New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-03
BURKE AGAIN POINTED OUT.
RECOGNIZED BY ANOTHER WITNESS IN THE
CRONIN CASE
TESTIMONY OF CHARLES J. CARLSON AND HIS
MoTHER-THE BLooDsTAINs IN
THE COTTAGE.

| MOIdEk-TuE BLOODSTAlNS IN
| THE COTTAGE.
Chicago, Nov 2.-Charles J. Carlson son Of the
owner of the Carlson ge, was the first wit
ness in the Cronin case this morning He testified
as follows:
| was sitting with my wife and my father in the
forenoon some time about March 20, when there was
Knock on the door, and came IN and said he
Saed Sones % rent the house Ny father went to the
@ oane IN again and ] made out The receipt for a
months rent in advance The stranger said that he
LOCO 70 come and keep house with hin. lie said no would
ove % Ia IN week or so, when his sister would come
ian ,sns subsequently he brought the farnitIrc in
aSs,r Se evening on G about 7:so O'clock Williams came
asdIn on April 20 10 pay the second months rent.
never i never saw Williams again untl 1 saw him in winn!.
peg; f,s w,-.o.. -
| moor OF the cottage
room Scan You point out Frank Williams in the court
'nere pointing TO Marvin Burke,.
/ lhe witness then proceeded with his testimony,
saying that after receiving the letter from Will
iams relinquishing the COTTAGE he entered il
through window on May 10 Said he:
:, The carpet gone of the floor and IL looked as
we're trying % poured o some pa & on the Co as Il they
in certain places found stains UsS oS the bass
Ioam srno mat looked like blood There was another
| No
brotne no moo moor also found one arm OF the rocker
add loose and the furniture tho dresser and
VA Has painted only In the centre of the room and on
nn lIo % norm side Toward the south wall there was
on the wall. There were stains all along on the
i pier and along on the south baseboard, In various
places on the floor that were not covered with paint
prinS az :, were We're sta stains stu showing saw foot
'he hallway and in the house
Inc reference to stocking-feet was ordered
Strlcken out by the court The witness then ndi-
caued on diagram the location of the stains
huhze was pointed out to him by counsel for the
state, but the witness could not identify him as
any one he had ever seen before During all of
'fe tlme for which the rent was paid the cottage
remained unoccupied. The witness was subjected
| 10 hng crOss-examinaton which did not seem to
develop any new facts
lie was followed by Johanna Carlson, his
mother She testified that on the Sunday follow
ing May when she first went ont she noticed
spots on the steps, and that both the steps and the
walk of the cottage showed tina there had been
| much tramping up and down, and also that the
footsteps showed that the persons who made
them had been walking in the sand
She thought that Frank Williams and
his sister had at last moved in, and that
The spots on the steps were only something that
had been broken in moving She then described
the interior of the cottage, the paint the stains
on the wall, the furniture, ETC. Then. at the re-
quest of the States Attorney that she point out
the man known to her under the name of Frank
Williams If in court, she pointed to Burke and
SAID That's him next to the fellow on the
pillow"
The witness told of an unidentified man who
came to pay another months rent about two
weeks after the murder The State believes that
this man was Cooney, The Fox" who has thus
lar eluded the police.
Then Hallkan Martinsen the expressman who
hauled the furniture from No III South Clark
81 to the cottage, took the witness chair. and he,
too identified Burke as the one who hired hlm:
1t was announced this afternoon that Senator
Kennedy, the Wisconsin lawyer who has been
Of counsel for Burke, had withdrawn from the
case. He said that the fund raised by Burke
and his friends not large enough to keep HIN
in the case.
A dispatch from Winnipeg this morning says:
Assistant States Attorney Baker OF Chicago,
had long interview with Bob Heller yeSter-
day Burke took fancy TO Hefer at first, and
communicative with him, telling HIM many
details about the crime. lie told Heller thai
Coughlin was the man actor in the tragedy, ana
had engaged both him and COOney to participate
in it, He told Heiier that sand bags were uSed
by two of the assasins while the third welded
a common baseball bat. Burke was under the
impression that Cronin was being decoyed to tp"
Gotta ge under the preteAt that ne was gong
attend woman. Four men were waiting in the
cottage for him. They listened Tor me s0uhd
of wheels Az last the carriage drove up, and an
instant later the Doctor hurried mp TO the door.
He knocked loudly and hastily, if be realized
that his presence WAS urgently required. Two
of the assassns stood behind the door ready 10
strike while one of the others from the inner room
called out in a loud voice: Come in lhe door
was quickly opened, and the doctor STROBE IN
The instant he was in, one of the aSsaSslns
slammed the door, while the other struck the
physician terrible blow with a sand-ba&
Cronin fell heavily to the foor' burke aiwaySS
this fact, Mr.. Baker says, makes - &-l4r uat
n was Burke himself, else he would have men
fioned tire name lie always spoke about the
four taking part in the crime and pounding the
doctor at the same time ihe me fdnr mo
rushed on him, and With sand-bags and clubs
pounded the life out of him; The poor % maa
struggled and moaned awfuIly. Blood poured
from his mouth and nose, and even ms eyes.
lie strug ggled and gasped for bre1'til, ana hg'rS
breathe TLen the fends stripped the blood
srtined GlotlGng off mmi and one oil mem
pounded his face so as 90 make II Impossible 10
recognize the body Coughlin hauled the trunk
over and the body crammcd INTO IT, Ohe
of the men went out and brought an express
wagon. which had been left in a convenient place.
When they carried the trunk 0ut oioo9 wa
dripping from it, and it ran on the II or ana Solhe
of their boots The trunk was set down ahi tnc
leaks in the trunk stopped with cotton palIIhS
which was found in the doctors lnstrume ht-c.So.
The trunk and its contents were then taken 10 the
lake Couqhlin driving the horse. There WIS no
beat AZ the point expected and they tried 10 shoVe
the trunk out into the water, but IL Woulu hou
work Anxious to get rid Of the body some way
Burke suggested that il be thrown into catch-
basin. The suggestion was adopted
THE LEADER OF THE HOWARD GANG ESCAPES
Pineville Ky. Nov 2-Reports from Harlan County