St. Paul daily globe., 1889-06-17

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Gods world, if there is any money in
it, He looked at me sharply and re-
piled: If hear of anything for yOn
I'll let Mr.. Williams know of it and
walked away without even saying good
bye to me. I met Williams an hour
afterward going out of his room on
Clark street. We took a grip car and
came over on the North side. told
him had seen Sullivan, and he asked:
'Whatdid he say? 1 said: He came
Without doing ito Soon after
this they met Sullivan on the
street. He took Williams on one
side and handed him money, saying:
''Now pay that rent" Then, seeing
Woodruff, Sullivan told him he must not
take otfense at his manner the previous
day, as he was very busy, and had a
great many applications for jobs. The
Wednesday before the murder Woodruff
met COughlin, who asked him to take a
note over to Sullivan. This note was in
cipher, the same as had been ~.
USED BY THE FENIANs
when Woodruff was at Niagara. Wood
ruff looked at it and says it read:
"Going up top. O'Sullivan's." The re-
mainder OF his confession deals mainly
with the night of the murder. Cough
lin, so Woodruff alleges, paid him s25 to
bring to Lincoln avenue from Deans
livery stable conveyance in which
trunk could he carried, Near Ashland
and Lincoln avenues Melville and a
man named O'Shea, alias Mike Nc
DOugal, joined Woodruff. The letter
says this man was a machiniSt or black
smith from Philadelphia, but that he
had known him in Wichita, Kan. Mel
l,o h. h oil nt 1,nf frvn in,
Peoria, in connection with Irish affairs.
reaching there about 2 a. m. The two
men went in, and soon after P. OSulli-
van and Williams came out of the door
carrying trunk, which they placed in
the wagon. Here follows new version
of the ride with the trunk and the dis
posal Of the body in the sewer. Wood
ruff now says the intention was to have
the trunk sunk in Lake Michigan off
Lincoln Park, but, thinking they were
pursued, the plan was abandoned.
Woodruff claims that Cronin's In
strument case was probably buried
or thrown in the lake by Melville and
Williams when they left the wagon in
the woods for short time at Edge
water. He does not know what dispo-
sition was made OF the clothing. Wood
ruff concludes with an assertion that he
has recently been approached 10y a
gratuitously, and that this lawyer had
said to keep
STRICT SILENCE,
as Alexander Sullivan's attorney would
work in unison, and that one of Sulli-
vans bondsmen had agreed to pay for
Woodruff's defense. The climax of the
whole confession Is an assertion by
Woodruff that all his previous alleged
confessions" are bogus, and that this
is 1.-The first and only statement l have
made since my arrest" the intima-
tion being that the only "con-
fessions" were given circulation by
interested persons to create the impress
sion that he (Woodrutf) was liar. A
visit was made to Woodruff at the Jail
this afternoon for the purpose of learn
ing further details of his last startling
confession. The prisoner was found
deeply engrossed in the preparation of
another confession, which he says is to
the preceding ones. Woodruff this aft
ernOon reiterated his confession pub
lished this morning, but on close exam
inatiOn subsequently altered it in many
important particulars. Headmitted that
he was only twenty-nine years old, but
insisted that he took an active part in
the Fenian rebellion. He says it oc-
Cured in 1873, but his date does not
agree with history. He says he went to
the flat at III South Clark street on
April 2, but the facts are that the fiat
was not rented by the mysterious
Simons after March %, for on that date
the furniture was all
REMOVED FROM THE FLAT.
and taken to the cottage. He says that
he met Melville April 2 at McCOy's
hotel, but the register shows that Mel
vile left that MOTEL on March 20, and
-Oner this afternoon makes the startling
statement that he was with DR.. CrOnin
and p. O'Sullivan the night of and pre-
vious to the murder of the former.
''But you say in the published con-
fessiOn that you played cards all night
with the three men, and that you did
not leave the stable until II 80 o'clock"
Woodruff hesitated moment, and
said: ''Yes, that is my defense"
''Then it is not true?"
'Well, l saw Cronin that night, and I
had good look at him."
''Then you must have known it was
his body in the trunk?"
"Why, might as well plead guilty as
answer that question:"
Ibid you have a good look at the
body when it was taken out of the
trunk?'
..'No I did not. 1t was very dark"
''Why did you tell this last story or
confession after you had told so many
Others?'
''Well, 1 was promised the influence
of a great paper in my behalf. They
said would get the best side of the
business"
The only evidence that the police
place any reliance in Woodruff's latest
''confession" is the fact that Lieut..
Schuttler and his men went to the foot
of Graceland avenue this afternoon and
searched in the sand for DR.. Cronin's
medicine case, which Woodruff says
was concealed there by Williams and
Melville. The officers dug up an acre
of ground along the beach, but found
nothing.
MARONEY AND M'DONALD.
Chicago Detectives in New York
After the Suspects.
NEW YORK, June 16.-The Chicago
detectives who are to identify Maroney
and Mcdonald, the suspects in the
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