A police escort was provided to take the body from the home to the church and then acted as a bodyguard to St. Mary’s Cemetery. The funeral was attended by one of the largest crowds that have ever been present at a similar event in Minneapolis.
George
Connery’s Gravesite in St. Mary’s Cemetery1
Photos
of notes written to his wife and found in Connery’s police notebook were
printed in today’s newspaper.
Left by his murderers in an isolated wood near Fridley, Anoka County, Connery struggled to write in his notebook his last words to “Mollie,” his anguished wife and mother of his five children. The upper note is believed to say: “Mollie, goodbye children,” or “Mollie, goodbye darling.” The lower note reads with fair plainness, “Get my” and the supposition is the last word is intended to be “insurance.”
Left by his murderers in an isolated wood near Fridley, Anoka County, Connery struggled to write in his notebook his last words to “Mollie,” his anguished wife and mother of his five children. The upper note is believed to say: “Mollie, goodbye children,” or “Mollie, goodbye darling.” The lower note reads with fair plainness, “Get my” and the supposition is the last word is intended to be “insurance.”
Notes
Connery wrote to his wife Mollie2
The
finding of the notes proves that Connery did not die instantly, but was left
alive by his slayers. There was rain shortly after Connery, mortally wounded,
was thrown into the woods, and it is believed the rain revived him so that he
was able, though dying, to write a last tragic farewell to his family.
Meanwhile in Omaha, suspect Frank McCool admitted to Detective Bert Weare that he was in the “death car” after the automobile in which Connery was slain was stolen at La Crosse, Wis., the morning of April 24, the day of Connery’s kidnapping.
Meanwhile in Omaha, suspect Frank McCool admitted to Detective Bert Weare that he was in the “death car” after the automobile in which Connery was slain was stolen at La Crosse, Wis., the morning of April 24, the day of Connery’s kidnapping.
Frank
McCool3
Minn.
Gov. Burnquist has issued requisition papers for McCool’s return to Minn. from
Omaha. Frank Burnskill, Minneapolis Detective, has gone to Omaha with the
papers after the prisoner. A copy of the indictment by the Hennepin County
grand jury went with the requisition, which shows that McCool was indicted on a
charge of first degree murder.
Chauffeur Jack Gallagher positively identified photos of Joe Redenbaugh and McCool as the two men he drove out of St. Paul to Chaska the night following Mrs. Dunn’s murder. The connection of McCool and Redenbaugh is established by this story, which shows that the men were together after the murder of Mrs. Dunn and that they were together in their desire to get out of St. Paul in some other way than the more common mode of long-distance transportation: the train.
Chauffeur Jack Gallagher positively identified photos of Joe Redenbaugh and McCool as the two men he drove out of St. Paul to Chaska the night following Mrs. Dunn’s murder. The connection of McCool and Redenbaugh is established by this story, which shows that the men were together after the murder of Mrs. Dunn and that they were together in their desire to get out of St. Paul in some other way than the more common mode of long-distance transportation: the train.
Joe
Redenbaugh4
According
to Gallagher, the two men wanted to go to Shakopee, but the taxi was only able
to get as far as Chaska, arriving there around midnight, because the roads were
impassable across the Minnesota bottoms to Shakopee. Redenbaugh, McCool and
Gallagher slept at the National Hotel, Chaska, the rest of the night.
Redenbaugh and McCool made themselves more memorable because when they arrived,
they wanted something to eat, so the cook was woken up and cooked them some
lunch.
Chaska5
The suspected murderers left for Shakopee over the St.
Paul Road at 7:23 a.m., arriving at 7:34 a.m. They are supposed to have boarded
an Omaha train at 10:30 a.m., for Mankato, where they would catch a train that
would bring them to Omaha at 11 p.m. Friday night, where they would meet two
women said to be their wives.
St. Paul Daily News; “Was In Death Car, F. McCool Admits. Police Find Blood-Stained Clothes Left by Alleged Slayer of Connery. Requisition Papers Issued. More Than 100 St. Paul Police Attend Funeral of Slain Patrolman.”; “Trace Murderers’ Flight in Taxicab. Driver Tells of Taking Men He Says Were Redenbaugh and McCool to Chaska.”; May 8, 1917; pp. 1, 2, & 12.
1http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=88948023&PIpi=106281811
St. Paul Daily News; “Was In Death Car, F. McCool Admits. Police Find Blood-Stained Clothes Left by Alleged Slayer of Connery. Requisition Papers Issued. More Than 100 St. Paul Police Attend Funeral of Slain Patrolman.”; “Trace Murderers’ Flight in Taxicab. Driver Tells of Taking Men He Says Were Redenbaugh and McCool to Chaska.”; May 8, 1917; pp. 1, 2, & 12.
1http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=88948023&PIpi=106281811
2St. Paul Daily News; May 8, 1917; p. 2.
3St. Paul Daily News; May 7, 1917; p. 1.
4https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19640524&id=bSArAAAAIBAJ&sjid=cZ0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=3914,4610516&hl=en
5Photo taken by Pamela J. Erickson. Released into the public domain May 8, 2015, as long as acknowledgement included.
3St. Paul Daily News; May 7, 1917; p. 1.
4https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19640524&id=bSArAAAAIBAJ&sjid=cZ0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=3914,4610516&hl=en
5Photo taken by Pamela J. Erickson. Released into the public domain May 8, 2015, as long as acknowledgement included.
Disappearance
of Minneapolis Patrolman George Connery; see April 24, 2015 blog
Car Connery disappeared in found in St. Paul; see April 25, 2015 blog
More than 1,000 volunteers join Minneapolis police in the search for missing patrolman; see April 28, 2015 blog
Connery and Dunn murders linked; see May 4, 2015, blog
Anonymous caller tells police where body of Connery is located; see May 5, 2015 blogSecond man in “death car” arrested in Omaha; see May 7, 2015 blog
Car Connery disappeared in found in St. Paul; see April 25, 2015 blog
More than 1,000 volunteers join Minneapolis police in the search for missing patrolman; see April 28, 2015 blog
Connery and Dunn murders linked; see May 4, 2015, blog
Anonymous caller tells police where body of Connery is located; see May 5, 2015 blogSecond man in “death car” arrested in Omaha; see May 7, 2015 blog
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