Evening journal., 1889-11-13
DOCTOR CRONIN'S CRIES.
A German Witness Who Says
She Heard Them.
SHE WAS PASSING THE COTTAGE
And Saw Cronin Euter-Thcn,Came BIows,
Cries of Pain, Means end the sounds
ofa Great struggle whioh Died Away
In siienca :

CHICAGO, Nov. lB-At the Cronin trinl
the clothing, instruments, etc, of Dr. Cf.O-
min, which were recently discovered, wers
received in evidence Clerk J. r. Hatfield
took the stand and identified the framework
of the satchel found in the Lake View sewer
containing DR.. Cronin's clothes as being the
frame Of satchel identical with that which
no sold TO ~ b. Simondsn Feb TO- Mrs.
Pauline Hoertel, woman who could speak
no English, testified through an interpreter
that she was passing the Carlson cottage boz
tween Z and $ p. m. May 4 and saw two
men in buggy drawn by white horse
drive up 70 the cottage.
She Heard Cronin Killed.,
A big tall man resembling Dr. Cronin
got out and carried something like sur
geon's case up the steps OF tho cottage.
When the man entered the door was closed
Immediately, and witness heard sounds as
though heavy blows were being dealt; there
was the noise Of great struggle Witness
stopped and heard some ono cry; "Oh, my
GodH There were a few more noises, as II
some one was struggling, cries and moans
and then all was still.
Prisoners Turn Pale.
Tho witness, an unsophisticated German
woman, gave her evidence with so much sim
plicity and straightforwardness that nearly
every one in the court room was impressed
with the recital Coughlin aud Burke at
first turned pale, and then look Of blank
despair settled over their faces The wit
ness went on 10 say that after passing the
cottage she went round on Roscoe street,
where she saw man standing between the
cottage and another house In the shadow.
This was near the real estate office, where
another witness yet 10 come will testify that
O'Sullivan was ON watch while the assass.ni
were at their bloody work
With the statement that the man In the
buggy did not have to wait on the steps, but
that the door was quickly opened for him,
discrimination In chief Of the witness closed
Judge Wing inaugurated the cross-examina.
tion.
How She Fixed the Date.
The witness admitted thot she had been ar
rested two or three times for troubles Will
saloonkeepers, but it turned out that thes,
people had made trouble for her because shl
had tried to keep her husband away from
their saloons. She had been compelled Il
cause tho arrest Of one saloonkeeper for sell
ing liquor to her husband in the face Of he
| protests AS she related her sufferings an
tibulations at the hands of the saloonkcer
ers and her incorporate husband she bocam
dramatic in voice and gesture.
She fixed the date on which she had see
the man enter the Carlson cottage BY CD
fact that it was on the Monday of the sam
week that she had sued a saloonkeeper.
A Missing Link Furnished.
The Hoertel womans evidence furnished
the last missing link in the period betweoi
the decoying Of the Irish patriot from hi
home and the finding Of his body in tn
catch BASIN The defense has always main
tanned that DR.. Cronin could not be trace,
70 the cottage. That contention can exis
no longer il would seem. Thursday, or be
fore, the state will close 1t has not yet beei
decided whether it win be policy 60 intro
duce evidence concerning the quarrel in th
Clan-na- Gael and DR.. Cronins notes Of TIN
Buffalo convention.
Burke Admitted His Name.
Officer Thomas McKinnon, Of Winnipeg
was the first witness called in the afternoon
He testified TO the arrest Of Burke in tina
city on June 49, Burke when arrested hn,
a ticket TO Montreal, a steamship ticke
from Montreal to Liverpool and $500 il
| li0nfA. Inc MNfllt OF W. D. copper WIS OF
the tickets, but after being warned that any
thing he said would be used against him
the prisoner admitted that his name wa
Martin Burke. When asked how man,
names he had, the suspect replied that h
was sometimes called Delaney. He said h
came from Chicago via Hancock, Mich, anl
in the latter city worked in a store owne,
by John f. Ryan. Henry Plankie, a cerl
in a North Clark street gentlemens furnish
ing store testified that on the morning 0
May 5 he sold shirts and collars to two men
one Of whom he identified as Burke.
photograph Of Cooney, "The Fox,n show
the witness by the prosecution, he declared
was an exact likeness Of the other man.
Coughlin Would Not Tell.
The next witness was Thomas Carroll,
railroad laborer, and once fellow boarde
Of Kunze. He testified that one evening il
May or June Kunze asked 70 see newspape
which the witness was reading. The witnes
asked what he wanted Of It, and Kunze saii
he was afraid he was going 70 be arrested il
connection with the Crnnin case Chief o
Police Hubbard was resided % tell Of hi
conversation with Dan coughlin just afte
the body was found. The chief said he toll
\ Coughlin that he was suspected Of havini
stood sponsor TO Liveryman Dinan for th
man who had driven DR.. Cronin away, AM
asked him where he was on May 4 Coughhl
was unable TO state.
The witness had then asked him about thi
man whom he had told Dinan would call 70
the horse. Coughlin said the man was Jame
Smith, a stranger, whom John r. Ryan, th
Hancock storekeeper, had told TO call ol
Coughlin when in Chicago. Smith wante.
to visit an aunt living at the stock yards an
wanted 10 ride there. When the chief aske
him why, when he met Smith afterwards, h
had not arrested him TO clear himself Cough
lin replied because Capt Setback told hir
that Mrs. Conlzlin had failed to identify tn
white horss Coughlin said he had locke
for Smith afterwards, but could not fin
him. He had not, however, looked for hin
either at the hotels or at the house of.Smith'
aunt
He Charged Cronin with Treason.
Daniel Brown, an ex-member Of the Clan
na-Gael and the man who In 1885 preferre
the charge of treason against DR.. Cronir
was called. This witness testimony was {
be the opening wedge into new feature Q
the case by showing that Coughlin was
member of the committee which voted 70
the expulsion of DIR. Cronin and connectin
Coughlin's denuncation of Cronin then as
traitor with a similar anmus exhibited jus
prior to the murder. The defense entered
vigorous objection and the attorneys for bot
sides argued long. The judge said he woul
give his decision in the morning and th
court adjourned.
, More Strikers on the Thames.
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