The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-06-27
The Cronln Hurder nystsry.

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CHICAGO. June 16.-Woodruff, the horse
thief, who IL implicated In the Cronin mur
der. has made q full confession Of his con
necrion with the assassination. He arrived
in Chicago on March % last and soon after
made the acquaintance Of P.O Sullivan. the
tceman. He met Detective Coughlin, whom
he had known by reputation as a @fence," a
few days later. The man Melville. who II
supposed to be Maroney, arrived in Chicago
about this time and Woodruff saw him
drinking with C~oughlin in q 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 he was stopping, and left Woodruff.
just as they separated Melville told Wood
ruff he waited to see him again and gave
him q few dollars, and added: @You
needn't be broke as long as I an
in town." On the day following Wood
ruff met Mike McDougall ID company
with Coughlin. As Woodruff approached he
overheard Coughlin say: *Good; he ia just
the mau want to see." @1'urning to Nc
Dougafi he said, Are you acquainted?' I re-
piled, Iguess I ought to know Mac Nc
Dougall turned to me and said, That will
do; my name is Williams.' I laughed and
said, "A rose by any other name would prob
ably be as sweet Williams during the aft
ernoo asked me how I was fixed? I said :.
wal nearly busted He said. You are a fool.
I replied that 1t was q mighty hard time to
make a dollar unless you took desperate
chances, and I was not prepared to do that
He said, why don't you 90 down and -,
SEE ALEXANDER s~ULLIvAN?'
81 went to Deans barn and thought tho mat
ter yer and then returned and applied at
Alexander %sullivan's, giving as an excuse to
Dean that I was going down to the postof-
foe. Alexander Sullivan was not in, but
going out I met him in the hail before !
reached the elevator. I said: Mr.. Sullivan,
McDougall sent me over to see you.' Mr..
Williams, don't your I said, Yes, I guess
SO; I slept with him last night. He wanted
me to 20 over and have q talk with you.' He
asked, What kind OF work would you like!'
I said, Anything In Gods world, If there's
any money In it, He looked at me sharply
and replied: If I hear Of anything for you
let Mr.. Williams know Of it. and walked
away without ever saying goodbye to me.
Soon after this they met Sullivan on the
street He took Williams on one side and
handed him money. saying. snow pay that
rent" Then, seeing Woodruff, Sullivan told
him he must not take offence at his manner
The previous day, rs he was very busy, and
had a great many applications for jobs. The
before the murder Woodruff met
Coughlin, who asked him to
TAKE A NOTE YER TO SULLIVAN.
This note was in cipher, the same az had
been used by the Fenians when Woodruff
was at Niagazn. Woodruff looked at it and
says it read: sGoing up to T. O. Sullivan's."
remainder of his confession deals mainly
with the night OF the murder.
WINNIPEG. Special Telegram, June 10
Chief of Police McRae 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 sus-
OF the chief of police, who immedi-
arely arrested him and wired the Chicago
police for instructions. The reply came:
Delaney by all means. An officer will,
be sent from Chicago immediately" Della
ney passed the night in the cells He 10
about twenty-stx years of age and OF small