The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-11-27
THE CRONIN TRIAL.
Defense Rests and the state
Offers Testimony "
In Rebuttal, Some Of Which, However,
Was Ruled Out. pssf.

witnesses for the Accused Mon Tcii
Stories which Do Not Hold roSether
Under ross-Examination. 4a9tid4I
CHICAGO, Nov. 28.--When court opened
Monday In the Cronin case William
Mertz, the milkman. was called BY Mr..
Forrest. Msrtz testified that 1t was 9
day or two after DIR. Cronin's body was
found when he first spoke TO q police
officer. Two officers, witness did not
know their names, came TO him and
asked him II he knew anything about q
murder having been committed around
there. Witness then told them that
about three weeks before that time he
saw buggy stop In front Of the Carbon
cottage. IA tail, slim man, wearing .
dark brown Ofercoat, got out OF the
bugTfy and went into the cottage. Wit
ness did NOT rem efhber whether he told
the date OF not, butr,did not think he
told them that II was too dark TO recog-
nize the man In the buggy. Witness
he heard in the cottage, After the man
entered the cottage the other drove
south. tff
Some show Of attention to the inter
ests Of suspect Kunze was made by at
torney Donahue by the calling of q
former employer Of the little German
to the stand. J. w. Fralech, a painter.
swore that Kunze, Under the name OF
John Krogcl, worked for him from April
20 TO June 90. lie attended to his duties
on May 4, working from eight q. m. to
five p. M, and he reappeared promptly
on the following Monday and discharged
his duties as usual. "Did he have q
mustache then?" asked attorney Dona-
hue. "Yes; Just about the size 1t Is
now" the witness replied. This is CON
sidered an important point by the de-
fense, as Mertz and others who Bwore to
seeing Kunze about that time swore that
he had no mustache, or at least very
small one.
Then an attack by the same attorney
was made on old man Carlson's testi-
mony about conversation between
Burke and 0'Sullivan on the afternoon
Of March 10, Immediately after Burke.
or as he was then known, Williams, had
concluded the negotiations for the lease
| OF the cottage. Carlson swore that
Burke went az once TO 0'Sullivan, who
him. "I have eot the cotfagan y Carisor
was very nositiye about having heard
tbat rensrk ImISyipg as ~ aid that
0,Srllivan was fpiiv eogn,vsrt ~ the
early nlana Of tha co1snirsc - : -
| nstectiva Crow they, swore to having
had a conyersation with nailkman Mart
an the dav after the noat-morten, , avar'
ination M Dr Croninls a hodv and dnring
that conversat,on'M 'Mertr toid MIN thaths
did not remembar the nicht he saw the he
two man drive nm IN Tho Csr,son cott. re
fnssmnch howeFar, az Msrtz aiso srora y,
on the stand that ha AZ aret Ala not rec.
oIlect the date bnt f,red q de1,niteIv
later when talking Il over with bis wife'
| the testinoonv of1 7row can have littie
effect 1850 80
A rather susnicious ciroumstanoe was
.hro,,s,ht ant An III y datectisasS o,,tSo,
Ne aSore that Mertz IN 'the anne CON.
versation smoke IN hearing sounds of a
fIgbt immeSiately after be saw the tall
man enter tbe cottage. The detective
was asLed on ncross-eyaminat,on ybv in
making his report 10 his SUPERIOR ofiieer
he had failed In sav anvtbing ah.ont
Merit having heard sounds of a fight