Rock Island daily Argus., 1892-02-22
is HE M'DERMOTT?
The Slayer Of Daniel DOugherty
Believed to be Run Down.
ARRESTED AT ALTOONA, PENN.
Description of the Murderer EN-.
actiy-The CoIre respondence-Bai-
IiT Fountain Sent AT ferIhe
PrisOner-1he crime r.
hearsed.

Has Patrick McDsrmott. the murderer
of Daniel Dougherty at Edgington, Feb.
20, 1885 been captured at last2
10 the telegraphic columns of Saturday
evenings ARGUS Appear d short dis
patch from Altoona, Pa, noting the ar
rest there of one Frank Callen alias Pat
McDermott, a railroad brakeman residing
10 hat city, on the charge of the murder
o: Daniel DougheIty, of Edging.on. Ever
since the commission Of the crime and
the chase of SheT fl Reticker after the
fugatiYe, the sheIif's { flee has been in
almost daily comm unication with author
iues in various parts of the country,
where it was thought McDermott had
been discovered and which had been
reached by the descriptive notices scat
tered broadcast throughout the land All
through Sheriff Reticker's term he was re.
spending 10, and running down clues of
this sort first one from the far west, then
one in Kansas or Nebraska and some.
times one from the east. When Sheriff
SilVis entered upon the duties of the Of
fee, he, too, devoted himself Industrious
ly to pursuing every possible clue that
might lead to the apprehension and re-
turn Of the culpIit. Mr. Silvis made
many trips to the west and sometimes
besides sending dispatches to identify
prisoners supposed to be McDermott. A
though all these Investigations were at
tended by discOuraging results, Mr.. Sill
Wis did not give up hope, and since Mr.
Gordon became sheriff both he and Mr..
Sivis have had more or less correspond
ence on the subject.
THINK THEY HAVE THE MAN
On Feb. 13 came letter from George
Collier. detective of the Pennsylvanis
railroad at Altoona, Pa. in which he
asked for information as to Patrick Nc
Dermott and his crime. ard stating that
he believed he could put. his hands on
him. The tone of the letter was such
that Deputy Silvis at once opened ccr>
respondenCe with Detective Coll er, and
advised him 10 secure photograph of
the suspected mai for Identification. A
number Of teiegrsms passed between
MessTs. Silvis and Collier. the dispatches
from Altoona telling of the arrest Of the
suspect, and at last one Saturday told
that he had practically confessed the
murder. In one of his kilograms Detec>
tive Collier stated that be was so positive
that he had McDermott that he would
pay sil the expenses of man to 90 10
Altoona TO identify him. Yesterday q
number of dispatches passed between
States Attorney Sturgeon and the de
tective on the advice of the sheriff, and
yesterday Deputy Silvis drove out to
EdgingtOn and brought in Bailf Foun-
tain, who knew McDermott during his
residence in this county, and who has
made other trips for the pur pose of iden-
tifying men supposed to be him, and
last night Mr.. Fountain started for Al
toona, while this morning Sheriff Gordon
went to Springfield to secure the neces-
sary requisition papers in the event of
the man held at Altoona proving to be
McDermott.
THE MAN AT ALTOONA
has been working as q yard brakeman for
the Pennsylvania Railroad company
under the name Of Frank Callen, who
with is wife and a child week old, had
been livingst 3l9 Fourth avenue, that city,
and who on the morning OF the 18th was
arrested by Detective Collier. 4 copy of
an Altoona paper says that at the time
of McDermotts arrest he was very much
unuerved, but entirely dScile until NE
was taken to photograph gallery to
have his picture taken. When he realized
what was to be done he became greatly
enraged and fought like demon,
threatening to brain Collier with his hand
cuffs and calling him all sorts of vile
names. The sane paper also states that
since his arrest Calen has admitted that
be came from this section; that he had
qusrreied with Dougherty, the murdered
msn, and that after his death he had in
herited the property Of Dougherty
through his wife whose maiden name was
Dougherty. When asked to account for
his whereabouts at various times before
and tf!er Dougherty's death be readily
giving his location during all
periods except for the month during
which the murder was committed.
II the man s McDermott and the
woman he has been living with is his
wife, he has committed another crime by
marriage, as the wife be left