The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-07-17
POLITICS MAY Be IN II.
The Murderer Of Patrick McCa y Is
Still at Large.
a STILL HUNT GOING RIGHT ON.
Suicide Theory Not Accepted by Those
who Have Followed the Case-It is
Also DIsorcdited by Some Authorities.
Shield for Commonw eaIth's Inaction.

NORTH ATTLEBoRo. July 1.-THE
probability that Patrick Mccarthy COM
mitted suicide is one that seems to exist
only in the minds of the officials
connected with the case, certainly
no one Of the citizens of this
town who has any opinion to express is
ret ready TO reach an explanation OF the
old mans death, and there are also AT
least some of the officials who dissent
from that opinion.
And yet the facts that point in that
direction are fairly plausible. / saw
State Detective Seaver, Deputy Sheriff
brown and others who have been con
nected with the clues and such evidence
rs has come TO hand. In the hrst
place IL asserted that there was no mo-
tive for the crime. Mccarthy had no
money on his person unless he had bor-
rowed it and no one has been found who
loaned him any on that morning except
John Kennedy. The latter had loaned
him 30 cents. and after he had paid
he gave him back the 30 cents change
that was found In the dead mans pock-
cts. IL Mccarthy had been murdered
for his money the 30 cents would have
been taken. Tor q gang OF roughs such
- his murdcrers must have been would
leave no opportunity to steal unim-
There was no motive for any of his
family to have been instrumental in his
death. His insurance policy in the
Metropolitan Life Co. had only
run q few months and was worth
but $3.50. The cottage house
and lot worth probably 81. 800. belonged
PARTLY TO his three children. He was of
smie;. His death, therefore, cannot be
accounted for on the grounds of incentive
or Of . deliberate plan laid out before
hand IL he came to his end by violence
~ must have been the result cf q
drunken brawl, aud In its first stages
was possibly an accident.
The Suicide Theory.
There have been manyst atements con-
cernig the character Of the wounds. but
the suicide theorists claim that all of
them were slight There was no one
of thcm on the head that were moro tina n
skin deep. In all severe blows given
By = weapon Of any kind the flesh under
the skin shows signs OF a bruise, and in
any case the nature OF The wound wifi
Determine the amount of force used.
Tho wounds on McCsrthy's head
caused by nail scraping across the
scalp it would have been q very easy
matter for the wounds to have been In.
1ictod by . boat keel or PROV
after tho body had been In the
water. Again had the body
laid In the water with head toward and
sssi1:s ns,S the shore s,1 boat rowing rsPidly
ear and have given the face the scrapsd
appeareuQe which IL mad.
The club found near by had one h air In
crack Of % that was not 1t all dissimi-
lar 70 QcCarthy's hair. but IL might
equally we'll have been the hair OF q
horse or some other white animal. There
Siscolo1ssiops raj 'V which 0'' were Wn at frss ss
thought 10 b blood ap pear much more
like patural discoloration OF the wood.
The towcl, too, was without signs
OF blood. Its dark spots appeared
70 bo those OF iron rust and not blood.
The towel was old and had pro baby been
ussd BY some one bathing there and been
cast aside after using.
No Evidence OF . Struggle.
There were no evidences Of any strup-
there nor in any house that has thus
Tar been searched. There was no blood
on McCarthy's shirt, though he wore
, white one. All these things point to
buicide very. strongly, and they consti-
tuto the evidence OF the state. On the
strength OF these the active work on the
Seaver and Deputy Sheriff Brown.
Only Special Oricer Grossly and Officer
Kimball are now at work, aud neither Of
sem claim to know anything more than
they did two hours after the body was
This view is received by the people
that the wounds were deeper than il now
Three doctors sgrs ed that death
was the result OF violence. Arthur Nc
Carthy says that he told job Kennedy
not to sell his father an more liqu or but
!old no one else to refr ain from selling
why He Teok Precautions.
He took that precaution merely be.
cause he bad missed his father and was
EQrrisd, fearing that he might have
police. he thinks. are making en-
Eirely too much out of his
request to Kennedy. Arthur Indignant
" denies that his father ever acted
or showed any but the pleas
10 est disposition on all occasions.
IL 10 pretty broadly limited today that
Ind is The result Of the failure OF the
authorities to find any murderer or any
definite clues.
They must find some excuse for III air
allure to arrest anyone. IL th ev
arrest anyone and fail TO convict IL will
- detrimental to Pillsbury's chances
'or the nomination for governor and h o
. impossible at present to tell which
ray things may turn but there il no
probability that any disclosures will be
made until the inquest, IL such is ever