Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-02
THE FOSBURGH CASE.
One of the t'Wire Gang" Intimates That Another of Them Did Murder.

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 That Another of Them Did Murder.
 Providence, Feb '2.-William Me- Caughey, who is in the Kent county jail, was a member of the wire gang who have become famous of late on ac- count of their alleged connection with the Fosburgh murder case. Me Caughey, in a boast of his deeds to Turnkey Davis, of the county jail at Cranston, where he was confined q few weeks ago, practically corroborat- ed the story recently told by another member of the gang at the Taunton Jail to the effect that the Fosburgh job was done by members of his gang.
 Yesterday McCaughey told some other things confirming what he had already said, and even went so far as to name the five men who went to Pittsfield for the Fosburgh robbery. Davis did not put much credence in the tale at the time, and asked no questions, thinking 1t was only the idle brag of an amateur crook, but when he heard that another member of the wire gang had told the same story, le remembered what Me Caughey had told him. The import ant connection is that both seem to implicate Michael Quinn in the affair. McCaughey finished his sentence at Cranston on January Il and was turn ed over to Detective Sherman, who had a warrant for his arrest in con- nection with operations in Warwick. He Is now confined in the Kent county jail at East Greenwich under $500 bail. He admits that he told Davis at the Providence county jail in Cranston. He says he knows where Quinn is, but that the detectives will never get him.
 The men named by McCaugkey as being implicated in the case are Fred Patterson, Stag Smith and one Hen nessey, making five with Quinn and another man. McCaughey himself and some others of the wire gang were not permitted to accompany the party. McCaughey came to know about everything that was being done by the wire gang and had heard plans discussed in the headquarters at Stag" Smiths in Pawtucllet for the Pittsfield trip. He says that the men represented that they were going to raid some big copper works up there, but talked the thing over as being a job rather more serious than they were accustomed to do. He says they went away that night he cannot remember the date, but the next they heard of the results was the story of the Eos burgh murder in the newspapers.
 Michael Quinn came to the jail in October, 1896, to serve an eighteen months sentence for larceny, and was released March 9, 1898. He gave iis residence as Dodgeville, Mass. Ed McCaughey, brother of William, aid also member of the wire gang" is now serving nine tive-year sentences in Cranston. which run concurrently. Patterson, Hadkett and two Smiths connected with the gang are now in Taunton jail and 1t was one of them who told the story to young Fosburg that so conincides with McCaughey's tale to Davis.
 Michael Quinn is we'll known in Pawtucket and this city. He has served time in the Rhode Island state prison and is described by the police as thoroughly bad. He is. about g years old and when he works follows the business of a Hneman. Detective Haberlln of Pawtukcet says that the hat found in the Fosburg house on the night of the tragedy is very much like the style of headgear Quinn usual ly wore. Quinn generally wore a brown derby hat and many persons in Paw tucket besides Detective Haberlin re- call this fact It was a brown derby that was found in the Fosburg house. and this circumstance in the mind of the detective fixes the crime on the "wire gang" Quinn returned to Paw tucket about q week after the Eos burg affair occurred and then he sud- denly dropped out of sight.