The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-30

by, returned over the same road past
the cottage on my way home. This
was perhaps thirty-five minutes later.
| saw light in the cottage, and heard
hammering or smashing sound 1t
was plainly evident from the above
testimony that the man who ran SO
| rapidly up the stairway was DIR. Gro
| min, intent only OH rendering succor to
some dying man.
The next witness was Carlson ST.,
the owner of the cottage. when the
man who called himself Frank Will
Jams came to my cottage March 8,
| noticed that he went over and talked
to Sullivan, the ieeman. He aPpar-
| emily talked Familiarity with him.
AS the month of April approached
the Goth, and the rent day was coming
near, began to think it strange that
my tenant did not occupy the premises.
| wanted Oelible tenant. Seeing the
man had talked with Sullivan,
stepped over and spoke of his queer
conduct i'll not living in the house lie
had rented. and added that felt some
permancy of the tenant. He is all
right said Mr.. Sullivan to me. He
will pay you all right enough when the
mouth is up.'' Mr.. Sullivan at first
denied that he ever saw the man. The
connection of the iceman, Sullivan,
with the Cronin mystery, and the
cause of his arrest and detention, are
heFemade plainly apparent
Young Carlson was the next witness
for the state. Il was present when
the furniture was brought to the cot
tage, two days after the rental, March
y. Two men, calling themselves Will
liams, unloa1ed. The driver remained
seated; he did not handle the goods.
l casually stepped up to the driver and
discovered that he was Swede. /
spoke to him in that language and he
told me that he had bought the furni
ture from III Clark street." The story
of the man who rented the cottage
having formerly roomed at III Clark
street, where the furniture was taken
| by A. s. Revel & 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.
| She said: Il visited my mother in
cottage, which Sitsin the rear of the
fatal cottage, man knocked at the
| door and entered. He came from the
back part of the premises in the vicin-
| ity of Sullivan's barn, or house. He
| said he desired to see the cot
tage, which was for rent.
Old Mr.. Carlson took him
| over and showed him about the place.
| The returned and the man said he
would take the cottage, at the same
time producing So, the amount of til e
first months rent. He gave his name
| as Frank Williams. While the receipt
| for the money was being made out,
Young Mr. Carlson asked MIR. Will
| liamS what his business calling or pro-
fession was. This did not suit Will
liams and he looked sullenly at his
questioner, and at all of us, and then
lowering his eyes said, II am en-
ployed down town. 1 remarked
shortly after he left that he seemed
mad at the question. When he de-
parted he did not go to the front to-
| ward Ashland avenue. but started over
toward Sullivan'S. He seemed anxious
to get out of the house." The descrip-
+ ton given byssMrs, Carlson tallies very
closely with that given by Oodruff
of the man he called King, and who
he said gave him the trunk hauling
job. Mr.. aud Mrs. COnkling at whose
house Cronia boarded, were the next
witnesses called. They told how
DIR. Cronin was driven away in buggy
with white horse. According to,R
morning paper there appears to be
more in the story which detective
Coughlin told about the connection OF
the man whom he called Thomas
Smith, from Houghton, Michigan, than
has heen supposed. The man calls
himself willard Smith. The notes OF
Coughlin's statement to Mayor Gre
pier were produced before the grand
jury yesterday, and they placed Smith
in an ugly position. His name. Viii.
lizard, is not baptismal one, but one
by which he was known in Chicago
! He visited the East Chicago avenue
station to inquire for :Coughlin.
Cnughlin and himself Immediately es.
tablished Intimate relations. Smith
really paid SIS to Coughlin as pay ment
for the use of buggy given on Cough
Inns recommendation. This is eStab
! liShed by the testimony of the desk
sergeant at the station. Smith has re-
Gently been keeping company with q
somewhat trolicSnme young woman at
"A certain resort here, The same
young woman is an intimate FRIEND
! of Pinkerton detective. She has Civ
en- the detective some valuable point
ers in reference to Smith. Smith
shaved off his heavy coat of beard thu
day after the CroDin murder. Tit
. barber who did the shaving has giveI
! testimony. Smith threw away hi
SLOUGH hat the same day. He bought
a new one, that which he now wears
The halter of whom he bought the ha
has been discovered and can be pro
: duced If it is deemed advisable.