The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-05-30
EVIDENCE BEFORE TUE GRAND JURY.
Important Testimony showing sullIYan's
Connection With the Murder.

lmpVEtAuG 1eAuuOny hnoNlpB bulllNnnh
Connection With the Murder.
CHICAGO, May 2O.-The testimony as
elected before the grand jury in the
Cronin case yesterday was not only very
important but thorough. Each and
every witness summoned was put
through series Of questions such as
called up their remembrance OF facts
from the greatest to the smallest in i'm
portanCe. The chief witness was the
lnilkman, Mertes. Said he: ~ passed
the Carlson cottage, 1872 Ashland
avenue, on the night Of the murder. l
saw buggy containing two men and q
white horse drive up to the door. The
man seated on the left (the horse was
facing north) jumped from his seat
hastily and ran up the steps. He car
ried two packages. Before he had time
To knock at the door 1t was opened, It
appearing 10 me that someone was wait
ing inside the hallway. AT tho instant
the man stepped inside the door the man
in the buggy whipped up and drove rap.
idly north TO First street, when he
turned west and was lost to sight. had
been driving past the cottage when !
saw the man in the buggy get out and
run up the steps and the buggy drive
away. After attending TO my business
at a grocery nearby, returned over the
same road past the cottagl on my way
home. This was thirty.hye minutes
later. saw light In the cottage and
heard ahammering or smashing sound"
It was plainly evident from the above
testimony that the man who ran so
rapidly up the stairway was DR.. Cronin,
intent only TO rendering succor 10 some
dying man,
The next witness was Carlson, ST., the
owner oi the cottage. when the man
who called himself Frank Williams
rented my cottage March Goth, noticed
that he went over and talked to Sulli.
van, the Ice man. Heapparently talked
iamiliarly with him. As tho month Of
April approached the Goth and the rent
day was coming near, | began to think
II strange that my tenant did not occupy
the premises. wanted reliable ten
ant. Seeing the man had talked with
Sullivan ! stepped over and spoke OF his
queer conduct In not living in the house
he had rented, and added that ! felt
somewhat anxious about my rent and
the permanency OF the tenant. He Is
all right, said Mr.. Sullivan to me; he
will pay you all right when the month
Is up.m
Mr.. Sullivan al first denied that he
ever saw the man, The connection OF
tile Ice man Sullivan with the Cronin
mystery and the cause Of his arrest and
detention are here made plainly appSr.
ent.
Young Carlson was the next witness
for the State. " was present when the
furniture was brought to the cottage
two days after the rental-March 20.
Two men calling themselves Williams,
unluaded the truck. The driver remain.
ed seated-he did not handle the goods.
! casually stepped up To the driver and
discovered he was a Swede. / spoke To
him In that language and he told me
that he had brought the furniture from
III CLARK street"
The story Of the men who rented the
cottage having formerly roomed at III
Clark street, where the furniture was
taken by A. II. Revel 4 Co., Is thus veri.
fed.
The next witness was one Of import.
anoe, she was young Mrs. Carlson, and
was attired In deep black with heavy
mourning veil covering her face. She
said:
~ visited my mother-in.law March
20. While at this home--a cottage
which sits In the rear OF the fatal cot.
tage--a man knocked at the door and
entered. He came from the back part
oi the premises In the vicinity Of Splll.
vans barn or house. He said he de-
sired 10 see the cottage which was tor
rent. Old Mr.. Carlson took him oyer
aud showed him about the place. They
returned and the man Bald he would
take the cottage, at the same time pro-
ducing Sl2, the amount Of the first
months rent. He gave bis name %
Frank Williams. Willie the receipt ior
the money was being maIc out, young
MIR. Carlson asked Mr.. Williams what
his business calling or profession was,
This did not suit Williams, for he looked
sullenly at his questioner and at all oI
10, and then lowering his eyes, said
| i am employed down town. ! re-
marked shortly alter he left that he
seemed mad at the question, When hG
departed he did not 60 10 the front, 70.
ward Ashland avenue, but started oyei
toward Sulllvan's, He seemed anxious
10 get out Of the house."
Tho description given by Mrs. Carlson
tallieg very closely with that given BY
'Woodrua oi tho man h0 called Klnl
aud who, he said, gave the trunk hapl'
NJ. and Mrs, conklin, at whose house
DR.. Ctonln boarded, were the next wit
nesses. They told how DR.. Ctonin wa
driven away In buggy With . Whit
horse,