The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-04-27
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Cumberland Officer SuCCumbs
TO Bullet Wounds.
PASSED AWAY EARLY TODAY.
william Eagan Suspected Of Connection
With Tho Affak-Much Excitement Pre-.
walls in VALLEY villages.

Herbert T. Moore, tho Cumberland
special police officer. who was fatally
shot by a robber at Valley Falls, early
on Thursday morning, died at the Rhode
Island Hospital at 1880 o'clock this
morning
From the time the unfortunate young
man was operated upon at the hospital
II was known that he could not live. and
he continued to sink gradually until the
end came.
Conductor Mountain the other man
who was shot. presumably by the same
robber. was very comfortable at mid
night. but under the advice of the doc
tor, he had done little or no talking
about the affair. as IL was not considered
wise TO allow him 20 excite himself
There was a report I'm Valley Falls
last night that Hon. Il. j. Gaskins posi-
lively knew who IL was that cracked his
safe on the same night that the Valley
Falls postofhce was entered and the safe
there also blown open.
Mr.. Gaskln. however. most emphatical-
ly denies any such knowledge. Officers
from Attleboro became interested In the
AFFAIR and were securing the adjacent
territory i'm Massachusetts last night
ANOTHER ARREST MADE
President Collins said today that the
Cumberland town council would pay the
reward OF $500 promptly upon the arrest
and conviction Of each and every person
implicated in the shooting They would
pay the reward no matter how many 1t
might be proved were IN the gang. The
council wanted the gang run down as
quickly as possible.
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police OF Cumberland nave strong hopes
or directly connecting with the shooting
spent last night locked up in a cell I'm the
bridewell at the town mouse In Valley
Falls.
His name is William Eagan. who nomi-
nally lives with his father on Kenyon
avenue, Pawtucket, although his father
says that he has rarely been at home at
night during the past six weeks.
Eagan was arrested late yesterday sf-
ternoon i'm front of the Benedict House
| In Pawtucket, by Detective Haberlin of
| Pawtucket, Chief Donanue and Officer
| Burlirgame of Cumberland.
Eagan. the officers think, II he had
| no hand in the shooting. is at least i'm
| pIicated in some OF the recent breaks.
| He Is about 25 years or age. His father
| H. law-abding man. Eagan, the police
| say has n record as thief extending
| over the past two years.
| Eagan told Chief Donahue last night
| that he was at home at the time the
shooting occurred, and that Ire had ~,
hand in il, but his father says that he
| was not at home. but came i'm later.
WHAT FLAGMAN SAW.
The nagman at the Broadway cross
| ing of the East Providence branch. which
| Is a direct line between the scene of
| the shooting and where Eagan lives, said
| yesterday that about o'clock, or
| little later Thursday morning, which
| would be just after the shooting oc-
| Cured, two men came hurriedly down
/ the tracks from the direction of Valley
| Falls and left the tracks and went up
! Clark avenue.
One was quite tall. smooth shaven, and
| the other of slight build and shorter
I His attention was attracted by the sus-
| picious way in which they acted.
| Chief Donahue said that he intended to
| hold Eagan, for awhile at any rate as he
! thought that II he had any hand i'm or
| knowledge OF the shooting, he might
weaken and tell what he knew. When
arrested he would not talk much.
TWO MORE TAKEN IN.
| Officers Sylvester and Townsend and
| two special officers. all OF the Central
| Falls force. while securing tho woods
! In the vicinity of stump Hill last even
! X.
| ing fellows and took them in as suspects.
| The men gave their names as George
| Kennedy and George r McGrath, and
| claim 40 belong In Pawtucket, and did
not relish this purpose of the policemen
| and put up vigorous resistance.
A lively tussle ensued, but superior
numbers prevailing. the two men were
! overpowered and taken TO the Central
| Falls police station, where they were
| locked up to await further investiga-
| tion.
| BELIEVE MEN ARE HIDING.
The conviction has grown and was
strengthened I'm Valley Falls last night
! that the gang that did the shooting all
! lived I'm Valley Falls and that its ap-
| prshension was only question of a
| short time. The police We're OF the
| opinion that the members Of the gang
| had not left the vicinity.
| II was thought that the gang might
| indulge i'm some shooting before II was
1 captured unless taken unawares.
| Storeksepers in Central Falls and the
! valley with the cooperation Of the reg
| ular and special officers. are eenerally
! prenarcd to give the burglars a warm
| time OF a II they try boring any more
| uoies in doors.
One man on Broad street has every
| door and window on his premises con-
! nocted with burglar alarms and has a
| collection OF heavily loaded revolvers
| handy lie sleeps over his store ana
| says ne means business