Show Burke Canghlln and OSulllvan CHICAGO May Concerning the discoveries that Burke Caughlln and OSullIvan serving life sentences in the penitentiary for the murder of Dr Cronin had secured facilities for communication with the outside world by mall a dispatch from Joliet says an investigation showed that Tom Hills fpreman of the outside gangs for the Cooper contract was the mall carrier he took out letters from the convicts and the replies were bent under cover to his house He has been discharged Nothing was discovered in the letters so far found except requests re-quests for certain luxuries the prisoners wanted smuggled in but there has been much wild speculation af to the extent and nature of the correspondence Attorney Forrest who represents repre-sents the prisoners scoffs at the Idea that there is anything in the nature of a plot by means of which the prisoners hoped to escape He declares that they do not wish to escape being convinced that the supreme court will soon grant them anew trial |