Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-11-09
DRAWING THE LINES.
GUILT FASTENED CLOSER AND CLOSER on
SUSPECTS.
Sensational Evidence in the Cronin Cass-lesmar
OSulliyan Told Many Conflicting and False
S.ores-OOughln and O'Sullivan's
Mysterious Interviews.

CHICAGO. November S-Directly afte
the opening of the Court in the CFonir
this this morning the cross-examinatiol
of Capt. Schuettler was resumed. The wit
ness was first qsstiOned in regard to thu
pice of window shutter with bloody finge
marks on it, taken from the Carlson cot
tsge, as testified to by him yesterday. Th'
shutter. he said, remained in the sam'
condition az when taken from the cottage
except that the marks were apparently
dimmed by age and handling. The mat
ter of tine footprints on the floor Of the cot
tase was then taken rp. The witness said
that, by his orders, the boards in the bed
room bearing footprints were cat ont
those in the hall were taken ont by ordeI
of Capt. Wing, of Lakeview. The foot
prints in the parlor we're not removed. Al
of them seemed TO have been made by The
same person. The pot of psinst contained
about quart and quile cruet bad formed
on the surface OF it.
o'sULLIvAN's CONTRACT.
CAPTAIN Schuettler was then asked, on
redirect examination, IN regard to his rec
objection OF what transpired at the inter
view between OSullivsn and Captain
Setback, Schuettler being present, on May
28th, as testified TO Yesterday. The wit
ness testimony did not differ materially
from that given by Captain Wing. 1t wa
10 the effect that O'Su.livan admitted b
had DO accident among his men and tha
his own physician's bills had been abou
Sl8 per year. The apparent intention o
these questions OF Captain Wing was Il
show that it was peculiar proceeding io
OiSnlliyan to make contract with Df
Cronin for $50 in the season in view OF th'
lmprobability that be would be called u
render any service for il. Then Captain
Schusttler related the conversation as Il
telephOne messages between O'Sulllvat
and Coughlin; as 10 O'Sullivan's where
ahouts on the night of the murder; az Il
O'Sulliyan being member OF the Clan-na
Gael, etc, but nothing new was deNel
oped.
THE IcEMAN DENIES CLAN NA-GAEl
MEMBERSHIP.
Can't. Schuettler then told Of an inter
view he had with O'Sulliysn about Ma,
Goth. The witness; the question put t.
him: What societies OF any kind he be
lopged 10. He told me he belonged TO TN
Mixed Knights of Labor, and the Inde
pendent Order OF F0res,ers. l put TIM
direct question to him then: "Do yoV
belong to the Clsn-na Gae.Yp
He said No, ! do noi?p
'DJ you belong to any other sOcietles?'
"No, only thost?"
I said: You want to be sure this i
right for this msy 90 further"
cautioned him in come such way as that
He ead That is all beleng to" H'
was asked If he knew any people wh'
lived in the Carlson cottage in March. H'
said he knew none of them. He WAS asked
if he ever saw any OF them there. He fa''
some time in February, think be said b
saw some people going in and out OF there
On re.cross.f nomination the witness wa
asked to produce card time belonging u
Kuuzs's employees, and after some talk IN
Court directed tie witness TO bring 1t int
Court.
THE BLOODY SHUTTER.
The next witness wss Officer Edward
Fredrick. He testified that he took win
dow shutter from the Carlson cottage
about the 25th of Jane and delivered it e
Capt. Schuettler at the Larrabee street
station. The witness then identified the
section of the shutter heretofore shown III
similar TO the lower portion OF the shutter
The cross-examination developed nothing
new.
Capt. Wing, Of the Lakeyiew police
force, testified that he cut number o.
chips out Of the floor of the Carlson cot
tape and that they, with the lock Of hail
found in the trunk, were turned over tC
Capt. Schuettler.
HOW THE COTTAGE WAS FOUND.
John Lindgren, Carlsou's son-in.law,
was the next witness. He said that he
went to the cottage May 19.h with hi
brother, and fiodipg the doors locked, de
cided 10 70 10 through one OF the windows
Tie window they first tried was the IRON
one. next the steps. Hall the blind wa
open and the lower sla. WAS cut or broker
of. They raised the window and went IN
"When we got in We saw there was eom'
paint on the floor, and we looEed the
house over to see If there Yves anything II
il. and we didn't find anything fXcept that
the floor was painted, and the furniture wa
standing there. We looked the fl ior oveI
and tie furniture and looked at the bed,
aad then ! looked the other rooms over
and there was nothing there except IN the
bedroom, aud the font room where the
lurniture was. We touched nothing and
only remained in the co,fge ten or h'teet
minutes leaving it locked" The witness
VINO is a carpenter and who built the cot
tape, identified the pioca OF the ehuttel
which was broken off from the blind snc
on which there were stains as II made DS
a bloody hand The shutter was then
iIered and accepted by the court III evi
dence. During the cross, animation TIE
witness produced from his pocket the
missing slat from the shu,ter which WAS
found in the ditch some distance from tn'
house. 1t had been cut of, not broken
The slat was admitted in evidence.
O'sULLYAN's WHEREABOUTS on MAY 1
William Niemap, who at the time o
the murder kept saloon block ana
half south Of the Carlson cottage, wss TN
next witness. He testified that the de
fendant, OSullivan, entered his ssloor
between 10 and IL o'clock on the nig1t o.
the murder. He 1as accompanied By two
men. The witness was reluctant TO say
whether either of the two men was one OF
the defendants in this case, but finally
said tha. Coughlin reeembltd one Of them,
and according to his best Judgement, be
thought Coughlin WAS one of the men.
The other man WAS smaller and could not
speak English plainly-he had German
accent. The three stood as closely together
AZ they could get, and talked in under
tones, pntiiDg their hande up to theii
faces, for about twenty minutes. Accord
ing to witness Judgment, Kurze was tn,
third man. Nothing new vas developed
on the cross-examinstiOn and the COuri
took a recess.
Policeman Paul Haefg testified thai
O'Sullivan twice 'elephoned to the station
house for Congblin, and later went up to
see him. The last time was on May ! oI
,. Policeman Hunkaler testified 10 seeioe
two men, tall and short ore, standing in
front of the CArlsou cottage on May II, End
he told them to move on. A light wat
burning in the cottage When be returned
1t was put out.
CRONIN's CLOTHES.
The Murdered Mans Garments Found sno
Identified.