The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1898-08-12
WatertOWn Murder Mystery
Solved.

short time ago has proved 10 Oe
p. f, Gallagher. The body was
identified by a brother of the
murdered man, j. V. Gallagher,
of Newark, O. The Watertown
Public Opinion gives the story of
the finding of the body and the
arrest of the supposed murder
ers as follows:
Last Friday two strangers,
couple of fellows who came out
to work in the harvest fields, and
it is supposed were a little short
Of cash. were prowling around
the Great Northern tracks look
ing for an empty car in which to
take a sleep One Of them says
he crawled into car where there
was some old flax straw and
thought it would be pretty good
place to take nap, when he dis
covered a mans hand sticking
out o. the straw. He and his
partner took hasty look at the
body and found that it was dead.
They Immediately came up town
and informed the authorities.
DR.. Il. F. Campbell, county cor
oner and States Attorney Sew
ard took charge of the corpse 4
postmortem examination showed
that the man had been shot with
a 30 callibre revolver about two
inches above the right ear. The
coroner's jury brought in a YER
diet that the deceased met his
death through a gun shot wound,
the weapon being in the hands OF
an unknown person.
There was nothing found on
the dead man by which to iden-
tify him.
There was bottle of medicine
and spoon found near his per
sou, This is the only clue the
authorities had to start with.
The bottle contained some kind
of cough medicine and the pre-
scription was written by Dr..
Carter, of Ellsworth, Mimi DR..
Campbell telegraphed to this
physician, giving the number of
the prescription on the bottle,
and asked for the name of the
man to whom he had issued the
prescription. He received an
answer stating that the man said
his name was Gallagher This
was the first clue which led up
to the arrests.
Curt DeGratf mex. gave the
authorities tip. He said he
overheard couple Of fellows
talking in his saloon night or
two before the murder occurred,
and one of them remarked to the
other that there was a man in a
car on the Great Northern track
who had plenty Of coin but would
not buy any booze.
Then a couple of fellows, strang-
ers in these parts, told the au-
thorities something about a cou-
pie of fellows shipping satchel
on the Great Northern 10 Albee.
Curt DeGraff gave a description
of the fellows whom he over
heard. and the two strangers
described the two men with the
satchel and the descriptions
tailed exactly. Sheriff Neill i'm
mediately went to Albee and To-
Gated the men. They had Both
hired out to farmers. When ar
rested they gave the names of
Henry Walker and P. E. Gala
CHER.
When the men were being
searched by Deputy Sheriff John
Goggins, the fellow who gave his
name as Gallagher had a letter
which he was trying to get rid
of. The deputy sheriff got hold
of the letter and this is the letter
that cooked his goose. When
questioned concerning certain
things mentioned in the letter,
the fellow was at sea and could
llOU ulS W CI. lc Ildu WI1O WROTE
the letter was telegraphed toand
is now on the scene and has siden-
tilted the murdered man as P. E.
Gallagher, his brother.
Henry Elliott, which is sup
posed to be the true name of the
man who tried to pass off as Gal
lagher. had a draft caShpd at the
Citizens National bank for SO,
and had this letter, which was
addressed to 2. E. Gallagher, to
identify himself with. We un-
derstand that Ole Esse also went
to the bank with him to identify
the man. Mr.. Esse says he
knew the man last fall but never
knew what his name was until
the fellow told him that day that
his name was p. E Gallagher
and flashed the letter. Mr.. ESSe