, 1889-09-10
ANOTHER LINK.
Discovery Of the Evidence at
the Carlson Cottage.
The True Story Now Told for
the First Time
By Officer Isaac Robinson of
the Lake View Police.
Another Link in the Cronin Case.

hOh SdSts
CHICAGO, Sept. 9.-It seems although
a great deal oil matter has been published
about the CronIn murder the true story of
the discovery of the evidence at the Carl
son cottage is now told for the first time.
1t is also singular that the reporters who
were working on the ease discovered that
on the night of May I two men now sup
posed to have been Kunze and Coney
were arrested and taken to Lakeview sta
ton and discharged IN the morning by
Capt. Wing. A local paper stated re-
Gently that there was a certain Irish officer
upon the Lakeview police force suspected
OF direct implication in the case. Other
similar statements were subsequently,
printed and the officer has finally deter
mined to tell his story.
Officer Isaac Robinson has been on the
Lake View police force several years and
has always borne a good reputation. He
was not a member of any Irish secret SO
ciety. At different times before the muir
der Robinson noticed men going out of
the Carlson cottage and asked Carlson
about it. Carlson told him he had rented
the place to two men who expected to
move in it on the night of May l6. Rob-
lnson saw a man crawling out of the base
ment Of the cottage whom he now be-
lieyes to have been Burke. In reply to
the officers queries he said he was one of
the renters aud had been looking In the
basement with the view TO storing some
furniture.
Robinson was not satisfied, but had no
authority to arrest the man. The next
night he came upon two men talking to-
| rot her IN tr,pf 81 4. Effla r..l 49,. r..
south OF the Carlson cottage. They had
the door of the office open and were talk
ing abOnt hiding something under the
floor. One of them spoke in broken
English with u German accent and told
the officer they had lost, their way and
wanted.to get down town. They said they
were painters and lived on the West Side.
Robinson wanted to know why they stood
talking if anxious to get down town and
the other man, who spoke with an Irish
accent, answered evasively.
Robinson determined to arrest them
and as he started for the patrol box a
man ran across from the direction Of
OSullivan barn aud demanded to know
what he was doing. Robinson recognized
this person as the man he had seen crawl
ing from the basement of the Cnrlson cot
tage, and answered sharply that if the
stranger said much he would take him
along, too. The man said no more and
Robinson took his prisoners to the sta
ton, where they repeated the story they
told him.
In the morning they we're released by
Capt. Wings orders, that officer saying
to Robinson: What is the use of send
ing them to the bridewell to cost the city
cents a day. The two men thus dis
charged, it is now believed, by Officer
Robinson were kunze and Cooney. Their
description answers that of the two sus-
poets very closely. At the time of their
arrest in was not generally belle TeG Dr..
Cronin had been murdered.
Two nights later, Robinson says, he
saw one of the men he had arrested COM
ing out on the cottage after midnight.
He did not accost him because he con-
sidered he had been rebuked by Capt.
Wing when the prisoners were discharged.
Robinson talked with the ~neighbors about
the matter and concluded there must have
been a crime committed in the cottage.
He told Carlson, and young Carlson
went into the cottage and found the blood
stains. He thought that Cronin had
probably been killed in the place ana
suggested it himself to Robinson; and he
told Capt Wing OF his suspicious. The
captain listened to the story but did moth
ing. Three tunes in succession
the officers claim to have told Wing
of his belief that Cromiu was killed in the
cottage. but nothing was done till a week
after Cronin's body was found When
Lieut.. Schuttler was sent from down
own to Lakeview he heard OF Robinson S
suspicious aud investigated the matter and
the cottage story was made public.