The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-11-07


that Beggs objected TO Cronin being on the
committee to try the triangle because he
was an enemy of Alex. Sullivan.
Cornelius Flynn, who was with Beggs
and O'Keefe when they had the above
conversation, corroborated 0'Keefe's testi-
mony.
Ed. q. Throckmorton, clerk in real es-
tate office, testified to the renting of rooms
at III Clark street to J. b. Simonds.
Aaron Goldman, collector of the same
firm. testified that the rooms at III Clark
street were occupied on the 10Th of March
last, but on the 21st he found them vacant.
John w. Marshall, of the firm which col
lected the renting of No. III Clark street,
testified to that fact.
The court then adjourned until tomor-
row.
SPY IN THE CAMP.
An afternoon paper says that soon after
the disappearanc of Doctor Cronin the
state put spies on Camp %, and that man
was concealed in the hall during some of
its meetings and took notes of its proceed
ings.
CHICAGO, November martin McHale,
carpet layer, was the first witness in the
Cronir trial this morning. He testified
that tho carpet bouyh by J.. r. Simonls in
Febru ry last was laii by him (he witness)
on the .loor of. lii Clark street. Witness
was til shown piece Of carpet presum-
ably from the Carlson cottage, and he
identified it as identical in pattern with
that which he had laid in the Clark street
room.
The first important witness of the day,
Annie Carlson, was then placed on the
stand. The young woman began ner tes-
timonv very timidly. After few ques
tons She became so nervous her replies
were almost inaudible 1t frequently be-
came necessary for the court stenographer
to repeat aloud the barely uttered sentences
which fell from her lips. The audience in
the court room assuming that revelations
of most startling character were being
made, craned their necRs in the
direction of the witness stand.
The excitement became intense as Nr
Mills propounded the next question. Wit
ness then went OF to state how on the
Goth of March, while she was at Carlson's,
man came to rent the cottage which
stood near the house. He said his sister
was to keep house for him and that he had
some furniture he wanted to move in at
once. He gave his name as Frank Will
liams.
miss Carlson" asked the lawyer, edo
you see that stranger in the court room
now?"
EYES, SIR"
"Will you point him out to the jury2"
There he is" answered the witness,
pointing directly to Martin Burke.
"Do you mean Martin Burke as that
MANI" continued Mr.. Mills pointing tC
Burke again.
Eyes" replied the witness, and that end
ed her examination.
| Mr.. Forrest then cross examined witness
at great length, going into all the details o.
her movements and her visits to the Carl
son house. She testified she had never
seen Burke from the day he entered the
she came into the court room
for the purpose of identifying him. Yet
she recognized him Immediately. His eyes
hair and mouth, and his peculiar way o
| looking, she said, made great impression
on her, and she knew him at once.
Mr.. Forrest made witness look away from
Burke and the jury and then describe hi
features and the color of his hair. This she
| did.
Jonas Carlson, owner of the cottage, was
the next witness. He corroborateC
the testimony of his daughter
in-law about the stranger com
ing to rent the cottage. Witness
then said: HE asked me if 1t was M,
house as he wanted to rent the house.
told him yes. He, said, let me see thu
house, and we walked over to the house
and took the keys and went up to tn,
house with him. We entered by the bacl
door, and he looked around and said
there aie six rooms, how much do you asl
for itg l said '$l2 MONTH He said
can YOU take Sill? No, said. i will
give you the money now he said. Then
got the money and my DO,
gave him a receipt, when we wen
| back to the other house" Carlson wen
on to say that the stranger wh) gave Il
name of Frank Williams, saiu lie had three
brothers and his sisterw to come on from
| Baltimore TO keep house for them. He hat
bought furniture and it would arrive IL
two or threedays The stranger then tool
| the kew. Witness said he had met ant
talked with O'Sullivan, one of the defend
ants, many times. 0Sullivan lived in thu
| immediate vicinity. AT this point recess
was taken.
At the afternoon session Jonas Carlson
was recalled, and his testimony on behal
of the state was continued. He said tina
the stranger, after renting the cottage
walked across lots to 0'Sullivans, where h
met O'Sullivan and talked with him. Wit
ness heard Burke say to OSulllvan, the
/
saw Burke was about 5 o'clock OF
the afternoon of May A, a few
hours before Doctor Cronin wa
murdered He stood on the front steps o
the cottage. AT o'clock that night wit
ness heard two men talking in the cottage
They were talking in a loud voice, as Carl
son expressed it. In April witness had
conversation with o Sullivan about the mel
who had rented the cottage. USullival
told him that he knew one of them, that h
was all right and that he would pay th
rent when due. On May 10 Carlson hat
another conversation with OSulliyan, II
which he told 0'Sullivan that the cottag
was vacant and that he had received LETT e
from the man who had rented it, askin
him (Carlson) to put the furniture in tn
basement, and saying that he had painte'
the parlor floor to save his sister the trou
BILE of scrubbing it. O'Sullivan remarke'
he was having hard luck with his cottage
The letter spoken of and its envelope wer
identified. On the Goth of May witness en-
tered the blood-stained cottage, he said
and proceeded to describe its condition an
appearance. The examination of the wit
ness had been prosaic enough up to thi
point.
1t continued as follows:
"How many times altogether did you SCI
the man calling himself Frank Wllliamsr
"Three times"
"That is in the neighborhoOd of wher
you lived ON Ashland avenue"
"Only two times there"
! "Did you see him once besides these tw
times?"
Eyes SIR"
At this point in the examination Nj
Mills paused for a moment as if realizin
| tbaf a crisig in the examination WAS nea