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CHIEF OMAHA KIDNAPERS A , FORT WAYNE VISITOR.WAS SEEN AT SOUTH DEPOTBY JOHN T. DOUGALI/^ OF THE4 * • %FORT WAYNE NEWS.POLICE ADVISED HE WAS HERELITTLE DOUBT THE CRIMINAL PASSED THROUGH.? -Was Pat Crowe in Fort Wayne Monday?John Don gal 3, of fcln? News, Rays he was and there is considerable ground upon whioh Mr. Dougall txxu base his assertion. Fat Crnwc, os all reader* of the Sentinel know, is believed to be one of the Cudahy kidnapers for whom a reward of $25,-000, ■the largest ever known, Is offered.Monday afternoon, between 1 and 2 o'clock, Mr. BongoJl, whil? making bis usual rounds, dropped Into the Pennsylvania depot and while thre saw a man whore face wan strangely familiar. He could not place the man, Lut all the time felt IlL i.ai w.kii l.iw Ar.I.wbefore, or at least a photograph of it. He could form no definite conclusion in his own mind and presently dismissed til© subject. He encountered tho man again, when it Unshed upon him Hint he was Crowe, whose picUi ru lie had seen in- the metropolitan papers a dozen limes during the post few days. Ho at once went to a telephone and called superintendent GorsHne’B office, but that g/;r;tlemail was not in. Ha called again a lev; minutes Inter and found the officer and asked him whether he had *i photograph of Crowe. The superintendent said he had nn old cue, but he did not know whcro it was, but told tho reporter that he could And quo in the current itsne of the Chicago American. Right here is where Mr* Dougall made -Ills mistake. In-a tend k»£ confiding ills suspicious to tho officer, he raid nothing about the strange man, but started out to find an American. He was misiiccn*Jifii] and then thinking he was probably on a wild goose clia»e mi 3 way gave the ranttor up and went about the ordinary routine of his work. Now comes the corroboration of Mr. Dou-gall's suspicion. In less than, nn hour aftor Mi*. Dougnll'^ con vernation wiUi Superintendent G on-line that gent Ion i an received a ulxly-word telegram from J. J. Donahue*, chief of police at Omaha, tilling him to arrest Pat Crowe, and fall owed with a full description of tho man. Hr »ald he wore a new suit of clothes and would probably have some gold on hia person. T-lie telegram cautioned the superintendent to be cautious as Crowe is a dangerous mnn and intimated that If he had to be killed to be apprehend:d he war paid for. By this time, hnwevcr, Crowe, if it was Crowe, hud left, probably going east on the Findlay road, although that is only a conjecture. When Mr. Do u gal I wns at tho depot All trains due ar. or about that time were reported late and the officers usually on duly at the depot had gone to their noonday men! and had not yet returned. Superintendent Cioreline is of the opinion that the Omaha police had definite information that Crowe wns headed this way and would likely be here about that time, else tho pains of sending a long detail telegram would nut have been taken. Mr. Dougall will now eagerly scan the news reports of Crowe's whereabout so that he can figure out how neat* he came to nabbing a §2:,000 reward.
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Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Wed, Dec 26, 1900
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