Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-10-21
Being Forged About the Sus.
peeted Cronin xurderers.
Women In the Case Whose Tongues tell
Strange Stories.
A German Laborer Couiesses a Dam.
aging Conversation Which He Over
heard.

CHICAGO, Oct. 20.
Forrest, who is leading the defence in tn
Cronin case, has been demanding the name
of the States female witnesses from Judg,
Longenecker. He made his first appeal tw,
weeks ago Thus far he has secured bu
three Mares. Ii is evident that Mr.. For
rest fears the testimony which severs
women will give for the State. One Of the.,
witnesses is Mrs Syrepa ii. Griffin of IA
venswood. She told reporter today tina
Burke used to beard with her on State stree
three years ago. He remained at her hous,
10 MONTH. He was never at home nights
O'Sullivan used to deliver ice at the house
DR.. Cronin was Mrs. Griifin's ply siciAn
When Burke left the place he struck Mrs
Griffin because .he accused him of intimsc!
with Lizzie ketter. who was living in tn,
house at the time. Mrs. Griffin threatened
to shoot him. and while she ran to get y re
volver he jumped from a window and es
capped. She did not see Bsrke again unit
last April. when she met him on Ashlant
avenue, near the Carlson cottage.
The youIg Clan. ma Gael WAS accompanied
by woman. Mrs Griffin heard him say &c
his companion: You can say so, even il
You are not my sister" This testimon,
merely confirms Mrs. Carlson's story thai
Burke was the Frank Williams who rented
the cottage and who said his sister was com
ing from Baltimore to keep house for him
Mrs Griffin, heavily veiled. was escorted
into the court room yesterday and unhesi
tatingly identified Burke as her old boarder.
She still holds his trunk for an unpaid board
bill. Lawyer A. S. Trude, Alexander Sui
iivsn's attorney, returned today from the
West. The fir thing he did was to create
a sensation by debating an interview to the
newspapers, in viii h he declares that in the
event of Graham being found guilty of jury
bribiBg, he v i'll throw Suliv III overheard and
wash bis hands of the cas-. The name of
the man who gave the information regarding
the conversation which took place between
Coughlin and O'Sullivan at the farmhouse Of
Con 0'Sullivsn, has at last leaked out The
man is German mechanic named Charles
Zsnder. He was out of work last spring
and about the middle of April he engaged
with Con Sullivan to work as = hostler.
Several weeks after the finding of DIR
cronin's body, ZaDder preseuted himself at
the States attorneys Office in a state cf much
excitement and told Judge Longenecker that
the second Sunday after DIR Cronin's disap-
pearsDce Conghiin and O'Sullivan drove out
to the farm. While Con Sullivan was en-
gagged looking after their horses the two Clan
ma Gsel men engaged in a controversy about
the murder, and Coughlin counciled immed.
late fight O'Sullivan said this would in
sure their pursuit and arrest. and besides he
trusted Burke ''to get II out of the way
This preyed on Zanders mind, and some
time after he went to confession at st. Pet
er's German Catholic Chuch, but the priest
refused absolution until he had told the story
to the proper authorities. Ianders story has
been in great part corroborated by the
witness, Daniel Carroll
Late last night the Western Union Tele-
graph company added another link 10 the
chain of evidence when il turned over the
original of the telegram sent by the mysteri-
Gus stranger from the Grand Pacific Hotel in
August 70 Bsrrister Hough at Winnipeg.
containing message to be given to Martin
Burke for the latter's guidance while enroute
with the officers after his extradition. The
dispatch is said to be in the handwriting of
Henry StoltenDerg, Alexander Sullivan .
confidential secretary. These and other de-
velopments will be submitted to a special
grand jury next week. A morning paper
printed a sensational story today about a con.
spirscy TO hberat- the prisoners at the point
of revolver, State Attorney Longenecker
pronounces the ari lie a noatl. woven bundle
of falseb lie says the suspects are at
liberty to escape If they tLink such step
possible Rapid progress as made in the
examination of Y nire mcn today. Eleven
jurors have ruv been SEQUEL |. The 18th, il
is expected, wiIi he founl Monday,