The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-11-07
RURKE'S STORY RETOLD.
ALLEGED CONFESSION OF THE GRO
MN SUSPECT.
His Fellow-Prisoner at Winnipeg Repeats
Burke's Alleged Tale of the Tragedy at
the Carlson Cettage-The Horrible De-
tails of tho Deed Recalled.
Winnipeg Dispatch

of Chicago, and Lawyer Howell have
secured Gillette's story of the con-
fession about DR.. Cronin's murder, which,
he says, Burke made to him while
they were confined in the Jail together.
They had to drive out to the penitentiary
to get it. Mr.. Baker places considerable
confidence in the story told by Gillette,
and after his return made the following
memorandum of its substance:
Burke began to talk about his mother
soon after he got put in the Jail. He was
quiet for some time after he came, when
he began to talk and mix in with us.
There were six cells in half of the jail,
and they opened in a small room which
had door that could be locked when our
cell doors were open and we were all out
side in the room together. 1t is one of the
Jail rules that no man should go into an
other mans cell, but Burke used to come
in mine and shave himself as | had the
only looking glass. We used to talk
about our cases together, and he always
seemed to think that he would go free, and
so he did not mind talking about his case.
He thought that the Winnipeg court would
hold him in the extradition, but that he
would be acquitted in Chicago.
when Martinson came here to identify
him he asked me to loan him my coat and
hat and we changed and he put on mine.
When we stood in the room outside in the
yard he whispered to me when he saw the
expressman:
'''That's him; he's no detective; he's a
Swede. I know him, but he don't know
me-
HE talked to us all the time we were in
together. There were three of us besides
him most of the time and most of us were
| in before he came
GAS nearly as i can call the names, he
| said that the men who killed DR.. Cronin
were himself, a Dennis and Dan Cough
| lin, Pat CoOney, and one whose name l
| don't remember. One man, he said, who
| pulled out at the last minute was q man
who worked for McGinnis, fish and oys-
ter man on West Randolph street and the
| Haymarket. He did not say what weapon
5hey used, but that it was something like
club. When Dr.. Cronin was down they
| pounded him all over the face, so he
| couldn't be recognized. He said that he
was told that DR.. Cronin was to be
brought to the Carlson cottage to take
| care of @ woman who was said to be con-
| fined.
Burke said that for a time before he had
| been going with woman who had been
| loose, but VINO was going to reform and
| whom he meant to marry. He didn't tell
| her name, but said that she kept furnished
rooms on North Clark street, near Chicago
avenue. Dan Cough1in knew her and used
| to visit her place. Burke said that he was
| afraid Of her; that he had treated her
shabbily and that she might squeal on
| him.
| ''He would not say that any one struck
| the first blow at DR.. Cronin. but that he
| died hard. DR.. Cronin was more muscu-
lar man I'll an they thought he was He
| said they rented the Carlson cottage and
| put the furniture in, but said nothing as
| to where the furniture came from. The
| corpse was taken away in an express
wagon which they hired from an old man
on Chicago avenue. They hired it for all
| night, and drove it themselves.
'sThey took the body down to the lake
| and took it out of the trunk. They said
that they had expected to find a rowboat
| there, but there was none there and they
| threw the BODY into the water. The shore
was shallow and the body showed, and the
waves moved it back toward them. There
| was a lot of blood and lot spilled in the
sand. They used the trunk to scoop water
on the body aid then put the body back
into the trunk and then drove away to
where they afterward dumped it,
| Cou ghlin knew more about the north side
! than any one anC he showed the way.
cat the catch basin they had hard work
to get the body in, DR.. Cronin being a
large-sized man. They had to double him
up so as to get him in, because he was too
| long to stand up in it. While they were
working at it they got scared at some
farmers wagons going by, but they went
on and finished it. He said they went
back to the cottage the day after.
'"The money that they got was given in
one lump and was divided among them.
1t was paid, Burke said in an Office on
Of ho
| house, over the Office OF Lazarus silver
man, banker.
'sHe said that he did not know Alex
ander Sullivan; that he was lawyer, and
| had only seen him twice-one time in Sui
| livan's Office.
:sHe said that when he came to Winni-
peg he had box, but he did not say what
| kind of a box. He said that he had been
here two nights Before he was arrested.
He had a valise, which he said the police
took, and box, which he took to some
people in East Bannatyre street in Winni-
peg. He wanted to get somebody to teke
a letter to them, but did not know who
| he could. He asked me if [ could get my
LAWYER to take it, and said No, he would
not A priest came there, but I think
| he would not take it, Afterward it was
| taken by little old man with long hair,
and Burke never talked about it again.
! He said that there was a good overcoaT
and some underclothes of DR.. Cronin's,
and they meant to take them away some
| where.
Burke used sometimes to cry great
deal, and did all sorts of things to keep
| up his spirits. We asked him what they
killed DR.. Cronin for, and he said he had
betrayed a trust, that he gave away Sc
crets, and that he did not stand by his
order, and that he had squealed on man
who was short in his accounts"
! Mr.. Baker would like very much to take
! Gillette to Chicago, but of course the
Canadian authorities would never permit
il, as he would at once be taken possession
of under a writ of. habeas corpus. Baker
! will remain here day or so longer, as he
is anxious to take Chief McRae back with
him. McRae wants the reward promised
for experimenting Burke before he goes to
Chicago.
IRELAND in 1879 had 1855, 625 inhab-
itants, and the population just made up
for 1889 is but A, III, 534. A decrease
like this is true of no other civilized