Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-10

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your Honor. from the ruling of the Court
and we challenge the juror Peremptorily.
The same process followed with the next
candidate. at the eud of whose examination
Dir. Forest said: I challenge the jury
man for cause, on the ground that ne mas
formed an opinion. which he considers
pretty firm and had expressed It.
The Court: Did you at any time say l
believe this man or that man Is guilty.
Answer: No; / merely said 1t looks that
way
Question: Meaning by that that should
! the published statements he true It looked
so and SO.
Answer: Yes. sir.
Question: do not think the opinion he
! has 50 firmly held 10 comes within the rule.
| override the challenge.
Exception was taken.
AT tins rate peremptOry challenges Will
/ soon be exhausted.
After further examination OF this juror
and a noting Of the several exceptions 10
| the Courts rulings. he was peremptorily
| challenged on behalf of Burke.
After the Court had Overruled the chal-
/ leugcs for cause in several other cases IN
| which the circumstances were similar and
! the talesmen had been peremptOrily eX-
/ cused. Judge Mcconnell said: want TO
| SAY n word to the gentlemen on both sides
J IL reference 10 lillS tllt VI tlalAtuENs 40 4
understand the law-and | think have
! taken II from very high authority and from
| rules of practice well approYed-ln the
/ early empanelllng of the jury IN case
which has been very much discussed
and very much published in the
newspapers, as this has, and concerning
which the Sherif's summOnlng officers nave
| gone to nearly all parts of the country and
| summoned nearlyall classes and conditions
] &c a I.n,r,,as annnrapf that
an ideal perfect jury cannot be secured
| that is, a Jury which has not formed any
/ impressions upon the matter, then the
/ Court must take the next best jury 1t can
get. rs long as it is a legal jury. SO
while great lberalty Will be permitted
such as this Court has permitted IN
this case in the early empanellng
of jury. necessarily. rs the Court be
comes convinced that it cannot be so llbe-
raj: that If IT were 10 continue tins
course no jury could be empanelled, that
llberality must be limited. So whatever
| might be ordinarily the rules Of law which
| govern the cmpanelling of jury IN IN or
/ dinary ease they must bend TO the exl-
| gencies of u case OF more public concern,
otherwise the result would necessarily tol-
low that in certain cases no jury could ever
be empanelled. Now. mean 10 say by
that where | find that these opinions
and men come here on whose intelligence
and character the Court is obliged To come
| TO q conclusion that from what they say
/ they can fairly and impartlagy try the case
! on law and evidence / shall not be SO lIhe-
raj rs have been. We have already con-
sumed nine days IN endeayOring to empa-
mel jury.
NRw STORY.
II seems that although great deal Of
1 h..a BAL lraltn fahn
| Croniu murder the true story of the dis
cOvcry Of evidence at the Carlson cottage
has never been told until now. II is also
| singular that the reporters who were work
| ing on the case never discovered that on
the night of MAY 7th. three days after
DR.. Cronin was killed, two men,
now supposed to have been kunze
and COOney. were arrested and taken u
the station and discharged by Captain
King. local paper stated recently that
there was Il certain Irish officer upon the
Lake View police force who was suspected
Of direct implication in the murder of Gro.
nin. Other such statements were printed
! bv the same paper in later issues. Finally
the officer determined 10 tell his story,
| which is now made public for the first time.
Officer Robinson has been on the Lake
View force several years aud has always
borne a good reputation. He is an Irish
! llihll DN Itltul0Hf, bub II iAIb u ibN AANNf ~
any Irish secret society. Robinson had the
reat in which the cottage was located, and
it was his duty to patrol Ashland avenue
and the iutersectlng streets for several
blocks north and south of the Carlson
house. At different times before the mur-
der Robinson noticed some men going IN
and out of the cottage. On the night OF
May 9Th Robinson saw man crawling
out Of the basement of the cottage and
l. a. l,.a
Burke, but he believes that Burke
was the man who talked with him that
evening. He said that he md his brother
were renting the cottage and that he had
been in the basement simply 20 see II there
was not a good place 10 store some old fur
niture At 9 O'clock the next night Robin
son came upon two mon who We're taking
together i'm the shadow of little real
estate Office near the Carlson cottage
Robinson spoke 10 them, and tho shorter
of the two announced in broken English
with German accent that they had lost
their wav and wanted to 60 down
town. Robinson asked them why they
were standing and talking on the corner
ii they wanted TO get down town. The
taller man, who had dark moustache
and who spoke with an Irish accent,
answered evasyely. and Robinson deter
mined 10 arrest them. just As he started
] Tor Tie ltflll-iIA - llUU ldu llViAA AH'
direction Of =. o. Sullivan's barn and
asked what Robinson was going 10 do with
the men. Robinson recognized this third
person as the man he had seen crawling from
the basement of the Carlson cottage, and
told him he was going 10 the station and If
the stranger said much he would take him
along. The man said no more when
he saw that the officer recognized
him. Robinson went 70 the station with
~ ! . L.. fa..rH.. 3D.
by Captain Wing. They gave their names
and supposed addresses. and repeated the
story hey had previously told Robinson.
No charges were entered against them on
the books consequently the officer does
not remember the names they gave. They
We're taken down stairs, kept IN custody
until morning. and then released by Cap
tain Wings orders. What's the use Oi
sending them 10 Bridgewell 10 cost the
city Of Lake View twenty-five cents per
day,n said Wing 10 Robinson. The men
thus discharged, it is now believed by
Officer Robinson. were kunze and
COOney. Their description answers that
Of the two suspects very closely.
At the time of their arrest II was not be-
lievcd that DR.. Cronin had been murdered.
Two nights later Robinson says be saw one
of the men he had arrested coming out of
the cottage after midnight. He did not
. AttfrI Iilil ltttA-f Nv fNuolA'i''A AAinA AA'
had been rebuked by Captain Wing when
he discharged the prisoners. Robinson
talked with the neighbors about the gOlngs
on in the cottage and concluded that there
must have been a crime committed there
He told Carlson Of his suspicious
and young Carlson went into the
cottage and found the blood-stains
The thought thatCronin had probably
been killed in the place suggested itself e
Robinson and he told Wing OF his suspi.
cions. Later he listened t. his story, bu,
did nothing. Robinson learned more
about the stranger of the cottage and
again spoke TO Wing. Three times in sue
cession the officer claims % have told
Wing of his belief that Cronin was killed
in the cottage. but nothing was done until
n week after CrOnin's body was found
Lieutenant Schuttler was then sent from
Larrabee station. and while talking with
Captain Wing learned of RobinsOn's sus
piciOns. Schuttler went 10 the cottage
and examined the blood-stains, and salts
fed himself that murder had been com
mitted there.
Robinson has not as yet been summoned
ms a witness by the State.
CARLSON COTTAGE SENSATION.
CHICAGO, Septem ber IA sensational anail
In CON cctiOn with the CrOniu trial occurred thi: