The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-18
CR0NIN'S CRUEL DEATH.
A MAN SAID TO BE WILLIAMS AR
RESTED AT WINNIPEG.

He Once Gave the Police the Slip
While Being Shadowed-The Two
Men Arrested at New York Given
Their Liberty by Judge Andrews for
Lack Of Sufficient Evidence.
CHICAGO, June ia dispatch from
winnipeg, Man, says: Last night the
chief Of police arrested Martin Burke,
in the Cronin murder. He was boarding
at the Eastern Express, and had q ticket for
liverpool, and Superintendent Hubbard,
who was communicated with, notified the
local auth critics to hold Burke at all haz-
ards.
When Chief Hubbard was asked for an
explanation Of the arrest of Burke at Win
nepeg, he said; 81 refuse positively to say
anything about it at this time further than
that it is very important arrest and that
it will be followed by another in this city.
However, Burke is the man most wanted of
the two.n
1t was stated by the police
this morning that the man ar
rested at Winnipeg yesterday is
Williams, the man who rented the Carlson
cottage, and who hired the furniture moved
from No. III Clark street to the cottage.
The detectives had him under surveillance,
but he gave them the slip and they lost
track OF him for sometime
WORK OF THE GRAND JURY.
The grand jury examined numerous wit
nesse sto-day, but so far as known no new
evidence of startling nature was adduced.
Almost all of the witnesses were of those
who testified before the coroner's jury and
those who were entirely new added nothing
to the general stock of information upon
the murder.
Burk, who was arrested at Winnipeg, is
supposed to be the man who hired the ex-
pressman to remove the furni-
to the Carlson cottage. The express
man has identified Burk's photograph.
His movements were suspicious, and he was
under surveillance. He left Chicago with a
ticket for Liverpool by the Allan Line
steamer, but he went via Winnipeg, intend
ing to go thence to Montreal. He was
arrested as he stepped from the train in
Winnipeg. Chief Hubbard expresses conf
dence that no mistake has been made in
arresting Burk.
1t was redorted tonight that the picture
which furnished clew to the Winnipeg
suspect was group photograph taken at
the dedication of monument to Timothy
Cream, who, some years ago, was seuior
guardian of the Clan. na-G Gael camp from
which DR.. Cronin was expelled. The
thought recently occurred to one of
DR.. Cronin's friends that among the
persons present at the monument dedication
might have been some of those who subse-
quently helped put the doctor out OF the
way. An examination with microscope
eentered attention on the figure of Burk
The Carlsons and the expressman were
shown the picture, and it is said identified
Burk as the mysterious, ~. B. Simons''
alias Williams. With this as a starter the
clew was followed as rapidly as possible.
NEW YoRKs PRISONERS.
NEW YORK, June 1.-THE three men
who came on from Chicago for the purpose
of identifying MaroAey or Mcdonald as
principals or accomplices in the murder of
DR.. Cronin, visited the Tombs this morning
with authority to see the prisoners. The
suspects we're placed in view with a score
of other prisoners. W. II. Hatfield, who
sold the furniture afterward found IN the
cottage where Cronin was murdered, was
the first to pass along the line,
but he failed to identify the men.
He was followed by Martinsen, Express
man Throckmorton and Deputy Sheriff
Williams all of whom failed to identify
the suspects. Maroney and Mcdonald
were then taken back TO their cells and the
Chicagoans left the prison.
Judge Andrews this morning in the
supreme court discharged Maroney and
Mcdonald on the ground that there was no
evidence on which to hold them.
The judge, in his decision, said that 1t
appeared that no legal evidence whatever
was presented bef re the magistrate, either
of Cronin's murder, or that Moroney or
Mcdonald committed the crime. The tele-
gram only asked that these men should be
arrested 1t did not state that Dr. Cronin
was mu dered, or that these men had any
thing to do with the murder. The New
York police do not profess of their own
knowledge to be oognizant of these matters.
Their information is stated to be derived
from kilograms and dispatches.
Moroney and Mcdonald were released
from prison a few minutes after the
decision.