Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-20
QUICK, CLEVER WORK
The Perpetrators of the Quincy and
Hines 0utrages Caught.
A TWENTY-FOUR HOURS HUNT.
Brilliant Moves Which Drew the Criminals
Into the Meshes.
ONE MAN POUND UNDER A FEATHER BED

Two probable murders, in which large
number of people were implicated, tested
the eficien of the police force In the First
district yesterday, and it was equal to the
test. All but four of the criminals are now
behind the bars, and number of them are
being held as witnesses. Both cases were
worked in perfect manner, and Inspector
McAleese and the city detectives deserve the
greatest credit.
A few minutes before II o'clock Wednes-
day night four Irishmen were attacked by
half doz en- negroes on Penn avenue, near
Twenty-ninrh street, an account of which
appeared in THE DISPATCH yesterday.
John Kearns was the first man attacked.
Then he was Joined by Daniel Quincy and
John McAuiiff: The colored men were
beaten back for a moment and then q shot
was heard. The negroes fed, and the bleed
ing form of Daniel Quincy was picked up
from the sidewalk. A ball from 32-caliber
revolver had entered his left temple. He
was supposed to be dying, and was at once
removed to the West Penn Hospital; but up
to a late hour last night life was not extinct,
although death is expected at any moment.
Detectives Take Up the Chase at Once.
While the wounded man was being taken
to the hospital Detectives Bendel and Coul-
son were returning from an official visit to
that institution. The carriage was dis
missed at the foot of Twenty-eighth street, and
Detective Coulson took a car into the city. De-
tective Bendel was still waiting there when
Officer Bagley told him of the supposed muir
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the scene of the shooting. at Aulbecker's bill
lard room, near Twenty-seventh street. There
he found four coored men. and ordered them
under arrest. They were taken to the Twelfth
ward station house, Detective Bendel accom-
panying them. There he found Inspector Nc
Aleese, who had been notified of the affair and
was already arranging plans for the capture OF
the men who did the shooting. The negroes
were scared by the arrest, and gave the name
of colored man named Adams, on Thirtieth
street.
Detective Bendel started out and soon had
the man under arrest From him was learned
the names OF the six men who were engaged in
the fight.
Inspector McAIeese at once sent the de-
scr1ption and the names of the men to the GEN.
trail office in City Hall. and inside of half
hour every officer in the city was on the watch
for the men. Before midnight the Inspector
and Detective Bendel were Joined by Detective
Sol Coulson and Captain Dan Silvis.
Hunting in the Darkness.
1ue Lneu dluoQ Dy lue paLrOl,
kept up watch for the men all night along
Penn avenue and eight or ten colored men
were landed in the Twelfth ward station on
suspicion. From each one some scrap of in
formation was learned and one of the men
proved to be Frank Dutch, one of the assail-
ants of Daniel Quincy.
In the meantime Detectives Mulvehill Paddy
Fitzgerald. John McTighe, Robinson and
Lieutenant Denniston had Joined in the chase.
At o'clock they found Smith and Richard
Beale, two of the men. in their boarding
house at No. IS Clark street. Soon after
Charles Ross was taken.
There was a chance that Henry Freeman had
gone to Washington county or some of the
small towns along the Panhandle road in
Western Pennsylvania. Detective McTighe
and Lieutenant Denniston were sent to Mans
field early in the morning, and later Detective
Bendel and Officer Mulvehill went to McDon-
aid station, Washington county. They were
armed with memorandum books, and repre-
sented themselves as supplementary census"
eral men were also on the train to
warn the criminals of the approach of the de-
tectlves, the latter by clever ruse dropped of
the train at Mansfield. The men, followed by
the detectives had made detour and when
the train pulled out they were on the engine.
They made complete search OF the Nickel
Willow Grove. but the men were not to be
found.
Found Under a Feather Bed.
Meanwhile the officers were at work in the
city. and at $50 they found a clew. Detectives
Fitzgerald and Robinson and Officers Smothers
and Cole started out and found Henry Free
man at the house of his mother-in-law on
Stockholm street. He had hidden under a
feather bed, but the officers sat on it until the
man moved and SO discovered him. He was
taken to Central station. where, at 8
o'clock. he. with Richard and Smith
Beal and Frank Dutch were identified as
members of the attacking party. Charles
Ross and William Freeman were held as wit
nesses and also to prevent their spiriting away
the two other men for whom the police are
searching. All theothers except the four were
discharged.
The other case was that OF John Hines, who
was assaulted in free fight on Seventeenth
street, Wednesday evening. Hines is not ex-
pected to recover. The arrests were all made
in the vicinity of the fight by squad of officers
| under Captain Dan SIlvis. AS a result of this
effort John Friel. John Kirby, William McGil-
| lick, David Thomas and James Packer were
committed to Jail in default of 81. 900 bail each,
last evening, by Magistrate McKenna, for a
hearing Thursday, on a ch arge of felonious as
sault and battery. There are still two men to
be captured for taking part in this fight.