Burke's Return

Chicago, Aug. 6. - Martin Burke, the Cronin suspect, handouffed to two detectives, was dropped from the St. Paul train about six blocks from the union depot Monday night and frora there drlven In a carrlage at lightning speed to the Harrison Street station and placed in a celL The trip from Winnipeg was wholly without exciting event No attempt was made to eet him to talk, it belng deemed useless, as his lawyer advised him to have nothing to 6ay. Chief Hubbard was seen lmmediately after the key had been turned on the prisoner, but he had little or nothing to iay. "I will say this, however," eald he, "Burke has made no confesslon whatever of his share in the crime, but his nervousness, which. imcreased groatly as we neared the city, proves conclusively to my mind that the man knows more about the atroclous murder than any one else we hare under confinement. I am in hope that he will break down and make a confession, as he is not of a very Htrong temperament and appears to be easily le.d." Burke's lawyer. State Senator Willlam Kennedy, of Appleton, Wis., got to town about two hours before hia cliënt by the 2:50 Northwestern train. He politely refused to say who had retained him, answering the question by saying he really did not know, his knowledge on that point being limited to the corisciousness that he was here to defend Burke to the end of his case. He would not outline the character of his delense, but said it would be controlled much by the course oL the State. BTRKE'S FLIGHT AND CAPTURE. The quest for and ünal apprehens:on of Martin Burke lias been the most secretly conducted plece of business In which the Chicago pólice have bad a hand in recent years. So wary, indeed, have the searchers been in every step, and 90 shy of betraying the least point of vantage have the captains been, that it is probable that the full truth never will be knoira. Early among the developments that followed upon the discovery of Dr. Cronin's body was the fact that amon; the conspirators who hired tbe cottage at 1872 Ashland avenue was one man who gave the name of Frank Williams. It was proved that this Williams had been a i arty to the ïe.ual, ürst, of the rooms at 117 Clark street and then of the CarlsoncoUage; that he had hired Hakan Martinson, the Swedish expressman, to cart a trunk and some furniture from the former to the latter locality, and that at the cottage he had been seen time and again. When Woodruff, Ooughlin and O'Sullivan had been arrested without discovering the person it became evident that the pohce must look further for him 'fho wore the alias of Frank Williams. His deiscriptlon was taken from the Swedish expressman and ihe Carlsons and sent broadcast meagerly as follows: A man about 30 .years old, 5 feet 10, weighed 180 pounds, was freckled, dark hair, mustache and beard that had not been snaved for two weeks, was dressed in dark suit and wore a little roundcrown soft hat. The importance of th s character in the dramatis personae of the conspiracy was never lost to sight as the authorities began to push the inquest of the case. The conspiracy being by mutual inference an Irish affair, the ranks cf Irishmen were scrutinized. September 11, 1837, there had been dedicated in 1he cemetery of Mount Olivet an Irish nationalist monument. A very large photoeraph of the extensivo group gathered about the memorial had bjen taken. The pólice secured this, and with the aid of prominent Irishmen began to familiarizo themselves witn the personnel of the group. In the background of the picture and immediately to the left of the monument was the lilieness of one identiüed, among the o'.hers, as Martin Burke. He was said to be in a general way an Irish worker. He was a young man who had come from Ireland four or ñve years ago, whence, it was aileged, he fled for crime, and lived with his mother, who kept a boarding house at the corner of Sedgwick and Erie streets. In a general way he was said to be "30 years old, about üve feet ten, would we gh about 180 pounds, was of ñorid complexión and freckled. Inquiry was made. Burke had been absent from his usual haunts s;nce early in May, and it then was the latter part ot the month. It was learned that he was a shiftless fellow and to some extent an habitué of the Market street dens, and further that he was a member of camp 20, Clan-na-Gael. His description so closely approached that of Frame Williams and he seemed so likely a party that word was sant to all parts to arrest Martin Burke, with full description, accompanled by a copy of the photograph taken at Mount Olivet. This pólice not ce went to Winnipeg amone other places and it was there that the search carne to a successf ul conclusión. Yet on the very point as to how Burke's identity was revealed to the local authorities of that plarce and how this arrest happened to be made there is a conflict of testiinony. The best story so f ar is this: On Sunday, Juno 25, Detective Hossack, of the Canadian Paciflo's secret service, was sitting in the depot at Winnipeg with mind intent upon capturing a forger when a man carne to the window and bousrht a ticket vla the Canadian Pacific and the Alian steamship line to Liverpool. The man seemed to answer the description of the wanted forger, and Hossack soon had him in oustody. At the pólice station it was also perceived that the captive did not fall short of the description ot Burke. The man was badly demoralized, and, although he began with the declaration that his name was Martin Delaney, of Duluth. he very soon admitted that he was Martin Burke, of Chicago. Wheu it came to his extradition, howeyer, he made a very stubborn flght. Offlcer Collins, of the Central "squad,' was sent flrst to Winnipeg to establish the identiñeation, and did so. Then Martinson, who had picked Burke's picture unaided out of the Nationalist group, went up and identifled the prisoner as the man who hired him to haul the furniture. Following this young Carlson was dspatched thither and recognized in Burke the person of "Frank Williams." Meanwhile other offleers of the court and pólice had gone to Winnipeg to increase the Chicago contingent waiting upon the result of affairs. At last Burke's stout defense was beaten down, and last Thursday Chief-of-Polite Hubbard went to Winnipeg to return with tho prisoner.