Clinton County IA Archives News.....A Sickening Horror October 12, 1893
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Jackson Sentinel October 12, 1893
Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Iowa, October 21, 1893.

A SICKENING HORROR

Tuesday evening the 3rd, about 8 o’clock, Patrick Cunningham went to the
outhouse in the rear of J. J. Kennedy’s saloon in Clinton in a state of
intoxication and had the misfortune to fall into the vault. Fortunately he
alighted on his feet in the slime, but owing to the seclusion of the place and
his condition he hallooed vainly for help and consequently was compelled to pass
the night in this foul place. Sometime during the night his feet came in contact
with something that felt like a man’s coat and pulling it up to the surface he
struck a match and in an uncertain light a grinning skull looked up at him in
the face. Upon the discovery he called louder than ever before and about 4
o’clock Wednesday morning as officer Sanke Petersen was patrolling his beat past
the place he heard his cries for help and soon rescued him from his horrible
quarters. Cunningham insisted that there was another person in the vault and
called on the officer to assist him in removing his “partner,” as he called him.
The officer thinking that his talk was the result of a brain crazed by liquor
paid little attention to his talk, but bade him go home. This Cunningham did,
but in the afternoon he again sought the police, telling them the same story. As
he had sobered off, the fact dawned upon them that it might be true and an
investigation was at once begun. A scavenger was sent for and late last night
the body was brought to light. Upon investigation it was discovered that the
body was that of Michael J. Doran, who disappeared on the afternoon of June 2.
Doran left a divorced wife and two children. He was insured in the Catholic
Mutual for $2,000, the premiums for the past two years being paid by his
divorced wife.


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