The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-04-08
TALE: IULU ny JEHU'
UACKMAN'S STORY PUTS MURPHY
I'm VERY BAD.
Abduction Story Is Made to Look Like
Fairy Yarn; Captain of the
Volunteers May Have Taken a
Night Trip From Minneapolis to
st. Paul; Distributed Canadian
Bills, So the Driver Says.

st. Paul, April For the purpose
OF investigating the Captain Timothy
Murphy case. the Volunteers of Ameri-
Gu officer who disappeared with $3.50
and who returned with u story of alb
duction, Adjutant J. H. Berry of Chi
eago, representing Major General Ed
ward Fielding, arrived i'll the twin
cities at noon. He says he can say
nothing until he has made further in
quiries. He spent the afternoon with
Adiutant John O'Neill, who swore out
the warrant on which Murphy was
arrested.
The st. Paul police give out a story
which may be sufficient to contradict
AIurphy's explanation of his disappear
ance and return to the Volunteers
home.
Tale Told By Hickman.
Policeman Jacob Prograza reports
that at l0:40 p. m, Tuesday, he was
stopped by hackman from Minnea
polls at University and Virginia avcn-
nues. The hackman showed him Il
Canadian $40 note and asked him if it
was good saying it had been given to
him by a passenger from Minneapolis
whom he had set down at Jay street
This is two blocks from the Volun-
teers' home. Prograza told the hack
man to show the bill to +. ii. Rainbow.
saloonkeeper at 800 University ave-
nue. Rainbow told the hackman it was
good and took it in payment for a
drink, giving the change in United
States currency.
Described His Passenger.
Rainbow said: "The hickman, whom
| would know if | saw him again, told
! me his passenger was a short man.
about twenty-five years old, and wore
a light overcoat. He was intoxicated
the hickman said. and when he was
let off at Jay street he asked what the
bill was. The hackman told me he
told him Sc. The passenger handed
him a $40 Canadian bill and told him
to keep the change. The hackman
started back to Minneapolis, but the
, iipNINifoN vi hio pt'ooCHSNi PlouSVu
suspicious and he showed the bill to
: The policeman and then to me-
Murphy Declined to Talk.
Murphy declined to talk any more
A woman worker of the Salvation
Army called at the jail today with
flowers for Captain Murphy. She said
she knew he was innocent and would
! believe him to be innocent even il
| they prove him guilty.
Captain Murphy waived eXami
nation when arraigned in police court
He was remandeJ to jail under $4,000
bail
| Not a member of the organizati ol
was in court when he was arraigned
His wife is Frustrated with grief and
is attended by physician.
The Murphy home was searched by
police yesterday but 10 trace of TIN,
81 $50 was found.
Another Link in the Chain.
! The latest evidence secured BY the
police is that tending TO prove, in theiI
opinion, that Captain Murphy was OF
the Northern Pacific train which ar
rived in Minneapolis from Winnipeg
shortly after nine o'clock Tuesday
night. Yesterday the conductor of the
train wired to the officials of the rail
road, saying that he was positive il
was Captain Murphy whom he ha(
seen leaping from the train as it en-
tered Minneapolis, and that his nat
was then in the commissionary depart
ment having been found later in the
vestibule of the train by the porter
The hat was secured by the police
and authorities at Winnipeg notified
to ascertain, if possible, whether Cap
tain Murphy had been seen there. In
vestigation up to a late hour last night
| failed to establish this fact.