Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1889-06-18
CHICAGO DETECTIVES
Wiser Than Serpents and Harm
less as Doves.


The Sleuth Hounds Who Are Running
Down CronIn's BTurderers Now AIlege
That They Didn't Want SEoronsy or
Mcdonald at All. but burke, Of win
nipeg, r. the Man They Are AFTER.
CHICAGO, June 16.-Tnterest in the
Cronin murder is centered upon Winni-
peg, where the suspect Burke is under
arrest. Up to yesterday the authorities
of the states attorney and police depart
ments were confident that in Moroney
and Mcdonald they had two of the prin-
cipals to the crime. No sooner, how
euer, had the United Press dispatches
chronicled the fact that the Chicago
witnesses had failed to identify the sus-
poets and that the court had ordered
their unconditional release than the
Tyre of the departments began upon
another tune.
A Mig, Bold Blur.
Ii was boldly stated that the authori-
ties had been playing q bluff game with
the New Workers; that the picture iden-
titled by the real estate agent, express
man and others, was not that of either of
the New York prisoners, but of Burke,
the Winnipeg suspect; that in short the
cxtradition of MOroney and Mcdonald
had Eeen demanded and the witnesses
sent on to identify, all as a part of a
bluff game, q detective being all the
time on the track of Burke, and the
fact that he was the mysterious Will
Jams being all the time patQet to those
in charge of the case.
In the effort to Justify this position it
was stated with equal gravity that the
steps referred to had been taken simply
to satisfy Luke Dillon and the Pinker-
tons, both of whom, according to this
igenious theory, were just as satisfied
that Moroney and Mcdonald were the
men wanted as the regular police Off
cials, according to their present position,
were satisfied that they were not
Burke Is the Man.
Outside of those now in New York
every witness that positively identified
Maroney's picture as that of Frank
Williams has recognized the photograph
of Burke as that of the "only original. /"
But in one of the cells of the Central sta
ton a man named McCahey is under
lock and key, and it is reported among
section of police that this man, too, Is
the one sought for. AS to the grounds
upon which his arrest is based no infor-
nation is forthcoming. The appear
ances indicate, however, that the authori-
I. Is are utterly at sea, and that as in the
Tascott case they are willing to send de-
tectives to the farthest end of the conti-
nent upon the suggestion that proba-
ble clew may be developed.
woodrun-s Mania for Confessions.
Woodruff, alias Black, is said to have
made two more confessions, and to be
hard at work upon a third. The state s
attorney Office is inclined to pin its
faith to everything he says. The police,
on the contrary, regard him rs an un-
mitigated liar. He has full access to the
newspapers and is allowed to talk with
whoever he pleases. Hence the fact that
in everv new confession he brings in
names that he had never mentioned be-
fore. Experienced detectives say that
had New York methods been adopted
with him the true story of his connec-
tion with the tragedy would long ago
have been known.
Before the Grand Jury.
The bulk Of the evidence given before
the grand jury was of routine character.
The most important witnesses were Desk
Sergeant Montgomery, of the Chicago
avenue station, and James ID. TuOhy,
the latter one of Alexander Sullivan's
sureties. Under strong pressure Mont
gomery testified that the numerous tele-
III one calls for Detective CoughIin
which he answered in the latter's abb
sence came not from Iceman Sullivan,
as had heen testified at the coroner's in
quest, but from telephone $40. This is
the number of the instrument in the law
Office Of Winds & Sullivan, indicating
that the latter was in frequent commune