Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-10
AN OFFICERS STORY.
How it was Discovered that CrOnin was
Murdered in the Carlson Cottage.
Cooney and Kunz Under Arrest Three Days
After Cronin was Killed-Burke Seen
Crawling from the Basement.

CHICAGO, ILL. sept. S.-LG heeiHS LiaC
although a great deal of matter has been
published about the CTQnln =nearder, the
true story of the discovery of the evil
dence at the Carlson cottage has never
been told until now. It IS also singular
that the reporters who were working on
the case never discovered that on the
night of May 7, three days after Gro
min was killed, two men, now
supposed to have been Kunz and
COoney, were arrested and taken
to Lakeview station and discharged II
the morning by Capt. Wing. The local
papers stated recently that there waSga
certain Irish officer on the LalIeViewS po-
lice force who was suspected of direct
implication IN the murder Of CrOnin.
! Other such statements were printed by
| the same paper in latter issues. Finally
! the officer determined to tell his story
! which is now
| MADE PUBLIC FOR THE FIRST TINE.
OFFICER Isaac Robinson has been on the
! Lakevtew police force several years and
| has always borne a good reputation. He
! is an Irishman by parentage,
! but is not a member Of any Irish secret
| society. He had the beat in Lakeview
! on which the cottage was located, and it
| was his duty 30 patrol Ashland avenue
| and the intersecting streets for several
| blocks north and south of the Carlson
! house. At different times before the
| murder Robinson noticed men going in
| and out OF the cottage and noticed
| lights in it. He thought
! the cottage was not occupied
! and asked Carlson who the men were
| that went into it and why it was lighted.
| Carlson told him he had rented the place
to two men who sometimes slept in the
! cottage and who expected soon to move
in their furniture and commence house
! kee,,ing. ION the night of May Robin
son saw q man crawling out Of the base
ment Of the cottage and accOsteq him.
Robinson has never seen Burke sSse9t ne
believes Burke lis the man Who talked
with him that evening. & He saMjhe and
his brother were renting the cottage, and
| he -..--- ~.a1
HAD BEEN IN THE BASEMENT
| sirnDly to see if there was not good
| place. there to store some old furniture.
| Robinson was not satisfied with the eX-
| Dfanation. but heNdfd not think he was
| warranted in arresting the man. At
| 0 clock the next night MI. Robinson
turned the corner OF Roscoe street and
came upon two men who we're talking to-
/
! Office 100 feet south Of the
Carlson cottage They had the
door of the office $, open and were
talking about hiding so4tthibg under
the floor Robinson decided TO make an
effort TO discover who they were and
what they were doing there. zone Of
them was shorter than the other. He
spoke in broken English with a German
! accent and said they had lost their way
and wanted to get down town. He said
they were painters and lived on the West
Side Robinson asked them why they
we're standing and talking on the corner,
il they wanted to get down town, and to
ask some one in the neghboThOod and
find the way out The tall man with a
dark mustache and who talked with an
Irish accent answered severely and
Robinson
DETERMINED TO ARREST THEM.
Just as he Started for the patrol a man
ran across from the direction of P.
0 'Sullivan s barn and asked what Rob-
inson was going to do with the men ID.
Robinson remembered this third party as
the man whom he had seen crawling
from the basement of the Carlson cot
tage, and told him he was going to
the station house, and if the
stranger said much he would
| take him along, TOO. Inc man salu AO
more when he saw the officer recognized
him Robinson went to station with the
two men and they were questioned by
Capt Wing. They gave their names
and supposed addresses and repeated the
story they had>previously told TO Robin
son No charges were entered against
, them on the books, consequently the Off
: Ger does not remember the names they
2 gave. They were taken doZn stairs,
2 kept in custody until morning, and then
released by Capt. Wing s orders.
''What s the use of sending them tc
the Bridewau, to cost the city of Lake
view % cents a day." said Capt. Wine
> to Robinson The two men thus dis
z charged, 1t is now believed by Officer
I Robinson, were
KUSZ AND COONEY.
, Their description answers that Of the
two suspects very closely. At the time
of their arrest it was not believed Cronir
= had been murdered, it being supposed he
had left the city of his own accord. Two
5 nights later Robinson says he saw one OF