The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-11-14


'sDid you see P. O'sullivan the next
day, May 4?''
''Yes, sir. At about 10 or II o'clock at
night he came in and got a drink. "
What time did they go away"
The accidental ''they' was significant
''They went away about 10:45 O'Clock.
I washed up the glasses and shut up and
it was II o'clock then. -
This is important as contradicting
O'Sullivan's declaration that heewasn' It out
of the house the night of May 4.
''Was anybody with him?''
''Yes. There was one tall man, light
complexion, with a mustache. There was
a little man with them who stood by the
door while the other two went farther to-
ward the far end of the bar"
''Do you observe those two men in court
now?'
There was long pause.
''Well, I wouldn't swear that they were
the men, he said, hesitatingly.
The strain was intense Coughlin's ewes
glared at the witness from under beetling
brows. KunZe was still pale with corpse's
pallor.
II docs the tail man resemble the one you
saw with O'Sulllvan that night?''
81 wouldn'U swear it was Mr.. Cough
lin. ~ said the witness. ''for l saw him only
once. But he looks just like him
Pressed for his judgment he said FAC
riding to my best judgment, think Dan
Coughlin is the tall man"
''About the smaller man, dill he speak
with an accent"
eyes, he said hardly anything, but
could see he was not an American.
''What was his accent"
E'He spoke plain English
''Oh, he spoke plain English" said For
rest, loudly.
eyes, but he spoke as a German
would,'' testified Nehman.
t'What did O'Sullivan and the tall man
do?''
''They stood about two feet from the
bar with their heads as close to ge cher as
they could get. I couldn't hear a word of
what they said. They stood there and
talked low to each other twenty minutes
The tall man did most of the talking He
made motions with his hands 500 And the
witness used Dan Coughlin's very gesture
when he is in dead earnest and is laying
the law, SO to speak. just then Dan
whispered to Forrest: ''That man kno WIS
me- " and the lawyer nodded his head.
Ibid the little man join in the talk
img?''
mo; he stayed over by the end of the
barr
''After this what did they do?''
''They went out together. -
You can't say what they did after they
went out?''
''No sir, can't
ado you i'm your opinion see the little
man in this court-room?'
"A pause, in which Nehman's eyes were
upon Kunze, and the little Germans upon
the witness.
az wouldn't swear to it, but my judg-
saaent is that John Kunze is the little man
/ saw there that night
Paul HOegg, desk sergeant at the
Chicago avenue station. testified that he
delivered two telephone messages to Dan
Cougnlin during the month of April. The
last one might have been the 1st or I'd of
May
What did you tell Coughlin when you
delivered the messages"
~ told him that Mr.. O'Sullivan called
him up from Lake View and wanted to
see him at his house. He said: tAIl
right: that's o. Sullivan. the iceman. -
Robert montgomery, desk sergeant at
the Chicago avenue station, heard Cough
lin telephone several times during the
months of March and April to man
named O'Sullivan.
Officer KalVelage who cut the flooring
from the bedroom in the Carlson cottage
tune l. identified the boards On the
boards are footprints. as though made by
a naked foot in fresh paint.
Alfred Kettuer. a matchmaker, has
known Dan Coughlin for four or five
years On the 4th of May Mr.. Kettner
left home about O'Clock to deliver some
work He is positive that it was May 4.
II will ask you if you saw Dan Cough
lin on the 4th of Mayo
tVaC sir. I saw him on lincoln avanue
a couple of houses from North Ashland
avenue He was walking south with
man much smaller than him. l was on a
street car, and when l saw Coughlin
saluted him and he saluted me. F"
GLOW was Coughlin dressed?'
t'Ie had on Prince Albert coat. The
small man with him wore some kind of
short jacket l used to know Coughlin's
partner, Lowenstein, and l thought the
man with him was his new partner.
noticed his face and he had small black
muetache"
Chow DO you know it was the 4th of
May?" queried Mr.. Forrest
s'I got two watches to repair that day
and the entry was made In my book
Joseph Hunkler, a Lake View police
man, was travelling the beat in the vicinity
of the Carlson cottage on the night of
May 10. About 1870 o'clock he was
walking along North Ashland avenue and
saw two men lettering around the corner
of Roscoe street, about 100 feet from the |
cottage He ordered them away. Then |
ne passed on by the cottage and saw a /
light burning inside. Twenty minutes I
later he met Officer Robinson and they |
passed the Carlson cottag e about o'clock.
There was no light in the cottage then and
the two men on the corner had disap-
peared.
Gerhard Wardel, a gardener at 1920 |
North Ashland avenue, testified, in re-
ply to Mr.. Mills questions that on
Saturday, May 4, he left his home about
Z o'clock in the evening and went TO Matt
Jung's place on Lincoln avenue. He
started for home at 10 O'Clock or little
after. He walked home on the east side
of Ashland avenue. 1t was about 1880
when he reached the corner of Otto street
and Ashland avenue. Here he noticed