Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-09-14
LINKS In THE CHAIN.
ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE IN THE CRONIN
MYSTERY.
-Four Men Seen 10 Enter the Carlson Cottage The
Night Before the Murder was Com
miisd-Ics-man 0Sulliyan
and Others Identified.

CHICAGO, September 13.-A important
clew which has come to light is to the
effect that positive evidence has been ad.
ducsd to prove that Dan Coughlin, Martin
Burke, Patrick COoney and Patrick
O'SullivAn were in the Carlson cottage
on the night Of May till one o'blOck in
the morning of May 4, the day of the
murder of DR.. Cronin. Ike Robinson, the
Lake View policeman. who recently told
his story of finding the Carlson cottage,
saw the four men leave NeeDing's saloon,
No. 1855 Ashland avenue, walk north on
Ashland avenue and enter the Carlson
cottage. But this is not the only proof
which the Slale's Attorney now
has in his possession of the
truthfulness of these facts. Needing
bartender has told the States Attorney
that en- the night of May 3, four men, one
Of whom was his acquaintance, O'Sullivan,
came into the saloon and called for drinks.
After drinking couple of rounds the quar-
tette left. He says he remembers them pro-
ceeding north and stopping at about where
the Carlson Cottage must be- This was a
little after II o'clock, and aster waiting a
few minutes he shut up the saloon for the
night and went up to visit his friend, John
D. Eytel, at 1895 Ashland avenue. Here
be stayed and chatted with Mr.. Ertel and
his grown son till nearly one o'clock,
when he bade them good night and started
for his own home, which was with the
Neening family, over the saloon. 0a his
way down Ashland avenue be passed
the Carlson Cottage, diaRonally II
the rear of which is O'SullivGn'
ice house and barn. As he passed he saw
four meu leave by the side rear door and
make their way across TO the iceman'i
barn. As stated before, he knew O'Sulli
van personally, and he is positive that ht
wes the first Of the four men 10 reach the
barn, where, after opening the big sliding
door be waited for the other three to pas
in, and then closed the door, The othel
three men, the bartender tells the State
Attorney, were the same ones who baC
been drinking with the icemen in Nseu
ing's saloon a couple of hours before. Las
evening the bartender was tsken into the
sil and shown the Cronin prisoners. II,
recognized and spoke to 0'Sullivsn st once
and after taking good look at COughlir
and Burke, declared that he could posi-
lively identify them as the men he saV
with the iceman on the night Of May %
and in the early morning Of May "a. Th
bartender, whose name is being kept
close secret, will be one Of the States mail
witnesses.
1t ia staded that f. D. Spelmsn, O
Peori9, the district delegate Of the Clan na
Gael, has furnished the S.sIe's AttOrne.
with the correspondence between himsel
and Beggs, the Senior Guardian OF CAM
No. 20, relating 10 Dr.. Oronin' 3 trial by tb
Camp. The correspondence sets at rest al
question as 10 whether or not there was
trial. 1t proves there was trial, and fur
ther states that q salesman of Marshall Fielt
& Co, whose name bas heretofore neve
been hinted at in connection with tn
conspiracy, will be shown to have beel
intrusted with the execution of q portion
Of the plot. he is a North Side Irishmal
of some prominence. 10 the latte
part of February he went to Ireland. H
gave it out that he was going on busines
for mis- house. He returned May IL,
week after the murder. Irquiry made a
Marshall, Field q Co.'s has disclosed th
fact that be did not 90 abroad for th
house, and the object OF his jurney has no
been satisfactorily explained. There al
reasons, it is said, for believing that hi
mission was to arrange for the reception o
CrOnin's clothes, shipped in Burke's irol
box, on the other side.
The Globe today Gays the case Of surgi
cal instruments which DR.. Cronin carrie'
with him the night of the murder, ha
been found, and is in the hands Of the po
lice.