The Portland daily press., 1897-12-28
KILLED HIS OLD FRIEND.
Aged HaverlilI Man Murders His
LOdger.
MEN HAD RETURNED HOME FROM
A WAKE

Victim Was William Doolan, One OF the
Assailant William DAILY. Friend of 20
Years standng-Daly Admits Com
mittiDs the Crime.
Haverhill, Mass, December 27.-Wm.
Doolan, one of the Oldest Irish residents
of this city, lies dead tonight in his home
on Burke street with knife wound in
his heart, and VIM. DAILY, his friend and
lodger for twenty years. is locked up in
the police station charged with the ter
rlble crime OF murder.
While no one actually witnessed the
affair, when last seen together the two
men were clinched and shortly after DAILY
appeared at q neighboring home and
cried out that she had killed Doolan.''
The quarrel is thought to have origi-
mated at a wake which both attended last
night. The weapon with which the crime
was committed has not yet been found.
Both men came home from the wake at
an early hour this morning, and while
not intoxicated, were nevertheless some-
what under the influence of liquor. Mrs.
Doolan rose early and prepared breakfast
for them, but all the morning they appeared
irritable and frequently quarreled over
small matters. but did not come to blows.
At noon they went out together, and it
is thought they obtained more liquor.
The alterations of the morning were re-
newed with greater ferceness and at
length waxed SO warm that Mrs. Doolan
became frightened and begged the men to
stop.
For while they did calm down and
Mrs. Dooian thought that the matter had
ended. Toward evening, however, the
quarrel broke out afresh and soon the
two men olinched, scratching and chok-
ing each other with such fierceness that
Mrs. Doolan started out of the house for
help. AS she did so her husband stag
gered past hsr into his room, dropping
face downward on the bed. There she left
him and rushed off to the neighbors.
Mhen she returned with two or three
friends, Doolan was found on the floor
quite dead, while rapid Investigation
disclosed a narrow slit in his breast
directly over the heart, while from the
wound the blood had apparently Just
stopped flowing.
DAILY was missing when Mrs. DooIan
came back to the house, but about this
same time he turned up at Dennis Horri-
gan's who lives near by. Rushing up to
Horrigan in an excited manner he crie1-s
''You had better go over and look after,
Doolan. I have killed him. - f
Horrigan, however, replied: "Oh, no.
Bill you have not done that
'Yes have, was Daly's answer. "He
tried to monkey with me, but he'll never
bother anyone again. -
Horrigan ran over to the Doolan house.
and found the unfortunate man dead on
the floor, with his wife crying over his
body. Some of the other neighbors noti-
fled the police, and DAILY was taken into
custody soon after, without the slightest
resistance on his part.
Upon being taken to the police station,
DAILY was carefully searched for knife or
some sharp instrument, but nothing of
the kind was found upon him, and the
police think that he threw 1t away as be
left the house. AS both men worked in
the slaughter house IN this city, it is
thought that one of the knives used there,
will be found near the Doolan house well
covered with the blood of the murdered
man. DAILY upon being questioned by the
police officials denied committing the
deed and insisted that Doolan met his
death by falling down stairs. He showed
marks of Doolan's finger nails on his
wrists and throat, and said that he had
warned his brother-in- law to let go or
suffer the consequences. That the conse-
quences were the drawing of butcher
knife and the plunging of it into
Doolan's heart DAILY would not admit,
but the police are convinced that such
was the fact. 1t is said that Daily for
somess years has been of somewhat unsound
mind, but has not been considered
dangerous, although many deny that his
mind was ever affected. Doolan was
seventy years old, and DAILY is about the
same age. The murdered man leaves a
widow and two daughters. DAILY will be
arraigned tomorrow on charge Of
murder.
Late this evening after the closest kind
of questioning by the police, DAILY ad-
mitted that he killed Doolan with
butcher knife. He said that the knife,
which was snarpened to point, was ly-
ing on the table, and he warned Doolan
that if he continued choking him, he
would use it. Doolan did not stop, and
DAILY plunged the knife into his breast
After he had stabbed him DAILY said
dropped the knife on the floor, but the
police have as yet been unable to find it.e