without any delay for Youngstown, Ohio,
where John G. Mellon, one of the best
known hotel proprietors in that bustling
Buckeye city was found. Mr.. Miller con-
versed with Mr. Mellon in the presence of
myself and Detective McTighe some two or
three minutes before he mentioned his name
or made himself known to Mr.. Mellon.
When he recalled himselfto the recollection
of Mr.. Mellon, and asked him to relate to
myself and Detective McTighe every in
stance which happened on the morning of
Miller's arrest in the City of Pittsburg, he
repeated verbatim the facts contained in his
affidavit, and repeatedly said:
Always a Wonder to Him.
sIt always has been wonder to me how
you could ever have been convicted for the
robbery of John Connors.
That evening the last stage In the journey
to Pittsburg was begun, and there in
friends house mass of matter from which
this story has been woven was sorted and
classified. THE DISPATCH stenographer,
MI. j. T. Shields, was secured, and work.
ing night and day since Saturday noon, was
evolved the story which is now placed be-
fore the public. An idea of the pressure
under which we obtained the story can be
understood from the fact that we labored
night and day. The only sleep we took,
save what we could catch on the trains,
wasIthe eight hours rest obtained while
crossing Lake Erie. I cannot speak il too
high praise of the manner in which De-
tective McTighe worked out this case.
One of the most dramatic incidents in
this hunt for evidence was the visit paid to
Colonel w. D. Moore's house Saturday
night about midnight. Colonel Moore was
found reclining on a bed, suffering from a
disease to which a man of less indomitable
will power would have succumbed long ago.
Mr.. Miller placed before him the different
affidavits which had been gathered and with
cleaning eyes and trembling voice said: 81
coniure you by the love you bear to your
children and grandchildren, and by the
mercy that you shall some day ask from
God, to make an affidavit in which shall be
contained that confession of the real perpe-
traitor of the Connors' robbery which you
told me in New York was at my command
whenever 1 was ready to attempt to prove
my innocence.
Very Dramatic Scene