The Springdale news., 1889-06-07
THE GROWN MURDER.

The Alleged Confession of Woodruff Im-
 plicating Alexander Sullivan, Detective
 Coughlin and Two Others, King and
 Fairburn,in the Crime Captain Schaack
 Peremptorly Removed for Trying to
 Shield Coughiin.
 CHICAGO, June 5.-Startling evidence was given before the coroner's jury in the Cronin case. It was late when the 'burg- omaster" was called He testified that on the day that the grand jury took up tho case the prisoner Woodruff, alias King, sent for him and confessed that he drove the wagon with the trunk that contained Cronin's body from the Evanston avenue cottage to the catch basin. He opened the confession by saying that he was in a saloon on Division street near Franklin, one day. with two men named King and Fairburn, when a stranger entered and took King aside. He produced big roll of money, and gave some to King and some to Fairburn. When he had gone Woodruff asked King who it was, and he replied: ''That Is the great lawyer, Alex Sullivan" Woodruff went on to say that he was hired by Detective Coughln for the sum of twenty five dol lars to go to the cottage and get the
 
 accompanied him. They first drove through Lincoln Park, where the trunk was taken out and again returned to the buggy. Then they drove to the catch basin. After the body had been placed therein and the trunk dropped by the waysida, they drove to barn, where they washed and fixed up. Coughlin, he went on to say, told him several days before- hand that he had a job for him. On the afternoon of May he came to him and said "Now's the night it's got to be done. If you don't get out before three o'clock it will be no usc." Atniue o'clock he got the wagon.
 After Schaack had concluded, "Maior" Sampson, a man we'll known in tho police annals and at the Bridewell, testified that CoughIn tried to hire him some time ago to slug Cronin, and promised to pay lib erally for the job. A man named Billy Lyon corrobOrated this, and an adjourn ment was taken.
 The evidence taken earlier in the day was that of the Lake View police officers who saw the mysterious vehicle on the fatal night and of the doctors who made the post-mortem examination.
 Late last light Chief of Police Hubbard issued an order peremptorily removing Captain Schaack from the command of the Chicago avenue district and also sus- pending him from duty. This action was based upon his unsatisfactory evidence yesterday afternoon, and upon the opin- ion that he had bungled the case from the start. He admitted to the jury that he had not asked Woodruff to describe Alex. Sullivan ana in general demonstr ated that he had tried to shield Coughlin to the hindrance of tle investigation. | The police have an important clew to the murderers. They have found the ex- I pressman who hauled the murderers' : ! goods from the building at No. IF Clark street to the Carlson cottage. According | to tho expressman the fellows belong in | Chicago, and he has seen both of them l frequently since he hauled their goods. l The last time he saw them was last Sat- | urday. The expressman's description ot | one of the men talles closely with that of | Simons. who bought the furniture from ! Revcll $ O., and of Williams, who rent ! ed the cottage from the Carlsons. The | pC9.cc believe the two men are st1ll in town, and they are relying on the ex. | pressman to find them.