Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-12-28
STABBED NO HEART.
VIM. 0oolan Of HayerhiII,
Murdered, Monday Night.
VIM. DAILY, His Brother-in-law, Is
Charged With the Crime.
QnarrsI Thought 10 Have 0rigIaaisd d .
Wake. Sunday Night.

| Haverhill, Mass, Dec. N.-Wm. Doc.
Ion, one of the oldest Irish residents of
this city, lies dead. tonight, in his home
on Bruke street with a knife wound in
| his heart, and William Daily, his
| brother-in-law and lodger for 20 years.
is locked up in the police station
charged with the terrible crime Of mur-
der.
While no one actually witnessed the
AFFAIR, but when last seen together, the
two men were clinched and shortly at
ter DAILY appeared at neighbor's home
and cried out that he had KILLED
Doolan."
quarrel is thought to have origi-
mated at wake which both attended.
last night. The weapon with which the
crime was committed has not yet been
found. i{
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
Tor them, but all the morning they APP
peared irritable and frequently quarrelled
over small matters, Dut did not come to
blows. -
At noon they went out together and it
is thought they obtained more LIQUOR The
altercations of the morning were re-
newed with greater tierceness and at
length waxed so warm that Mo. Doolan
became frightened and begged vthe men
to stop.
For while they did calm down. and
Mrs. Doolan thought that the matter had
ended. Toward evening" however, the
quarrel broke out afresh and soon the
two men clnched, scratching and choking
each other with such fierceness that Mrs,
Doolan started out of the house for help.
AS she did so. her husband staggered
past her into his room, dropping face
downward on the bed. There she left him
and rushed off to the neighbors. When
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. DoolSn
came back to the house., but about the
same time he turned up at Dennis Horri-
gan's. who lives near by. Rushing sppsto
Horrigan in an excited manner. he cried:
You had better go over and look after
Doolan. have killed him.
HOfrigan. however, replied: "Oh, no.
Bill. you have not done that"
Yes. have" was Daly's ansWef. HE
tried to monkey with me, but he'ft never
both anyone again." .uftts sAi& a,v
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 not
ified 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 he
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 DO
lice officials. denied committing the deed
and insisted that Doolan met his death
by falling down stairs. He showed marks
of Doolan's fingernails on his wrists and
throat and said that he had warned his
brother-in-law to let go, or suffer the
That the consequences
were the drawing of a butcher knife and
the plunging of 1t into DoOlan's heart.
DAILY would not admit. but the police are
firmly convinced that such was actually
the fact.
1t is said that DAILY for some years has
been of somewhat unsound mind, but has
not been considered dangerous. although
many deny that his mind was ever affect.
ed DDOlan was 20 years of age, and Daily
is about the same age The murdered
man had wife and two daughters.
DAILY will be arraigned. tomorrow, ON
a charge of murder.