The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-05
Sullivan Supposed to Be the MUIR
derer of Regain.
TRYING TO CAPTURE HIM
h Police m Concentrating Their e.
forts-Many Differenta Descrip-
tons Given The Man
Gilfeather Met.

and there had previously been but lit
tie doubt concerning that. 1t was
established beyond question, as it
would seem. that the man III left
the grip at the station of the Butte,
Anaconda & Pacific at Gregson Springs
was the man. or one of them, who
lured Regain to the lonesome spot ia
Silver Bow canyon and there robbed
him of his life and his money. AS stat
ed in yesterdays Standard, in the grip
left at the B., A. & +. station by the
man supposed to be Sullivan were
found some shirts bearing the laundry
mark 1916" which were believed to be-
long to Regain. Sheriff Regain came up
from Gregson Springs yesterday and
brought the grip. A Standard reporter
compared the laundry mark on the
shirts in the grip with the one on
the shirt taken from the body of the
dead man by Undertaken Duggan. The
marks were identically alike. and the
fact proved that the man who carried
the grip to Gregson and left ii must
have been the man who
Regain, and in all human probability
was Regan's murderer, or one of them
doubtless n of them. since it is
pretty certain that two men had a hand
in the revolving crime.
Not another important fact has been
proven, although there appears to be
no doubt that the man who left the
grip at Gregson station was the man
Sullivan, who accompanied Regain on
his fatal journey. There is every rea-
son for believing this to be true, and
none for disbelieving il, since, If he
were innocent. it would seem he would
hasten to report to the authorities and
at least make an effort to clear him
self of the terrible suspicion that rests
against him. yet he has not done so.
Then, too, the man who left the grip
told John Gilfeather of this city that
his name was Sullivan. Gilfeather was
at Gregson with his family, and got
up early and went to Schiffman's sa-
loon to get a drink. The two men en-
tered the saloon about the same time
and ordered drinks. Sullivan claimed
to recognize Gilfeather as a former ac-
quaintance, but the latter failed to re-
membe him, and to recall himself to
Gilfeather he said his name was Dan
Sullivan and that he had formerly
worked in the same mine with Gill
feather. This was Gilfeather's story of
his meeting with Sullivan as he told il
when seen at his home at 1918 Shields
avenue yesterday. Gilfeather said he
still could not recall Sullivan. but as
he appeared to know him he pretended
to recall him, supposing he had met
him somewhere n had forgotten him,
and he drank and talked with the fell
low for some time. Sullivan displayed
considerable money, just how much Gill
feather was unable to say. He did
not betray himself in his conversation
with Gilfeather by letting fall any
chance remarks regarding his recent
movements, but his face was consider
ably scratched as though he had re-
Gently had a fight. and his ~pantaloons
were wet and wrinkled around the bot
tom, as though he had been in the wat
err, and one leg was torn as it might
been by climbing through a
barbed wire fence. To convey the body
of the murdered man from the place
where he was murdered to the stream.
it was necessary to get through a barb
ed wire fence, and the tracks at the
water edge showed plainly that who
ever threw Regan's body into the creek
stepped off the bank into the water. All
these facts point so strongly to Sulli-
van as the murderer or one of them
the efforts of the authorities are
in an endeavor to capture
him.
Aside from these circumstances, about !
the correctness of which there seems
to be no doubt, not another fact has
been settled or a theory which salts
fits the case arrived at. The
exact identity of the Sullivan that is
has not been fixed. the mystery
as to how Regain and his ompan or !
companions came to be in the locality /.
Dn foot has not been cleared up. and :
he amount of money Regain took with :
him has not been learned or approxi- =
any nearer than Ii was the night /,
before, to show whether the incentive A.
or the crime was strong or trihing. :
rhe true identity of Sullivan is one of !
he greatest puzzles. No one seems to :
lave known the Christian name of the {
nan whom many people saw in Re- :
'an's company for days prior TO the !
murder. Some say IL was Dave. Gil |
Gather says Sullivan told him ii was {
others say he went by the name |
f "Morty," and still others think II \
vas John. Detective Murphy thinks he I
the John Sullivan who was in trou- I
lie last winter for swindling the Hem /
essy Mercantile company. Everybody q
knew. or claims to have known. \
he man by anyone of these names. de- 5
cribes the man who left Butte with c
and as a consequence there is a I
reat mix-up of conflicting ideas, and J
% n knows who is right. In fact. c
is not known that the mans right v
is Sullivan, for if he is the man e
Inspected by Detective Murphy, he has I
cen known to 60 by the name of Gu p
lex. G
With reference n how the murdered s.
AN and his slayer reached the scene 5,
I the murder nothing is known, as no IN
has been found who saw them c.
lake their departure from Butte and no h
leory fits. That they did not walk d
Butte seems reasonably sure. Re 81
ans relatives and acquaintance say s.
e could not have been induced to walk al
anywhere as long as he had money ri
to ride, but the main reason "
n thinking they did not walk out of fl
ute is the fact that they could not
ossibly have covered the distance be- ca
the time they were last seen here Ct
I'd the time the crime must have been h,
'mmitted, provided the man Jake tr
of Hackney is right in his cal W
llations. Jacques was very positive NJ
water went down in Silver Bow Ii,
eek at 10 o'clock Friday night. or d
thin a few minutes of that time. II dr
lcques knew what he was talking W
.nmt and thara l. -. na-a - =.