El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-04-04

suspicious person in that neighborhood.
All who lived thereabouts could readily
account for their movements and even
the men who admitted that they had seen
the two men enter the saloon had q well
substantiated abb and could account for
their movements, as there had been
fire in the neighborhood and they. had
aided the firemen at this blaze.
From the description given him by
these two men the detective went to Pc
lice Headquarters and after scrutinizing
scores of photographs in the Rogues'
Gallery finally picked out one as that
closely. answering the description Of ''the
tough guy" Certainly the face depicted
on the little card was tough enough to
please any one, and, as Kerr expressed
it, IF the man who killed Paddy was
tougher looking than this chap, then
know I have my work cut out for me in
taking him"
The portrait selected by the detective
was that of John, or Happy Jack"
Mulraney, a well known burglar and
only out Of Auburn Prison, after a six
years term, less than a month. This
photograph was shown to the men who
had described the two men entering the
saloon just before the murder, and each
said he was positive that that was one of
the men, although they would prefer to
see ''the mug in person"
Thirty-six hours after the murder of
Paddy" a woman living at No. 5O4
West Fifty-third street told Detective
Kerr that while cleaning up her cellar
she had found three empty cartridge
shells lying in a corner and a number of
little scraps Of paper which she had no
recollection of having seen there before.
The detective was in that cellar within
ten minutes, and on hands and knees he
covered every inch of it, until he had
every. tiny scrap Of paper that could be
found lying loose, as well as the three
shells. One glance at the shells was suf-
ficient to prove that they were of the
same. calibre as the bullets which killed
Paddy the Priest" This\was either a
clew or a coincidence. In either event the
detective intended to play it for all it was
worth.
After hours Of toll Detective Kerr had
several pages of the memorandum book
pieced out, and upon them appeared the
names of John Mulraney and John J.
Bowling. As soon as he spied the name
Mulraney he knew he was on the right
tack, for hid he not picked out Null
raney's photograph from the Rogues'
Gallery Oh the description a stranger had
given him?7
Grab MuIraney and we win have
Paddy's' slayer was the order Kerr
issued to his men when he returned to
his quarters in the police station
1t was only a question of few hours
before a complete line was got on Null
raney's haunts and his comrades. A
stool pigeon" was pressed into service,
and it was the detectives orders that no
arrests were to be made until both men
could be picked up simultaneously. Mat
tiers had become slightly complicated
when it was learned from the stool
that a third man had figured in the muir
der. Still another order was issued that
'an three must be pinched" ana the ar
rests should be made at the same time. |
There can be no getaways in this
case,' the detective in charge told his
men, "and unless we grab them all to-
gether there Will be somebody on the out
side to frame up alibis or otherwise
gum up the cards for US when we try to