Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-11-15

from the Carlson cottage. delivered to her
by Police Captain Schaach were by her
turned over to Dr. Belheld.
When Henry Buchholz, on behalf of the
state, was called. Mr. Donahue for the
defense said: Il object to this witness
| testifying on the ground that we have re-
ceiyed no notice of his testifying until
| this morning.
The States Attorney notified them,
If your honor please, Just as soon as got
into court this mo 0rnIng.
The Court may now say right here
that | shall allow this witness to testify,
and | NAV explain why shall allow all
| the witnesses to testify in this case. pro-
vided the defense is notified prior to their
being called to the stand that they are to
! be called. | take it that the law with
reference to the Endorsement of the names
on the back of the Indictment was design
! ed for those cases which will be finished
| speedily, where the jury will be obtained
and the case disposed of within a few days
| at least. In such a case rank injustice
would be done to the defendants if the
names of the witnesses to be placed against
them were not placed ON the back of the
Indictment. But where a case has taken
as long as this has. and plenty of
| opportunity is afforded to you for making
| inquiries as to the witnesses on the stand.
am not going to hold strictly to the role
at all. At the same time will in all
| these cases. if you elect to do it, allow the
! cross examination to be deferred until op-
portunities have been afforded you to make
| inquiries.
The defense took an exception to the
! ruling and the wIsness proceeded to teSti-
! fly. He said John Kunze came to board
L.. IL. r IL
! Kaiser.
Charles Herkimer. a tailor. was the next
| witness.
kunze sitting there, the man at the
| end?'
Yes"
The witness testified. through an inter
prefer, that he had seen Kunze in the lat
ter part of April and that he gave the
name of John Kaiser: subsequently he said
it was Kunze
John ?. Dunn. d plumber. testified that
in the early part of April he saw kunze
and COughllm in Cameron S saloon on Lin
coin avenue. Kmze took the witness up
and introduced Coughlin as a good friend
of his, adding that Coughlin would do
anything for him (Kunzel that he could
Frank 5. WaShburn. a saloon keeper.
testified that kunze and 0'Sulivan were
IN his saloon between the 18th and 20th of
April, and that kunze said he was going
to buy horse from O'SulIivan and pre-
tend to paya big prize for it so as to get
some spending money from his guardian.
Gus klare timer, testified that on Mon
| day morning after the murder Burke
came to the shop where he worked and had
a galvanized iro" box soldered; it was
| about l4X26 inches in size. The witness
continued We got to talking about this
| case here. as | read it in the paper Sunday
| morning. He said that Dr. Cronin was "a
British spy and ought to be killed.
Before you sOldered the box did you do
anything to the lid?'
Yes, sir; had to scrape it, because
there was sand and one thing or another
on it.
Before you scraped it did you do any
! thing while Burke was there?"
No, sir; well, | tried to cut the cord
and he wouldn't have that
What did he say about it when YOU
were going to cut the cord?'
He showed my arm to one side and said
| For Gou S sake, don t cut it. or some re
| mark like that. told him had to cut it
| to make a good job. and he said do it any
way; it don t make any difference what
kind of a job it is. y
Klahre said that when Burke was
brought back from Winnipeg he visited
| the jail with an officer for the purpose
! Of identifying him. He went up close to
| Burke's cell, when the latter muttered,
- - -, as if he meant him wit
ness
On the cross-examination the witness
repeated every detail of Burkes visit to
| his shop and the soldering of the box He
was certain as to his identity.
While the witness was giving this testi-
mony the defendant Burke leaned forward
in his chain and laughed derisively at him.
Prof. Henry l.. Talman testified as to
| the results of examinations of specimens
of blood taken from the Carlson cottage
| and from the trunk. and of hair taken
| from the Carlson cottage and from DIR.
! Cronin' 5 head. The witness explained at
| length the manner of preparing the blood
! for observation under the microscope
The witness was then asked: In view
of the examination which you had de
scribed, what do you, as a man of science,
say as to the kind of blood which You dis
covered?'
Il should say that it was human blood. "
| Michael Walsh. a gas filter. testified
! that he was, at one time a member of
camp 20 of Can-na-Gael in the latter
| part of April. Witness wa. at work in
| Joliet About May 9, he saw Martin
Burke; they roomed together until both
returned to Chicago on May Is. Burke
worked one day while there, for which he
was paid s1.60.
The states attorney endeavored. with
out success. to show by Walsh's testimony
that Burke was without money of
his own while in Joliet. but that shortly
I afterward he was in Winnipeg with
! plenty of money. with a ticket for Europe
and able counsel to fight his extradition.
Maurice Norris, a friend of Cronin $
testified as to a conversation had with
Dennis Ward In the presence of Beggs.
| Ward asserted that Cronin had gone away
| with woman. whereat Norris got mad
and said emphatically that Cronin had
been murdered and by people in this city.
Beggs thereupon said: "Oh. you are not
posted: we are in the inner
circle and know what we are
talking about" In reply to questions
bv the attorneys. Morris stated as his def
milton Of inner circle. that the |. NJ. B
before they united with the e. b., be-
! longed to the inner circle. A lengthy ex-
animation regarding inner circle, ''tri-
angle and 'anti-triangle' Clan-na-Gaels,
incidentally dragging in faction fights, in
order to establish. if fpossible. what Beggs'
reference to the Inner circle meant.
Finally Forest of the de'ense, objected to
it all as hearsay, and inadmissible
Foster. counsel for Beggs. was willing it
should remain in ev.11 nee but the court
finally ruled it should be stricken out so
far as it applied to any of the defendants
except Beggs.
Cronin's clothes and surgical instru-
ments found In a Lake View sewer last
Friday. where then exhibited. and the
sewer cleaner told about the finding. Mrs.
| Conklin at whose house Cronin lived.
identified the clothes and other articles as
Cronin's property.