The Cronin Trial

ï HK OBKAT CON8PIBACY. CHICAGO, Nov. 7.- The Cronin trial was resnmed at 10 a. m. yesterday. E. T. Stunton testifled to the printing and delivery of some business cards to Patrick O'Sullivan, and idostified the card given Dr. Cronin on the night of May 4 by the driver of the white horse as ono of those cards. The eards were delivcred to O'Sullivan May 2. Captain Villiers, at the time of the murdera captain of the Lake View pólice forcé, toldof the trunk being brought to the Lake View po)ioe station, and that he had, on looking inside, seen eotton saturated with blood, and blood still in the liquid form. Offlcer Phillips, who, wlth Captain Wing, brought thu trunk, had given the witness a lock of hair about four inches long and of the thickness of a leadpen il found in the trunk. Ê Herman Theel, a young Germán, told of flnding the trunk on the morning of May 5 in the cutch at the side of Evanston avenue, just south of the Chicago & Kvanston railway track. The trunk, which had been brought into the courtroom and identified by Captain Villiers, was identifled by the witness as the one found by hlm. Herman Pause and Karl Knop, who accompanied Theel, corroborated the atter's testimony. Offleer Phillips, of the Lake View pólice forcé, testitted to the blood-stained cotton and tufts of huir íound in the trunk, and identified the trunk and cotton in court. He arrested O'Sullivan at the latter's house May 23 or 84. Captain Wing, also of the Lake View force, went over the story of the Hnding of the trunk, the bloody cotton and the body of Dr. Cronin. When the remains were removed from the eatch-basin there was a towel about the neck. He also described the furniture and bloodetains, the painted floors and footprints, etc., found ín the Carlson cottage whcn it was entered by the pólice. Chicago, Nov. 8.- Coroner Hertz was the f rst witness examined at yesterday's session of the Cronin trial, and he identitied the trunk in court as the same which was turncd over by him to the chief of pólice. WilHam Mertes, a milkman, said that at 8:30 on the nigi.t of May 4, as he was walking past the Carlson cottage, he saw a buggy stop, a large man in a dark-brown overcoat get out, ru up the steps and let himself into the house. The man who remained in the buggy turned the liorso around and drove rapidly away. Later, when the witness returned home past the cottage, he heard the sound of nailing. The wituess identified Kunze as the man who drove aay and Coughliu as the man who entered the cottage. Offlcer Loreh testitied to having gone to the Carlson cottage on May lö and to flnding the palnt-spot ted trunk key undcr the wash-stanJ in the front room. Ex-Police Captain Schaack testifled to an interview with O'Sullivan In which he drew adinlMlons from him that he had telephoned Coughlin in April to come to nis house for the purpose of discussing something about Kunze and a horse. Being pressed O'Sullivan said he had deslred to see Coughlin about delivering ice at the latter's house, but Kunze's association with the transuction and the mystery surroundIng the horse were left unexplalned. Chief of Pólice Hubbard was the next witness, nd he was first asked about the custody of the trunk since it was given to the coroner. He id It had been in his sole care until delivered the State's Attorney. This was also trae reharding the lock and key. The chief identifled tutpect Buike as the Burke he had flrst seen In tb Winnipeg jail, and the direct examlnatlon nded. Pólice Captain Scheuttier next told of hls yitlt to the Carlson cottage the day after the lxdy was dlsoovered, May ïS. Among the tblngs he found theru wum a piece of l)]ood-stained soap ou which was some halr. He told of the footprints on the Mood-Btainecl Hoor, and upon being shown leces of the flooring that hati been taken up identifled them. The witness controverted the eory of the üefense that the trunk in eourt was not the one found in Kvanston avenue by indicating to the jury an identiflcation marie made on it by him last Mbv. Chicago, Nov. 9.