New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-06-20
BURKE INDICTED.
PREPARING FOR his ExTRADlT1oN FROM
MANITOBA

.,s ACKNOWLEDGMENT THAT he KNEW oRoNaS
oorsrnpspp rANTAMoUNT no A CONFESS
s1os-coMp1ArNING OF THE NEW:
YORK POLICE.
rh,.oro Time l9.-Cbief Hubbard has had oil
tho central detail detectives WORKING up ourAe
record in Chicago and is more cer'ain 'han ever
~. ,ha man arrested in Winnipeg Is one oil the
80 mnrderers. A late telegram from the WIN
r,neg Chief of Police to Chief HUBBARD taxes away
the last doubt that the man is leahs Durho'
rIe not only admitted that he was harun Durhe'
but that he knew DR.. Cronin. seVerai witnesses
have testified that Burke said LII. Cfohlh ougho
"a be killed, and his photograph IN large group
~ pctures has been identified as pelng that OF
the man who bought the furniture 1ound IN the
Carlson cottage by the salesman ana eApressniah'
The Carlsons also picked MIN OUT Oh tne group
as the man who hsd rented the cottage OF them
Burkes own story is himsy one. he does
-. o,n,oin where he got the money he spent
so freely, when apparently out OF WORK.
.,d his statement that he worked for the City
Sswer Sew Department is pronounced false by Superin-
,sndent CLANCY His claim that he was on the
vav to Ireland via Winnipeg is also regarded
as fshy.
an Indictment against him this morning. The
fndit u ent is the means relied on to secure his
sStra6ition. 1t charges him with the murder OF
Dr. Cronin by means Of weapons, "a more par
aeular description of which is TO the jury un-
known" and aided and abetted by unknown per-
sons. There is a second count in which Burke,
y otherwise known as Delaney, otherwise known
as Frank Williams Is charged with conspirlng
with unknown parsons to commit murder.
The law requires that the names Of the wit
nesses upon whose testimony an indictment Is
found must appear upon the back Of the docu-
n,ent The Indictment found to-day bears the
names Of ifty-fve witnesses and includes every
person who has testified at the present investiga-
ton and the coroners inquest In addition to
these there were three witnesses whose testimony
has not vet appeared in print. They were James
Riley, William Lunn and j. w. Simpson.
Captain Schuettler is working ON the
theory that Burke was the man who tried
to decoy DR.. Cronin away
several times before the murder. He has
In his possession some facts to prove that Burke
sent several messages to DR.. Cronin 60 call on
pretended patients. 1t has been learned that at
the time DR.. Cronin was decoyed to Butterfeld-st.
to attend o supposed siok man, Burke lived in
the immediate neighborhood, having taken up
his quarters there temporarily. He became ac-
quainted with several Clan-na-Gael men there.
and, becoming intimate with these men, and
learning that they belonged to the
anti-Cronin faction, which was then bitterly
st war with the Sullivan wing OF
the order, he let his thoughts loose, and all but
told that he there for the purpose OF removing
DR.. Cronin. He drank good deal, and in his
bibulous moments joked about his scheme for in
weighing Dr. Cronin to the vacant lot where he
would be slugged good and hard
pearsnce when Or. Cronin kept the appointment
WAS that he was intoxicated
1he Grand Jury put in its time to-day after
finding the Indictment against Burke in reading
the messages turned over to it by the Western
Union Telegraph Company. The dispatches 10
Sullivan were over 80 in number. There were
two or three cablegrams from his wife, Margaret
Sullivan, in Paris. There were also twenty or
hirty cablegrams from Ireland relating TO the
Land League and other Irish affairs. Then there
we're short dispatches from Father OReilly, ex-
treasurer Of the Land League at Detroit Ten
lispatches came from Lincoln, Neb The Grand
Jury passed over these as Of little import and
hen struck some queer ones from Ncw-iork
md Pttsburg Evidently they were cipher
messages, for Foreman Clough and his associates
oould make nothing of them, except mere lumble
,f letters It was reported that Frank Woodruff
the champion cipher message reader, was TO be
,sled in to translate the dispatches, but for some
reason he failed to put in an appearance. These
dispatches prove nothing, and only inference can
be seen by perusal in their contents. Some are
signed M" Others " s. and "G." They are all
10 ALEC Sullivan, Opera House Block,
Chicago" An unusually large number were re-
,eived in March and April Three dispatches from
New-York were received by Nv. G. Melville.
McCoy's Hotel,' in the latter part Of April
The treatment Of Throckmorton. Hatfield and
Martinsen by the New-York police was the cause
Of great deal Of caustic comment in Chicago
police circles this morning, and the opinion was
general that the authorities in the Empire City
were deserving Of severe censure. Lieutenant
Horace Elliott chief Of detectives was particularly
biting In bis criticism.
The whole manner of procedure was wrong"
be said. In the first place, II was the acme
of stupidity and criminal biundering TO notify
those who were scrutnized by the Chicago
ms that they were gCing TO be
passed in review: for IL any OF
hem were guilty the notification was equivalent
o a warning With such warning an expert
nj ght easily make some alterations in his looks
o pe suro u mi9ht oe ehsho' SeI eNch Iiuihs
Inference of expression would be sufficient to cast
doubt over the mind Of O conscientious man,
ware that on his word the life Of q man might
epend. In the second place. the Tombs is the
asst place in the world to identify any one: that
s, in the room where understand the identifcs-
ion, or rather the farce, took place. 1t is dark.
ismal and just the place that a guilty man would
elect What they should have done was not to
ave said anything to Moroney and Mcdonald
bout their going to be passed In review, but to
AXE them into court and let the identifers sit by
be Judge or In an equally good position. BY TINT
xay the suspects would have been unaware Of the
yhicagosns' presence and would have appeared
natural and st their ease and the light would have
,een as IL should be- strong and clear"
Why do you think the police there acted as
hey did?'