The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-18
A BRIGHT WITNESS.
Three Men Held On
Evidence of Anne
May O'Toole.
CLINTON GIRL ON THE STAND.
Thought Alleged Robbers
Were Trying to Kill a
Man on the Dump.
CLINTON GIRL ON THE STAND.

Clinton, Aug. 1.-THE story Of little
Anne May o'Toole had much to do
with the fact that John F. Callahan,
John McNeilly and Thomas Mitchell
are held for the action of the criminal
superior court, under bonds of $500
each.
Judge Stone found probable cause
against the trio Of young men in the
district court room this morning.
Anne May O'Toole is the 10-year-old
daughter of John o'Toole, who lives on
Coachlace street.
The O'Toole home is near the dump
where Michael Barry was knocked
down and robbed, Saturday evening. 1t
CHANGED that Anne was playing on the
dump when the assault was committed.
She ran to her father crying, Papa,
they're killing a man over on the
DUMP"
Her father went to the spot where
his daughter said the trouble was in
progress and met the defendants COM
ing away.
Those are the men that were hurt
ing the man." Anne said.
With the defendants were Kittredge
and Wallace, the two men for whom
the police are still searching.
This is the story that Anne told in the
court room, in a keen intelligent way,
that showed her to be an unusually
bright child.
She knew the prisoners, and she
knew she knew them.
The prisoners were not represented
by counsel. They exercised their right
to question witnesses, however. Nc
Nelly said: You never saw me be-
fore, did you, and you don't know my
name?"
Yes, 1 know you. Your name is John
McNeilly," replied Anne, without hes
itation.
Barry told how it happened. He was
proceeding down the en1bankment, on
the Boston and Maine railroad when a
person whom he identified as McNeilly
came UP to him and tripped him. One
man grabbed him by the back of the
neck and another placed hand over
his mouth. The crowd rolled him over
onto his face and took S12 away from
him. They missed q dime which was in
one Of his vest pockets. They left him
lying on g bank near the worsted mill.
His face was scratched in the struggle.
John O'Toole told how his daughter,
with other children, came running up
to him when he was working on the
dump, with story that a man was be-
ing killed. He left his work to see what
was the matter. He met the three de-
PENDANTS, whom the children said were
the men they saw committing the as
sault
A small boy named John Garvey was
put onto the stand. He was a badly
ratified small boy. He managed to tell
the court that he was on the dump. in
the neighborhood, at o'clock. He said
he did not see anything of the robbery.
But 1t was Anne May O'Toole who
was the star witness. She saw the af-
fair, and her story agreed substantially
with that Of Barry.
The full detail of the assault was not
brought out, but it would seem that
two Of the men attacked Barry, while
the three others pretended to be his
friends. The quintet hustled him down
the tracks until they thought they had
MIN In safe place, when they went
through his pockets.
The defendants testified in their own
behalf. They selected an alibi, which
was based entirely on their own state
meuts. Callahan and McNeilly said
they were on the dump in the after
noon, but that they left long before the
robbery took place. Mitchell claimed
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clothing off at this time.
Kittredge and Wallace are still at
large. The half dozen officers who
were engaged in the search for Wal
lace, left nothing undone that they
could think of that might bring about
his capture The police are still won
uering how Wallace got the tip in time
to leave his work in the Lancaster mills
Just ahead Of the police. The story
that Kfttredge and Wallace are fugi-
lives was published in The Spy this
morning exclusively.
The police bold Callahan to be the
chief criminal. Callahan, Chief Bates
thinks, is capable of planning such a
crime, and enough of leader to find
help to execute it. All of the young
men lack the saving grace of a good
record.