Show dying words A WOMAN WHO HEARD THEM the lawyers Ii in a bitter wrangle nov 12 at the opening of the cronin trial this morning state attorney longenecker offered alie hair which experts had examined in evidence but did not offer the other specimens such as the bloodstained pieces of wood forrest for the defense demanded that the chips bo put in also and that the hair be loft in the custody of the clerk this lead to a bitter dispute between the opposing counsel which was finally dropped and salesman hatfield who sold the property to J B simonds was called to the witness chair he positively identified tho frame of the satchel found in the friday as corresponding in size with the one which he sold to simonds and said that the cover and handle were of the same material the framo was admitted in evidence pauline hoertel a washerwoman testified that she passed the carlson cottage between eight and nine en the night of the murder she saw a white horse drawing a buggy i which were two men driven up to the cottage the larger man got out of the buggy and a satchel or a box out entered the cottage the driver of the white horse at once turned around and drove back toward chicago witness stated she then hoard somebody crying 0 goda and then a sound of hard blows and of somebody falling at the afternoon session officer john mckinnon of the winnipeg force was put on the stand he told the circumstances of burkes arrest mc amnon said burkos ticket to bore the name of W C alpar after a time he admitted his name was burko and that he was some times called delaney burke said ho camo from hancock mich where ho was working henry Pl auslie salesman in a shirt store chicago testified that the morning after the murder a man came into the store and bought a shirt when he asked if the salesman thought the sleeves largo enough auslie Pl suggested he take his coat off and be measured the man refused in a vehement manner to do this then he took the shirt and went across the street returning soon after with another man younger and smaller who also bought a shirt Pl auslie said his first customer was prisoner burke and identified a photograph of chonoy Coo noy the pox as the other chief of police hubbard testified as to a talk ho had with dan cough am about may or asking the detective where he was on the ath coughlin could not exactly remember and when asked about the man he aint over to dinand to get a rig told tho story ab out a visitor from hancock with a letter from his Cough lins brother A long wrangle took place over the testimony of daniel brown ex police man and ex member of the clanna clan na gael the state attorney said he proposed to show that in this witness had moved the appointment of a committee to try cronin for treason that the committee from different camps was appointed that coughlin was a member of that committed commit tea and that cronin was found guilty ol 01 treason and expelled in the course of the talk the lawyers got this matter tangled up with Cr onins alleged trial for reading the reports oi the committee to try the triangle sullivan freely and Boland in buffalo last year binally Pi nally forrell said now we aro not hyim to apologize for alexander or to defend him but we protest that the prejudice which exists against him should not be allowed to have weight against our celiento celien ts I 1 protest against anything against alexander sullivan being introduced in thia case so far as counsel here are concerned we are willing to say to perdition with alexander sullivan if they say they want him sent to perdition we aro not his friends wo do not re him but what we protest against is that the prejudice existing against the name of alexander sullivan should be heaped on the unoffending heads of poor men who had nothing whatever to do with the trial poster said counsel for the state expect to convict my client beggs because he was a friend of alexander sullivan I 1 submit to your honor you are not going to convict these men upon evidence that they are friends of alexander sullivan if ho is a black sheep if he is guilty as they say be is why do they not indict him the state attorney said if some of his dupes will tell us the facts and the truth we will get an indictment against him pretty soon wo propose to show here that notwithstanding alexander walks the streets of chicago that four years ago this very same man who was on the executive committee and charged with fraudulent appropriation pria tion of these funds prosecuted dr cronin and that this man diniel coughlin was on the committee trying dr cronin for writing a circular that reelected relec ted on alexander sullivans character judge mcconnell finally announced be would hold this matter under advisement vi until tomorrow to morrow cronin suspect kunze is annoyed by the statement in local papers that he is to make a confession today to day he brotea wr otea letter to a german paper asserting that he has had no confession to make that he knows nothing about the cronin caad and would gladly tell it if he did as the state attorney has promised him freedom if he turns states evidence he says axa limited to the distillery cae and aa isette his belief in the guilt and ther defendants |