Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1889-11-09
BITRKE'S STORY RETOLD.
ALLEGED CONFESSION OF THE Gro
MN SUSPECT.
His Felow-PrisOner at Winnipeg Repeats
BurIse's Alleged Tale OF the Tragedy at
the Carlson Cottage-The Horrible De-
tails of the Deed Recalled.

OF chicago, ana Lawyer ho"el4 nave
secured Gillette's story Of the con-
fession about DR.. Cronin's murder, which,
he says, Burke made to him while !
they were confined in the Jail together.
They had to drive out to the penitentiary
10 get it. MIR. Baker places considerable
confidence in the story told by Gillette,
and after his return made the following
memorandum of its substance:
Burke began to talk about his mother
soon after ne got put in the Jail. He was
quiet for some time after he came, when
he began to talk and mix in with US.
There were six cells in ne-half of the jail,
and they opened in a small room which
had a door that could be locked when our
cell doors were open and we were all out
side in the room together. 1t is one of the
jail rules that no man should go into an
other mans cell, but Burke used to come
in mine and shave himself, as | he'd the
only looking glass, We used to talk
about our cases together, and he always
seemed to think that he would go free, and
so he did not mind talking about his case.
He thought that the Winnipeg court would
hold him in the extradition, but that he
would be acquitted in Chicago
''When Martinson came here to identify
him he asked me to loan him my coat and
hat, and we changed and he put on mine.
When we stood in the room outside in the
yard he whispered to rae when he saw the
expressman
q That him. he's no detective; he's
Swede. | know him, but he don't know
me,
HE talked to us all the time we were in
together There were three of US besides
him most of the time and most of us were
in before he came
GAS nearly as 1 can call the names, he
said that the men who killed DR.. Cronin
were HIMSELF a Dennis and a Dan Cough
lin, Pat Cooney, and one whose name
don't remember. One ma }, he said, who
pulled out at the last minute, was a man
who worked for McGinnis, "a fish and oys-
ter man on West Randolph street and the
Haymarket. He did not say what weapon
they used but that it was something like
club. When Dr. Cronin was down they
pounded him all over the face, so as be
couldn't be recognized. He said that he
was told that DR.. Cronin was to be
brought to the Carlson cottage to take
care of woman who was said to be con-
fined.
Burke SAID that for time before he had
been going with woman who had been
loose, but VINO was going to reform and
whom he meant to marry He didn't tell
her name, but said that she kept furnished
rooms ON North Clark street, near Chicago
avenue. Dan Coughlin knew her and used
to visit her place Burke said that he was
afraid of her; that he had treated her
shabbily, and that she might squeal on
him.
"He would not say that any one struck
the first blow at DR.. Cronin. but that he
died hard. Dr. Cronin was a more muscu-
Al /, IL
said they rented the Carlson cottage and
put the furniture in, but said nothing as
to where the furniture came from. The
corpse was taken away IN an express
wagon which they hired from an old man
on Chicago avenue. They hired it for all
night, and drove it Themselves.
"They took the body down to the lake
and took it out of the trunk They said
that they had expected to find a rowboat
there but there was none there and they
threw the body into the water The shore
was shallow and the body showed, and the
waves moved it back toward them. There
was a lot Of blood and lot spilled in the
sand. They used the trunk to scoop watee
on the body and then put the body back
into the trunk and then drove away to
where they afterward dumped it.
1oughlin knew more about the north side
chan any one, and he showed the way
cat the catch basin they had hard work
to get the body in, DR.. Cronin being a
large-sized man. They had to double him
up so as to get him in, because he was toe
long to stand up in it. While they were
working at it they got scared at some
farmers wagons going by but they went
on and finished it. He said they went
back to the cottage the day after.
"The money that they got was given in
one lump and was divided among them.
1t was paid, Burke said, in an Office or
Dearborn street, south of the fremont
house, over the Office of Lazarus Silver
man, banker.
II said that he did not know Alex
ander Sullivan; that he was lawyer anC
hal only seen him twice-one time in Sui
Ivan Office.
''He said that when he came to Winni
peg he had a box, but he did not say wha
kind of box. He said that he had beer
here two nights before be was arrested
lie had a valise, which he said the police
took and ~ box, which he took to some
people in East Bannatyre street in Winni
peg. He wanted to get somebody to TAXI
t a letter to them, but did not know WHIT
S he could He asked me if / could get my
: lawyer to take it, and said NO he would
l he would not take it. Afterward it wa
Q taken by a little old man with long hair
r and Burke never talked about it again
He said that there was a good overcoa
and some underclothes Of DR.. Croun's
( and they meant to take them away some
70 where
= Burke used sometimes TO cry grea
\ deal, and did all sorts of things 10 keel
up his spirits. We asked him what the.
1 killed DR.. Cronin for, and he said he hat
/ betrayed a trust, that he gave away Sc
I crets, and that he did not stand by hi
7 order, and that he had squealed on a ma
s who was short in his accounts
. Mr.. Baker would like very much 20 TAX
j. Gillette to Chicago, but OF course tn
y Canadian authorities would never permi
It, as he would at once DO taken possessio
Of under a writ OF habeas corpus. Bake
will remain here a day or So longer, a. h
b is anxious 10 take Chief Mcliao back wit
him. MrBae wants the reward promise
, for apureheuding Burke before h. COOS t
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