Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-05
BURKE'S BAGGAGE.
AN IMPORTANT cLEWDIscovERED INThE
cRoNIN MURDER MYSTERY.


An Accomplice of Burke's is Traced From
Winnipeg to the West--He Left Two
Hours After Burlke's sArrest-Mysterious
Actions of Implicated Parties.
WINNIPEG. July 4.-Detective Meken-
xie, the officer who discovered Martin Burke
year ago, and undoubtedly prevented the
escape of the notorious Cronin murderer,
has struck clew to an important bit of evil
dence that may eventually remove the veil
of mystery from the CronIn case. At the
time Burke was arrested through some mis-
chance or stupidity the police forgot to look
after his baggage. 1t was not until Chicago
detectives went to Winnipeg that the sub
ject OF the baggage was broached and then
it was too late to get any trace OF It, SUB
sequent developments proved that Burke
not only had big trunk which he brought
from Chicago, but that he had been careful
to dispose of it as well as his railroad bag
gage check. All efforts to find the trunk
which is supposed to contain positive evil
dence of Burke's connection with the muir
der have so far failed.l
While the trial was on in Chicago detec-
tives from that city made periodical trips
east and west on the Canadian Pacific in
search of the missing trunk, but they were
never able to get any trace of it, and finally
concluded that it had been taken BY friends
Of the fugitive murderer. The finding Of
DR.. Cronin's clothes and instruments in an
Evanston avenue sewer while the murderers
were on trial put an end to the search for the
trunk so far as the Chicago police force was
concerned, but Detective Mckenzie has
never lost sight of the fact that it may yet
prove an important factor in the famous
case. He has found out that when Burke
came to Winnipeg he was accompanied by
a mysterious friend, who left here for the
West within an hour after Burke's arrest,
He had to purchase new tickets, recheck
two trunks which had been checked to Mon
treal, and he also made an effort to dispose
of a ticket calling for transportation to the
latter city. 1t is now believed that one OF
the trunks was Burke's.
This assumption is based on the fact that
on Friday, June 81, 1889, there arrived in
this city from the South man who regis
tered at one of the hotels as flames Nc
Carron, - street, Chicago" The street
number was first written by the guest, but
few minutes afterward was erased with
penknife. The man made himself acquainted
with one of the regular boarders in the house
and through him was introduced to the
police and some business men, pretending
that his object here was to establish an
agency, though in subsequent interviews he
unwittingly acknowledged that II Burke
had not been arrested he would never have
been in Winnipeg.
1t was noticed that he carefully watched
all trains from the West, and after he had
been here six days he met party that
alighted from the Atlantic express. A
mere nod of recognition passed between
them at the station, but the new arrival
proceeded up Main street, followed at re-
spectacle distance by McCarron. Turning
into one of the hotels the two men selected a
side room, where they were alone and in
consultation some time. Notes were COM
pared and some papers exch hanged. Nc
Carron paid his bill and announced his in
tention of returning to Chicago next morn
ing, The supposition is that the stranger
from the West came through with Burke
and proceeded on his way, taking his trunk
with him, while Burke intended to have
gone East from here.