Dennis Sullivan And Bridget Sullivan

[Kat]

I was going thru my notes and found mention of Dennis Sullivan.
I had noticed a Dennis Sullivan in the case twice- once as a place that Bridget stayed when she came to Newport, and another time in 1892 as someone in the Witness Statements. I didn't know if they were the same person, tho I understand there would be several *Dennis Sullivan*s in the area.

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W.S., pg. 8 (Doherty & Harrington)
"At 11.15 A. M. Dennis Sullivan, employed at Allen & Slades, came along and stopped to talk to Mrs. Gomeley. While going up Second street he saw no person leave the yard or go up or down the street on whom he could place suspicion."

Prelim
Bridget
46-47

Q. Did you ever live anywhere else than in Pennsylvania and Fall River?
A. In Newport I worked twelve months.

Q. In whose family there?
A. A hotel.

Q. What hotel?
A. The Perry house.

Q. That was when you first came to this country?
A. Yes Sir.

Q. How long did you stay there?
A. Twelve months.

Q. Did you work anywhere else in Newport than in the Perry House?
A. No Sir.

Q. And you were at work all the time while you were in Newport. While you lived there, in the Perry House?
A. I was a little while with my friends before I went to work. I was twelve months in Newport before I left it.

Q. Friends where?
A. In Newport.

Q. Who were they?
A. Sullivans.

Q. What Sullivan is it, what is the first name?
A. Dennis.

Q. Mr. Dennis Sullivan; does he live there now?
A. I do not know.

Q. Was he a relative of yours?
A. A friend.

Q. A married man?
A. Yes Sir.

Q. You stopped in the family?
A. Yes Sir, when I was out of a place.

Q. About how long did you stay in his family before you got the place?
A. I cannot tell.

Q. A week or two weeks or a month?

Page 47

A. Two or three weeks.

Q. A short time?
A. Yes Sir.
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Page 45
Q. Did you land in New York?
A. No Sir, Newport.

Q. You left the steamer at Newport?

Page 46

A. Yes Sir, the New York boat.

Q. You came to New York first, and went from New York to Newport?
A. Yes Sir.

Q. That then is five or six years ago, is it not?
A. Six years ago the 24th of last May.
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So that stay with Mr. Sullivan was in 1886. Plenty of time for him to leave Newport and move to Fall River? If he did, he left his family? There was some rumor (was it Trickey/McHenry?) that Bridget had a fiance in Newport who died?

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Here is info I could find on a Fall River Dennis Sullivan:

He was a clerk at 16 Bedford Street, and boarded at #86 Third Street, in 1892.
The store was listed as "Allen, Slade & Co. (G.W. Slade, Edward B. Lake, and B/S.C. Gifford), commission merchants and grocers, at 16 Bedford St., Second Street and Market square."

That area was known as "Market Square" and it seems this store was big enough to have entrances on Bedford, and also on Second Street?

Is there any chance this is the same Dennis Sullivan?
I think Bridget said she did not have a beau inFall River.
I wonder if he had any kind of relationship with her at all, whether he was the transplanted Newport man, or not?