Morning journal and courier., 1889-11-07
THE CKONIN TRIAL.

several WITNESSES Identity the Bloc
Besmeared Trunk-The Discovery q
the Trunk and Hts Delivery To IN
POliee-The Pa1nt-Branded Key.
CHICAGO, Nov. 6.-The first witness in tn
Cronin case this morning was Robert 7
Stanton of Lakeview. he identified one @
Patrick O'Sullivan's cards as similar to 10
he had printed.
Captain Francis Villiers, ex-ohief-of- polio,
of the Lakeview station, was then recalled
and with chart of the streets around tn.
Carlson cottage and all over Lakeview anG
edgewater, testified with great detail as te
the distances, condition of the roads, etc
On the cross examination Mr.. Forrest asked
him:
Could wagon drive along Eifty-ninth
street to the lake all right-a wagon, for in
stance, loaded with one trunk and three big
mena
Mr.. Haynes-Q nterruptsd) Four big men.
one in the trunk. (ssnsatisn).
Mr.. Forrest-Ah, yes.
Witness-Yes, sir, the wagon could 60
along there.
The witness then continued his story and
said that on Sunday noon, May 5, q trunk in
which he found cotton brtting and paper and
a 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.
Longeneoker, and the witness bent over and
carefully inspected the interior of the bloody
box. After careful inspection, he said:
| "All that cotton was not In there, only
about third Of it," The policeman who
brought in the trunk delivered with it lock
Of hair, one end of which were clotted with
blood. This and the trunk was turned over
to the Witness successor, Captain Wing.
The cross-examination did not shake the
| testimony of the chief.
Herman Theele, saloon keeper, testified
that early in the morning Of May 5, in COM
pany with two friends, ne drove through
| Evanston avenue, Lakeview. They diseov-
| cred trunk which had been broken open
| lying in ditch by the roadside. 1t con-
tanned cotton batting elotted with blood. He
placed it on the edge of the street. Witness
| identified the trunk. Herman Pause and
Carl Knopf, who were with Thoele when the
| drunk was discovered, corroborated that
| witness testimony without adding material
points.
The court then took recess.
At the afternoon session Job Phillips, one
| Ol tuo AhkSFlOW DOllC6u6uy bcHt Ouu w UTlUk
| 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 1t was lying on Evanston ave.
nue.. The witness identified the trunk in
the court room as the one which he had as
| sisted in removing from Evanston avenue to
the police station on that occasion. The
witness also took from the catch basin in
which DR.. Cronin's body was found lot Of
- I>k& .x-1,s nh, h. iuko ,,ai1 II.
here identified the pail and the muddy,
bloody batting. On the 23rd or 24th of
May, the witness went to OSullivan's house
to arrest MIN. While there O'Sullivan,
looking toward the Carlson cottage saw
number of people going into it and said:
What in HI are they going in there for,
the id fools?"
lice, who succeeded Captain Villiers and
who accompanied Officer Phillips on the trip
when the trunk was brought in, was the next
witness. He told the story substantially as
told by Phillips. He alse testified to receiv-
ing key from another policeman which
fitted the lock of the trunk. On the end of
1t was some yellowish paint. The relevancy
Of this, yet to be shown, is that it is the key
found in the Carlson cottage, and that the
paint on it is the same as the paint on the
cottage foor. The witness also described
the interior appearance of the Carlson cot
tage in substantially the same way as pre-
vious witnesses have done.
Policemen Jacob Spengler and George Ma
| lia, of Lakeview, testified as to the bringing
| in Of the trunk and the cotton batting in
pail, corroborating the testimony of former
| witnesses.
Policeman George Hiott of the Chicago
| force testified that on the day following the
discovery of DR.. Cronin's body he and OF
Ger Torch made q careful search of the Carl
son cottage. He identified the paint-smsared
key a. one found by himself and Loreh in
the cottage, and added that he saw Captain
Schusttler of the Chicago police force ft 1t
into the lock Of the bloody trunk, which 1t
readily unlocked. VIM. L. James, . lad of
sixteen years who is learning stenography.
tsstined-that in February last he occupied q
room in the Opera House block overlooking
| the fiat at 1T Clarke street. He often saw
| two men In those rooms. he identified the
| prisoner Kunzs a. one of them. Kunze
| was washing his feet, and as soon as he dis
covered that the witness was looking at him
he pulled down the blind.
Young James was still on the stand when
court adjourned until tomorrow.
THE DER. hYLANCE CASE.