The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-01-09

Williams consented. They were ad-
mitted through a rear door Of the hotel
by Mary Monaghan, the housekeeper
She said that Corcoran was fixed"
(chlOruformeD.
They found Curcoran lying in bed
apparently asleep. Tom Monagha
shot the defenselcss man, despite the
protests of his sister. Monaghan,
Clark and Langan then opened the safe
and took out 81 800 or 81, 200. Williams
says he refused to take the share Of
fcred him.
BOUND THE BODY.
A clothesiinc was procured from the
back yard by Tom Monaghan, and with
it the lifelcss body was bound as a
blind Miss Monaghan was bound also,
but so loosely tnat she woulu be able
TO release herself and give the alarm.
Marks and dents were then made on
the door to make 1t appear that It
had been burst open. Williams says
the handkerchief masks and torch story
was also agreed upon for Miss Mona
CHAN to relate.
On the foregoing confession. from
which some minor details are missing
here. warrants for the arrests were is
sued. Seidman filed the information.
Sergeants Kline and Davis, of Wilkes
Barre; Chief Davies, of Dorranceton;
Detective Seidman, County Detective
johnson, of Wilkes Barre, and several
policemen Of the latter city arrested
the Monaghans at s o'clock Saturday
afternoon at their mothers home in
Duryea.
The brothers were handcuffed to-
guarded and the party went immedi-
ately to Wilkes Barre, where the hear
ing was held at o'clock in Alderman
Donahues office. The proceedings We're
only formal. Chief Davies, of Dor
ranceton, testified that the murder had
been committed and that he had seen
the body. Attorney Solsberg, of the
district attorneys office, then asked for
the continuance to Wednesday and his
request was granted. Bail was refused.
Attorney James Murray, of Wilkes
Barre, represented the accused and
Attorney w. II. Gillespie, representing
the Corcoran estate, was present in it's
interests.
After being removed to the Jail Miss
| Monaghan became hysterical. She is
credited with eXclaiming: IF poor
NIlhG NIOECOIdnD was mere, NOulun
be arrested" 1t was with difficulty
that she was calmed. Her brothers
We're more stoical. They refused to
! converse with anyone but their at
torney
| Langan and Clark. the two alleged
! ompices-accOrding to the state
ment credited to WilNams-had not
been arrested yesterday. They are still
! in Duryea.
Nothing was known of the where
| abouts of Detective Seidman or Will
| Jams at the time of the hearing. 1t
was given out that the detective had
| gone to look after Williams and to
| keep him in charge until his testi-
mony, or, enough of it to hold the pris-
| oners, was wanted. Another eXplana-
ton was that Seidman was to make an
effort to have Williams repeat his con-
| fession in the presence of a third
| party.
Williams was reported as being in
| Duryea yesterday. AS late as yester-
| day afternoon he had given no written
confession to Seidman or anyone else.
To Liveryman Dills, of Duryea, WILL
Jams yesterday denied having made a
confession. He said he had made no
statement to anyone-that he had none
to make and proposed to engage an
attorney and sue for libel the papers
which had associated him with the
case.
WILLIAMS HISTORY.
Williams is known as "Di" Williams
and has been in many scrape. AL
! though considered a member of the
/ willie" gang of disreputables, he has
escaped actual connection with any of
their offenseS so far as known. Last
summer during a carousal among mem
bers of the gang and others in John
| Urban's saloon, Williams was stabbed
in the back by a POlander. The in
cident illustrates the kind of life
/ he led.
District Attorney Martin, of LuZerne
county, has said for publication: II
will not express any doubt as to the
guilt Of the Monaghans. The people
who caused their arrest were on the
right track, but showed a pitiful lack
of common sense in causing such pre-
mature arrests.
There should certainly be evidence
/ in corroboration of the story of told
by Williams. Without such corrobora-
ton this mans unwritten and unsigned
story is not sufficient 10 convict.
will go further and say that on his
unsupported testimony alone | would
not ask for conviction.
Despite this general expression of
my views in relation to the premature
arrests of the Monaghans and the mis-
take of receiving from Williams an
unwritten confession and one unsup-
ported-despitc all this, an acquittal
of the prisoners would be In the nature
of a calamity.
| deplOre the arrests not alone be-
cause they are hasty and ill-advised,
but because there was not a scintila
of reason for 1t at this time. The
MOnaghans We're not disposed to run
away nor could they have done SO II
they had been so inclined. Capable
detectives were at work on the case.
They had well in hand every detail ne
cessary to fit more than one story,
and if this deplorable interruption had
not developed, I don't think there
would exist any doubt us to the con-
Viction Of the proper parties
WENT TO NEW YORK.
\ phase Of the case that has aroused
the curiosity of persons intimately ac.
quainted with its details, was the hur,
ried trip TO New York city Friday ar
ternoon of Dolph Glennon, of Pittston
| and Justice Gilboy, of Duryea, Mr.