St. Paul daily globe., 1889-06-18
A HUGE BLUFF GAME.
The Chicago Police Are Play
ing a Devilish Sly
Game,
And Now Claim That the Win
nipeg Suspect Is Cronin's
Murderer.
Maronev and Mcdonald Given
Their Liberty by a New
York Judge.
Woodruff Still at the Old
Stand Grinding Out Con-
fesSiOnS.

CHICAGO. June 17.-Interest in the
CrOnin murder is centered tonight upon
Winnipeg, where the suspect Burke is
morning the authorities of the states
attorney and police departments were
confident that in Maroney and McDon-
aid they had two Of the principals to the
crime. No sooner, however, had the
dispatches chronicled the fact that the
Chicago witnesses had failed to identify
the suspects and that the court had
ordered their unconditional release
than the Tyre of the departments began
upon another tune. 1t was boldly
stated that the authorities had been
playing a bluff game with the New
Yorkers; that the picture identified by
the real estate agent, expressman and
others was not that of either of the
prisoners, but of Burke, the
Winnipeg suspect; that, in short,
the extradition of Maroney and
Mcdonald rad been demanded and the
witnesses sent on to identify them, all
as a part of bluff game, detective
being all the time on the track of
Burke, and the fact that he was the
mysterious Williams being all the time
patent to those in charge of the case.
In the effort to justify this position it
was stated with equal gravity that the
steps referred to had been taken simply
to satisfy Luke Dillon and the Pinker-
tons, both of whom, according to this
theory, were just as satisfied that Ma
roney and Mcdonald were the men
wanted as the regular police officers,
according to their present position, were
satisfied that they were not. Outside of
those now in New York. every witness
that positively identified Maroney's
picture as that of Frank Williams has
to-day recognized the photograph of
Burke as that of the ''only original"
But in one of the cells of the central
station man named Mulcahey is
UNDER LOCK AND KEY,
and it is reported among section of
the police that this man, too, is the one
sought for. Woodruff, alias Black, is
said to have made two more confessions
to-day, and to he hard at work tonight
upon a third. The states attorneys
Office is inclined to pin its faith to every
thing he says; the police, on the con-
trary, regard him as an unmitigated
liar. He has full access to the news
papers. and is allowed to talk with
whomever he may please. Hence the
fact that in every new confession he
brings in names that he has never men-
toned before. Experienced detec-
tives say that had proper methods
been adopted with him the true
story of his connection with the
tragedy would long since have
been known. The bulk of the evil
dence given before the grand jury to-
day was of routine character.
The most important witnesses
we're Desk Sergeant Montgomery, of
the Chicago avenue station, and James
w. Tuohy, the latter.0ne of Alexander
pressure Montgomery testified that the
numerous telephone calls for Detective
Coughlin. which he answered in the
Iatter's absence at the station, came not
from Iceman Sullivan, as had been testi-
fed at the cOrOner'S inquest, but from
Telephone $40. This is the number of
the instrument in the law office of
Windes & Sullivan, indicating that the
latter was in frequent communication
with the detective. Tuohy. who was a
fellow passenger with LIE CarOn on the
steamer that carried the informer to
Liverpool under the name of Beach,
was summoned to testify regarding the
conversation he had with the spy during
the passage. After his examination
was concluded he emphatically refused
to state what had transplred, and the
grand jurors were correspondlngly nom
communicative.