The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-09-10
IMPORTANT DETAILS
Connected with the cronin Muir
der Just Made Public,
A POLICEMaN's Suspicious
Aroused by tho Actions of Two Men
Now believed to be the Murder,
ers-HO Arrested Them Then,
but They were Discharged!

uuN 4hHS N6NH
CuICA0o, Sept 0,-It seems that al
though q great deal Of matter has been
published about the oronin murder, the
true story Of the discovery Of evidence
at the Carlson cottage has never been
told until now, II is also singular that
the reporters who were working on the
case mover discovered that on the night
Of May Z, three days after DR., Cronin
was killed, two men, now supposed to
have been KuRz and Cooney, were az.
rested and taken 70 the Lakeyiew sta,
ton and discharged in the morning by
Captain King, A local paper stated re-
Gently that there was certain Irish off
Ger on the Lakeyiew police force who
was suspected Of direct Implication in
themurdprof Cropln. othersuch state
mentR were presented by the same paper
in later issues. Finally the officer do
terminedto tell his story, which is now
made public for the first time,
officer lsauC Robinson has been on
the Lakeyiew force several years, and
has always bnrne good reputation, He
is an Irishman by parOntage, but Ia not
a member Of any Irish secret society,
Robinson had the beat in which the cot.
tage was located, and It was his duty to
patrol the avenue and the intersecting
street for several blocks north and south
oitho Carlson house, Atdiderent times
before the murder, Robinson noticed
men going in and out OF the cottage and
noticed lights within H. He thought
the cottage was not occupied and asked
Carlson who the men were that went
into the cottage and why the lights were
lighted Carlson told him that he had
rented the place TO two men who some
times slept in the cottage, aud who ex-
peCted soon to move ID furniture and
commence housekeeping.
SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES.
On The night Of May 0, Robinson saw
man crawling out Of the basement Of
the coltage and accosted him. Robin.
sou has never seen Burke, but he be-
leves Burke was the Iilan who talked
with him that evening. He said that he
and Ills brother were renting the cottage,
and that he had been inthe basement
simply 10 see II there was not good
place 10 store some old furniture. Rob
inson was not satisfied with the expla.
nation, but he did not think he was war
ranted In arresting the man. AT 0 o'clock
the next night, May Z, Robinson turned
the corner on Roscoe street aud came
upon two men who were talking togeth-
or In the shadow ofa little real estate Of
fee 100 feet south OF the Carlson cot
tage. They had the door OF the office
open and were talking about hiding
somethingunderthe floor, Robinson de.-
Clded 10 nakean effort to discover who
they were and what they were doing
there. One Of them, who was shorter than
the other spoke in broken Euglish with
a German accent and said that they had
lost their way and wanted TO get down
town. Ho said they were painters and
lived on the West Side. Robinson
asked them Why they were standing and
talking OH the corner II they wanted to
net down town and why they did not
ask some one In the neiRhborhood and
find out the way. The tall man, who
had dark mustaChe, and spoke with an
Irish accent answered eVasively and
Robinson decided 10 arrest them. Just
as he started for the patrol box o man
ran across from the direction OF T. O'Snl-
liyan's barn and asked what Robinson
was going to do with the men. Robinson
recognized this person as the man he
had seen crawling from the basement OF
the Carlson cottage and told him he was
going 10 the station house, but the
stranger said 10 take him along. The
man said no more when lie saw that the
officer recognized him, Robinson went
to the station house with the two men
and they were questioned by Captain
Wing. They gave their names and sup;
posed addresses, aud repeated the story
they had previously told to Robinson:
No charges were entered against them
on the books, consequently the officer
did not remember the names they gave.
They were taken down stairs, kept In
custody until morning and then released
by Captain Wings orders.
LET TnEM ESCAPE.
whats the use Of sending them to
the BridC%ell to cost the city Of Lake.
view twenty-five cents a day2" said
Capt. Wing TO Robinson. The two men
thus discharged, 1t is now believed by
officer Robinson, were KuntS and
COoney. Their description answers that
Of the two suspects very closely. At the
time OF their arrest II was not believed
that DR.. Cronin had been murdered, II
being supposed he had left the city OF
bis own accord. Two nights later Rob.
inson says he saw one OF the men he had
arrested coming out OF the cottage after
midnight HO did not accost him be-
cause he considered that be had been
rebuked by Capt. Wing when he die;
charged the prisoners. Robinson talked
with tho neighbofs about the golngs.on
in the cottage, aud concluded that there
must have been u crime mltted
there. lie told Carlson Of Ills suspicious
and young Carlson wentlnt the cottage
aud found the blood stains. The thought
that CrOnin had probably been killed
In the place, suggested itself 10 Robin
son, aud he told Captain Wing Of his
suspicious. Captain Wing listened TO
Ills story but did nothing,
Robinson learned more about the
strange occupants OF the cottage and
again spoke to Captain Wing. Three
times ID succession the officer claims 70
have told Wing Of his belief that Cronih
was Killed In the cottage, but nothing
was done until the week after Oronin's
body was found. Lieut.. Sclieuttler was
then sent for from tho LaFrabee street
station to Lakeyiey andwlilc talking 10
Captain Wing learned pi Officer Robin
SONS suspicion. eCheultleP gent 10 the
cottage aud examined the blood etaine
aud satisfied himself that The murder
had been committed there, Robinson
has not rs yet been sunmonnl ~ q wit.
heS by the State. Nl
SllLl NO JURY,