Wichita eagle., 1889-05-30
IMPORTANT TESTIMONY GIVEN.

CHICAGO, May 29.-The testimony a
elected before the grand jury in the Gro
min case yesterday was not only very i'm
portant but thorough. Each and every
witness was put through a series of ques-
tions such as calls up their relation to
facts from the greatest to smallest On
record
The chief witness was the milkman,
Merles. He said: Il watched the Carlson
cottage on Ashland avenue on the night
of the murder. l saw a buggy contain
ing two men and white horse drive up to
the door. The man seated on the left-the
horse was facing north-jumped from his
seat and ran up the street He carried two
packages. Before he had time to knock at
the door it was opened, it appearing to be
that some one was waiting inside the hall
way. As the man stepped inside the door
the man in the buggy whipped up and
drove rapidly north to the first street,
when he turned west and was lost to sight.
l had been driving past the cot
tage when l saw the man in the
buggy get out and run up the
steps and the buggy drove away. After
attending to my business at a grocery near
by / returned over the same road past the
cottage on my way home. This was per-
haps thirty-five minutes later. l saw
light in the cottage and heard hammering
and smashing sounds"
1t was plainly evident from the above
testimony that the man who ran so rapid
~ up the stairway was DIR. Cronin, intent
on rendering suocor to some dying man.
The next witness was Carlson, Sr, the
Of ha
who called himself Frank Williams came
went over and talked 10 Sullivan. the ice
man. He apparently talked Familiarity
with him. AS the month of April ap-
preached the Goth and the rent day was
coming near began 10 think it strange
thai my tenant did not occupy the prem
Uses. / wanted a reliable tenant. Seeing
the man had talked with Sullivan
stepped over and spoke OF his queer con-
duct in not living in the house he had
rented and added that l 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 enough when the month is up Mr.
Sullivan at first denied that he ever saw
the man."
The connection of the iceman, Sullivan,
with the Cronin mystery, and the cause of
his arrest and detention are here made
plainly apparent
Young Carlson was the next witness for
the state. a was present when the furni-
ture was brought 20 the cottage two DAYS
after the renting. On March -, two men
who called themselves Williams. unloaded
the truck. The driver remained seated.
He did not handle the goods. | casually
stepped up to the driver and discovered
that he was a Swede. ! spoke TO him in
that language and he told me that he had
brought the furniture from III Clark
steeetn
The story of the men who rented the cot
tage having formerly roomed at Ii Clark
street, where the furniture was taken by
A. n. Reyelle & Co.. is thus verified.
The next witness was one of import
anee. She was young Mrs. Carlson and
was attired in deep black with a heavy
mourning veil covering her face.
Said she: Il visited my moth
er-in-law March 20. While at
her home. q cottage which was in the rear
of the fatal cottage, a man knocked at the
door and entered. He came from the back
part of the premises in the vicinity of Sui
livan's barn or house. He said he desired
TO see the cottage which was for rent, Old
man Carlsan took him eFeC, and shov al
him about the place. They returned AID
the man said he would take the cottage. at
the same time producing Sl2, the amount
OF the first months rent. He gave his