New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-06-22
BURKE IDENTIFIED AGAIN.
HE PROVES TO BE ONE OF THE WILLIAMS
BROTHERS.
MARTINsEN. THE EXPREssMAN. PICKS THE sUs.
PECT OUT OF gIFTY.Two MEN-THE MAN
FOR WHOM he MOVED THE FURNI.
TURE TO THE CARLSON COTTAGE.


| lBr TELEGRAPH TO TIE TnIpUSEI
Chicago, June 2l.-Martin Burke, the Winni-
| peg suspect, has been positively identified rs one
| Of the Williams brothers." who credited
with being DR.. Cronin's slayerS The person who
| thus identifies Burke is the eXprcsSman who was
| employed by one Of the WilamscS to convey fur
nturc TO the fatal cottage. News OF the dcntiil-
| cation Of Burke and the circumstances under
which Burke by the eXprc~sman at
| Winnipeg was received tonight in % message TO
| Chief OF Police Hubbard from Chicago officer
| as follows:
Winnipeg. June 21. 1850.
Mar,inscn. the eSpres'an instantly and fully identi.
ned Burke picking him out Of nity.two men drawn up
in line In tho jail yard In pr"scncc Of Crown Attorney
| ana Durkcs lawyer. Wire Instructions
Chief Hubbard replied that tho eXtradItion
papers for Burke were on the way, and would
be pdshrd forward with all speed possible.
Sohody has yet "squeaicd' in the Cronin
case, and the police are not rushing
their legs 10 secure confession from any
Of the men now under arrest. Along about noon
| to-day the reason for this became ap-
| parent. For ten days Clan.na.Gacl
man and n member Of Camp 30 has been
supplying the police with information in order
to save his own neck. Two days before Burke
fed this man and another Clan. .nayGael guardsmnn
dropIrd into Captain SchuttlcrS office and in.
formed the latter that they suspNtcd Burke.
The captain pumped them, and they told every
thing Chief Hubbard was called upon, and AZ
| tcg hearing their story hc decided 10 allow them
! to watch Burke, the latter was keeping his eye
on the detectives, and IL might be hazardous to
put strange man after him. The chiefs con-
id, ncc not misplaced, but an unfortunate
occurrence srrvrd to put Burke OH his guard.
Some one Of his associates in tho Market Street
Gang had seen the Clan.nt-Cncl man go into
Captain Schu,tcrs onic", and, smelling "A mouse,
informed Burke. The latter, who had been grow.
ing suspicious, now became thoroughly alarmed,
and after procuring money left the city. In tho
| meantime acting on the information of the Clan
na-Ciac man, Hubbard had dispatched man 10
Hancock TO s4urc trrnin Information Tho
officer had no sooner arrived at the little Mich.
igan town than hc received u dispatch from Chief
Hubbard telling him that Burke had gone to
Manitoba. iu~tructing him 10 get the facts he
had been sent for Us quick as he could, and then
lcgraph tho WlnnIirr authorities To arrest
Burke. THESE orders were carried out 10 tho
.rilcr. THIS rN plans Chief Iiubblrls srcrctiNc.
nos, about the Of hi, information, because
II he told who gave him Information, the mans
life would be- IN danger.
Through the gr,ting on the iron door opening
into the boys drIartmrnt, sullivan, ia" iccruan
| could bc seen today lcnuing over the railing III
font Of ,Lc ;lir,l tier of cells lie va, looking
opt ,b,,u,.b the uuprr w,u,lnw at tho bright
sunshine This morntn, Woodruff WAS in con.
sul,,tion with LAWYER Pierce who bns charge
- IN. on.. Woodr,,p Ia. =, now suit IA shavcn
OF MS chse' "ooutut mas uc" sui'r Is s'N'n,
I nnd looks nltogcthrr Different frUm the Woodruff
of n w,,k agn The money furnished By his mother
l =, ,,L .,,l ., L,. ,,,,o,,,h, ,bo
III" S'I-in'"'r - H''u ~ nav "'""@"O ~"
change The old people have VISITED nm several
times, but each time In the most secret manner
possible
w,l ,Lo Grand rurv i,dict C,IopcI Michael
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REPORTER asked john +. Scunlhn today
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