Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-11-01
DID BURKE TALK?
A Sensational Story Told by a
Canadian Convict.
oRoNIEs TAKING OFF DESCRIBED.

The Extrsdited Defendant Sad to Have
Blsbbed to = Fellow Prisoner-Alieged
Result OF Attorney Bakers Visit TO
Winnipeg - Testimony In Court - The
Furniture and Cory Trunk-Dsn Cough
lin Again Prominent In tho Evidence
McGarry's Charge Against O'suiiivAn-
CHICAGO, Nov. The Herald has spe-
cial from Winnipeg. MN, in which IL is
stated that Deputy States Attorney Baker,
OF this city, who has teen there for some
days interviewing fellow prisoners with
Burke, the Cronin murder suspect, while he
was held by the Canadian authorities for
extradition has secured statement from a
prisoner there namei GiIlstt, vino says
Burke confessed To him that he knew all
about the killing Of DIR. Cronin and was
participant in that CRIME He says that
Burke seemed unable to keep his own coun-
sci, but was talking about the crime all the
time.
The Story GiIlstt Tells
Gillett is represented rs saying: AS nearly
As | can call the names, he said that the men
who killed d.. Cronin were himself, Den.
mis- and Dan Coughln, n Pat Cooney, aud
one whose name I don't remember One
man, he said, Iulled out at the last minuts.
This man worked for Mag INNS, a fish and
| oyster man on West Randolph street and the
| Haymsrket. He did not say what weapon
they usel, but that 1t was sumething like a
club. When DIR. Cronin was down they
| pounded him all over the face so as b,
rouldn't lie Recognized Burke would moi
say who struck the first blow at DR. Cronin
but that the victim died hard Dr. Cronir
was a more muscular man than they thought
he was
Disposal OF the Corpse.
| The corpse was taken away in an express
WACO which they hired from an old man oil
Chicago avenue. They hired it Tor all nigh
and drove IL themselves They took tn,
body down to the lake and took it out o
the trunk They said that they had expect
ed TO find row boat there, but there wa
none, and they threw the body into tn,
water. The shore was sh allow and the bod,
showed, and tho waves moved 1t bacl
toward them. There was a lot of blood II
the trunk aud lot OF it spilled ON the sand
They used the trunk TO scoop water on tn,
bloody sand, and then they put the body
back into the trunk and drove away 4
where they after ward dumped IT, CoughliI
knew more about the north side than AM
OF them and he showed the way At the
catch-basin they had hard work to get tn,
boiy in. DIR. CronIn being a large-sizsd man
and the trap to the catch basin being small
They hal to double him up so as 10 get hun
in. because he was too long to stand ul
in it
The Paw for the Job.
The money the murderers got was givel
in one lump and was divided among them
II was paid, Burke said IN an office on Dear
born street south OF the fremont house
over the office of Lazarus Silverman banker
He said that he did not know Alsxande
sullivan. He was lawyer and Burke ha
only seen him twice, one time in Sullivan
office We asked him what ths'
killed DR. Cronin for, and be said that b
had betrayed n trust; that he gave away 81
crets. and that he did not stand by his order
aud that he had squealsd on a man who wa
short an his accouutsn
Tue above are ths main points Of the al
legged story toll by Gillett Ii Is given 70
what u AMI it, alleged narrator are worth