The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-04-05
Sheriff Matthews Chokes Him.
Splits in His Face.
THE DETECTIVES LUNGS BLEED.
He Is Taken to His Room and in Two
Hours Is Corpse.
An Exciting Encounter In the raeoma
Hotel Lohby--suilivaa Had Abused
Masshews. and Matthews was Iasexi-
eatsd--Dssective Had Heart rrsahas.

Tacowa. April A-,sneciai M. G. Sui.
Ivan. western manager and one Of the
three partners in Thiel's detective service.
was stone dead at 10 o'clock tonight, an
hour afier Sheriff Matthews ehoked him.
spaf in his face and called him . dirty
- of a -" Deputy Sheriff Want,
who was with Matthews. led sullivan
to his room at the Tacoma hotel
after the men were pulled apart sullivan
said he had had u hemorrhsge, aud
coughed painfully. throwing Oft little
blood. He called for hot water to drink
and check the cough. Then he asked for
doctor. A messenger Was sent for nr.
TuttIe, two blocks away. He arrived in
about fifteen minutes. lie tells how Sui
, livan died:
''He would have died anyway even IL
had arrived before. His pulse Was fiut-
tering and be Was beyond struggling
with death. Undue excitement might
have caused il. He mad heart trouble. hut
only an autopsy will disclose just what
caused death. His windpipe and threat
were not injured. and there we're no ex-
ternai marks Of violence. LIS hemorrhaee
dad not amount to any thing, aud he did
not raise much blood. v
Sheriff Matthews entered through the ho-
tel barroom. lie impressed those there a.
having been drinking. lie Was heard 10
take Suslivsn's name in vain. and when
he went upstairs IL was supposed he did
So for the purpose of whipping Sullivan.
His pistol was in his overcoat pocket. and
~ Sullivan always hal an elegant re-
voiver handy either In his pocket or on
his bureau. firing at least was anticipated.
The men met in the lobby. Matthews
ran the first and second fingers Of his left
hand under Suliivanis SHIRT collar at his
Adams apple and shook him. "SulIi-
van." he said, "You are dirty -
----- -------." Then he spat in Sallivan's
face. A friend had Matthew overcoat.
and Matthews had his right hand free to
strike il hs cared TO, but blows were
avoided. There was only the scufils and
the clinch.
Proprietor Mills. OF the hotel, arrived .
few seconds after the encounter. and helped
to separate them. He remained with
Sullivan until he died. Until i've minutes
before ne died Sullivan couEhsd violently
at intervals. He had considerable pain. and
seemed greatly distressed with excitement.
After ut Of coughing eve minutes prior
to death he quistsd down, but said moth
Ing. He had been partially undrssssd.
and lay on bis bed In room 800. on tho
ground Hoor. which he has occupied of
and on for several months.
For few weeks Sullivan has had few
men here, working on political assign
ments. and only last night Joe 6tstt, one
of his thugs, attacked Manager Mo
Naughton. Of . rival detective agency.
beating him brutality. Sullivan always
claimed hand In nearly every successf.ll
piece Of work Of any kind. He did not
| like IL because Sheriff Matthews refused
to send one Of his (Suliivan's) men to
bring back Defauiting Bank Presidents
Hart. OF the Buckley state bank. and on
several occasions he dubbed Matthews -
d----d chump." Matthews returned
February - from Baltimore without
Hart, and Sullivan renewed his tsunts.
| Toni ght Matthews intended TO 70 to
waila walla on official business. but
walked over 10 the Tacoma hotel barroom
bout o'clock. He appeared TO have
been drinking q little. Deputy Sheriff
Want was with him. He cursed Sui
iivan and when he went upstairs
| IL was supposed he would whip Sullivan
on sight, although Sullivan 10 . much
larger man.
After Matthews spat in suiIivsn's face
the latter ooked sheepish and scared, and
seemed too much frightened to speak. Hs
coughed violently on reaching his room,
and told Want he had hemorrhage.
Matthews was led off In another direction.
and went over 10 Miles Gibbons cafe. In
a few minutes Joe Mcdonald dropped in
aud said Sullivan was dead. Matthews
said: II did not believe IL. I'm sorry l
did not keep away from the hotel aud 40
| on my business to Walia Walin. had
never met Sullivan before. and Was not
looking for him, bat he insulted me and
| my family, and my family il dearsr TO me-
than my life.
About 10 o'clock sullivan's body was
| placed in . dead box and carried GU, OF
| the private entrance to an express wagon
aud very quietly removed to Hoskas
undertaking psriors, An Inquest will DO
| held tomorrow afternoon. but Coroner
! Hoska hs. not decided on an autopsy.
| Iiis considered . very unfortunate AZ
| fair for Matthews, although he was sym
| pathized with when sullivan maligned
/ him. About midnight he returned to the
| hotel lobby and stated that he had tried
| 10 avoid sallivan. a letter from
woman supposed to be Sui
| nvan's wife vas found In mia
| pocket, and her friends were wired nc San
| franeisco where her daughter lives. IL
- as supposed Sullivan was un married. St,
| Louis friends we're also notified. Ills step
| son died in Colorado
| Daring the original Cesur d. Aiens trou.
bic Sullivan was proprietor OF a hotel in
/ Montana. He hsrded Chinese coolies
| while Stampede tunnel was being built.
/ and made money. He insinua,sd him.
seif into many paying real es-
| tate deals On the Sound during the
boom. and has several houses snd lots
her and acreage ss Olympia and else
where. His estate 10 estimated to be
worth over sJoo,0Oo During the war bs
wss Union spy. He has been aiiing
w,th heart troabIs and coughing spells
Only tSo days ago he had . SHAKING spsii.
| ". c. Sullivan vas about IS years old.
| and thirty years ago entered ths service OF
| Allan Pinksrtou. in Chicago Late IN the
COS he vent 20 ST. Louis with Gus Ihsei.
became special policeman there. and ~ss
later taken into partnership. lie hsd been
i ia tie Pacific horthH Hcst about q dozeh
years. coming from assada, stiefs hs was
| slagedriyer. He coald scarcely bs called
| detsetise bat tor rough work IA running
| down criminals, suppressing STRIKES,
I Swallowing, etc. has meh srFs Often sgus
! sgoxst lie furnished rnsras 80 tbs tins
| OF ihs hringlng Of shs Eaegro miners into
( the ing eoenty coal toNns "a t-si. ard
later, ia Sepssmls~f of that year. be Kid
nape.t William r Bailey and X. H.
Aiserison IN THIS city, hoping 80 spirs
thea Assy - Iaeoas. and psTnsps ex-