Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-07
GETTING In THE MAELSTROM
Martin Burke Slowly Gliding On to
Certain Death.
COughlin Has Part of His Neck i'm the
Moose.

CHICAGO, Nov, Link by link is the
chain forged that viii draw to the gallows
the men charged with the Cronin murder.
The hiring of the horse by Coughlin has
placed the ex-detective in the shadow of
the moose, and Martin Burke's connection
with the plot, IN hiring the Carlson cot
tafie where the murder was committed has
been shown beyond dispute Today the
net was drawn still tighter around Burke
Charles }. Carlson, son of the owner of
the cottage, was the first witness this morn
ing. He testified as follows: Il was sit
ting with my wife and my father in the
house in the rear of 1872 Ashland Avenue
In the forenoon, some time about the Doth
of March last, when there was
a knock at the front door and a
gentleman came and said he wanted, to
rent the house. Ny father went to the
house with him and showed him
around, and he came In again and [ made
out the receipt for months rent in ad-
vance. The stranger said that he expect
ed some brothers and sister from Balti-
more to come and keep house with him
when his sister would come from Balti-
]
Jams Subsequently he brought the furni-
ture In the evening about 7:3O o'clock
Williams came again on April 20, to pay
the second months rent | never saw
/ Williams again until | saw him in Win
nipeg.
The witness was here shown piece
of carpet, and identified it as the one he
had seen ON the parlor floor of the cot
tage.
Can you point out Frank Williams in
the court room?" was asked.
Yes, sir, said the witness.
Point him out please. -
The second one there, pointing to
Burke.
The witness then proceeded with his
testimony, saying that after receiving the
letter from Williams relinquishing the
cottage, he entered it through a window
on May 10.
The carpet was gone off the floor, .
witness continued, and it looked as if
they had poured some paint on the floor
as If they were trying to cover it. 1t had
not been brushed over in certain places |
found stains on the base board that looked
like blood. There was another large stain
towards the north wall and at the CEN
ter Of the floor also found one arm
of the rocker broken and loose. and the
furniture - the dresser and washstand
- In the center of the room.
The floor was painted only in
the center of the room. and on the north
side. Towards the south wall there was no
paint at all In some places. | saw several
stains on the wall. There were stains all
along on the paper, and along on the
south base board, in various places that
seemed to me to be blood There were
places on the floor that were not covered
with paint where there were stains still
showing. saw footprints, as if they had
stocking feet-as if they had painted in
In stocking In the hallway in the house. :"
The reference to stocking feet was order
ed stricken out by the court.
The witness then indicated on a diagram
the location of the stains. Kunze was
pointed out to him by counsel for the state,
but the witness could not identify him as
anyone he had ever seen before During
all of the time for which the rent was paid,
| the cottage remained unoccupied
The examination was then begun
The witness was subjected to a long cross
examination which did nots to develop
any new facts.
The next witness was Johanna Carlson.
U6SUlleu
that on the Sunday following the 4th of
May, when she first went out, she noticed
spots on the steps, and that both the steps
and the walk showed there had been much
tramping up and down, and also that the
footsteps showed that the persons who
made them had been walking in sand.
She thought that Frank Williams and his
sister had at last moved in, and that
the spots on the steps were only something
that had been broken In moving The rest
of the testimony was mainly corrobora-
tive of that given before by her family.
When asked by the states attorney to
point out the man whom she knew as
Frank Williams, the witness pointed to
Burke. Cross-eXamination then fol-
lowed.
The next witness was EXpressman Mar
tinsen, who identified Burke as the man
who hired him to haul the furniture to the
Carlson cottage,
The bloody trunk which contained the
body of DIR. Cronin was then brought
into the court room and the witness said
it was similar to the one which he took to
the cottage
The court then adjourned till Monday
morning.
CHICAGO, Nov. 2.-It was announced
this afternoon that Senator Kennedy, the
Wisconsin lawyer who has been of coun-
sci for Burke, has withdrawn from the
case. 1t was said that he was dissatisfied
with the position assigned him in the
aSe.
Edward Spellman, of Peoria, district of
ficer of the Clan-na-Guel, sent a telegram
to Sheriff Matson today, saying that he
would arrive here, prepared to testify in
the case, on Monday morning.
WINNIPEG, Man., Nov. assistant
States Attorney Baker, who has been
here for several days in connection with the
Cronin case and securing additional evil
dence, returned to Chicago this morning.
1t is not unlikely that ex-prisoner Mills
may go to Chicago next week to give evil
dence In regard to Burke's statements
while in jail here.
CHICAGO, Nov. 4-Judge McConnell's
court was turned into charnel-house to-
day The bloody cotton-batting found in
the Lake View catch-basin and that in the
trunk was handled by experts, who pro-
nounce the two identical with that from
which DR.. Cronin took supply on the
evening of May 4. The tufts of hair found
in the cottage and in the trunk were COM
pared with samples from Dr. Cronin's
head, and the story of the discovery of the
trunk where the murderers threw it be-
side the Evanston avenue road were told
Not a word of evidence against Kunze
has been introduced thus far In the trial,
but in a day or two the evidence against
him will be presented to the jury. At
present it is understood that Woodruff will
not be put ON the stand by the prosecution,
for the reason that the evidence now in the
nnsSesSion of the state viii he circ111nsta1a-