Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-12-08
Now Believed That Matt Ryan
Disappeared on the Night
of November %
WAS PRoHABLYMuRoERED THEN
The Police Have Therefore Believed
That He Wa. Killed the Night of
Nov. IS, a Week Before-New In.
vestisation started-Rartender at
Wavweiler's Saloon, Testifies-

SpSClai To I1nleS-hepuDll
Sioux City. Dec. s.-Matt Ryan.s old
buckskin gloves left at the Oriole sa-
loon two weeks ago last night. when he
disappeared. brought out the fact that
he was seen week and two and half
hours later than the time he was at
Waxweiler's saloon, the night Of No
yember 16, which has been heretofore
regarded by the police as the night
he was murdered. But there is q be-
lief now that he disappeared the night
of November 90, one week later Ryan
Is the man whose dead body with the
head split open. was found in the creek
few days ago.
Dick Burke. an old friend of Ryans.
furnished the first clue as to the gloves.
He said the night of November 16,
when he was in the Waxweiler saloon,
about o'clock, old Matt came in by
the back door. He was In his shirt
sleeves and was dressed as he was
when pulled from Perry Creek last
Friday afternoon.
The old man had been drinking
some and Joked him about his going
without coat" said Mr. Burke as he
stood in the parlor Of the residence OF
the mother OF Louis Bourret, at Doug
las and Eighth street. where he board
ed. Il bought him a glass OF beer and
he afterwards dug up 10 cents and
treated me. Then he went out the
front door. about 80 o'clock. While
we We're kidding the old man I noticed
his gloves sticking out of his hip
pocket. The gloves had long gaunt-
let's and a leather fringe. Old Matt
wore them often.
The police had been notified that
Matt Ryan's gloves were at the Oriole
saloon on Pearl street, but 1t was un-
derstood that they had been left there
during the afternoon OF November 16.
but Mr.. Burke's statement that old
Matt had them at s o'clock that even
ing In Waxweiler's saloon started new
train of investigation.
Gus Pecaut, his bartender. Louis
Laraviere and the porter remembered
we'll old Mats visit to the saloon.
Here are his gloves" said Louis
Laraviere. picking them UP from be-
hind the bar. sOld Matt came here
about Z o'clock and stayed around until
perhaps $3.50 or 1t might be as late as
9. We were Joking him. The old
man had been drinking some and was
dancing. For Joke I took the gloves
out of his pocket and hid them behind
the bar"
, An examination of the records of
the weather bureau showed that 1t
showed Monday night and was still
showing on Tuesday. November "a. It
showed heavily all day till 6:l5 p. m.
total of nearly six inches falling.
Only one snowfall had occurred before
this--a slight one on November 10.
But there the trail ends. except that
the time intervening between the time
when he went out OF Maxweiler's sa-
loon and the time when the cries for
help were heard near the Market street
bridge by George b. Mountford, Is ac-
counted for.
1t is possible that the old man, as
he turned north from the Oriole saloon,
went down Pearl street and out West
Seventh toward the Coffey residence,
where he had stopped a couple of
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laid enroute.
A singular coincidence Is noted in
connection with the disappearance of
Ryan. On the night of November %.
Nat p Jackson. of Lovila, whose dead
body covered with snow was found
under the Northwestern bridge over'the
Floyd river, is supposed to have been
killed. Possibly, too. Ryans body was
covered with snow the same night.
which may account for it not BEND
discovered until last Friday.
DIR. Wade said he would probably
hold an autopsy this evening on the
body of Ryan. to determine if possible
with what sort of instrument the
wound on the dead mans head was In
ficted. The inquest Will probably be
held tomorrow.