The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-22
MAY Be DAN SULLIVAN
Suspect Is Under Surveillance at
Los Angeles.
HE FITS THE DESCRIPTION
Both the Butte and the California Officers
Are Confident That the Murderer
of Patrick T. Reagan Has
Been Tracked Down

Although there is much uncertainty
as yet, the liveliest kind of a hope pre-
walls in the sheriff's office that Dan
Lucy, alias Dan Sullivan, the murder
er of Patrick T. Reagan, may at last
be captured. The hope is based upon a
telegram received by Sheriff REGAIN
yesterday from the chief of police of
Los Angeles, CAL, stating that a man
believed to be Lucy had been located
there, and asking if he was not wanted
. here for the Reagan murder Sheriff Re
gan was not long getting to the West
ern Union telegraph office He wire 4
back that Lucy was wanted here, and
. very badly, and asked for full partic-
ulars relative to the description of the
suspect. The message from California
+ was sufficient to revive the nearly
abandoned hope of experimenting Lucy,
and the hopes of Sheriff Regain and
his deputies were further raised last
evening by the receipt of the reply to
Sheriff Regan's wire requesting that
the information against Lucy and the
warrant for his arrest be forwar led
at once. The latter dispatch is taken
as an indication that the California
officers feel very confident of the man.
and as we'll, that he is not yet un Ter
arrest, the officers preferring the arriv-
al OF the warrant, as the second tele-
gram stated it would be difficult to
hold him without these documents.
Sheriff Regain will likely wire the full
information and warrant as a precau-
tlonary measure. Descriptions of Lucy
ana the suspect are being exchanged,
and if the circumstances appear to
Warrant, Sheriff Regain will proceed to
California TO identify the man. and if
ne finds him the right one, bring him
back.
Should the suspect prove to be Lucy
the murderer. the officer or officers re-
sponsible for his capture will receive a
reward of $500.
The murder for which Lucy is
wanted was one of the coolest bloodad
OF all the atrocious crimes that nave
been committed in Silver Bow county.
Patrick T. Reagan was a miner, en-
pioyed in the Butte mines. Dan Lucy,
or sullivan, as he was known here al
so worked at times in the mines. He
was known as a dissolute and a hard
character. Reagan had one fault-drink.
Through it, it is said, he lost his job, and
concluded to go to the Occur d'Aleres,
:, During his spree, which lasted a week
tor two prior to his death, he was a
great deal in the company of Lucy.
Whether his decision to go to the Occur
d'Alenes was brought about by Lucy
as part of premeditated plot or not,
, is not known, but at all events Raa-
gan, on the evening of September last,
went to his brothers house and got a
bundle of clothes and some money ne
had in his trunk. 1t is supposed he had
about 500. He told his sister-in-
he was going to the Occur dAlenes to
get work. The two men are known. to
, have left town together. The next
morning the body of Reagan was found
in Silver Bow creek, in the canyon by
that name, couple or three miles this
side of Gregson Springs. He had been
murdered by having his head crushed
in with rocks and his body thrown into
the stream
Lucy spent that day, or the greater
part of it at Gregson getting drunk,
but has never been seen since Sheriff
Regan and his men have secured the
country, but have never been able to
get definite trace of the murda rer,
unless this should prove to be one At
ter all the labor and money expended
by the sheriff and his men, they are de-
Noutly hoping the California suspect
may prove to be the murderer. Some
thing more definite will probably be
known to-day.