The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-11-13
HEARD THE CRY OF A DYING MAN.
She Stood Outside and Listened
While They Murdered CronIn.
Tho State Forges Another Link In
the Chain of Evidence.
cooney, "the Fox" to Join the
Trembling Menln the Dock.


murder trial today Judge Longenecker cffer-
ed in evidence specimens of hair taken from
the trunk and Cronin's head. The had been
compared by chemical and microscopic ex-
perts and found Identical
Clerk j. P. Hatfield, of Revell & Co., iden-
titled the frame work Of the satchel found in
the Lake View sewer, containg Cronin's
clothes. as being the frame of q satchel iden-
tical with that he sold -. b. Simonds" on
February 10th.
Mrs. Pauline Moertel, who lives near the
Carlson cottage, swore that a man resemb-
ling Cronin entered the Carlson cottage on
the evening of May 4th. She was passing
the Carlson cottage between and s o'clock
in the evening, May 4, and saw two men In a
buggy drive up to the cottage. One got out
and went up the steps. He knocked, the
door was opened and he went in. The man
was big and broad shouldered and carried
something like satchel. The horse that
drew the buggy was white. When the man
entered, the door closed Immediately. The
witness heard sounds as though heavy blows
were being dealt. There was the noise of a
great struggle. The witness heard some one
sound of some one crying or moaning was
followed by blows. 1t sounded as though
something was breaking. She heard more
cries and means, after which the sounds
seemed to die away.
The witness, an unsophisticated German
woman, gave her evidence with much SIM
plicity and straightforwardness. Coughlin
and Burke turned pale and look of blank
despair came over their faces. The witness
said she went around on Roscoe street, where
she saw man standing between the cottage
in ba
near the real estate office, whe0e another wit
ness, yet to come, will testify that O'Sullivan
was on watch while the assassins were at
work. In the cr0ss-examinati0n the witness
admitted she had been arrested two or three
times for troubles with saloon keepers. 1t
turned out that these people made trouble
for her because she had tried to keep her
husband away from their places. She fixed
the date on which she had seen the men enter
the Carlson cottage by the fact that it was
Monday of the same week that she sued a
saloon keeper for selling liquor to her hus-
band in spite Of her protest.
The evidence today furnished the last link
In the period between the decOying of Crc-
min from home and finding his body in the
catch basin. The defence always sclaimed
that Cr0nin could not be traced to the cot
tage The contention exists no longer. At
the opening of the afternoon session Donald
4. Mckillon, desk sergeant at the central
police station in Winnipeg, told of the arrest
of Martin Burke. He identified the hat
found in Burke's possession. The inner
band showed evidence Of having been
scratched as If name or other mark of iden-
tifcation had been erased.
Henry Plauslie, in salesman shirt store
testified that the morning after the murder,
two men came into his store to buy shirts.
They had their coats buttoned up to the top,
and seemed anxious not to show the shirts
they had on. The witness pointed out
Burke as the larger of the two men.
Mr.. Ingham-Look at the photograph |
show you.
Tne Court--For what purpose do you in
troduce that?
Mr.. Ingham-I introduce it to identify an,
other man. Later on propose to introduce
the original Of the photograph. He Is in,
dicted.
The court l will let 1t go in.
MT; lngham-Have you ever seen thai
Wftness-Yes, that was the small man,
:. Tne photograph shown was of Cooney
'the Fox '
Thomas Ryan, laborer, testified that he
boarded with kunze in May or June. Kunze
was axious to read the papers, and said to
the witness he was afraid he would be ar
rested in connection with the Cronin
case.
Chief of Police Hubbard, recalled, testified
as TO the talk he had with Dan Coughlin
about May 23d or oath. He said: 81 asked
OinCoI sSOuBuiiu Wu6Ie He was on May 4tn
He said he could not exactly remember. /
asked him, What about this man you sent
over to Dinan's to get rig He said all he
knew about him was that he came from Han.
cock, Mich, and said his name was Thomas
Smith He had card from his brother,
Thomas Coughlin. He said JOHN f. Ryan
came to the station May 4th and wanted to
take ride. Merely to oblige him Coughlin
spoke to Dinan about keeping horse for a
friend of his"
The next witness was Daniel Brown, an
ex-policeman and ex member of the Clan-na-
Gael. A long wrangle ensued over this wit
ness's testimony.
Judge Mcconnell took the matter under
advisement until morning and court ad-
journed.