The Portland daily press., 1898-12-23
DEAD BURGLAR in HOUSE.
Find of a Domestic In a
Quincy Residence

Quincy, December 22.--The dead body
of burglar was found in the house OF
Hon. John Shaw this morning.
The discovery was made by Mrs. Georg,,
PfaffmaD, domestic. The body was dis
rectly in front of bay window which
was open. The burglars coat hat and
shoes had been left on the piazza, just
outside the window, which Mrs. Pfaff-
man had found open. The body was
dressed in new brown suit, in the pocket
of which gold watch, diamond pin and
two pairs of eye glasses belonging to the
members Of the Shaw family were found.
Besides these articles there We're also
found jackknife, thirteen 3S-calibre cart
ridges, $2l.60 in money, ticket from
Waltham to Boston, and piece of paper
marked james Emerson, Green street,
Jamaica Plain"
The man was probably 35 years of age,
of short build, short brown hair and sandy
moustache. On the face was about q
weeks growth of beard. The body when
found. was lying on the LETT side and the
man when shot had been in his shirt
sleeves, his coat having been left outside
The bullet entered three and one-haf
inches above the right nipple and took an
upward course. It is thought internal
hemorrhage was caused sby the shot, as
not the slightest sign of blood was found
about the clothing or the body,
Mr.. Shaw and all the members OF mis-
family stoutly declare that they heard
no short fired, though one mem Der OF the
family heard a noise as OF Somthing 1aA-
ing heavily, about o'clock in the morn
ing Neighbors living near by and night
workmen in a bakery in the vicinity OF
che house declare they heard pistol snoe
about 2 O'Clock this morning. 1t Is fairly
certain that the man was shot while
making ready to leave the house, as his
body was found directly beneath the win
dow at which he had entered.
James Emerson, whose home address,
Green street, Jamaica Plain. and found
on the body of the man shot in Quincy.
is clerk employed in the office Of the
Cunard Steamship company. Mr.. Emer-
son processes utter ignorance as to the
identity of the man, and Is at loss TO
know how he came with his address. un-
less as he says. ssthat he picked my house
ont as good field for his operations.
The police are very much chagrlned over
the fact that suspicious character VINO
was found at O'Clock this morning not
far from the scene of the shooting. and
who was taken into custody, was allowed
to 90 an hour or two before tne Douy oE
the dead man was found in MIR. ShaWs
house 1t is understood that the uu-
hs nown Ssas man han mnse of
After searching all day for some kind
of clue with the assistance OF Boston
officers, the local authorities started In
to Boston late this evening to interview
q man named Walsh on the Cunard
steamer Catalonia, on the theory that as
the dead man looked like stoker and
learning that man on the steamer
named Timothy Smith was missing,
Walsh being his personal friend, might
know something of him. To conflict
with this theory was the fact that on the
mans body was found a receipt for the
payment Of suit of clothes, date De-
Gem ber IL, while the steamer did not ar
rive until December 49, While in some
respects the description OF the dead man
taIiies with that of Smith, who is miss
ing from the steamer, it is said that 5iie
latter was considerably taller than the
party who WAS sh OF.
The Catalonia was to have SaiieQ TO-
day, but the fog prevented her departure,
and the Quincy officers teiephoned Capt
Stephens to hold Walsh untilalthey could
look him over.
Boston, December 22.-Two ok-.ce-s OF
the Quincy police went On boar tbs
Cunard steamer Catalonia late tonight
for the purpose of interviewing William
Walsh, suspected of being the man who
shot the burglar at the house OF John
Shaw at Quincy, early this morning.
They were unable to make anythlng OUT
of Walsh, who stoutlv denied being IN
Quincy last night. Neither conld the
officer who arrested, a man early this
morning in Quincy before the shooting
became known and afterwards released
him. identify Walsh as that person.
Walsh. who had been in conf ements all
the afternoon, was Liberated d the puz-
zled officers took their depart @