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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 557, 15 January 1891, Page 3

An Auckland contemporary, el uding to Ga Ugher, «h" murdered his wife and committed buieide a' Waverley, says that he *a-< an old Ca ifornian mi'>er, and a< nm ye uh ago he and 'hh. * wn.brothers'ko d their in* terest in thn Great B »nanZ», of Nevada, to M ickay. F <»'d, and other mi i.innairea for £lOO 000, the brothers sharing equally, each leceivmg £33 000 Gail wh-r waa then airigle, and made a trip to Ireland to y.ee his friends. Whil« he met. with and married Mis Gnllauher. and soon afterwards they sailed for Victoria. It is not known how Gallagher spent the large sum acquired for his Nevada mining interest, but when he made the settlement on bis wife whe only received £2OOO, that being ail remained of it. There wa» a rumor that he had come into a fortune of £3OOO a but this is stated by his friends to have been unfounded. Gallagher’s two bro h-rs are now in California. Gallagher ariived on the Thames goldfield about the when the world was speculating as to the i (entity « f ihe mys'P'ious “ No. 1.” in connection with the Phoenix Park murders. As he was a man of. means, and bis history was for the time a mystery, Gallagher was playfully dubbed “ No. 1,” and the nick-name stuck to him as long as he remaine! about the goldtiel is.