St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-07
IA DAY OF SENSATIONS,
c0UGHLN TRIAL CROWS MORE M
TERESTiAc EACH DAX.
SEVERAL NEW WITNESSES.
The Prosecution Claims to Have
Discovered the Missing Link
In the Evidence That VIII
Convict the Defendant-De-
Tense Make Equally Strong
Claims to the Opposite.

tense. Make Equally Strong
Claims to the Opposite.
| CHICAGO. Jan. 6.-Yet another new
witness has been found who will testify
| in the COughlin case. His name /.
John j. Near, Of Cheboygan. 1t wa.
learned this afternoon that Mr.. Neai
was present in Revelrs furniture store
at the time j. b. Simonds bought the
furniture used to fit up the Carlson cot
tage, and it will be in reference tothi.
transaction that Mr.. Near will give ties
timony
Like the other two new witnesses
Mrs. Horton and Frank Bardeen. Mr.
Near is said to be something of an uu-
willing witness. He is engaged in the
furniture business at Cheboygap. but
having been summoned as witness, he
will, just as the others have done, aiC
the state with all the information he
possesses.
Detailed private examination of one
OF the new witnesses, Frank Bardeen
has developed several interesting feat
ures. Bardeen is the stationary engi.
neer who claims to have turned OH at
electric search light at the water works
in Edgewater. and seen COughlin. in the
full glare. walking by the side OF a
wagon. the night of May 4, 1889. Bar
deem was closely questioned as to the
receptacle in the wagon.
ut looked to me- like a tool chest" he
said, land thought at the time that it
was tool Chest
Mr.. Bardeen stated that he is Chris
tan scientist, and that he would not
employ doctor in case of sickness.
mo, not even in case of small, pox,'
! he added, in reply to a question
Regarding this recognition of Cough,
lin, and the statement in 1887 or 1883, lie
lived next door to the Chicago avenue
police station. to which Coughlin was
attached, Mr.. Bardeen explained that he
resided in fiat rented from Timothy
| Seaman, bailitf ct the East Chicago
Avenue station. Seaman had pointed
Coughlin out to him. Bardeen denied
that Coughlin was the only policeman in
Chicago he knew by name, and men-
toned Capt. Setback and Capt. Hatha-
way. He admitted that except to Book,
seller Mclaughlin, whom he met on a
railway train, he had never mentioned
his experience to any one, barring a
little to his wife, until 1892, when lie
told his brother. The explanation that
his reticence was on account of his
wlfe's nervousness, his own
DISLIKE OF, NoToRIETY
and the possibility that attendance at
the first trial might have lost him his
position, was strongly adhered to, not
WlthStanding severe crOss-questioning
Sensational as is Mr.. Barleeu's evil
dence, tha state is prepared to back it
up. 1t is said that Mr.. Gorlich, who
was on duty at the Edgewater electric
power plant that night, will testify that
Bardeen was there, and otherwise cor
ro5orate him.
The prosecution is jubilant over the
discovery of Mr.. Bardeen. They con-
slider the evidence he gives as the last
| link i'll the chain of circumstances with
| which they propose to bind Coughlin.
| They declare that with the evidence OF
Bardeen, Mrs. Foy and Mrs. Horton the
case is won if the Jury be all right. This
latter some of the men interested in the
pros ecution have doubts.
| The defense, on the other hand, pro-
| fess rot to be worried by Bardeen's tes-
| timony. Coughlin denies that he was
| with the wagon, or that lie knows any
thing about it. He says he never heard
of Bardeen. In his preliminary ex,
animation Bardeen said that the moon
| would shine occasionally that night,
| there being moon and the weather be-
ing little cloudy. Mr. Donohoe, at.
| torney for Coughlin, this afternoon pro-
duced calendar of May, 1889, to show
| that on May the moon had set at II :3s
| O'Clock. or some time before Bardeer
arrived at Edgewater. 1t is said that
| the defense has found witness who
did not testify at the former trial, and
whose testimony
DIRECTLY CONTRADICTS
that of several witnesses who have al
ready spoken for the state. His name
| is DR.. Bell, and it is alleged that he
was present at the post norton eXami.
nation. He has made a statement, it is
| reported, to the effect that death was
not due to blows OIL the head, but tc
strangling. This would tend to upset
| the cause of death as charged in the in.
| dictment.
1t is reported that Coughlin will be a
witness in his own behalf, and will 90
on the stand to tell the story of his
whereabouts on the night of May 4. He
will, it is stated. testify with witnesses
to corroborate him-that he was at home
and asleep by 1880 on the night of the
disappearance of DR.. Cronin.
A new sensation in the case to.
night was report that the KEY of
the Carlton cottage had been found.
Mrs. Matte Hardy, of 1927 Noble street,
| is said to have discovered it near Me
mans saloon on Otto street some time
ago, and it will he used in evidence.
Nieman's saloon is the nearest one to
| the Carlson cottage, being but two
| blocks away. and at the former trial
| SaloOnkeeper Nieman testified that
| three men, alleged to be Coughlin,
! O'Sulliyan and Fof, met at his saloon
| on the night of the murder. Milkman
| Mertes also testified to seeing these
three men near the saloon, and the find.
ing of the key will be utilized, if posi-
| bic, to strengthen their testimony.
! Mrs. Hardy picked up the piece OF
| steel. covered with stains, it is said. a
few feet from Nieman's saloon door.
| The key has been tried in the door of
the Carlson cottage, and fits it perfectly.