Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-07-10

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| //I/IIv,N 9HAWVIW 4AuAAAO "AUu uuCbS
drove the ex-de-
JOHN AoNzE' tectlve to the Carl
son cottage between and 9 o'clock
on tho night DR.. Cronin was MUIR
dered He also admitted that he
and Burke were with Coughlin when the
latter visited DIR. George N. Cass, the Full
ton street veterinary surgeon, and tried to
hire his fast horse. He said, however.
that he did not know where Coughlin got
the horse the night of the murder.
Coughlin drove it to the corner of Chi
cago avenue and Wells street, and
they started from there about o'clock,
driving north at rapid clip. Coughlin
told him when the cottage was reached to
drive to a secluded street corner and re-
main there an hour, and after that
to return to the cottage. Kunze
obeyed his instructions to the
letter. The buggy had scarcely
stopped before the cottage the second time
when Coughlin came out and climbed up
beside Kunze, who drove rapidly away. The
two proceeded to the corner Of Chicago ave.
nue. and Clark street, where Coughlin told
kunze to get out. Kunze says he does not
know where the ex-detective went after
that He suspected that crime of some
| sort had been committed in the cottage.
but just what it was he did not know Rel
| alive to COOney and Burke, whom he met
not only at III Clark street, but ut the Carl
son cottage, he said he knew very lit
tie about them. He delivered messages
to them from Coughlin, but he never
found out any thing about the business
they were engaged in. Kunze says he
heard Coughlin refer to DR.: Cronin quite
frequently, and that he made threats
against him on more than one occasion,
but he did not know that the doctor had
been murdered the night he drove Cough
lin to the cottage until he read the papers
Monday morning.
The above facts came from a source
which there is every reason to believe is
authentic, still it is partially denied at po-
lice headquarters that any confession has
been extracted from Kunze.
| WINNIPEG, Man, July 3.-There was a
large attendance of spectators in court
Monday to watch the proceedings in the
Burke case. Assistant States Attorney
Baker, OF Chicago. was present and made
copious notes.
! Counsel for the prosecution presented
the dispositions taken before the grand
jury and a magistrate in Chicago, which
| were certified to by the United States Sec
rotary Of State and the Secretary of tho
British Legation. The prisoners counsel
| objected to the indictment and statements
before the grand jury being taken as evil
! dence, but the judge intima:eG that they
were sufficient He did not know if it were
even necessary for him to go beyond ascer-
tanning the fact that Martin Burke was the
man referred to in the Chicago Indictment
The most important evidence in the pro-
ceedings was that given by Martinson, the
expressman, who gave particulars of his
being engaged by Burke to haul furniture
from No. III Clark street to the Carlson
cottage The witness said he noticed
among the furniture a large empty trunk.
and positively identified the person MS the
man who hired and paid him. Additional
witnesses will be examined to-day Burke
appeared agitated during the presentation
OF evidence.
! CHICAGO, July 3.-The States Attorney
received u telegram last night from his as
sistant, George Baker, informing him
that the extradition papers in the
case Of Martin Burke had been
accepted by the Manitoba author
tiles. This is good news for the police, as
it was expected that Burke by his resist
ance would delay his cxtrad;tion until fall.
If there is no further hitch in the proceed
ings Burke will be guest of Sheriff Mat
son within week
New YORK, July SIN the next issue Of
the Irish World there will appear an edi-
torial article, five columns long, set In
double leads and signed by Patrick Ford.
! The article is subdividcd into ten
sections. In the first section Mr..
Ford says he is not member of
the Clan-na-Gael, and in that con-
nection adds: "All secret political societies
are so many rings operating in the dark
30 bring under contSol or influence by in
| direct methods those who work in the
OPEN" He, however, reproaches Irishmen
| for having offered what he terms this
mean advantage to the Cronin Jury of be-
ing able to declare the Clan-na-Gael in
,, furious to American institutions. After
commenting Alexander Sullivan's virtues
| he adds:
Nov, at this hour, in my opinion, Alex.
| ander Sullivan is the victim of grave injustice.
That he is entirely innocent of the murder OF
DR.. Cronin, that he is utterly incapable OF con-
| ceivlng, o: suggesting, or wishing so dastardly
crime firmly believe. I should des pse N.Y.
self were to sin against my soul by preserv.
! ing acowardly silence at this desptcably con.
venient tme."
Then the writer at extreme length re-
views the Cronin case and it's co,nplica-
tions. He concluded eventually that Sui
Ivan could have no motive in comprising
the death Of an enemy whose hostile secrets
were known by hundreds of others
But he continues, IF Alexander Sui
livan has nothing to gain by Cronin's muir
| der there were people who had something
n In hyyi @1vr ootn