The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-06-17
THE HORSE THIEF, MAKES A FULL
CONFESSION or HIS
CONNECTION WITH THE CRONIN
MURDER.
GO IN. MAN, FOR GODS SAKE
a Detailed Account Of ITts Connection
With Wen Accused OF tie Assassi-
nation TRUNK In
the Wagon.

/ i''"AWn va IAn IHAIfLAiOu Win lilf
assassination. lie arrived in Chicago
on March 2Gth last. and soon after mad,
the acquaintance of L. o. Sullivan. the
ice man. lie met Detective Coughlin
whom ho had known by reputation q.
" Fence, a few days later. The mar
Melville, who is supposed TO be Marouy
arrived I'm Chicago abOu. this time, and
Woodruff. saw him drinking with
C0nghlin in q saloon. The three men
had several drinks together, when they
loft the saloon.
COughlin separated from Woodruff
and Melville, the latter going to another
saloon, and after that Melville said be
/ had To 20 TO McCOy's Hotel, where he
was stopping, and left Woodruff. Just
as they separated. Melville told Wood
ruil he wanted to see him again. and
gave him "a few dollars, and added
"You need not be broke as long as am
in town.
On the day following Woodruff met
Mike McDougall in company with
Coughlin. McDougall said, My name
is Williams"
bad known McDougall as rough
and ready spirit and an old worker for
the an-na-Gael. Coughlin and Nc
Dougall had quite talk which | did
not hear and COughlin left. Williams
took me oyer on the west side. where we
stayed for an hour or two drinking beer.
Williams asked, How are you fixed?'
| said, Il am nearly busted He said =,
why don't you go down and see
Alexander Sullivan" and said Il was
not prepared TO be sent to Europe"
Williams said il would not be neces-
sary for me to be sent out Of town in
this case.
He said: II have rooms to let" l
said Good I'll come and stop with
you
1t was between 10 and O'Clock when
we arrived at III Clark street. We
went up stairs.
"Here's something good going on,
referring TO a copy Of conspiracy
pamphlet laying on the able.
Il asked Has this anything to do
with it,
you needn't guess again" Will
lams replied. Then he asked. Are
you one of them still - He referred
to my helping the Fenians at the time
of the Camdo raid. replied II am as
much as | ever was in it.
This must have been about the Goth
Of April. I'm the morning | noticed how
scantily the room was furnished.
said. You have lots Of room, but very
little furniture. Williams laughed
and replied, Yes. but I've a house in
the country with d-n sight less in it.
Why don't you go and see Alexander
SULLIVAN
thought the matter over, and then
applied at Sullivan s. l met him in the
hail. | said, "Mr. Sullivan, McDou
gall sent me over here TO see you"
Mr.. Sullivan said, "MeDougall Oh.
YOU mean Williams. don you -
I said, Yes, guess so slept with
him last night. lie wanted me to go
over aud have q talk with you.
Alexander Sullivan replied, Il have
nothing to say: have never met you
before.
After some conversation. he said
"What kind Of work would you like -
/ said, Anything in God S world, If
there s any money in 1t. "
lie looked 40 me sharply and replied,
If hear of anything for you III let
Mr.. Williams know of it, and walked
away without even saying good bye to
me.
/ met Williams an hour ward.
Going over on the North side we met
Alexander Sullivan, as we were coming
out of a saloon. lie took Williams on
one side and handed several bills TO
him. saying. Now, pay that rent.
They we're, perhaps, ten feet from
me. Sullivan saw me, and, taking Will
iams. he led him some four or five
steps farther away, and they had quite
a talk. They came back after talking
some minutes. and Sullivan, approach
ing me. said, You must not take any
oifense at anything said to-day" l
said. That's all right" and he
laughed. walking rapidly ahead.
said to Williams, What did he say
about men? Williams an
swered. Not much; he doesn't have
much 20 say, anyhow ' | asked. rs
he your banker? lie answered, Hes
a good enough blnker for US.
then left Williams and went back
TO Deans stable. The Wednesday be-
fore the murder l met Dan Coughlin
on 1uth State street. He asked me
how 1t was fixed. and told me he would
see me again. lie called at the stable
the Saturday following. To 20 back,
| remember now that | saw Williams
on Centennial day. He asked me
whether 1 had seen Coughlin.
Later Coughlin met me. He asked
me whether | bad seen Williams.
told him before | had seen him. He
then asked me 10 take note over to
Alexander Sullivan. lie wrote in al
phabetical cypher. | understood the
cypher. lie told nae to tear it up, if
could not deliver it to Sullivan per-
sonally. | did not do this, and the
letter reads; Going up to =. o. Sulli-
vans
To come down to the night of the
murder COughlin asked me il | could
get a horse and wagon that night,
that would carry trunk.
He told me there was S25 IN ii for me. |
That evening stayed around the stable
playing cards. About 1890 | led the
grey mare down the stairs. | put a
blanket ahead Of her, over which she |
walked TO prevent the noise; hitched |
up and drove up Lincoln avenue. On |
arriving near Ashland avenue, two men |
jumped into the wagon without word
l recognized one OF them as a man by |
the, name of O'Shea alias Mike Nc |
DOugall. who was a machinist or black
smith frem Philadelphia. The other
man was Melville, Peoria man.
They ordered me to drive to the cot
tage on Ashland avenue. The two men
went in. In few minutes 7. o. Sulli-
van, Melville and Williams came out of
the door carrying trunk between
them. They lifted the trunk into the
wagon. and Melville and Williams
jumped into the seat with me. | drove
very fast. A policeman called, Hello!
Stop Melville said in an undertone:
- Go on, for God 5 sake; go on. man."
In Lincoln Park they ordered me to
stop. Ii was intended to take the trunk
out into the lake. but Melville became
frightened and they lifted the trunk .
back into the wagon aud ordered me TO
keep moving. Williams said To Mel