The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-10
The Cronin Case Re-tnld

CHICAGO, Sept ct seems that a
though great deal of matter has been ppt
lished about the Cronin murder, the trn
story of the discovery of the evidence a
the Carlson cottage is now told for the frs
time. 1t is also singular that the reporter
who were working on the case discovered
that on the night of May Z, two men. now
supposed to have been Kunze and Coonev
were arrested and taken to the Lakeyiew
station and discharged in the morning by
Captain Wing, local paper stated re
Gently there was a certain Irish officer
upon the Lakeview police force suspected
OF direct implication in the case Other
similar statemhets were subsequently
printed and the officer finally determined
to tell his story.
Officer Isaac Robinson has been in the
Lakeview police force several years and
| has always borne good reputation. He
was not member of any Irish secret So
clety. AT different times before the MUIR
der, Robinson noticed men going in and
out OF The Carlson cottage and asked Carl
son about it. Carlson told him he had
rented the place to two men, who expected
to move IN on the night of May g. Robin
son saw man crawling out of the base
ment of the cottage, who he now believes to
have been Burke. In reply to the officers
query, he said he was one of the
the basement with view to storing
furniture. Robinson was not satisfied
but had no authority to arrest the man.
Next night he came upon two men talking
together in front of little real estate
office, south of the Carlson cottage. They
had the door of the Office open, and were
taking ABOUT hiding something under the
moor: One of them spoke in broken
English with a German accent They 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 there talking if anxious to |
get down town, and the other man. !
who spoke with an Irish accent, answe led !
evasively. Robinson determined to arrest
them and as ne started for the patrol box a
man ran across from the direction of O'Sul-
lvan's barn and remarked he knew what
he was doing. Robinson recognized this
person as the man he had seen crawling
from the basement of the Carlson cottage
and answered sharply that if the stranger
said much he would take him along too.
Inc man said no more and Robinson took
his prisoners to the station, where they re-
peated the story they told him.
lIn the morning they were released nv
Captain Wings orders, that officer saving
20 Robinson: "What is the use of sending
hem to Bridewell to cost the city % cents
day!" The two men thus discharged it is
low believed by Officer Robinson. were :
AunZe and Cooney Their description an
wers that of the two suspects very closely.
At the time of their arrest it was not gen
rally believed that DR.. Cronin had been
murdered. Two nights later Robinson saw
ne of the men he had arrested coming ont I
+ the cottage after midnight He did not O
rrest him because he considered he had
cen rebuked by Captain Wing
yhen the prisoner was discharged. Rob
1son talked with the neighbors about the ?
latter, and concluded there must have been
rime committed in the cottage. He told
arison, and young Carlson went into the
ottage and found the blood stains. The q
lought that Cronin probably had been
lied in that place suggested itself to
obinson aud he told Captain Wing of his
lspicions. The captain listened to his D
,ory but did nothing. Three times in suc-
sssion the officer claims to have told
ling of his belief that Cronin was killed
the cottage, but nothing was done until D.
week after Cronin's body was found
hen Lieutenant Schutler, who was sent
ON down town to Lakeview, heard of [
obinson's suspicious and investigated the
after and the cottage story was made
lblic.