Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-11-20
Targets for Laneensckef's Cfsss
Fire Of Questions.
How the 1ssttmouy was Cookea up
at o'oailivan's Laas Sunday.


Being cross-eramined, the witness coul
not remember what he did, where he wen
the day of the funeral, nor whom be saw a
the Casey funeral Witness returned fron
the cemetery about FIVE and went to Clarity
saioon. (Whalen yesterday was positiv
that it was six lie did rot see Marti
Burke at the funeral. nor did he see Da
COughlin at Garrity's saloon. Witness de
MED that he went TO Dinan's livery stabl
Saturday night to ask if all the rigs were 10
Coughiin WAS standing on the station step
when the witness saw him. He said "Goo
evening" to him, ,Coughin said the same. Th
witness knew Coughlin was suspected of com
| plicity In the case because he read it in tn
papers Witness, on being pressed said h
| did not know one word printed on the sub
| ject until three days after the corpse wa
| found in the Lake View catch basin. II,
bad told no one bn' Scott. because he wit
ness) WAS a me mber of Camp 20 and did no
/ want to get his name nj xea up with the case
| Witness admitted he had been in Dolan's sa
loon last night The questions put TO tn,
witness indicate small army of detective'
were keeping track of the movements of the
witnesse, for the defence.
| VIM Muleahey, employee of O'Sullivan
! the ice man, testified that man resemblin,
Coughlin called at the ice name residence ir
April and asked him 10 he knew Kunze. Or
his replying in the affirmative, he told hin
to notify him (Coughln) by telephone at ths
| Chicago avenue station when he turned up
| Coughlin was confronted with the witness
but the latter would not swear he was the
same man.
| Mulcahey said that in April he was trOub
led with sore leg, and O'Sullivan told hin
to go down and see Cronin, as he had con
/ tract with him. He swore that on May 1 he
was out with O'Sullivan peddlng ice unit
late in the evening They went home and
had supper. o'Sullivan went to bed at
O'Clock, witness following soon after. Abou
| 10 he was awakened by hearing some of the
workmen at the door They were let in.
After that Mrs. Whalen came into the room
to get a cot bed and spoke to O'Sullivan
Witness testified that he heard a conversa
ton between old man Carlson and OSulli-
van about the tenants Of Carlson cottage
| The old man testified that o Sullivan said he
knew them, they were all right This wit
ness testified that O'Sullivan said he knew
none of them
On cross examination, States Attorney
endeavored to elicit from the witness state
| ment in his eviden ce before the coroner
any conversation between O'Sullivan anC
the elder Carlson. Witness persisted tina
he never so testiie'.
Further questions ELECTED the statement
that on the night of the murder, O'SullivaE
got up when the men who were out came tt
the door, and let them in. Witness got uI
about seven the following morning, leaving
O'Sullivan in bed. O'Sullivan, he said
never left the house that night. The wit
ness memory as to events Immediately pre-
ceding and following the night of the mur
| der was defective. The crosse Examination
took an unexpected and sensational turn, the
| evident intention being to direct suspicion
toward the witness as the man who drove the
white horse which drew Cronin to his death
Witness denied that he had ever worn
beard or allowed his beard to grow for two
weeks in the latter part of April last Wit
ness said that be did not go to see Cronir
about lame foot when o Sullivan suggested
because it was not troubling him then. HI
was quite sure he did not see Cronin May
4th. Witness said that since last spring b,
has been acting as collector for O'Sullivan
but was unable to give the name of anyone
who paid him money for O'Sullivan.
At this point prisoner O'Sullivan rose and
said; If you Honor please" whereupon th'
court, addressing Donahoe said Have YOU
client sit down
R.verting TO the suspicion that he drov
white horse, the examination continued.
''Have ycu an overcoat?"
eyes"
Did you have one last spring."
yes"
Have you got it'"
Yes"
"Where?"
''In the ante room"
| Forrest-"I move to bring it in"
| Longenecker-''Tt It may not be the one h
had last spring.
| On redirect examination the fact wa
brought out that bills for ice delivered wer
made out to the numbers of the houses no
by name.
On re-cross examination the witness wa
asked, the overcoat having been in the mean
time brought in.
How long have you had this overcoatf"
Think have had this overcoat since
year ago this fall
"The only oyercoat you have?'
Yes"
A motion to strike out all questions bear
ing upon insinuation and their answers wa
over ruled, ard the court instructed the jur.
that they were not to be considered as evi
deuce. Thoma, Whaleu, a cousin of Pat
| rick O'Su|lvan. was the next witness. Hi
wife kept boarding house at which O'Sul
iivsn ard his men lived. He said he was no
a member of an Irish society. He testife'
that on Sunday. May 9Th. when he returne
from work. he found the two Hylands wit
O'Sullivan at his house. He remembers
that on the night before O'Sullivan sat mex
to him at supper. AT about half past eigh
his wife and sister went out, and O'Sulliva
and some other men were sitting in tn
kitchen. At about qparter to nine o Sulliva
went to bed He was subjected to a lon
cross-examination.
The first witness in the afternoon wa
William NJ Glenn, reporter for the Inter
Ocean. He testified that one week after tn
murder Mrs. Conklin told him the whit
horse brought to her door from Dinsn's liver
stable in no way resembled the horse benin
which Cronin rode on that fatal night. Tn
one Capt. Setback brought, she said. was
jsded old nag, and that which took Croni
away was a spirited animal.
Edward Jones. a reporter for the Dali
News. testified that he went to the Carlso
cottage with another reporter several day
after the discovery of Cronins bo1y. Th
story had been told that morning, in vagu
way. about the Carson cottage, and. as
joke. on their way there they got some co
ton batting and piece of liver the bloo
from which they smeared upon the co,toi
They went into the cellar and put sou
blood-stained batting on chinks in the ceiiin
and in some ratholes in the floor.
On croes examination witness said neith'
, he nor the other reporter put any Of the
bloody stained batting in the cottage upstair
, Robert Boyiuston and James Knight, Al
/ O'Sullivans, employees corroborated Il
evidence to establish An abb for the icema
nj The next witness was James Minneha
, an employe Of O'Sullivsn. His testimor
was in line With that OF his fellow workme
II jacob Sehnur. . trunk-makef, testifi,
.. that the trunk supposed to contain Cronir
body vas made in his factory. 1t was.
said, Q common kind of trunk, had been
, the market for years, and was sold to desle
indiscriminstely. The lock vas Of the XII
. he was in the habit Of buying by the hsndr
dozen. They had been on the market
!, eight or nine years.
Patrick Brennan, an employe of O'Sul
van, elaborated further the ice mans
fense. On cross examination the fact "
brought out that the lawyers for the defeu
got lot of their witnesses together
'' O'Sullivan's house last Sunday and ws
over their testimony in the preaence of {
e entire company. The court adjourned IN
tomorrow.