• The team was traveling back to Philadelphia where they would again play the Tigers
• While they were en route, back in Philadelphia a team employee discovered the unconscious form of manager Connie Mack's brother Dennis McGillicuddy in the clubhouse, the apparent victim of foul play
• He was taken to the hospital and diagnosed with a fractured skull, possibly caused by a baseball bat, and his life was thought to be in the balance
• McGillicuddy, a ticket taker for the team, was said to have been in the company of a groundskeeper, Thomas Murphy, the previous evening
• Murphy was wanted for questioning by the police, but he hadn't yet been found