The Portland daily press., 1889-05-30
HURRYING TO HIS OWN DEATH SCENE
While He Thought a Sick Person
{ Was Awaiting His Coming.
A MiIkman Driving By Saw Or. Cro-
min Enter the Cottage. s
Evidence Given by Witnesses sefore
e m the Grand Jury. -

NhlCAGOs MAY 81 ne testimony as ellc-
tied before the grand jury in the Cronin case
yesterday, was not only very important but
thorough. Each and every witness sum-
moned was put through series of questions
such as called up their remembrance Of facts
from the greatest to the smallest in import
ance. The chief witness was the milkman,
Mertes. He said: II passed the Carlson cot
tage. 1872 Ashland avenue, on the night of
the murder. saw a buggy containing two
men, and a white horse driven up to the
door. The man seated on the left (the horse
was facing north jumped from his seat has
lily and ran up the steps. He carried two
packages. Before he had time to knock at
the door it was opened, il appearing to me
that some one was waiting inside the hall
way. At the instant the man stepped inside
the door, the man In the buggy whipped up
and drove rapidly north to the first street
when he turned west and was lost to sight
1 had been driving past the cottage when
saw the man in the buggy get out and run
up the steps and the buggy drive away. Af-
ter attending to my business at a grocery
near by, returned over the same road, past
the cottage, on my way home. This was,
PSAA"Pos ~ hiAiittSo AotSh. saw d liBlJ III
the cottage, and heard hammering or
smashing sound"
1t was plainly evident from the above tes-
timony that the man who ran so rapidly up
the stairway was DIR. Cronin, intent only on
rendering succor TO some dying man.
The next witness was Carlson, ST., the
owner of the cottage. s.When the man who
called himself Frank Williams rented NV
cottage, March 20" said he, 81 noticed that
he went over and talked to Sullivan, the ice
man man He apparently talked familiar with
preached the Goth, and the rent
day was coming near / began to
think 1t strange that my tenant did not oc-
cupy the promises. / wanted reliable
tenant. Seeing the man had talked with
Sullivan, | stepped over and spoke of his
queer conduct in not living in the house he
had rented, and added that / felt somewhat
anxious about my rent and the permanency
OF the tenant. He's all right said Mr.. Sui
ivan 70 me. be VIII pay, you all right
Mr.. Sullivan at first denied that he ever
saw the man. The connection of Iceman
Sullivan with the Cronin mystery and the
cause of his arrest and detention are here
made plainly apparent
oung Carlson was the next witness for
the state. Il was present when the furni-
ture was brought to the cottage-two DAYS
after the rental-March 22d. Two men cali
lpg themselves Williams unloaded the truck
Ibe driver remained seated; he did not
handle the goods. 1 casually stepped up to
the driver and discovered that be was a
Swede. spoke to him in that language and
ne told me that he had brought the furniture
from III Clark street, -
The story OF the men who rented the cot
tage having formerly r0omed at III Clark
street, where the furniture was taken by A,
ii: Revell & Co. is thus verified.
. The next witness was one of Importance
She was young Mrs. Carlson. She said: 81
visited my mother-in-law March 20. While
at tnls place-a cottage which sits in the
rear OF the fatal cottage--a man knocked at
the door and entered. He came from the
back part OF the premises in the vicinity of
Suliiyan's barn or house. He said he desired
TO see the cottage which was for rent. Old
MIR. Carlson took him over and showed him
about the place. They returned, and the
same time producing $12 the amount of the
nrst months rent. He gave his name as Frank
Williams. While the reception the money was
being made out young Mr.. Carlson asked Mr..
Williams what his business calling or pro-
fesslon was. This did not suit Williams, for
he Looked sullenly at the questioner and at
al OF us, and tnen, lowering his eyes, said:
shortly after he left that he seemed mad at
the question. When he departed he did not
go to the front toward Ashland avenue. but
started over toward Sullivan's. He seemed
anxious to get out of the house."
;, The description given by Mrs. Carlson tai
lies very closely with that given by Wood
run OF the man he called King, and who, he
and Mrs. C0nklin, at whose house DIR. Gro
min boarded, were the next witnesses. They
told how DIR. Cronin was driven away
In buggy with white horse. l"1