The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-24

died. Hernia resulted from the bullet
wound in his abdomen and finally
killed him. Under the circumstances
Meagher. if found. could be punished,
but would not suffer the extreme PEN
atty of the law.
As time went on and the killing Of
Dain became ancient history. public
interest in the occurrence naturally
died away. But Murray did not for
get or despair Of ultimately avenging
the dead man. He had sworn to find
Mea CHER and drag him back to justice
if it took half a lifetime to accomplish
the feat. Two years passed with
Murray still on the watch for any
clew leading to the escaped assassin.
Whenever he paid a visit to any big
police center he made special inquiries.
He examined every description he
could obtain of every prisoner sen
fenced to any prison in Canada or the
United States. IN 1877 ne came
across a description that fitted MeagheT
in very detail 1t was Of a man
sentenced to seven years imprisOn-
ment in the northern Indiana peniten-
tiary for a burglary at Big Bend, IN
der the name OF Louis Armstrong.
After careful consideration Murray
concluded that the ci-devant Arm
strong was none other than Frank
Meagher. He prepared extradition pa
pers and on June /, 1871, left Toronto
| for Indianapolis,
| Arriving IN Indianapolis, Murray
visited the penitentiary IN company
with Detective Muncie of Cleveland
who knew Meagher we'll. and they
| identified Armstrong as Meaghe-
/ thus making assurance doubly sure
| The next step was to arrange for the
| removal Of Meagher TO Canada. Muir
/ raw went to Terre Haute and secured
| the services of Daniel Voorhees, OF
/ that city. one of the best criminal saw
yers in the Hoosier state. He in
/ formed Voorhees, that the state Of nj
diana had criminal serving a SEN
! tence for d crime committed subse
quently to the commission Of a fan
| graver crime in Canada, and that he
/ wanted to take him back at once t
/ pay the penalty Of his prior deed
+ VOORHEES, took the case and accom-
| panied Murray to Indianapolis. wher,
a fine point of law had to be argued.
Meagher was a man serving a tern
/ in a penitentiary in the state of In
diana paving the state a penalty ~
owed for burglary. Could he be takeI
out OF the statee before he paid tina
penalty? A statement of the case wa
/ given Chief Justice Perkins of the In
I diana courts. who said that il Il va
laid before him in due form he wOUls
call in his associate judges and con
suit them on the matter He did 90
and they suggested that Governor vii
Hams OF Indiana should serve a wri
on the warden Of the northern Indi
ana penitentiary to produce Meaghc
I before the supreme court OF the state
| The governor did so and the wardei
| produced Mcagher in Indianapolis.
The prisoner was taken before tn
full bench of state judges Murra.
went on the stand. was sworn as tn
representative of the Canadian gov
ernment and stated and proved tn
case of the crown against MeagheT.
4! Cleveland detective identified Arm
strong as Meagher. The prisoner EN-
rloyed counsel and a long argumsn
followed voorhees, made the CLAIM
that the country where the first an
greatest crime was committed Shouts
have preference in the custody of tn
prisoner Chief Justice Perkins sug
gested that the governor might issu
a conditional pardon The court sen
a transeriptSof the proceedings to tn