Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1889-11-06
DID BURKE CONFESS,
HIS FELLOw.PRIsONE CLAIMS LIE
DID.

HIS FELLOw.PR1SONER CLAIMS LIE
DID.
A Forger's Recital Of the Alleged story @.
the Cfonin Murd srer rs Related by Mar
tin Burke In the JAIN mt WinnSpex.
A Winnipeg dispatch says: Gillette,
the forger, who was sentenced to ten year,
In the Manitoba prison and VINO was co.
prisoner Of Burke, the Chicago suspects
was interviewed on his way from Winni
peg to the penitentiary at Stony Noun.
tain. He said Burke almost incessautly
talked about the Cronin murder and ga .
details of the crime to the prisoners, and
to them sometimes unwillingly. He said
that Burke would frequently burst into tears
and below like steer in the pen in which
they were confined. Although no never
admitted he killed Cronin he, however,
told illette of circumstances connected
with the practical abduction Of DIR. Cronin
from his house, the doctor, who was
snsninfn"s ~ n'c"ilsssn .heinr infnrsnesi
CURED immediate attention. On entering
the cottage Cronin was clubbsd and
tne uouy pun N uuHks burke
didn't inform Gillette who struck
the blow. and on being asked
the question as TO whether the Doc.
tor made big fight Burke said nothing.
While in jail, on moro than one occasion,
Burke expressed willingness to give ths
whole thing away, and then on reconsid-
GRAFTON be said there were several men
that he did not want TO implicate I'm the
crime and would not give their names
away.
Gillette asked Burke, while I'm Jail, il an
offer of $1,000 was made it he would givs
the whole thing away. His reply was !.
II would not for $40, 200. Indeed there
are men implicated whom would not like
to give away for $4,000 for my life
would not be worth any thing IL l did so. y
Assistant States Attorney Baker,
Of Chicago, and Lawyer Howell have
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
to get it. Mr.. 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 he got put in the jail. He was
quiet for some time after he came, when
ne began to talk and mix in with us.
There were six cells in one half of the Jail,
and they opened in a small room which
had door that could be locked when our
cell doors were open and We were aR out
side in the room together. 1t is one Of the
Jail rules that no man should 60 into an
other mans cell, but Burke used to come
in mine and shave himself, as had 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.
Ha 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 me whom he saw the
expressman:
That's him; he's no detective; he's a
Swede. l 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
''As nearly as can call the names, he
said that the men who killed DR.. Cronip
were himself, q Dennis and Dan Cough
lin, Pat Cooney, and one whose name l
don't remember. One man. he said who
pulled out at the last minute, was 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 he
couldn't be recognized. He said that he
was told that DIR. 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 a time before he had
been going with woman who had been
loose, but VINO was going to reform and
whom he meant 10 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 more muscu.
lar man than they thought he was. He
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