The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-05-15
CHARGES PAL WITH
MRS, DUNN'S DEATH:
$4,000 PRICE PAID
FOR TAKING A LIFE

~. l duA, may 4O-I N1COUO1,
confessed murderer of Patrolman
George Connery of Minneapolis, has
"peached" on his pal, Joseph Reden-
baugh, alias Edward Hamilton,
charging him with the murder of
Alice McQuillan Dunn at the home
Of her father, J. F. McQuillan, early
in the morning Of April 26.
McCool, members Of the Minneap-
oils department say, admits he was
the second man in the McQuillan
home when the murder was commit
ted, and tells now he and Reden-
baugh or Hamilton, escaped to
Omaha on $1,000 of the blood money
paid for the assassination.
Moore Retained $4,000.
He charges in the confession that
Mike Moore, St. Paul bartender,
mentioned by Chief O'Connor as the
go-bet tween who conducted the nego-
tiations between Frank Dunn, hus-
band Of the murdered woman. and
Redenbaugh. was paid $4,000, but
that he kept $4,000, turning over
only $1,000 to Redenbaugh.
McOools confession uphOlds the
deductions and discoveries of Chief
O'Connor in every respect, it is said,
and also connects the Dunn and Con-
merry murders beyond a shadow of
a doubt.
McCools amazing revelations
which. the police saw. came in sec
Ond confession supplementing the or
s,l, To- Il Il 1-s1
ing PatroIman Connery April "a. is
said to have resulted in an agree
ment between the police of st. Paul
and Minneapolis regarding the re-
turn of Rcdenbaugh from San Fran
cisco where lie is under arrest.
County Attorney r. d. O'Brien
will cooperate with Detectives Bert
Weare and Frank Brunskill in every
respect and Redenbaugh will be
brought back to the Twin Cities as
soon as the governor Of California
honors Governors Burnquist's re-
quisition for the man.
To Minneapolis First. ii.
1t is probable he will be taken to-.
MinnesOtapois first. and that the
Mill City police will have a chance
to question him After that. it is
expected he will be turned over to
Chief O'ConnOr of the local depart
mcnt.
So complete are the details said to
have been given by McCool in his
confession that the police of both
cities freely predict that no lengthy
trial will be necessary to convict
Redenbaugh. They are confident
that he will soon confess when con-
fronted with the great mass of evil
dence against him.
McCoOl is said to have broken
completely under the grueling aues-
tioning of the police. AS each state
ment the police presented showed
the prisoner how completely he was
enmeshed in the network of facts,
he broke into tears and told the
whole story. The confession he made
and the facts as uncovered by Chief
jO'ConnOr fitted together to a start
ling degree McCool is said to have
believed that there was something
uncanny about the manner in which
the ST. Paul police had unearthed
discriminating fact after fact
Talk With Moore.
Redenbaugh has admitted in San
Francisco that he had talk with
Mike Moore in St. Paul on the night
Of the murder. Further than that,
however, he has refused to discuss
the case. He will open up. the po-
lice insist, as soon as he reaches the
scene of the murder
1.-THE case is cleared up thorough
ly," said Minneapolis police official
Monday. Oates and details have
been given by McCool that won't
leave Hamilton (Redenbaugh) any
kind of a defense. look for a COM
plete confession.''
McCool. in his first confession,
said, according to the police, that he
was the actual slayer in the Connery
case-the in case in which Mime
apOlis is directly interested.
McCool, in his second confession,
said. according to the police, that
Hamilton, or Redenbaugh, was the
actual slayer in the Dunn case-the
case in which ST. Paul is directly in
terested.
In McCool's first confession. Chief
of Police Lewis Harthill said, the
prisoner declared that it never was
the intention of the two slayers ac-
tually to kill Connery. They intend
ed, he is said to have told the police,
to tie the patrolman to tree in the
woods and to leave word where he