Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-20

Mr.. Longenecker-It may not have been
the one he had last spring.
On redirect examination the fact was
brought out that the bills for ice delivered
were made out to the number of the houses,
and not by name.
On recross-examinatiou the witness was
asked, the overcoat having been in the mean
time brought in:
Chow long have you had this overcoat?''
81 think this overcoat 1 have had since
last fall-a year ago this fall"
RATHER PERSONAL.
''Is this the only overcOat you have got ?''
"Yes."
A motion to strike out all the questions
bearing an insinuatlon and their answers,
was overruled, but the Court instructed the
Jury that they were not to be considered as
evidence.
William NJ. Glenn, a reporter for the
Inter Ocean, testified that one week after
the murder Mrs. Conklin told him that the
white horse brought to her door in no way
resembled the horse behind which DR..
Cronin rode on the fatal night; the one
which Captain Setback brought, she said, was
jaded old nag, while that which took DR..
Cronin away was a spirited animal.
of O'Sulliyan's house, corroborated in detail
the testimony Of the iceman's other wit
nesses.
A PECULIAR STORY.
Edward Jones, reporter for the Daily
Netos, testified that he went to the Carlson
cottage several days after the discovery of
DR.. Cronin's body. He went in company
with another reporter. A story had been
told that morning, in vague way, about
the Carlson cottage, and, as a joke, on the
way there, they got some cotton batting
and piece of liver, the blood from which
they smeared upon the cotton. They went
into the cottage and put some of the blood
stained batting in the chinks in the ceiling
and in some rat holes in the floor.
The witness, in response to question,
denied that he had put it there to furnish
material for a sensation in his paper. On
cross-examination the witness said that
neither he nor the other reporter put any of
their blood-stained batting in the cottage
upstairs
James Knight another of O'Sullivan's
employees, corroborated the evidence to es-
tablish an alibi for the iceman. The next
witness was James Minnehan, also an en-
ploye of O'Sullivan. His testimony was in
line Win L1aL OF his lellOW-WOTkUens he
testified to distributing the iceman's cards
throughout the neighborhood with view to
working up trade.
THE BLOODY TRUNK.
Jacob Schnur, trunk maker, testified
that the trunk which is supposed to have
contained Dr. Cronin's body, was made in
his factory. 1t was, he said, a common
kind of trunk, which has been on the mar
ket for many years, and is sold to dealers
indiscriminately. The lock was Of kind
which he was in the habit of buying by the
hundred dozen. II had been on the market
eight or nine years at least.
Patrick Brennan, still another employe of
O'Sullivan, elaborated further the iceman's
defense. On cross-examination the fact was
brought out that the lawyers for the defense
got a lot of their witnesses together at
O'Sullivan's house last Sunday and went
over their testimony in the presence of the
entire company. The court then adjourned
till tomorrow.
Mrs. Conklin this afternoon saw the wit
ness Mulcahy, but failed to identify him as,
the man who drove the white horse.