St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-27
that, while they were strolling down
Clark street in the vicinity of Hi
nois, COughlin met man who

not pay any attention to the fellow" !"
said Whalen, "because he appeared to
be friend of Dams. Dan did not offer
to introduce me. SO strOlled along a
little way north and waited for Dan to
get through. When he got through, he
came over where was standing. and
we walked north about block. Then
he told me that the man he met was his
FRIEND FROM MICHIGAN
who had driven Dinan'S horse. l turned
around to see if could see the fellow,
but he was too far away. If l had
known at the time who he was would
have taken him to the station to see the
captain. But as we were not on the
case then soon forgot the incident"
"What sort of looking man was he?''
81 don't believe l looked at him, so
the only description l can give l got
from Dinan and his men,"
''Didn't you think it rather peculiar
that Coughlin did not introduce you to
a man for whom you had been hunting
two days?"
81 didn't think much about it then.
because 1 wasn't paying any attention
to the case"
1t is known that an attempt to decoy
DR.. Cronin to a very lonely spot was
m ade a short tim c before the night he
was killed. The story of the attempted.
but unsuccessful effort to get Dr. Gro,
min to lonely neighborhood to see an
imaginary sick man, is interviewer with
other incidents that lead back to the
Carlson cottage. One night about
1880 o'clock, shortly after the cottage
was leased to two strange men. tele-
phone message was sent to the doctor
asking him to call at Butterfeld and
FOrtieth streets, on the South slde,
where, it was said, a man was badly
hurt. The person who telephoned gave
explicit instructions as to the locality
and urged that the doctor make
all possible haste. DR.. Cronin
was absent from his home at the
time, and did not return until nearly
morning. After it was light he went to
the place where he was wanted in such
haste. The spot was vacant lot. He
made careful and exhaustive inquiries
in the neighborhood, going from house
to house. After spending several hours
in the search he found that no one had
been injured in that vicinity. The mes
sage was decoy. There is little doubt
that had he gone there during the night
he would have been assassinated.
COUGHLIN's WIFE.
Detective Dan Coughlin still occupies
witness cell at the Harrison street
station. No one was permitted to see
the officer OF talk with him until this
afternoon, when handsome, pale
faced woman approached the desk at
the station and timidly inquired if she
could see Mr.. Coughlin just for one
moment.
"Who are you," inquired Desk Ser
geant hogan. "tnat you take sue q an
interest in him?"
:sPm his wife," tearfully replied the
golden-halred baby at her side, ''is his
child"
A private consultation was held with
the police headquarters over the tele-
phone, the result of which was the
lady and child were permitted to go
down in the cell room. But five min
utes were allowed for conversation, and
but little passed between the hus-
band and wife. When the woman came
from the witness cell her face was
buried in her hands, and she sobbed
and cried over her husbands unenvia-
BILE position. .:What have they got
papa in that cage for?u innOcently in
auired the little child of her mother.
An unintelligible reply was whispered
in the little ones ear, and mother and
child quickly leIC Cno SLaJlOn.
ICEMAN SULLIVAN.
Investigations were made to-day re-
garding Iceman Sullivan's connection
with secret society of which
DR.. Cronin. Justice Malone, and
one Stephen Coakley were men,
bers. Coakley in answer to
questions by the police admitted that
he was member of the Washington
Literary society, which is at SOL Lincoln
avenue. This organization was really
camp of the Clan-na-Gael. At one
meeting of this Literary society,"
Coakley says, Cronin greeted the ice
man as an old comrade in another camp,
and as this meeting was held in
March it would appear that
the ice man and CrOnin
were acquainted much earlier
than the former will acknowledge.
The iceman to-day admitted that he
was member of the literary society,"
but refused to say anything further in
that direction. 1t was reported
late tonight that p. 0. Sullivan,
the iceman had been arrested.
Peter McGeehan. of Philadelphia, was
arrested at o'clock this morning in
McCoy's hotel. Mcclellan is charged
with participation in the murder of DR..
Cronin, and is being held at the Har-
rison street station separate from the
ofhor nricOnorc