The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-11-20
SAID THAT USULLIvAN WENT TO BED
On the Night when cronin was
Driven Off TO His Death.
One of the Iceman's Employees Tes-
titles for His Employer.
An ArnylIof Detectives ShadoWlng
witnesses forEthe Defence.


Donald, policeman of the East Chicago
avenue station, was the first witness in the
Cronin case today. He testified that he went
to Casey's funeral on the afternoon Of May
4th with Officer Richard Mccormick. and
went on duty as a patrolman at o'clock
that evening. BE remained on duty until
IN. He saw Dan Coughlin that night as
the latter was going into the station about
e.45 or O'Clock. The witness was a men,
ber OF Camp 20. Being cross-examined the
witness could not remember what he did or
where he went on the day of the funeral, nor
whom he saw at the Casey funeral. He did
not go inside the church, but remained in a
buggy. The witness returned from the cem-
etery at about o'clock and went to Clarity S
saloon (Whalen yesterday was positive it
was o'clock.) He did not see Martin Burke
at the funeral, nor did he see Dan Coughlin
at Garrity's saloon. The witness denied that
he went to Dinan's livery stable Saturday
night to ask if all the rigs were in. Cough
lin was standing on the station steps when
the witness saw him. he said good eve
ming" to him, and C0ughlin said the same:
The witness knew Coughin was suspected
of completely in the case because he had
read it in the papers. The witness on being
pressed said he did not know that not word
had been printed on the subject until three
days after the corpse was found in the Lake
View catch basin. He had told no one but
Scott, because he lwitnessl was member Of
Camp 20, and did not want to get his name
mixed up with the case. The witness ad-
mitted he had been in the Dolan salooon last
night. This question put to the witness in
iicated that small army of detectives are
keeping track of the movements of the wit
nesSeS for the defence.
VIM. Mulcahey, an emplOye of O'Sullivan,
the iceman, testified that man resembling
Coughlin called at the iceman's residence in
April and asked him If he knew Kunze. On
his replying in the affirmative, the man told
him to notify him [COughlinl by telephone at
the Chicago avenue station when he turned
up. Coughlin was confronted with the wit
ness, but the latter would not swear he was
the same man. Mulcahey said that in April
he was troubled with sore leg, and O'Sulli-
van told him to go down and see DR.. Cronin,
as he had contract with him. He swore
that on May he was out with O'Sullivan
peddling ice until late in the evening. They
went home and had supper. O'Sulliyan
ing soon after. At about 10 O'Clock he was
awakened by hearing some of the workmen
at the door. They were let in. After that
Mrs. Whalen came into the room to get cot
bed. She spoke to O'Sulliyan. The witness
testified that he had heard the conversation
about the tenants of the Carlson cottage.
The old man testified that O'Sullivan said
he knew them and they were all right. This
witness testified that O'Sullivap said he
knew none of them.
On cross-examination the states attorney
endeavored to elicit from the witness state
ment that in his evidence before the coron-
er's Jury he had stated he did not hear the
conversation between O'Sullivan and the
elder Carlson. The witness persisted that
he never so testified.
Further questions ELECTED the statement
that on the night Of the murder OSulliyan
got up when the men who were out came to
to the DIOR and let them in. The witness
got up about z o'clock the following morn
ing. leaving OSalliyan in bed; OSulliyan.
witnesses memory Uf the events Immediately
preceding and following the night of the
murder was defective. The cross-examina-
tion took an unexpected and sensational
turn, tre evident intention being to direct
suspicion toward the witness as the man
who drove the white horse which drew Gro
min to his death. The witness denied that
he had ever worn beard or that he allowed
his beard to grow for two weeks In the latter
part of April last. The witness said he did
not 60 to see Cronin about his lame foot
when O'Sullivan suggested, because 1t was
not troubling him then. He was quite sure
he did not see Cronin May A.. The witness
said that since last spring he has been act
ing as collector for O'Sulliyan, but was una
BILE to give the name Of any one who paid
him money for O'Sullivan.
At this point the prisoner, O'Sullivan, rose
and said "Ifyour honor please" whereupon
the court, addressing Mr.. ..Donahoe. said.
"Have your client sit down."
Reverting to the suspicion thar the prison.
er drove the white horse, the examination
continued: Have you an overcoat|"
"Yes,"
Ibid. did you have one last spring9"
Have you got itP"
"Where?"
I'm the ante-room."
Mr.. Forest-"I move to bring it in"
Judge lIongenecker-"lt may not have
been the one he had last spring."
On redirect examination the fact was
brought out that the bills for ice delivered
were made out to the numbers OF houses, not
by name. On re-crOSS-eexmlnati0n the wit
ness was asked, his overcoat having been in
the meantime brought in, "How long have
81 think this is the overcoat 1 have had
since year ago this fall"
rs this the only overcoatiyou have?"
"Yes."
A motion to strike out all questions bear
ing on insinuations and their answers was
Thomas Whalen, cousin of Patrick O'Sul-
livan. was the next witness. His wife kept
the boarding house. at which O'Sullivan and
his men lived, He was not a member of an
irish society. He testified that Sunday,
May 9TH, when he returned from work he
found the two Hylands ewith O'Sullivan at
his house. He remembered that the night
before OSullivan sat next to him at supper.
At about half past eight, his wife and her
sister went out. OSullivan and some of the
other men were sitting in the kitchen. At
about a quarter to nine. O'Sullivan went to
bed
The first witness at the afternoon session
was William M. Glenor, a reporter for the
Inter Ocean: He testified that one week af-
ter the murder, Mrs. Conklin told him the
livery stable in no way resembled the horse
behind which Cronin rode on the fatal night.
The one Captain Setback brought, she said,
was iaded old nag and that which took
CrOnin away was spirited animal.
Edward Jones, a reporter for the Daily
News, testified that he went to the Carlson cot
tage with another reporter several days af-
ter the discovery of CrOnin's body. The
story had been told that morning in a vague
way about the Carlson cottage. As a joke,
ting and piece Of liver, the blood from
which they smeared upon the cotton. They
went into the cellar and put some of the
blood stained batting in the chinks in the
ceiling and in some of the rat holes in the
floor.
Ou tuO WlbuSoo ouiu VIC.
neither he nor the other reporter put any Of
| their bloody stained batting in the cottage
| up stairs.
Robert Boyngton and James Knight
| O'Sullivan's employees, corrob0rated the ey-
| idence to establish the alibi for the lice man
The next witness was James Ninnehan
| an employe of O'Sullivan, and his testimony
| was in line with his fellow workmen.
Jacob Schuur, trunk maker, testified thai
| the trunk supposed to have contained Gro
| Minis body, was made in his factory. II
| was, he said, common kind Of trunk which
| had been on the market for years. 1t was
sold to dealers indiscriminately. The
lock was of a kind he. was in the habit oi
buying by the hundred dozen. 1t had beer
on the market eight or nine years.
Patrick Brennan, an employe of O'Sulli
van, elaborated further the iceman's de
fence. On cross examination the fact wa;
brought out that the lawyers for the defence
got lot lot Of these witnesses together al
| OSullivan's house last Sunday, and went
over their testimony in the presence OF the
| entire company.
Court adjourned un til tomorrow.