The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-09-10
The CRONIN CASE AGAIN
0ihcsF Robinson's Story Of tho Tenants
Of the Carlson Cottage.
He Arre~ted kunne and IsOney But They
Were Discharged ssv Captain wing
A New Incisi~nt y ust Giv~W
T0 the Public.

CHICAGO, Sept. 9.-n seems "a Though a |
great deal Of matter has been published |
about the Cronin murder, the true story |
of discovery of the evidence at the Carl |
son cottage is now told for the first time. |
II IL also singular that reporters who were |
working ON the ease discovered that on |
the night of May 9TH two men now sup |
posed To have been kunze and Cooney !
were arrested to Lake View STATION and |
discharged i'm the morning by Captain |
Wing. A local paper stated rss'cntly that
"a certain Irisi, officer upon the Lake View
police force suspected of direct inn
plicatiou i'm the ease. Other similar
statements were subsequently printed and
the officer determined to- tell his story.
Officer Isaac Robinson has becn on the
Lake View police force several years and
has always borne a good reputation. He
not IA member of any Irish secret
cicty. At different times before the muir
der, Robinson noticed men going i'm and
ont of the Carlson cottage and asked
Carlson about il. Carlson told him l,c
had rented the place tn two men who
expected to move in. On the might of
May 9Th Robinson saw II man crawling
out of the bascuu,u, of the cottage whom
| he believes tn have been Burke. In reply
! to the officers queries he said he
| was one of the tenants and had been
| looking i'm the tascncn with "a view to
! storing furniturc. Robinson was not
! satisfied. but he had mo- authority to arrest
| the man. The next night he came upon
| tie real estate office. south of the Carlson
| cottage. They bad the door of the office
| open and were talking about hiding some
| thing under the floor. One of then, spoke
| in broken English. with n German accent,
and told, the officer they had lost their way
! and wanted to get down town. They said
| they were. painters and lived on the west
side. Robinson wanted to know why they
stood there talking If auxioiis to get down
| town. The other man. who spoke with
! Irish accent, answered evasively. Robin
| son determined to ferret them. and as hc
! started for the patrol box "a
from os'ullivaU's barn and demands to-
know what lac was doing. Robinson REG
ognizesl this man tho person hc had
seen crawling from the basement of the
| Carlson cottage. and answered sharply
that If the stranger said much he would
take him along too.
The man said more and Robinson
| took his prisoners to the station. where.
| they repeated tine story told him. In the
morning they were released by Captain
! Wings orders, that officer saying to Rob
inson: ''What's the Use of sending them
tn Britlcwell to cost the city Twenty-Five
| cents "a day.
The two men thus discharged. il * now
believed 10y Officer Robinson. were. Kunzc
and Cooney. Their description ANSWERS
that of the two suspects very CLOSELY. AT
the time of their arrest it was NOT gcrcr-
ally believed that DIR. Crotiin had been
murdered. Two nights later Robinson
says he of the men hc had arr
rested coming o,It of the Carlson cottage
after midnight. He did not acco~t him
because hs. considered he had been
rcl,ikcd by Captain Wing when the
prisoners were discharged. Robinson
talked with the ncighhors about tine ease.
and concluded crime must have been
committed i'm the cottage. He told Carl
son, and young Carlson went into the cot
tagc and found blood stains, and thought
| Cronin had been killed i'm the place. The.
place suggested itself to Robinson and I,.
told Captain Wing of his suspicious. The
captain listened tn the story but did moth
ing. Three times i'm succession the officer
claims to have told Wing of his belief
that Cronin was killed in the cottage. but
nothing done until the week after
Croiiin's body was found, when Lieut..
SchiIttlcr. who WAS sent from down town
to Lake View. heard of Robinson's sus-
picions and investigated the matter. aud
the cottage story was made known to the
police.
; Another officer al Lake View says h.
knows Kerry and that he was one of
the two prisoners brought in the night
of May eth. He a!so says the prisoners,
were released 10y the patrol sergeant and
not by Capt. Wing.
I There was IL sensational affair at the
Carlson Cottage, the -upposcd scene of
yer FORREST. of the defense, witt,
three companions drove uu
to the cottage early in the evening. and
MIR. and Mrs. Lindgrcen. soil-iu-iaw and
daughter of the old Carlson couple. wrrr
the only other persons in the cottage al
the time. They gave the visitors the
usual description and incident ui
the murder. pointing out the blood
stains. These latter are enclosed 10y
"a wooden railing to keep relic huntcr-
out. Forest asked Lndgrcn the where
al,o,its of the house OF icenian O'sSuliivan,
and Lin.lgrcn according escorted him Ia
the window aud described the location
While thus engaged Forests companions
jumped over the railing and with sharp
tools proceeded to remove from the floor
and wall pieces containing the bloc.
stains. Linslgrs.ii. after vainiy trying "a
make them tletist. shouted for assistance
| Old man Carlson came running in will
cooked revolqcr. but FORESTS com ,sanioil-
seized aid disarnied him. They then ~
entered their carriage. carrying it'll them
the coveted trophy of their expedition
Forest has been entieavoring for som.
time To secure possession of thc-. spcci
mems from the cottage. presumably tn uss
as AN exhibit in the trial, hut tarlson,
have persistently refused To let them hav.
4 | them and Judge Mc(' 'onuell declined e
issue an order compelling them to do 50
ss,sse Lucky CoIor,,si People.
| (-INntNN Ss,,t a Tl.s. Al. M,