The evening world., 1889-06-17
Judge Andrews Orders Their
Release This Afternoon.
Scene In tho Corridor Of Murderers'
Row at tho Tombs.
Hatfield, Msrtinsen and Throck-
morton All Baf1ed
Martin Burke. Another cronin Suspect, Ar
rested To-Day at Winnipeg.

The three ChiCaGoans who came to this
city yesterday for the purpose Of identifying
John Moroney and Charles Mcdonald. the
two suspects in the CronIn case. went
through the performance at the Tombs this
morning and failed utterly to pick out the
men.
Their names are William Z. Hatfield. who
sold tho furniture for the Clark street apart
ment to e" j.. b. Simons;" E. G. Throck-
morton. the real estate agent Oh whom the
Clark street fat WINS rented, and Hamak
Martinsen. the Swedish truckman. who
carried the furniture from the same fat to the
Carlson cottage.
With them was T. j. Farrell, q Pinkerton
detective. who Representa- the Office Of States
Attorney ~Longenecker. of Chicago.
They all registered at an uptown hotel yes
terday morning after their arrival, and under
the guidance Of Detective Won Gerlchten, of
the Central ONCE, were plloied TO the Tombs
in the afternoon, where they asked TO see the
prisoners.
Acting Warden Finley told them that this
was against the rules on Sunday.
Accordingly IL was arranged that they
should como around at 10 O'Clock this morn
ing and they would be given an opportu-
nifty Of Aeeing the prisoners and identifying
No notice OF this arrangement was sent to
either the District-AttorneY's once or to
Lawyer NewberYer. who represents Moroney
and Mcdonald.
II was q few minutes before 10 o'clock this
morning when the party arrived at the
Tombs. Detective Won Gerichten still had
them in hand, but refused TO say where they
had spent the previous twenty -four hours.
Detective Farrell. however. thought they
had been somewhere dow at Coney Island or
Rockaway Beach. he could not tell which.
There was lots Of mystery about the whole
thing.
daily and asked them to wait q few minutes
while he arranged the line IN which Moroney
and Mcdonald we've to be statioped whom the
men came IN 10 identity them.
He let the reporters in first SO hat there
might be some one there to see how the thing
worked and to have everything square and
above board.
Twenty men had been selected to form the
line. and they were stationed IN the second
tier of the now prison. in the same corridor
which includes the d" Murderers' Row." only
it was ct the other end of the building.
These twenty men included, besides the two
suspects. q number Of prisoners and keepers.
Rev" Mr.. Howard and the two HAlstead
- boys" of Electric-SuRRr fame.
All the men wore their hats. and Moroney
and Mcdonald. as they stood in the line
leaning against the iron railing and looking
down into the corridor below, where the
group of reporters stood with the " arden.
laughed and ioked with the others and did
not show any signs Of fear or nervousness.
The members of the Chicago contingent
we're to DO brought in one by one aud taken
up into the second tier gallery on the op.
posite side OF tho corridor. not more than ten
feet distant. and given al the time they
wanted TO scau the features Of the men OPP
poRite.
The light which came in the end window
was not very bright, but it was sufficient "a
bring out the features o. each maj clearly.
The first witnehs brought IN was w. f.
Hatfield, the furniture man. He claimed "a
have Eeen both "Simons" and +" Williams
and was confident that he could recognize
them il he should zee them again.
He is . nico-looking young man. with q
gracefully dropping, long brown mustache,
and as he walked MP and down the gallery
peeriuR into the faces opposite, be would nov
and then stop and gaze steadily at a %particu'
lar man. lie NaA not allowed to hold any
conversation with any Of them.
After passing up and down the inc seVera
times he gave It up aud told Deputy. Warden
McDemott that none OF tho men before him
were the ones he was looking for.
He was then taken out aud Martinson wal
given q chance.
The e1pressmAn was apparently somewhat
frightened At the ~responSiDIlitJ J, aud did no
make Rs searching an investigation As hi
predecessor. He walked twice up and doWI
in front of the line and then Lald he recog
niZed no one.
Mcdonald seemed to enjoy the fun anC
grinned ~sardonically every time the Chicago
men passed him. but Moroney was apparently
utterly indifferent 90 the proceedings HI
Razed into empty space and did not wink Al
eye during the ordeal.
Throokmorton took more time in scrutiniz
ing the line than both of his companions to
He went back and forth several times, Ant