The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-11-09
YESTERDAYS EVIDENCE.

Very Few mlp6rtHpt Developments In tho
Cronin CnsO-Wllat the Witnesses Told
CHICAGO, Nov. s,--DireCtly utter ths
opening OF the court In the Cronin case
this morning the cross examination Of
Captain Schuettler was resumed. The
witness was 6rst questioned in regard to
the piece OF window shutter With bloody
finger marks on it, taken from the CARL
goH cottage, as testified to by him yes.
terday. The phutter, he said, remained
in the same condition 70 when taken
from the cottage, except that the marks
were apparently somewhat dllnned by
age and handling. The matter Of the
footprints on the floor OF the cottage
was then taken up. The witness said that
by his orders the boards In the bed room
bearing footprints were cut out; thoDe
in the hall were taken out by order OF
Captain Wing, OF Lakevlew. The foot
prints in the parlor Yere not removed.
All OF them seemed to have been made
by the same person. Captain SChuettler
then told OF an interview which lie had
with O'Sulivan about May 20. l put
the direct question TO him: "Do you be-
long 10 the Clan.Na.Gael?" He said,
mo, / do not "Do you belong to
other sooietiesPn "Ao.N He was sized
II he knew any people who lived in tho
Carlson cottage 10 March. He said no
knew none OF them. He was asked II
he ever saw any Of them there. He said
some time In February. think he said
bR RaY some people going In aud out
there,
On Cross.examinatioa tho Witness vas
asked TO produces 0 time Dard belonging
to Kunze's employees, aud after eomb
talk tho court directed the witness 10
bring II into court II hO could lind II,
Captain SCheuttler having stated that he
was uncertain as 10 its whereabouts.
Captain Wing, of tho LakeView police
force, testified that he cut z tlImher Of
chips out Of the floor Of tho O0rlsoh cot,
tage, and that they with tho lock Of hair
found In the trunk, were turned over 10
Captain sehHsttleF.
John Iindgren, Caylsopis Ron:in.law,
was the next witness. lie said that hp
went to the cottage May 10, with bis
brother. and finding the door locked,
decided to 40 In through one OF tho win.
doWs. The window they first tried was
the front one neTt the atepG. Half the
blind was open md the lUYer glat yar
cut or broken oil, They raised The win.
dow aud went In. "WhGn we got In wG
saw there was some paint on the floor,
aud we looked the house over TO gee u
lbprO wss anything In II, and We didn't
ind anYthIng eEOept that the floor was
painted, and the furniture Yap standing
there. We looked the floor over, and
the furniture, aud looked at tho. bed
and then ] looked the other rooms over,
and there was nothing there except III
the bedroom and the front room where
the furniture was. We touched nothing
aud only remained In thO cottage ten Of
lllteep minutes, leaylng II locked The
witness, who ID q carpenter, and who
built the cottage, identified the neCu oI
the 0hpLlDF which was broken Jlf from
the blind and Oh which theFU were
stains 10 u made by bloody hand, Tb[
Slat was then pIFeied aud accepted hy
tho court In evidence.
During the Cros.examlnatIon the
witness produced from bis pocket Tue
miS6lng slSt from the shutter, which
waa found Ia tho ditch s1lgp distance
from the house. II had been cut oil,
not broken, The alat was admitted ID
evidence.
William NiemAn, who at the time oI
the murder kept a saloon block and d
half south Of The Carlson cottage, waI
The next witness. lle testified that dc.
iendRnt Q'Sulliyan entered his saloon
between 10 and u o'clock on tho night
pl The murder lie was accompanied BY
Two a,sp, The witness Wds reluctant u
say whether eithpr pi lilo two men yht
one Of the defendants In this cale, huI
/ finally 6s!!d that COughlln feselnbled ont
bi them, and according C hla best iudg
mant, hp thought COughlln was one o
the. men. The other man was ainallet
and could not speak English plainly hl
had a German accent, Tho three BEool