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3// met two men talking about the shooting and looked like railroad employees one of them said "when the shot was fired all the boyes around the Water Tank picked up and fired lumps of coal at the "Q" engine but it was going to fast to be unclear: these men work on the Wabash RR and one of their names is Lowder. Opr. after unclear to the Hall and getting in further information discontinued at 7 PM. Tuesday Apr 17th 1888 Opr "A.C.J." Report In Chicago to-day Opr at 9.15 AM under instruction from Supt McGinn he went to the vicinity where the shooting of Michael C. Walsh took place and unclear around at every house to find some one that knew something about it but was unsuccessfull. Everybody seems to express sympathy with the striking railroad employees of the C.B. and Q. Opr then tried to find out the history of the dead engineer who is Irish and lived with his brotherinlaw J.W. Morgan at 556 42nd St where he was buried from he has worked for the Wabash R.R. for about 9 years and had the reputation of a sober and industrious man. He has an aged mother living at No 4081 Atlantic St. He was 28 years old and a member of the Forresters and of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Div 302