Telegram-herald., 1889-06-23
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II has been discovered that Martin Burke
went u joliet ca t4s day following lhe
EtaIGer 81 DT GIolIa. and stal4 theEs gntll
suod4y. Jans 9 Martha hais1 with A04u
burke stopped - hils Ia thai city. has az
Tlsed la Chicago la order - testify before
tic grand Jury Walsh kaes the suspect
zen lie lived IA Chicago. 4ud as 4stGa-
ished the day alter u Croniu .as muI tered
~ meet Burke oa ths streets Of joliet
Burke had j4st arrived aud wss ap
paTsntIy very glad 10 meet his old
oaunA Burke wss nearly Out or money at
tue time. but he spent What he had enter
tAining Wslsh IL a saloon. lie remained Ia
joliet until jane y. and during Lila stay
was dead broke al tho time Tie
day before be LETT, however, he received
d package " money. which Walsh
thinks contained about s2eO, from some
mysterious source. Walsh thinks IL u - de
police are OF the opinion that lt Vas sent u
him through an express company.
As soon as Burke got the money he said
hs was going 10 Chicago 10 LETT Joliet
that night aud, as usual, he forgot 10 pay
his board bill His stay Ia Chicago WAS
very brief, las,i.g only long enough Ter
him ~ bid goodbye ~ "a few friends
and purchase ticket for Winnipeg
Walsh, Ia speaking OF the peculiar
actions Of Burke, said that Burke's nights
were slee pless aud restless. and that he was
constantly talking aloud in his sleep about
somebo whom he seemed 10 think was
following him Ii is said that certain money
orders passed between Burke and Chicago
parties during the formers stay here.
LOOKING FOR CooEEr
That Patrick Cooney has escaped their
clutches is a matter OF the greatest regret
on the part or the police. Chief Hubbard
can not he consoled He is now willing 10
acknowledge that Cooney was the partner
OF Martin Burke, the Winnipeg prisoner.
CoOney is believed TO have been
the mysterious - Is sfrnons" who
rented the rooms ut III Clark street and
purchased the furniture and the trunk
from a H. Reven 4 Co. CsOney was an
enthusiast IN Ill matters relating 10 the
Irish cause. lie was rabid in his enthusiasm
on the latter subject and very ou,spoken
concerning it
1t was said last night that the police had
secured photograph OF Cooney and that
Hatfield had positively pronounced the
portrait that OF his mysterious customer
simmons" Chief Hubbard would give no
Information on the subject, and was ex-
tIenely reticent in speaking Of the case.
HAS NOTHING To CONFESS.
The report that L. OSullivan has weak
ened and is about 10 turn States evidence
IL wholly without foundation States At
tOrney LOngenecker said Friday that
q Sullivan haQ made no proposition TO him
looking toward such end He said that
h. himself had put him In the boys depart
ment for special purposes, and that
the report about Sheriff Matsons
coming TO the grand-jury room for
him 10 hear OSullivans story was the re
suit Of wrong inferences on the part OF re-
porters OSullivan himself was seen and
asked about the report, and Indignantly de
nounced IL as false lie has maintained
from the first that he had no completely in
and has no knowledge of the murder, and
that he has nothing to furnish tho State IN
the ways of clews or direct evidence.
A SENSATIONAL STORY.
An fnlportant witness in the Cronin case
turned up last night He is George L.
Brooks a news agent running on one OF
the railroads coming in at the Union depot
His story is 70 the effect that the night OF
May he was driving in lake View with his
sweetheart, and that happening along Ash
land avenue be saw three men loading the
trunk into the wagon ~ the Cirlson cot
tage. and that about half an hour later nc
saw the same men dumping the contents OF
the trunk into the catct-basin IN which
the body Of Dr. Cronin was found Ia
also saws that he saw the men distinct
L.. and that he will be able TO identity
them, and that his female companion also
saw them and t-lat she, too, VIII be able to
identify them He is ready % produce tho
young woman a. soon as the authorities
want her He described the three men
whom be saw and his description OF one is
Daid % III Burke the Winnipeg prisoner
Brooks explanation OF his failure 70 tell
his story before is that ne was afraid OF los
Ing his life. rs he believed the men cOa-
cerned in tho murder were 80 desperate
they would Kill any one who they thought
might turn up as a witness against them
He said the knowledge he posse ssed had so
weighed on his mind that he could not
keep 10 20 himself any longer. aud believing
It was a duty he owed himself and tho com
1aunity he had at last decided 70 tell all he
had seen. Ho first stipulated that he lie