- In üie Cronin trial yestery Mxs. John Lindgren, a daughter of Jonas Oaxlson, told about seeing her father talk witli O'SulUvan about May 19, a direct contradiction I statement by O'SuMvan, who, the State claim, said that he hall not talkeil wita Cariion. r The most important wttnesí na Williatn Neiman. lie kceps a saloon at the córner of Soícoe street and Lincoln avenue, and he told Ol OSullívan, aecompanied by Kunze and Cooghlin, being in there at 10:Sü on the night ot May 4. He fixed the date posltively by the ciroumstance of it being the day after hls obtaining his license and the íirst day of O'Sullivan deiivering ice to hini. When asked topick out the twoinen, the v.itness said that ■whlle he wouldn't swear that Coughlin and Kunze were the ones, on account of his never having seen them before that riight, yet his opinión was that they were. About O'Sullivan, however, he had not the slightest doubt. In view oí O'Sulllvan's statement about not having been out of the house on that night, except for a moment about 9 ;.') ccloclt, when hia men came in, and then he had ouly gone as far ss the shed, Neiman's story is very valuabl to the State. Alfred Kettner, a watchman. swore that he MW Dan Coujh'in in the neighbovhood of the Carlson cottage late on the aflemoon of May 4. Chicago, Nov. 11. - In the Cronin catse on Saturday Gerhanl Werdol, the occupant of the house directly opposite the Carlson cottage, tstlfled that on the night of May 4 he left hl3 house shortly hefore 7 o'clock. As he was re-■)■ r about 10:30 o'clock he saw two men enter the Orlson cottage. Next morning as k and his wife were going homo trom early mass he saw blood on tho idewalk of the Carlson cottage, and called the attention of his wife to lt. There was a trail of tolood, apparently fresh, beginning on the stepa tkSd running out to the middle of the sidewalk. He oould not teil who the men were. Dr. Egbert was then recalled to testify to havlng at the autopsy clipped a lock of hair f rom the doctor's head, and was followedby Prof. W. S. Haynes, for the past thirteen year professor of chemistry at Rush Medical College, who said he had examlned the bits of ■wood, cotton and paper given to him having Teddish stiiins, and said the stains were oaused bj human blood. Prof. Tolman and Dr. Belnelfl oorroborated the statement. At present Dr. Gronin's presence in the Carison cottage hinges on a hair. The one hair found on the cake of soap is the only evidence that he ever entered that slaughter-house. Of course the circumstantial evidence that he was decoyed there and there was murdered is as strong as it well could be, but of direct proof 1hat one single hair is the only connecting link. The State's Attorney havrnfi ooi m ' i to the cancelling of Alexander Sttllivau Uiil . Judge Baker ordered his unconditional release. Mr. Sullivan was under $35,000 bonds to answer any charge which the grand jury mlght bring agalnst him in the Cronin case, but no indictment was found. Chicago, Nov. i?.- The iirst hour of the mornlug session ot the Cronin trial yesterday WM devoted to showing that Kunze from April i until arr(?sted went under the name of John Kaiser. The next wltness was Ous Klahre. He said that Burke came to his shop on the morning of May 6 with a tin box on which Burke wanted nimto solder the cover. The box had a oord around it, and as he was about to cut it Burke Stopped him and told bim "for (Jod sake" not to do that. Klahre said that haring read about the disappearauce of Dr. Cronin ha asked Burke what he thought oí it. Burke, applying a foul epithet to the dead yhysician, replied that he was a British spy and ought to ba killed. Joseph O'Byrne and Maurice Morris testifica that thty were talliing with Begga two dayg after the disappearance ol Dr. Cronin, and Beggs professetl to know more about the dootor'g wher;aiout8 thau hls companions and said: "YTm iton't know whiii vctu ureTalkktg about. You are ntit in tiie Inner circlO." Morris swort that he had Umit heard of the existence of an inner olrcle in the l'lan-na-Uael, which was nothing more nor Irss th;m a secret society within a secrel society. Dr. Williums testifirrl that he had been O'Sullivan"s medical adviser for a long tim. and that hls bilis for medical services were less than $10 during threeyears. Thla evidsnoe wa introduced to leave the impression tnat the ieeman tmd some ulterior motive in view when he made a contract -with Dr. Cronin to pay him four or Ove times as mucta per yeur for hi services as it had eost him for three years previous. The rest of the session was deroted to the examination of the men who found the clothing and instrumenta in the sewer and the pólice officers who removed the articles from point to point. Captain Schuettler held up every object to the view of the jury. showlng where the collar had been cut as it by a knife, showing the dirty rag which had once been the Prince Albert coat of a professional man. the rusty Instruments, th box of splints. the torn shirt, broken sleerabuttons, faded business oards, dlacolored manual of medicine- all foul and slimy with the putrid excrescence of the sewer still clinging to their sides.