The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-06-20
YHH SPECIAL GRAND JURY
In the crouiu Murder Case in
Chicago Makes its Report
THE INDICTMENTS FOUND,
Burke Amongthe Uniortunates-The
Police Satisfied that they Have
the Right Man-ContlIctiug
Reports of Confession,

CHICAGO, June l9.-The special granL
jury in the Cronin case gave It's first in
dication OF results at noon to-day in the
shape OF an Indictment against Martin
Burke on two counts, Burke, aliaE
Martin Delaney, otherwise called Frank
Williams, Is indicted first for murder
and secondly, for conspiracy with
Coughlin, Z, o, Sullivan and Woodruff,
for the purpose Of committing murder,
Application will at once be made to Gov
ernor Fifer by an officer who Is now in
Springfield, for requisltion papers for the
extradition OF Burke. These papers,
properly attested, will be spread before
the State Department at Washington
and the Secretary OF State will make the
formal request TO the Canadian Govern
ment for the surrender and extradition
OF Burke. The latter is now In the Gus.
tody OF the Chief OF Police at Winnipeg,
Man, and Chicago officers and other per.
sons have been dispatched to the scene
to further identify him.
II was only with reluctance that the
grand Jury this morning returned an in
dictment against Burke and had his
partial Identification by photograph been
the only evidence against him It IS safe
to say the requests OF Chief Hubbard
and State Attorney Longenecker would
have been ignored, and an indictment
denied until the Chicago people had
proceeded to Winnepeg and clearly
Identified the prisoner as one OF the
Williams brothers. The testimony OF
Michael Gavin, OF the Chicago sewer
department, who had known Burke,
was very conclusive however, and It
was upon his evidence that the indiCt-
ment was returned. Gavin said that he
had known Burke for q long time, that
he had frequently heard the latter boast
OF his friendship with +. 0. Sullivan and
others OF the suspected parties and on
one occasion Burke had expressed his
conviction that Cronin was an enemy of
II not traitor to the Irish cause.
Chief OF Police Hubbard says that he
has not received any information from
Winnipeg in regard to the reported con-
iession by Burke.
1t was announced this afternoon that
no more indictments would be returned
until the grand jury was prepared to
make a final report, and that Burke had
been indicted at this time on the united
plea OF Chief Hubbard and States Attor-
ney LongeneCker, upon representations
that 1t would save time in securing his
extradition. Chief Hubbard, who ut no
time entertained hopes that Maroney
and Mcdonald, the New York suspects,
would be identified as acComplices In the
murder, pins his faith implicitly to the
Burke theory. His efforts 10 secure an
indictment last evening were renewed
by a personal plea 10 the jury this morn.
ing, and it Is chiefly to Mr.. Hubbard's
earnest instances that an indictment now
rests over Martin Burke.
Justice Mahoney was before the grand
Jury this afternoon and testified that
O'Sullivan and Cronin were already &c.
quainted when they met in his office at
the time OF the contract for medical at.
tendance to the formers employees, aud
that no introduction on bis part was
needed as ayerred by O'Sullivan.
Old man Carlson is positive in his
Identification Of Burke's photograph as
that OF Frank Williams, who rented the
cottage, and his wife and son admit
striking points Of resemblance, although
not positive in their Identification.
Martinsen, the expressman, Is confident
that Burke Is the man who hired him to
remove the furniture from the Clark
street flat to the Carlson cottage, and 1t
Is his conviction in this respect that
gives birth 10 the belief that the police
are at last upon the right track.