The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-09-14
THE STATES WITNESS
With Whom 1t is Expected to
Convict the cronin Suspects,
He TELLS A STARTLING STORY
And Identities the Four Prisoners,
Ho Saw Them Come Out of the
Carlson Cottage ANer the
AIurder-,HIsN Name Secret,

CHICAGO, Sept lS.-An important
clew which has come to light Is 10 the
effect that positive evidence has been
adduced to prove that Dan Coughlin,
Martin Burke, Patrick Cooney and P,
o'Sulliyap were in the Carlson cottage
on the night oiMay 8 till o'clock in the
morning of May 4, the day Of the muir
der of DR., Cronin.
Ike Robinson, the Lake View police.
man, who recently told his story Of find.
Ing the Carlson cottage, saw the four
men leave Meanings saloon, No. 1865
Ashland avenue, walk on Ashland ave.
nue. and enter the Carlson cottage, But
this Is not the only proof which the
States Attorney now has in his posses.
sion OF the truthiulness OF these facts.
Neening' = bartender has told the States
Attorney that on the night Cf NAYS,
four men, one OF whom was his acauain.
tanCe, 0'sulllyau, came into The saloon
and called for drinks, After drinking q
couple OF rounds the quartette left, He
says he remembers them proceeding
north and stopping at about where he
supposed the Carlson cottage must be.
This was little after II o'clock, and
after waiting few minutes he shut up
the saloon Tor the night and went up 10
visit his friend, John D. Ertel, at iOO5
Ashland ayen1e. Here he stayed and
Chalted with Mr., Ertel and his grown
son till nearly / o'clock, when he hide
them good night and started for his own
home, which was with Meanings family,
over the saloon, On his way down Ash.
land avenue he passed the Carlson cot
tage diagonally In the rear OF which Is
O'SDlllvan's Ice house and barn, AR
he passed be saw four men leave by the
side rear door and make ttelr way
across to the iCeman's barn. As stated
before, he knew 0'Sullivan personally
and he is positive that he was the first
OF the four men to reach the barn,
where, after opening the big sliding
door, he waited for the other three 10
pass in, and then closed the door. The
other three men, the bartender tells the
States Attorney, were the same ones
who had been drinking with tho Ice
man in Meanings saloon couple Of
hours beto .. Last evening the barten.
der was taken into the jail and shown
the Cronin prisoners. He recognized
and spoke to 0'sullivan at once and
after taking good look at Coughliu
and Burke declared that he could posi-
lively identify them as the men hG saw
with the iceman on the night OF May 8
and in the early morning Of May 4. This
bartender, whose name Is being kept a
close secret, Will be one OF the States
main witnesses.
1t is stated that L. D. Spelman, OF
Peoria, the district delegate OF the Clan
na.Gael, has furnished the States Attor.
ney with the correspondence between
himself and Beggs, tho Senior G Guardian
OF Camp No. 20, relating to DR.. Cronin's
trial oy the Camp. The correspondence
sets at rest all question as to whether
or not there was a trial. It proves
there was trial, and further states
That q salesman for Marshall, Field &
Co., whose name has heretofore never
been limited at In connection with NE
will be shown to have been
lntrusted with the execution OF a nor
tion OF the plot. He is a North Side
Irishman OF some prominence. In tho
latter part Of February he went 10 Ire-
land. He gave II out that he was going
on business for his house. He returned
May II, a week after the murder. Inquiry
made at Marshall, Field < Co.'s has
disclosed the fact that he ala
not go abroad for the house; and the
object OF his journey has not been salts
laCtorily explained. There arc reasons,
It is said, for believing that his mission
was 70 arrange for the reception Of DR..
Cronin's clothes, shipped In Burke's
iron box, on the other side.
The Globe to-day says the case Of surpl-
cal instruments which DR.. Cronin car.
ried with him the night OF the murder,
had been found, and is In the hands OF
the police.
No Juror had been secured atadiourn.
ment this evening, Twenty men were
examined to-day.