Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-11-15
show q marked Improvement in the
propagation of your faith. The congress
then adjourned sine die at 9 p. m. 81
THE CHAIN COMPL ETE.
The Missing Link in the Cronin Case
! e II II. Supplied by Mrs. III.
~ :, '. Hoertel. 49,, :
She Saw the Doctor Enter the Cottage
=. and Heard His Death
: ,sa-. IT,. Cries, .-~.;

%OhlCAGO, !NoV. ll.-NO evidence of d.
rect Importance was given. The dav
was mostly spent in the introduction Of
expert evidence. Professor Haines, of
Rush Medical college, detailed expert.
ments made to prove that the stains
found in the Carlson cottage were made
by human blood.
CHICAGO, Nov. 12.-Charies Herchmer,
q tailor who keeps a shop near Buch.
holz's saloon, was called. His testimony
corroborated that of Buchholz-that
Kunze boarded there some time and was
known as John Kaiser. John P. Dunno,
Frank O. Washburne and others gave
testimony tending to show the intimacy
existing between Coughlin and Kunze.
Joseph Petowski, q laborer, testified that
he boarded at Bucholz's house with
Burke. That one night early in May he
was absent all night. Gus Klahre, tin.
smith. testified to soldering the cover on
to a galvanized iron box for Burke on
May 9Th.
NOT IN THE ''1NNER CIRCLE"
Joseph O'Byrne, senior guardian of
Camp 226, was recalled and testified that
on the Tuesday subsequent to DIR. Gro
MINIS disappearance Beggs, in conversa-
ton with the witness, Maurice Morris
and Dennis Ward, said in reply to sug-
gestion made by Morris that the doctor
was in all likelihood dead, "You don't
know what you are talking about. You
are not in the inner circle and we are. y
The witness previous to that time had
never heard of an @inner circle in the
Clan-na-G Gael.
Maurice Morris was recalled and cor.
roborated the testimony given by O'Byrne
In regard to the Inner circle" converse
ton, held with Beggs.
CRoNIN's CLOTHES AND INSTRUMENTS.
Mike Gilbert, sewer cleaner, testified
to finding Cronin's effects last Friday
and then the clothes and instruments oi
the murdered physician were brought
into the court room.
The clothes were held up for the in.
spection of the jury.
Then Mrs. Conklin took the stand and
identified each piece of clothing and each
instrument as having been worn and car
rled by the doctor when he left his home
on his fatal ride. She recollected each
article perfectly. and the truth of hel
testimony was SO self-evident that the
defense waived crOsS-examination.
Court then adjourned,
CHICAGO. Nov. 13.-Judge Longe-
necker offered in evidence the specimens
of hair taken from the trunk and from
DR.. Cronin's head. which had been com
pared by chemical and microscopic ex-
perts and found to be identical. They
were admitted in evidence over the OBJ.
objection of Mr.. Forrest.
Mrs. Pauline Hoertel, who lives on Ra
cine avenue, near the Carlson cottage,
was then called. Mrs. Hoertel swore
that she saw man resembling DR.. Gro
min enter the Carlson cottage on the ev'
eningof May 4. Mrs. Hoertels story
was that shes was passing the Carlson
cottage between z and o'clock on the
evening of May 4, when she saw two
men in a buggy drive up to the cottage
One Of the men got out and went up the
steps. He knocked, the door was opened
and he went in. The man carried some.
thing like - satchel. 1t might have been
a surgeons instrument case. The horse
that drew the buggy was white. When
the man entered the door of the cottage
it was closed Immediately and witness
heard sounds as though heavy blows
were being dealt; there was the
Witness stopped and heard someone cry
out "Oh, my God" After the exclama,
ton, ''Oh, my God,'' she heard another
"Oh, Jesus" and q sound as someone
crying or moaning, and followed by
blows. II sounded as though there was
something breaking. Then she heard
more cries and lnoans, after which the
SOUNDS DIED AWAY AND ALL WAS STILL.
The witness, an unsophiscated German
woman, gave her evidence With so much
simplicity. and straightforwardness that
nearly every one in the court room was
impressed with the recital. Coughlin
and Burke at first turned pale and then
a look of blank despair came over their
faces. The witness went on to say that
after passing the cottage she went
around on Roscoe street, where she saw
man standing between the cottage and
her house in the shadow. This was near
the real estate Office where another wit
ness, yet to come. will testify that
o'sULL1vAN WAS ON WATCH
while the assassins were at their bloody
work. With the statement that the
man in the buggy did not have to wait
Oh the steps but the door was quickly
opened for him. The examination in
chief of witness closed. .1
Officer Thomas McKinnon, of Winni-
peg, was the first witness called in the
afternoon. He testified to the arrest of
Burke in that city on June 18. Burke
when arrested had railroad ticket to
Montreal, a steamship ticket from Mon
tra.l to Liverpool, and $3.50 in money.
!. q, ' sRlCE A CANDIDATE.