The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-06-05

CHICAGO, May 2S.-lOe leSG1uous dS
elected before the grand jury in the
Cronin case yesterday was not only very
important, but thorough. Each and
every witness summoned was put
through series of questions such as
called up their remembrance Of facts
from the greatest to the smallest IN I'M
portance.
The chief witness was Milkmau AerteS.
Said be: Il passed the Carlson cottage
on the night of the murder. l saV a
buggy containing two men aud white
horse drive up to the door: The man
seated on the left jumped from his seat
hastily and ran up the steps. He carried
two packages. BefGssebe had time to
knock stas8s do 80 . an:
psarIng to me- ~ waiting
inside the hallway At the instant
the man stepped inside the door the
man N the buggy whipped up and drove
rapidly to North street, where he went to
the West and was lost to sight. l had
been driving past the cottage when l
saw the man in the buggy get out
and run up the steps and the buggy
drive away. After attending to my
business at. the grocery near by re-
turned over the same road past the cot
tage on my way home This was per-
haps thirty-three minutes. saw light
in the cottage and heard a hammering
or smashing sound.
1t was plainly evident from the above
testimony that the man who ran rapidly
I'D the stairway was Dr.. Cronin, intent
on rendering Succorto some dying man.
The next witness was Carlson. Sr.,
the owner of the cottage. When the
man who called himself Frank William
rented my cottage, March 20, I noticed
that he went over and talked to Sulll-
van. the ice man. He apparently talked
familiarly with him. As the Goth of
April approached and rent day was
coming near, began to think it strange
that my tenant did not occupy the pre-
misses. I wanted reliable tenant.
Seeing that the man had talked with
Sullivan, stepped over and spoke of
his queer conduct in not living in the
house he had rented, and added
that I felt somewhat anxious
about my rent and the permanency of
the tenant. He's all right said Mr..
Sullivan to me- He will pay you all
right enough when the monh is up
Mr.. Sullivan at first denied that he ever
saw the man.
The connection OF Iceman Sullivan
with the Cronin mystery and the cause
of his arrest and detention are here
made plainly appacent.~
Young CsS!seh Was the next witness
forI1hesr STATE. Il was present when the
furniture was brought to the cottage,
two days af5eri its rental, March %. Two
men, calling themselves Williams, uu-
loaded the truck. The driver remained
seated. He did not handle the goods.
I casually stepped up to the driver and
discovered that he was a Swede. l
spoke TO him in the language, and he
told me that he had brought the furni-
ture from III Clark street."
The story of the men who rented the
cottage, having formerly roomed at III
Clark street. where the furniture was
taken by 4. H. Revals & Co.. is thus
verified.
The next witness was one of import
ance She was young Mrs. Carlson, and
was attired IN deep black, with a heavy
mourning veil covering her face. Said
she: Il visited my mother-in-law March
20 While. at this home-her cottage,
which sits in rear Of the fatal cottage
a man knocked at the door and entered.
He came from the back part of the pre-
misses, in the vicinity of Sullivan>s barn
or house. He said he desired to see the
cottage, which was for rent. Old Mr..
Carlson took him over and showed
him. about the place. They
returned, and the man said he would
take the cottage. at the same time pro-
ducing $la, the amount of the first
months rent. He gave his name as
Frank Williams While the receipt for
the money was being made out, young
Mr.. Carlson asked Mr.. Williams what
his business, calling or profession was:
This did not suit Williams, for he looked
Sullenlv at his Questiorer and at all OF
Us, and then, lowering his eyes, said:
Il am employed down town"
remarked shortly after he left that he
seemed mad at the question. When he
departed he did not 60 to the front
toward Ashland avenue, but started
over towards Sullirau'S. He seemed
anxious to get out of the house"
The description given by Mrs. Carlson
tallieS very closely with that given by
Woodruff of the man he called King, and
who he said gave him the trunk hauling
job.
Mr. and Mrs Conklin. at whose house