Show STORY OF MURDER What Was Found in the Cailson Cottage A POLICE OFFICER UIPLICVTED Dan Csughhu of the Chicago ForceTlie Jlllk mar Who Heard the Dying lEans Cries Tho Blood Stains CUICIGO May 25The only man who heard Di Creams ingcries except his murderers has been found He i William Mertes a milkman who lives near the cottage cot-tage where the assassination was committed commit-ted On the night of the murder he saw two men drive up to the cottage in a buggy One was dressed in a long brown overcoat such as Cronin wore and got out the other answering the description of the man who came for Cronin in the buggy and drove rapidly away Cronin i it was he went up the cottage steps The door was opened before he reached it As soon as he got inside it was closed and the milkman milk-man heard loud cries as i men were light I lug He believed then was the time of Cronins death The revelations this morning throw strong suspicion of comphutv in the murder mur-der of Cronin on Detective Dan Coughlm of the city police force and show the gross mcompetencj if nothing worse of Captain Sch lack of the north side police under whose orders Coughlm works To begin with it is known in facthe admits it that Coughlm and Cronm vvcic members of same Irish political societies and were enemies This lends significance to the following facts On the morning of the day of the murder Coughlm engaged from Livery Stable Keeper Dinnan a horse and buggy for a friend of his to be called for that evening About the time when the man who decoyed Cronin away would have called had it been he this friend of Coughlm called at the livery stable He closely resembled the man who did drive coselJ away with Cronin He was given a whitehorse white-horse and drove toward Coughlm house The horse was out two hours and came back having been hard driven These facts were reported to Captain Sehaack bj Dianne Sehaack says he called Coughlm to account Coughlm said the man he hired the buggy for was a friend of his friends in Michigan that he sent Coughlm out to find this man and that Coughlm reported that he had found and questioned him and was sats fled he had nothing to do with it faehaack admits he did not require that man to be brought before him butallowed Coughlm i who was himself under suspicion to mike the report without any check to move its anj truth or falsity fochaack says he took the horse to Croun house and his housekeeper I house-keeper said it was not the one behind i which Cronin drove away The housekeeper house-keeper contradicts this acid Dianne says Coughlm told him he couldu laid the man I from Michigan Cou0hlm says he is now in New Mexico Superintendent of Police Hubbard said this morning that the explanation which Detective Coughlm gave in connection with I his hiring a horse on the day which Dr Crouin disappeared was substantially as follows A few days before May 4 a man called at the East Chicago avenue police station and introduced himself as Thomas Smith of Hancock Mich and a friend of Cough li lies brother and said he kept a liven stable In that town Smith claimed to be on his way to New Mexico Detective Coughlm showed Smith the points of interest teieat about the city and Satuul ij May 4 Smith said he would like t take a buggy ride that evening but was afraid the livery stable keepers would not trust a stranger with a horse Coughlm told him he would fix the matter with the man Smith got the white horse and rig and Coughlm did not see the man again for a week or mol When he met him he asked Smith why he had not paid for the use of the ng Smith gave Coughlm 85 and said he would give him the other two later Coughlm met him for the last time one day last week and Smith said ha would start for New Mexico the next day Dr Cronm friends met this afternoon and completed the arrangements for the uncial I is thought that at least four thousand men will march in the procession and that pi oh adlj ten thousand people will go by tram to the cemetery I is denied that Dr Cronin clothes were found in the Carlson cottage stated yesterday Vn evening paper says the letter which was turned over to the police as coming from one of the mysterious tenants ten-ants of the bloodstained cottage is considered consid-ered of great importance It is postmaiKcd Hammond Ind and was received May20 enclosed it were found l J for another months rent and the writer attempted to explain away his hast exit and the paint daubed on the parlor floor He said it was painted to save his sister the trouble of scrubbing the floor He neglected to say anything about the footprints or the bloodstains This afternoon Mayor Crezier had a two hours conference with the superintendent superin-tendent of police and the corporation counsel coun-sel Ho said ernphaticallv that extraordinary extraor-dinary efforts must be made to bring thO i perpetrators of the crime to justice and that the officers must be overzealous rather than not active enough Where there is a doubt as to whether severe acton ac-ton should be taken take adv antagc of the doubt and act The mayor said he would rather be in the wrong nineteen times in a case of importance like this than give the murderers a chance to escape Detective Coughlm was brought before the major this afternoon the superintendent super-intendent of police the corporation counsel and two friends of Cronin being present Coughlm was lowed to tell his story and was then severely cross examined It is understood that he became flurried and nervous but said nothing that could be used against him When the conference con-ference broke up none of its members would talk Coughlm however was taken away by a detective and placed under arrest ar-rest More discrepancies have come t light this evening It seems that the des cnption of the lan who hired a horse now given bv Liveryman Dmnan and the description des-cription eL gave Captain Sehaack several Jays ago are widely different ana the police are looking into the matter A free examinatian of the in tenor of the cottage where the murder was committed was allowed today bj the police Evidences Evi-dences of a terrible struggle are seen On the south wall of the parlor are great blotches of blood A portion of the leg of a washstand and dressing case had ben broken off The arm rest of a roclm chair was broken and the e son scattaied s-on the floor There is ever indication that Dr Cronin was not killed cr even rendered senseless by tho first blow he IB I calved but that he probably made a desperate desper-ate struggle for his life I Events were brought t light this evening even-ing showing that arrangements for the Crania tragedy apparently had been begun as early as February 1 At that date a person corresponding the description of the man who subsequent rented Carl sons cottage opened negotiations for a room directly across the street from Cronins office down town In the Opera House block The room sought for was the one which affords the best possible MOW from that direction into Cronins office windows In order t get the room i was necessary to rent the wholefloorthe agents of the building build-ing refusing to deal for a single apartment I and the whole floor was rented In the room was placed furniture similar to that in the cottage The furniture was moved about March 2 just the date when the furniture was brought to the cottage This furniture it has become well know was purchased of H Ravell S company com-pany But until this evening It was not learned that the bill of goods bought from Revell included the identical trunk which has since cut a figure in the case The purchaser insisted on having an extra heavy strap to go with tho trunk and though an unusual thick strap was furnished fur-nished ho afterward returned and got lu place of the original strap one made to orderr The man volunteered information informa-tion that the heavy strap furnished first would not be sufficient to hold what he sucent proposed to place in the trunk A special to the Tint from Houghton st P f Michigan says fafIT Thomas Coughlm a livery man of Hancock says a mm bj the name of Thomas or James Smith a stranger to him called at his ban and hired a ng In conversation the man said ho was going t Chicago and did not know the city Couglm told him of his brother on the police force in that city and said Smith could get pointers as to the city from i |