St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-07
COPPERS ON THE RACK
Police Officers Give Details Of
the Finding Of Cronin's
Body.
Once More the Blood-Stained
Trunk Is Exposed to Pub
lie View.
Iceman O'Sullivan Put in a
Bad Light by officer
Phillips.
Suspect KunZe Is Positively
Identified by Kid Ste
nographer.

printer, of Lakeyiew, was the first wit
ness in the Cronin case this morning.
He testified that he had printed lot of
business cards for defendant Patrick
O'Sullivan, which he delivered to
OSulliyan on May 2, two days before
DR.. Cronin was murdered. The wit
ness was then shown card and identi-
fed il as similar to those which he had
printed. The evident object was to
show that it was one of this lot of cards
which was shown 10 Dr.. CrOnin on the
night of May 4. when he was lured away
to his death. Capt. Francis Yilliers, eX-
chief of police of the town of Lakeview,
was then recalled, and with chart OF
the streets around the Carlson cottage
and all over Lakeview and Edgewater,
testified with great detail as to the dis
tanceS, condition of the roads, etc. On
the cross examination MIR. Forrest
asked him:
Could q wagon drive along Fifty-ninth
street to the lake all right-a wagon, for ex
ample, loaded with one trunk and three big
men?
Mr.. Hynes Gnterruptingl-Fou big men,
one in the trunk. [Sensation.l
Mr.. Forrest-Ah, yes.
Witness-Yes, sir; the wagon could go
along there.
The witness then continued his story,
and said that on Sunday noon, May 4, a
trunk, in which he found cotton batting
and paper and lock of hair. was
brought to the police station. At this
point the states attorney invited the
witness to come down and inspect the
inside of the trunk, and, the lid being
lifted, its blood-beSmeared interior was
once more exposed to the curious gaze.
You may look inside Of it," said Mr..
Longenecker, and the witness bent over
and carefully inspected the interior of
the bloody box. After careful inspec-
ton he said:
All that cotton was not in there; only about
a third Of it.
The policeman who brought in the
trunk delivered with it also lock of
hair. one end of which was clotted with
blood. This and the trunk were turned
over to the witness successor, Capt.
Wing. The croSs-eXaminatiOn did not
shake the testimony of the chief. Her
man Theel, salOOnkeeper, testified that
in theImorning, May 5, in company with
two friends, he drove through Evanston
avenue, Lakeyiew. They discovered a
trunk, which had been broken open,
lying in a ditch by the roadside. 1t
contained cotton batting clotte with
blood. He and his friends drew it out
of the ditch and placed it on the edge of
the street. The witness identified
THE BLoOD-STAINED TRUNK
in the court room as the one to which
he referred. Herman Pausee and Carl
KnOpf, who were with Theel when the
trunk was discovered, corrOborated that
witness testimony, without adding any
material points. The court then took a
recess until 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
At the opening of the afternoon session
licemen sent out to bring in the trunk
after its discovery, was put on the
stand and told of the contents of the
trunk as he found them ON arrival at
the place where it was lying on Evans
ton avenue. His description agreed
with that of former witnesses. He
found some hair in the trunk. He took
a portion of it and delivered it to Capt.
VillierS, and Policeman Malta, who
was with him, took the remainder. The
witness identified the trunk in the
court room as the one he had assisted in
removing from Evanston avenue to the
police station on that occasion. The
witness also took from the catch-baSin
in which DIR. Cronin's body was found
lot of cotton batting, which he put
into pail. He here identified the pail
and the muddy, bloody batting. On the
ed or oath of May, the witness
WENT TO O'SULLIVAN'S HOUSE
to arrest him. While there, O'Sullivan,
looking toward the Carlson cottage, saw
said: What i'm HI are they going in
there for, the d-n fools?n Capt. E. FL.
Wing, of the Lakeylew police, who sue
ceeded Capt. VillierS, and who accom-
panied Officer Phillips on the trip when
the trunk was brought in, was the next
witness. He told the story substantially
as it was told by Phillips. He sotesti-
fed to receiving key from another pO-
liceman which fitted the lock of the
trunk; on one end of it was some yell
lowish paint. The relevancy of this,
yet to be shown, is that the key found in
the Carlson cottage and the paint on it
is the same as the paint on the cottage
floor. The witness also described the
interior appearance of the Carlson cot
tage in substantially the same words as
previous witnesses have done. Police
Officers Jacob Spengler and George
Malta, of Lakeview, testified as to the
bringing in of the trunk, and of the cot
ton batting In pail, c0rf0DOratlng the
testimony of former witnesses. Police
Officer George Hot, of the Chicago
force, testified that on the day following
the
DISCOVERY OF CRoNIN'S BODY
he and Officer Lorch made a careful
search of the Carlson cottage. He iden-
titled the paint-smeared key as one
found by himself and Torch in the cot
tage, and added that he subseque ntly
saw Capt. SchuettleI, of the Chicago
police, fit it into the lock of the bloody
trunk, which it readily unlocked.
William L. James, a lad of sixteen
years, who is learning stenography,
testified that in February last he occu-
pied a room in the Opera House block
overlooking the upper flat at III Clark
street. In that month he often saw two
men in those rooms. He identified the
prisoner KunZe as one of them. KunZe
was washing his feet, and as soon as he
discovered that the witness was look
ing at him, he pulled down the blind.
Young James was still on the witness
stand when court adjourned until to-
morrow