Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-11-07
THAT SMEARRD KEY
With the TeIltale Paint Of Carl
son Cottage Upon Il.
4 Witness. that Printed o'9ullivan'a
Cards by Which crouin was Lursd.

| CHICAGO, Nov. 6.
| Robert 7. stanton, printer Of Lakeviev,
vas the first witness in the Cronin case this
morning. He testified that he printed busi-
ness cards for the defendant Patrick 0'Sul
iivan, which be delivered to O'Sullivan May
2. two days before cronin vas murdered.
| The witness was shown card and identified it
- similar TO those he printed.
| Capt. Francis viliiers, ex-chief Of police
of Lake View. with charge of the street
around Carlson cottage, all over Lake View
and Edgewater, was recalled and testified
with great detail As to distances, condition
Of roads, etc.
On cross examination Forrest asked him !:
Gould wagon drive along 59th st. to the
lake sll right. a wagon, for example, loaded
with one trunk and three big men?r
Hynes, (interruptingl -Four big men.
one in q uunk?"
Forrest-.sAh."
Witness. Yes, sir, a wagon uld 90
along there"
The witness said Sunday noon, May 5th,
the trunk in which he found cotton batting
and paper. and lock of hair Was brought
to the police station. He carefully inspected
the interior of the trunk and said -sll that
cotton was not in there. only about a third
of it," The policeman who brought in the
trunk delivered with il lock OF hair one
end clotted with blood. The cross exsmina-
ton did not shake the testimony of the Chief.
Herman Theel, a saloon keeper, testified
that early on the morning of May 9Th, in
company with two friends he drove through
Evanston avenue, Lakeview. He discovered
trunk broken open lying in the dltch by
the roadside 1t contained cotton batting,
cotted with blood He and his friends took
the trunk out of the ditch and placed it on
tine edge of the street. The witness identi-
ted the bloodstained trunk in the court room
~ the one be referred to. Herman Pause
and Carl Knopf, who were with Tbeel when
the trunk WAS discovered corroborsted his
testimony.
The court took recess.
At the opening of the afternoon session,
Job Phillips, the Lskevew policeman who
WAS 50 mt out to bring in the trunk after its
discovery. was put on the stand, and told of
the contents of the trunk as he found them
The witness identified the trunk in the court
room as the one he assisted in removing
from Evanston avenue to the police station.
Ga the % / or 24th of May the witness went
to O'Sullivan's house to arrest him. While
there, O'Sullivan, looking toward the Carl
son cottage, saw a number of people going
into it, and said, What in HI are they 20
ing in there for, the d-n fools
Capt. f. II. Wing of the Lakeview police,
who accompanied officer Phillips on the trip
when the trunk was brought in, was the next
witness. He told the Story substantially as
told by Phillips He testified to receiving
u key from another policeman which fitted
the lock Of the trunk, on one end of which
was some yellowish paint. The relevancy of
this yet to- be shown, is that the key found
in the Carlson cottage with paint on it is the
same as the paint on the cottage floor.
Police Officer George Hiott, Chicago po-
lice force testified that the day following
the discovery Of Cronin's body, he and Off
Ger Lorch made a careful search Of the
Carlson cottage. He identified the paint
smeared key as one found by himself and
Lorch in the cottage.
William l.. James, lad of sixteen years,
testified that on February last he occupied
a room in the Opera House block, over
looking the upper fiat at ITO Clark street
In that month often saw two men in those
rooms. Identified prisoner, kanze, as one.
Saw Kunze washing his feet, soon as he dis
covered witness looking at him he pulled
down the blind.
Young james still on the witness stand
when court adjourned until tomorrow.