Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-11-08
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Miikman Mertes says He Saw the Detect
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Miikman Mertes Says He Saw the Detect
i've at Carlson's Cottage.
CHICAGO, Nov. S-Link by link tbs chain
OF circumstantial evidence in the Cronin
murder trial connects one or other OF the
i've defendants with that foul deel. Cor
oner Hertz wss the first witness callei YES
terdsy His testimony was not sensational.
All he was required to do was to Identify
the trunk, which he did very completely
The feature OF the day was the evidence OF
William Mertss, a milkman, who passed the
Carlson cottage on the night OF the murder,
and, in fact, just before and just after the
horrible work was done
The MiIkmsn's Direct Accusation
| He said that at hslf-plst 5 on that night,
as he was walking past the cottage, he saw
buggy stop. lsrg, man IN dark brown
overcost get ou', run up the steps and let
himself into ths house. The man who re-
NAMED In the buggy turned thu horse
around aud drove rapidly away. Later
| when the witness returned home past the
cottage he heard the sound OF mailing
The witness said he took long look at the
driver, and remembered the appearance OF
the other
"Do you see those two men nowr asked
the states attorney.
Yes Mertes promptly replied, "that lit
tie fellow [Kunzrl on the end Of that row is
the one who drove, and that big fellow
tCoughliul. sitting next to O'Sullivan, the
Que who went into the cottage"
He Lied To MIR. Wing.
Attorney Wing conducted the r-oSs.sxan-
ination. He could not break the force Of the
Identification OF Coughlin and Kuuz, m the
Ig A. l..
tion of witness, Wing asked:
"Didn't you tell me right mt your own
houss that you could not swear that Dan
Coughln was the man that won't into that
cottageT
"Ye~, | did. l didn't want to be- bothered
wanted to get everybody away from
there"
"Did you lie TO ms or tell me the tIuthT7
"Oh, / lied to you yes, sir. - [Great laugh
teri Witness added that he had been told
by the police to tell no one anything
Torch, Who Found the Key.
@. j. Torch swore that he with other Off
GERS entered the Carlson cottage May -.
BE found the key OF the trunk on the floor
and with 1t locked and unlocked the trunk
There was paint on one side of the kew of
the same color as that on tue floor A mark
was put en- the key so that the officers would
know It agnin. He also corroborated former
testimony as to tue blood on the floor and
said there were drops of what appeared TO
be blood on the steps outside the house
Other Points In the Evidence
Frank Murray, Of the PInkarton agency;
eK-Capt Schasck, of the Chicago police
force, and Chief OF Police Hubbard ais ties.
tiled, the latter as TO the custody Of the
trunk since il was found. de said he had
kept IL under his own custody until delivered
TO the states attorney. Murray and Setback
told Of conversations with O'Sulliysn. but
there was nothing important CLEANED, O'Sul-
Ivan simply repeating the story OF his con-
tract with Cronin, and denying
that he sent any one for the doctor on NAV
Capt SchsRck's only interesting testi-
mony was where he said that Coughlin bad
telephoned to him shortly before the murder
making inquiry about Eunze.
Capt Schuetter, OF the police, identified
the trunk by a private mark he had placed
| upon IL Immediately after it was found He
also told Of going through the Carlson cot
tage, where he found piece Of blood-stained
| soap and some hair