Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1892-08-26
A FEMALE vlDoco,
An Indips,a Woman who Brought Her
Brothers Slayer to Justice.

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One evening in August, 1890, according
to the Indianapolis correspondent OF the
Chicago Herald, a man called at the police
station and reported that he had been held
up near the city limits and robbed Of $50
and a gold watch. The stranger gave his
name as William Wesley Wise. AS he
told a efccumstantial story number Of
officers accompanied him to the alleged
scene of the robbery. When they reached
the bridge over White river the Big Four
train was leaving for Chicago, and one Of
the officers suggested that the train be
stopped, as it was probable that the rob
bers had boarded it. The train was
tagged, and maIf was seen to leave the
tender and run.
The officers started in pursuit and sew
eral shots were fired. Wise was with the
party, and as the shots were fired the flee
ing man fell to the ground and moment
later was picked up dead, bali from
one of the pistols having passed entirely
through his body. The deceased proved
to be Thomas Quinlan, a fireman of the
Midland railroad, who was on his way to
take out his train from Lebanon. Quin-
Ian had had some trouble before coming
home, and when he saw the officers about
the train he supposed they intended to ar
rest him, and for that reason he tried to
avoid them and jumped from the train.
Suspicion fell upon Captain Campbell as
the one who fired the fatal shot, but the
autopsy demonstrated that the ball was
much larger than that carried by his pis-
tol, and one of the policemen was quite
sure that Wise himself had done the shoot
ing
After this fatal termination of the hunt,
Wise made SO many contradictory state.
ments that it was soon suspected that he
had imposed upon the officers and an in
nocent man had been killed for crime
that had never occurred. A watch was
kept upon Wise, and every day the evil
dence became more positive that he had
not only killed Quinlan, but that he had
not been robbed. At any rateit was GER
tain that Quinlan had not robbed him.
As none of the pistols carried by the police
were of the caliber indicated by the ball
taken from Quinlan's body, the conclusion
was forced upon the police that Wise had
fired the fatal shot. He was about to be
arrested on charge of murder, when he
suddenly disappeared.
After several months of Intellectual search
the crime was suffered to pass into OBJ
livion. A factor was at work in the case,
however, that the police knew nothing Of
Quinlan's sister, an attractive young lady
from whom he had parted but few mo-
ments before he was brought home a
corpse, took up the search. Finally she
learned that sister of Wise had moved to
Indianapolis. In order to gain the desired
information she was compelled to move
very cautiously, and with womanly tact
she soon fell upon plan. She adopted the
name of May Morgan, and sought ac.
quaintances among the people who lived in
the immediate neighborhood Of Wise's
sister, and with these she visited socially
for some four or five months. She soon dis
covered that Wise's sister was in CORE
spondence with friends or relatives in
different parts of Indiana.
She learned one day in chance conver-
sation with neighbor OF Wise's sister
that the latter had friend at Perkins
vile, I'd, with whom she was in cor
respondence. After thinking over the
matter she determined to make one more
effort to find the murderer, and she went
to Perkinsville. She was a stranger in
the place, but happy expedient was sug
gested to her. She went to the postmaster
and told him that she was looking for Q
gentleman who had relative in Indian
apolis, but that she could not recall his
name; that the man was in correspondence
with his sister there, and she wanted tc
know the name Of the man to whom the
Indianapolis letters were delivered. The
village postmaster Immediately gave hel
the name of William Wesley as man who
frequently posted letters to some one In
Indianapolis.
The problem was solved in an instant, and
the young detective saw that Wise had
dropped his surname and was known only
by his Christian name in the community
She managed to see him and make sure
that he was the person wanted. Having
located her man she returned to Indianap
oils, and appearing before Judge Cox, ol
the criminal court, where an indictment
had been reti rned against Wise soon after
he fled from be city, she acquainted him
with the fact egarding Wise's location
An officer was Immediately sent to Per
kinsville, ,5here he was arrested and
brought f40ck to answer for his crime.
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