The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-06-20
The CronIn Murder Mystery.

CHICAGO, June 16-Woodruff, the horse
thief, who is implicated in the Cronin MUIR
der. las made a full confession of his con-
necrion with the assassination. He arrived
in Chicago on March 26 last and soon after
made the acquaintance Of p. o. Sullivan. the
iceman. He met Detective Coughlin, whom
he had known by reputation as "fence," a
few days later. The man Melville. who Is
supposed to be Maroney, arrived In Chicago
about this time and Woodruff saw hin
drinking with Coughlin in a saloon. The
three men had several drinks together.
When they left the saloon Coughlin separ-
ated from Woodruff and Melville, the latter
going to another saloon, and after that Mel
vile said he had TO go to McCoy's hotel,
where be was stopping, and left Woodruff
just as they separated Melville told Wood
ruff he wanted TO see him again and gave
him a few dollars, and added: You
needn't be broke as long as am
in town" On the day following Wood
Iuff met Mike McDougaI 10 company
with Coughlin. AS Woodruff approached he
overheard Coughlin say: %Good; he ia just
the man l want to see" Turning to Nc
DouGaH he said, Are you acquainted? re-
piled, 4 guess l ought to know Mac Nc
Dougall turned to me and said, That will
do; my name is Williams l laughed and
said, "A rose by any other name would prob
ably be as sweet Williams during the aft
ernoon asked me how l was fixed? said I
was nearly busted He said, You are fool ,
replied that it was a mighty hard time to
make u dollar unless you took desperate
chances, and was not prepared to do that
He said, why don't you go down and
SEE ALEXANDER SULLIVAN
Il went to Deans barn and thought tho mat
ter over aad then returned and applied at
Alexander SuIlivan's, giving as an excuse to
Dean that was going down to the postof
fee Alexander Sullivan was not in, but
going out met him in the hall before
leGched the elevator. l said: Mr.. Sullivan
McDougall sent me over to see you.' MIR
Sullivan said, 'McDougall-Oh, you mean
Williams, Go It you?' 1 said, Yes guess
SO; l slept with him last night. He wanted
ne to go over and have talk with you He
asked, What kind or work would you like"
l said, Anything tn Gods world, if there's
any money in it, He looked at me sharply
and replied: II hear of anything for you
I'll let Mr.. Williams know of it. and walked
away without even saying goodbye to me-
Soon after this they met Sullivan on the
street. He took Williams ON one side and
handed bim money. saying: %Now pay that
rent" Then, seeing Woodruff, Sullivan told
him he must not take offence at his manner
the previous day, as he was very busy, and
had great many applications for jobs. The
Wednesday before the murder Woodruff met
Coughlic, VINO asked him to
TAKE NOTE OVER TO SULLIVAN
This ote was in cipher the same az had
been used by the Fenians when Woodruff
was at Ntaga1u. Woodruff looked ut it and
says it read: "Going up to P. o. Sullivan's
The remainder of his confession deals mainly
with the night of the murder.
WINNIPEG, Special Telegram, June 10
Chief of Police AcRae tonight arrested Mar
tin Burke, alias Delaney, who is wanted in
Chicago for completely in the murder of Dr.
Cronin. Delaney was just about to take
passage by the Canadian Pacific express for
Toronto when arrested. His strange move
ments and anxious face aroused the suF-
picions or the chief of police, who immedi-
ately arrested him and wired the Chicag o
pOice tor Instructions The reply came {:
"Hold Delaney by all means An officer will
be SEM from Chicago Immediately" Della
ney passed the night in the cells He IS
about twenty six years of age and OF small
stature.