The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-05-07
DANGEROUS DUGAN
The Notorious Thief Cap
tured After an Exciting
Chase by Deputy Sher-
ifs and Police.
SHOT AT HIS SISTER
Held Captain McNulty at Bay.
Using Another Sister for a
shield--Chief Murphy's
Stern Order.
SHOT AT HIS SISTER

iS Siey dAd New York as Judge" Du-
gan, perhaps the most notorious and dan
serous criminal not behind prison bars,
I was captured this afternoon
Before being landed in a cell, how
ever, he had shot at his sister, knocked
deputy Sheriff down, and finally held
| Captain McNulty and a squad of police
men at bay by making a shield of his
| sister and threatening to kill the first
man who attempted to take him.
| Dugan's criminal career is a most re-
markable one. For the last year the
police of New York and this city have
| been looking for him and his capture to-
day is due to the fact that he came to this
city to take UP a quarrel his mistress
had inaugurated with his sister,
His sister is Mrs. Annie McDermott, bet
ter known as Annie Dugan or Hattie
| Jones.
She has had interviews with the police
herself, but lately she has been pretty
quiet. Dugan has been paying the board
of his mistress, Frieda Baum. to his sis
| ter Annie, with whom he lived. They oc-
| cupied the rear ramshakle house. No. 13S
Railroad avenue, which is between Grove
and Barrow streets.
Dugan. it is supposed, went to the
house last night. At any rate, early
this morning the Baum woman complained
of the food she was getting. Dugan in
! turn complained to his sister. A quarrel
ensued, and his sister in plain language
declared that her brothers mistress could
not bulldoze her in her own house.
Dugan said he would not allow the girl
| to remain in the house any longer, and
accordingly sent a messenger for a truck
man to remove the woman's trunk to his
mothers home at Park and Newark
| streets, Hoboken. The truckman engaged
! was Jack Lynch, of No. BAG Fifth street.
| When the Baum woman began to pack
| her trunk Mrs. McDermott noticed that
| ) some of her property was being taken.
There was a quarrel and fight, in which
| her brother seized her by the throat and
dealt her several vicious. blows in the
| face. The Baum woman in the mean
| time had locked the trunk and was drag
| ging it to the street. Mrs. MeDermott
sailed into the woman and hot fight
ensued, Dugan finally dragging his sis
! ter into the street and beating her bru-
| tally.
He knocked her down and while
| she lay in the street seized the trunk
| and threw it into the truck.
/
Lynch to drive away with all speed.
Before the driver could gather lip the
reins Mrs. McDermott had recovered,
and seizing the horse by the bride hung
on for dear life The driver lashed the
horse into a fury, but Mrs. McDermott
did not relax her hold, although it look
ed as though she would be trampled un-
der foot. The plucky woman shouted
|. Police at the top of her voice, and a
crowd was collecting when Dugan drew
revolver from his pocket and shot at
his struggling sister. The bullet whizzed
by uncomfortably close to her head. The
fright caused her to faint, and she drop
ped into the street. The moment the
woman let go the hold on the bride the
horse sprang forward and started up
Railroad avenue ON mad run.
The report of the revolver attracted
Deputy Sheriffs Frank Teel of No. 66
Sussex street and Herman Rocktoff of
No. S92 Union street. Both are amateur
detectives, but seeing the PROSTATE form
of woman in the gutter, and trunk
going like mad up Railroad avenue, they
started in pursuit, followed by a crowd
of nearly one hundred men and boys.
L
Rocktoff and Teel were hot after the
fugftives and kept up a constant cry of
"Stop thiefr' which was taken up by
the crowd of pursuers~
The truck dashed across Newark ave-
nue. and turning to the left started for
Bay street, which intersects Newark ave-
nue. in front of Fire Headquarters.
Rocktoff followed the truck around the
little triangular piece of property, while
Teel cut into Erie street to head off the
fugitives
Roektoff made an effort to mount the
truck, when Dugan rushed at him and
placing the muzzle of his revolver in his
face threatened to kill him If he did not
leave the truck Rocktoff was unarmed
and he quickly came to the conclusion
that he would rather be a live man than
dead hero. He dropped off and followed
at safe distance.
About fifty feet north of the High
School building Dugan jumped from the
truck, revolver in hand. On the sidewalk
he encountered Teel who attempted to
check his flight. Before the young deputy
realized what was going on he had been
felled by blow from the butt of the re-
volver.
Henderson street followed by bowling
mob. Only once he turned to look at his
pursuers and then he increased his speed.
AT Henderson street his flight was checked
by the high board fence which incloses the
Pennsylvania Railroad freight yards. With
an effort Dugan scaled it and before his
pursuers could get over he was lost among
the cars.
An alarm had in the meantime been
sent to Police Headquarters and Chief
Murphy ordered out all the reserve po-
hcemen of the Seventh street station
to scan the nsighborhood where Dugan
had been seen last.
No trace of him could be found. This
fact was reported to the Chief and he
at once sent out a general alarm. noti-
flying Captain McNulty of the Webster
avenue station to surround the house at
No. A Ogden avenue Dugan's sister
Nettie lives there and it was believed he
would seek refuge with her The Chief
was not wrong in his conclusion When
Captain McNulty with half dozen no
licemen arrived at the house they were
not kept in ignorance very long of the
presence of the fugitive. Captain Nc
Nulty demanded admission and to his
surprise when the door was opened
Dugan stood in the hallway with his
sister in front of him for shield. Over
her right shoulder Dugan held a cooked
revolver.
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