The Paducah evening sun., 1910-06-15
Irish" M'LOY Is
MUSSEL FISHING
In UPPER OHIO
Friend and Companion Says
He Was Not Pool Road
Victim.
Missing Ferryboatmsn Wires
He is q Alive.
MYSTERY REMAINS UNsOLvED


victim of the Pool road murder and
Is alive and fishing musse shells
above Cincinnati, o.. according to
Sam Hook. a ship carpenter at the
Paducah marine ways, who was a
personal friend Of MeLoy.
"Irish' left here about the mid
die OF March," said Hook today. "and
said he was going to Cincinnati. He
went to the mines at Caseyvlle and
worked several days and returned
here. short time later he and
Frank Boatwright left for Cincin-
natl. Frank came home not long
ago and said Irish" was fishing for
mussel shells above Cincinnati and
was coming back here this summer" d"
Hook says that McLoy came here
from Ireland and the description of
the murdered boy did not 1T Irish -
at all. He said McLoy was only
about 5 feet 4 inches in height and
had dark brown hair. which he part
ed In the middle. He said McLoy 5
face was red but not freckled as was
the dead boy
Hook did not see the dead boy but
says he knows that IL is moi Irish. %
MoLoy stayed with Hook at his home
near Tenth and Husbands streets
from Christmas day. 1909, until
March. when he left here with Boat
wright. The letter saw Mci.oy alive
above Cincinnati after the murder
here was committed and said he was
living In a shantyboat. According
to Hook, McLoy was not a jocky but
was a race horse rubber" Toney
lseman, who knew McLoy well, said
that he saw the dead boy and il was
not McLoy. Others who knew
Irish" are of the same opinion.
Both Guy Dean and Tommy Farrin
we're acquainted with Mclyoy and
both saw the dead boy, say it was not
McLoy. McLoy is expected to re
turn here this summer.
John Malnschein. the auburn
haired ferryman. who )peared
from Paducah April 3, the day the
Pool road murder was committed,
is alive at Evansville. The Evening
Sun traced him last evening and this
morning received the following tele-
gram from Mainschein himself;
Evansville, Ind, June f5.-I run
gasoline ferry at Paducah from
March 20 to Aprih o.
"JOHN MAINSCHEIN."
Another Clew.
Another clew Is being worked now
that may leed to the identity OF the
murdered boy found on the Pool
road as a leather worker from st.
Louis and a former Paducahan. Ever
since the murder Mr.. A. ID. Buch-
anan. proprietor of a restaurant at
217 Kentucky avenue. has main
tanned that the murdered boy was
the lad that ate at his restaurant for
three days early in April.
According TO Mr.. Buchanan he re-
members the lad distinctly because
of his frecklcd face. and SAYS that
the corpse resembled the lad from
st. Louis One day the boy began
a conversation with Mr. Buchanan,
and said that he was employed as a
leather wol ker in st. Louis. but
they had gone out on a strike and
he had jumped over to Paducah to
have another look at the old town.
He ate az the restaurant for three
days and never appeared after April
..
The boy never gave his name to
Mr. Buchanan. but appeared to know
the proprietor of the restaurant
Clerks in the restaurant also re-
member the dead boy and they feel
positive thar he is the same lad. An
other fact that may show the lad to
have been a leather worker is that
his finger nails were black and oily.
Dean Employs Lawyer.
William Dean has employed At
torney David Browning as attorney
to represent his son. Guy Dean. now
In the county Jail. being implicated
by the confession of Tom Ferrin.
Mr.. Browning was attorney for Hale
and Guire, who we're in Jail nearly a
month m tho .hargo of the murdar