The Portland daily press., 1895-12-03
REARD0N CAUGHT.
Alleged AssaiIant Of John Doyle In
Jail.
BROUGHT FROM BOSTON LAST
NIGHT BY OFFICER KEATING.

| Long Search for Him In New York and
Clever Capture by Keating in Boston
Reardon's Tough Experience as a Fugi-
tive.
Immediately after the assault upon the
late John Doyle, in Egan's rum shop,
last September, man named Reardon,
who was suspected Of having made the
assault upon Doyle, Disappeared There
has been much that was mysterious about
this case from the first. No complaint
was made at the police station and they
did not know of the occurrence there, till
forty hours after it happened
Doyle himself, while at the hospital, both
the first time and the second, declared
that he had no knowledge Of who struck
him, or of what happened to him in
Egan's rum shop. He also declared,
when not at the hospital. that he would
not appear in court against anyone and
did not wish to prosecute the man who
struck him.
/ There are people who declare that they
saw Reagan strike him.
There are people who declare that they
saw Readon strike Doyle in Egan's
saloon on that night, but that the blow
did not seriously hurt him, much less
break his Jaws. They declare that his
Jaws must have been broken outside of
the rum shop. OF course in his
dazed condition, Dolys might have fallen
on the sidewalk OH his own steps and
struck on his chin in such way as to
break his jaws. A Portland citizen, who
was not intoxicated, once fell in such
way as to break his jaw. OF course it
would be unusual for man to fall in
that way, but it is very possible.
Also it is possible that Doyle was way
laid and assaulted outside of the rum
shop, but there are parties who have said
that they saw Reardon strike Dolye a
terrific blow in the rum hop, and that hs
fell over unconscious and was carried
out and thrown on the ash heap.
If Reardon is guilty OF simply striking
a blow in the rum shop that did no
special injury, why should he have run
away and kept himself hidden ever since?
His action has been that of man who
was guilty of inficting more than a
slight bruise. When Doyle was taken to
the hospital and the news spread that
both jaws were broken, Reardon disap-
peared.
A week ago last Friday, Marshal
Irickey sent Officer Keating on to New
York to search for Reardon. Keating
knew Reardon. Everything was done
with the greatest secrecy so that no friend
of Reardon should be able to give him
warming. He used to be waiter on the
Cottage City and is familiar with New
; York and it was thought highly proba BILE
that he had gone thither.
: Mr. Heating has written Marshal
Trickey five letters from New York
during the first week. His first letter
i said that he felt sure nobody had noticed
him board the train at the Union Station
, and he met nobody he knew until he
reached Portsmouth, when there he was
astonished to meet Officer Pillsbury, who
had been off duty because of illness and
had beeH summoned to Haverhill on
; private business. He was SO careful as
not to tell even his brother officer, the
object of his trip and invented a story to
account for it.
In New York, during last week, he did
every he could think Of to get some
} trace of Reardon He watched all the
, water front resorts and cheap theatres
and the police courts. He evon visited
Blackwell's Island, knowing that if
, Reardon got drunk in New York, he
would do something that would surely
! send him there Reardon has worked in
S canneries. Therefore Keating visited all
: the canneries in New York, Brooklyn
and Jersey City. He had an officer in
each of those cities to help him. He put
an advertisement in the World that he
, wanted ten Gamers. He received answer
from six applicants but neither of them
was Reardon.
> Last Saturday, Marshal Trickey learned
in Boston last Thursday and that talked
with him. He was looking thin and
, seedy and had been i'll. He had grown a
. full beard. Marshal Trickey telegraphed
/ to Keating to come to Boston Immediate
ly. He took the Saturday night train and
reached Boston Sunday morning. He
went to friend of his, who works in the
Adams House, and asked if he'd seen
Reardon. He said that he had only a
, day or two before. Reardon had come tc
/ see him with another man and wished
to borrow some moneyof him. Keatine
!; wrote all this to the marshall Sunday
, Yesterday noon the latter got tele
phone message from the chief of polio,
in Boston that Reardon had been caugh
and that Officer Keating would start fo
Portland with him on the All p. m
] train.
Early last evening Officer Keatin 8
arrived in Portland with Reardon ant
. took his prisoner directly to the polc'
station. Marshal Trickey took Reardor
into his private office, and had tall
: with him. Reardon was in very bal
. ondition. He appeared detected ant
/ tagged out. He is five feet, ten ard {
' half inches tall 90 wears old and MS nall