The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-06-01
Williams Version.

CHICAGO, May 31.-An evening paper
says that some valuable information in the
Cronin case has been gathered from Mack,
alias Williams, alias McWilliams, who was
arrested in cheap lodging house Mack
claims to be q carpenter. He told the fol
lowing story: On the 2d of May he was
working for a Mrs. Wilson on North
Ashard avenue, scarcely block from the
Carlson cottage. Mack was putting in
screen windows While at work, lady,
whose name he understood to be Mrs.
Dudley, came in and began to talk with
Mrs Wilson. Mack was in tire same room
and he heard every word. Mrs. Dudley,
who is a stout, feshy woman, was talking
very bitterly against physician who had
attended her husband. Mack says he heard
the name of DR.. CrOnin mentioned, but he
didn't know whether the physician com
planned of was the Cronin referred to or
not. Mrs. Dudley seemed very much
excited and frequently made the remark in
great spirit: II will get even with him.
Mrs. Dudley said she was working in the
orphan asylum on Burlington street, but
that she was going to leave the asylum and
that she daily expected to go to live with
her two brothers in a cottage near by Mrs.
Dudley pointed in the direction of the Carl
~
going to move into.
At the Chicago nursery and half orphan
asylum on Burlington street, it was found
that a Mrs. Dudley had been there but had
since gone away. 1t is believed that
Williams is one OF the men who rented the
Carlson cottage, and that he is carpet
layer by trade and that he laid the carpet
in the cottage.
Later tonight the police officials say
HOY howe laornn that Maply'G rpo1
is G. E. Dudley. The suppositiOn is that
he is the husband of the woman mentioned
in his story. The police say he was ami
mated in telling his story by desire to
cause trouble for his wife, who left him on
account of his brutality and drunkenness.
They deny that they have any evidence
connecting Mack with the case, but in this
connection it should be stated that but
little of the story, except the denialS made
by the newspapers, is obtainable from the
police. For the past few days they have
been very secretive.
This afternoon ex-Detective Coughlin,
the ice-man Sullivan and Frank woodruff
alias Black, were arraigned before Judge
Williamson on the charge of numbering
Dr. Cronin. Each of the men entered a
formal plea of mot guilty. and they were
returned to jail.
Late tonight it is learned that DR.. Gro
Minis clothes have been found. The first
clue was obtained by the finding of his
underwear by the children, mentioned in
these dispatches several days ago. The
police began rigorous search for the re-
mainder of the clothing and near the mouth
of Fifty ninth street sewer unearthed the
murdered physicians pants, coat, shirt and
undershirt. They were buried over foot
underground. The shirt bore the name of
the murdered doctor, and the other articles
were readily recognized as portions of his
apparel. Strange to say, however, his vest
was missing, and in its place was vest of
much coarser material. This garment pre-
sumably belonged to one of the murderers
or one of the accomplices. For this reason
the police are using every effort to suppress
their discovery, hoping that Cronin's vest
may be discovered in the possession of one
of the murderers. The pants found were
deeply stained with blood.