The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-11-01
CR0NIN'S LAST NIGHT.
Story Of the BHtehery Told by
Martin Burke.
sluOcsoss OF THE CLAN.
The psese-ss Corpse TA-ewa in tase Lake,
Taea Cefanea iM Trank aaa
Hid 10 the sewer.

WgxNtrEa. Oct. 81. - Today Assistant
States AtNrnev Baker eiscstesa new and.
Il srue. Important evidence frona Gillette. n
B1rke said the plot bad keen 10
ceeoy Cronin from his house BY
Coughlan and woman. Altar
wards coaEhlaa changed the plan ard
siecoyed Cronin hy means of oSnliivan's
Business card. Burke tod Gillette that
the woman in question kept furnished
lodgings on North street in Chicago.
Barke mentioned as associates with hiIa-
self coaghlAn. Cooney and o'Sallivsn.
The intention was to sink the body in
the lake. but a confederate who was 30
meet them with boat failed 20 keep his
appointment Gillette says Rarke went
twice to = lawyers ofliee on Dearborn
street. Chicago. and got money for doing
the Job. cronin's clothes were brought 70
Winnipeg sna hidden there.
Gillette told Baker how Burke told him
in detail of the murder. how Cronin was
clCbhed as he stepped inside the cottage
door, and how they took the body
&c the lake and not finding any one
there threw Il in. Fearing. however,
that il would wash upon the beach, il was
taken back, placed in s trunk and after
wards pus in catch basin.
Gillette's story is very ci=egmstzntial.
Raker Is iiiSss:s.s. 10 believe il is straight in
spite OF the apparent inaprobahiiity Of
Burke having confessed.
caIcAeo, Oct. Sl.-proceedings in the
trial of the Cronin case tins morning were
aninteresting. Two witnesses testified 10
hearing defendant Conghlan say: There's
a Catholic on the North Side who viii get
done up ii be don't keep his mouth shut
Furniture Salesman Hatfield retold the
story of selling the furniture TO ]. II.
Simonds which was subsequently found in
the Carlson cottage. The chief point Of
interest developed was that il was furniture
in common nse. and there were no marks
on il TO perfectly establish its ideatity.
Hatfield also testified that the trunk in
which Cronin's body was carried away was
identical in appearance with that sold 20
Simonds
When the court resumed its session the
jury was excluded while the matter of
striking out Mciarry's evidence was dis
cnssed. The court finally decided 10 ex-
clude ali of the testimony regarding
former attack on Cronin. This was not
satisfactory 20 the defense, but after some
talk the trial was resumed.
John W. Sampson testified that about
two wears ago Coughlan tried to hire him TO
slug DIR. Cronin. on cross-examination
Sampson admitted that Coughlan had ar
rested him three or four times. once for
robbery; that he had been convicted OF
passing counterfeit money. and that he is
gambler by profession.
Joseph Z. o'keefe. Cronin's tailor said
he attended meeting of camp 70 in Sep
tenber 1858, and afte- ii had converse
ton with Beggs about Cronin and Alex
ander Sullivan. Beggs displayed an aver
sion TO Cronin, and said the latter was not
8 proper man TO put on the trial com mittee
To try Sullivan. He objected 70 Cronin
particularly because the doctor was an
enemxof sullivan.
Edward Throckmorton, Aaron Goldman
and James Marshall, connected with "A real
estate Office, testified regarding the renting
OF a fiat at III Clark street TO J. B.
simonds. The court then adjourned til
tomorrow.
An afternoon paper says that soon after
the disappearance Of DR. Cronin the state
put the blame upon camp - and that
man was concealed in the hall during some
of its meetings and took notes OF its pro-
ceedings