St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-02
Old Jonas Carlson Clinches
the Testimony OF His
RI Daughter-in-Law.
The Winnipeg Fugitive Fully
Realizes the Damaging Nat
3 lre OF the Testimony.
He Winees Under the Strain
and Bushes at His
Guilt.

the opening OF the Cfonln case To-Day
was light. Kunze, who is yet complain
ing. was furnished with big rocking
chair and pillow. and WAS apparently
too i'll to take much interest in the pro-
ceedings. The line of evidence laid out
by the state for presentation to-day was
a continuance of that of yesterday. The
furniture was to be traced from Revelfs
store, and it was to be shown that u.
r. Simonds" had brought it to the Carl
son cottage. The first witness called
was Martin McHale. carpet layer foo
Revell & Co. He testified that on Feb.
20 or % he laid carpet on the front
room of the top fat of 1T Clark street.
He identified piece of carpet as being
the same pattern and quality as that he
laid in the room, and his description of
the man who apparently occupied the
room was much The same as Hatfield's
and Throekmorton's description yester-
day of u. B. iSimondS." There was
nothing of interest developed on the
cross-examinatiOn. Martin
BURKE WAS POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED
as Frank Williams" one of the tenants
OF the Carlson cottage, by Anne Carl
son, daughter-in-law of the old Carl
sons. She said that in March last she
was domestic in the employ of Adj
Olson Bolland on Michigan avenue.
On the Goth of that month she
visited her parents-in-iaw at their
cottage. She was there with
her husband, Charles Carlson, from 10
in the morning until 4 in the afternoon.
One man called there during that time.
III cYant-, 10 A- NorIcny, nd cord That
he wanted to rent the cottage and keep
house with his sister. He said that his
sister would not be there for a week.
but he had some furniture he would
send to the cottage. Dir. Carlson wrote
receipt, and when asked what uame
he Should put in, he replied 'sFrank
Williams" He said he worked down
town.
DO you see that manT" witness was asked.
II DO she responded, in firm tone.
in the court room?"
Il do"
''Point him out"
The black-gloved hand went up and
the index finger pointed direct at the
face of Martin Burke. A death-like
stiffness prevailed, and pin might
have been heard to drop. Every eye
was fixed on the Winnipeg fugitive.
: His ewes, which had been riyeted on the
witness from the moment she assembled
the stand, remained there and took on
CLASSY look for a moment. Then he
WINGED and the hot blood surged infe
his cheeks until they were crimson,
while his jaws worked conyulsiyely on
the piece of gum in his mouth. Still
Luther Latin Mills
KEPT UP THE TORTURE.
is the man you point at and identify as the
man who rented the cottage Martin Burke!'
f%That,s him, the man who is chewing"
Y (which man is he, with reference to the
man on the pillow lKunzet?"
s.The one next to him.
Then there was a wild, hunted look In
Burke's eyes, still fixed on the witness,
and the audience expected scene. 1t
was disappointed. however. and Mrs.
Carlson was turned over to the defense.
Characterization failed to shake her
testimony. She was asked to describe
the appearance of the man while Lawyer
Donahoe stood before Burke so that his
face could not be seen by the witness.
She said his hair was dark, still Burke'S
is rather light, but this is explained by
the fact that while apparently light at
distance. at close quarters it looks dark.
With this exception Forrest did not
break down word OF the testimony.
Jonas Carlson. the owner OF the cottage,
was the next witness. He eerroborated
the testimony of his daughter-ln-law
about the stranger coming to rent the
cottage. The witness then said:
He asked me IL 1t was my house, as he
wanted to rent the house. 1 told him yes.
He said: LET me see the house, and we
walked over to the house and took the keys
and went up to the house with him. We
went In at the back door, and he looked
md coid fhQFn hmm
much do yea ask for its said Sl2 month.
He said: sCan you take sir" mo, can
not said. II will give you the money
now he said. Then got the money and
my boy gave him receipt. when we went
back to the other house.
Carlson went on to say that the
stranger, who gave the name of Frank
Williams. said that he had three broth
ers, and his sister was to come on from
Baltimore to keep house for them. He
had bought the furniture and it would
arrive in two or three days. The
stranger then took the key. The wit
ness said he had met and talked with
O'Snllivan, one of the defendants. many
times. O'Sullivan lived In the immedi-
ate vicinity. At this point recess was
taken.
At the opening of the afternoon ses-
sion, Joseph L. Brouse, photographer,
took the witness stand, and identified a
photograph shown him as one taken by
him. It was
PICTURE OF THE CARLSON COTTAGE
and O'Sullivan's house and ice-h0use.
Tt was placed in evidence. John G. Nc
Davitt. clerk in the criminal court.
identified diagram made by him of the
neighbOrhoed of the Carlson cottage
and the cottage itself, the size and loca-
ton of whose rooms he described. 1t
was admitted in evidence. Jonas Carl
son was then recalled. and his testi-
mony on behalf of the state was con-
tinued. He said that the stranger, after
renting the cottage, walked across lots
to O'Suiliyah's stables, where he met
O'Suliivan and talked with him. Wit
ness heard Burke say to O'Sullivan,
ssThe cottage is rented" The next time
theiWitness saw Burke was at about
O'Clock on the afternoon of May 4. a few
hours before DIR. Cronin was murdered
He stood on the front steps of the cot
tage At z O'Clock that night the witness
heard two men talking in the cottage.
They were talking lin hard voice."
as Carlson expressed il. In April the
witness hada conversation with 0'Suili-
van about the men who had rented the
cottage, O'Sulliyan told him that he
knew one of them: that he was sail
right and that he would pay the rent
when due. On May 19 Carlson had an-
other conversation with OpSullivan, in
which he told O'Sullivan that the cot
tage was vacant, and that he had re-
eeised letter from the man who had
rented it, asking him Carlson to put
the furniture in the basement, and say
ing that he had
PAINTED THE PARLOR FLOOR
to save his sister the trouble of scrub
bing it. O'Sullivan remarked that he
was having hard luck with his cottage.
The letter spoken of and its envelope
were idetified. On the Goth of May the
witness entered the blood-stained cot
tage, he said, and proceeded TO describe
the conditions there apparent. The ex-
animation of this witness had been
prosaie enough up to this point. 1t con-
tinued as follows:
o. How many times altogether did you
see the man calling himself Frank Will-
iamss
A. Three times.
Q. That is in the neighberhood Of where
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