Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-08
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The States Attorney Says that Nothing
| Else VIII Save His Neck

The States Attorney Says that Nothing
Else VIII Save His Neck.
CHICAGO, August 7th-This morning
Judge Baker issued a writ of habeas corpus
for the release of Martin Burke the Cronin
suspect. The writ was obtained by LAWYER
Kennedy, who had been refused permission
TO see his client, made returnable at 3
o clock this afternoon, but was issued with
the understanding that if the officials per-
mitted Kennedy 10 see Burke before that
hour the matter would be dropped.
Chief of Police Hubbord, in company
With several of DR.. Crouin's friends, went
down to see Burke this afternoon for the
purpose of identification by the fiiends.
Hubbard carried him a letter which had
been in the North Side Postoffice some
time for Burke. 1t was from his mother,
in Iowa. The prisoner opened the letter
aud perused it. When he had finished he
threw himself upon the floor of the cell
and cried like child. Seeing bis grief
stricken condition, it was decided to post
pone the conformation of witnesses until
another time.
An afternoon paper says that Chief Nc.
Rae, of the Winnipeg police, will be wit
ness at the trial; that he won Burke's con-
fdence during the latter's soiourn in Win
nipeg, and that the prisoner made i'm
portant admissions to him. The authori-
ties here are confident that Burke will
eventually confess.
WILL HE CONFESS?
States Attorney Longnecker said to-day:
u do not think he can hold out against the
unavoidable prospect of execution for mur-
der. think he will confess. am certain
Burke is one of the men who actually
killed Cronin, and nothing in the world
can save him from the gallows, except e
juror who would not hang any body. With
all the evidence we have against Burke,
and there is far more than has been pub
lished, there is no escape for him, and he
will drag down the others with him also.
We have evidence that cannot be contro-
verted."
it seems the murder of Cronin is not the
first crime with which Burke has been
charged. He was arrested in 1887 on sus-
picion of having been connected with the
death of one Tony Gallagher, but was dis
charged for lack of proof.
MONEY FOR wooDRUFF.
Frank Woodruff, who is in Jail here un-
der an Indictment charging him with con-
spiracy to murder Dr. Cronin, takes his
confinement more cheerfully and philo-
sOphically than any of the Others charged
with the same crime. Tkis morning he
received letter and an express package
from California, aad subsequently, "shook
roll, as he expresses it, in the faces OF
his jsilers. The money came from his
stepisther.
LEGAL wRAEGLING.
AT 3 P. NJ, the hour upon which the writ
in the Burke babeas corpus case was made
returnable, Chief Hnbbsrd, States Attor-
ney Longenecker and Corporation Counsel
Hutchinson appeared before Judge Baker.
Hutchinson, without any preliminaries,
made an unexpected declaration in reply
to the writ that Burke was not in the Gus
tody of Chief Hubbard at all. Burke, con-
tended Hutchinson, was in the hands OF
officer Collins, who held him on q reouisi.
ton, and who was acting as messenger for
the President of the United States.
A whispered consultation here took