Trenton Times, The (Newspaper) - June 17, 1889, Trenton, New Jersey VII NO 9037 MONDAY JUNK r TWO He lells How Cronin's Body Was Hidden THE POLICE THINK HIM A LIAR The Confession of the Others New York CHICAGO June the thief has made a full confession of bis con- with tho Cronin murder ing Alexander Sullivan Detective Coughlin the man Melville or O'Sullivan Dougall otherwise and others He ai rived in Chicago on March 36 Jast soon after made the acquaintance of P the iceman Hn met Detective whom he hart known by as a a few days later The man Melville who IB supposed to Moroney ar- rived in Chicago about this time and ruff saw him drinking with Coughlin In ft saloon Sullivan Was Bis Banker l Woodruff was out of fund and ready for any work that turned up In which there war money He hart a number of talks with McDougall or Williams as be railed and Melville about some business that was afoot McDougall was living well and stated that Alexander Sullivan was his banker This was about April 20 and Woodruff was working at Dean's livery stable On McDougall's Woodruff called on Sullivan asked him what kind ol work be would like I said Anything in God's world 11 there's any money in it Ha looked at me sharply and If I hear of anything for you HI let Mr Williams know of it Woodruff and Williams McDougall met Sullivan later and the fatter talked with Williams aside and handed him a roll ot bills with the remark Now pay that rent The important part of Woodruff's confa slou is substantially as follows The Night of the Murder To comn down to the night of the murder After mating Coughlin we walked toward Lincoln park He asked me if I could get a honse and wagon that night something that could carry a trunk I informed him that we had a light rig m the stable He said that was just the thing He told me there was in it for me if I could get the horse and wagon and have it at a designated spot on f avenue at 2 o'clock the next ing That evening I stayed around the stable playing cards with a Mr a man named Howard and another named Bates We played until or 11 o'clock The Famous Gray Mare went away about 11 o'clock and I waited an hour and a halt and ihen led the gray mare down the stairs I put a blanket abend of her over which she walked to pre- vent the noise There is no truth in any story that her feet were covered with pads I had left the wagon in the alley and I hitched up and drove up Lincoln avenue When lin paid me the he informed me that I be met at Lincoln avenue by two men I was to approach and inquire of them Frank Williams lived They would then get into the buggy with me Ou arriving near Ashland avenue and two men jumped into the wagon without a word 1 one of as a man by thn name of O'Shea alias Mike McDougall who was alno a machinist or blacksmith from Philadelphia I had known him in Wichita Kan is about S feet 6 inches in height about 45 years old and wears a nearly black mustache Both hair and mustache are turning gray The other man was Melville He as about 5 feet II Inches He is a heavy built thick set man I met him before in m connection with Irish matters They ordered me to turn to the right on avenue and directed to drive right up to the cottage The two men there jumped out and went In There was light m the roui The Mysterious Trunk After waiting a few I think it must have boon nearly 2 Melville and came out of tho door can ying a trunk between They lifted the U unk into the wagon and Melville and Williams jumped into the seat With ma I across Fullerton avenue I was going fast at the time and the horse was on a lope A policeman near there came out and called for us to stop Melville said in an For God's Sake Go Go for God's sake go I had the reina twisted around my wrists I them letting the horse take a fearful gait We went to Lincoln park across Clark street and crossed a little north of the animals cages This roayl winds around about fifty yards from the heart of drive There la a little hill on the of which are a number of ti They ordered me to stop there and at that time it Was intended to take the trunk uut into the lake as I heard them say that they had spotted a boat for that purpose during the day to Hide the Trunk They took the trunk out but Melville be- frightened thinking that a policeman wai perhaps following They lifted the U unk back into the wagun and to drive on I shall Igor Melville said Just keep moving I am we are being followed Williama to Melville -nd Good God the sewer Is just as good a -i can't mm any road The policeman told us we would have to go back on Evanston At this time the trunk was on the wagon They Had the Instruments After Melville got Into the wagon he rubbed hit bands together and knocked con sand ovar my From this 1 was satisfied that they had buried tbe ments near that spot They did not bring them back with them We then turned ward by way of Evanston avenue Aftel driving n distance Melville said to Wijl I wonder whether that d fool will gee to the cottage ami cover up things ol whether he will get scared Williams said I think will come over and help him She has more nerve than After ing a short distance I pulled up as I I beard the sound of wheels in the gravel We were then on a country crossroad heard the sound plainly and I Then comes a team My God sc there is I Let's get rid of this trunk It looks suspicious from the outside The Trunk Disposed Of out and carried the to the fence and threw It over He cami back and I walked the horse a short until the team hart panned out of bearing back by way of Ashland and passed the cottage We saw a going in the back way Just before wi reached Webster avenue I asked Melville What about the Have you got nc of He Oh that's all right we'll attend to them turning to Will lams he You'd better go out to thi house to-morrow and soo hat things ari cleaned up Williams No we have beer around there enough already We will Dan attend to that I asked Melville Are you going right down to the barn with He answered No are we near I told him yes ano then got out I told them I would set them the next day Melville said he might not be in town You as you want he said I asked what that was and he replied You need any training to work Aleck I said Well I stand in with you He re- plied No you don't stand in our gang It h for himself As they lefl me Williams said Don't strike him toe heavy There is a good many of ns I re plied Yes the man would have to be a to take care of this crowd I wiU hunt yon up to-morrow The Gray Mare Drove Poorly That day I at the bam The mnn was taken out that morning by a tall mac wearing a plug hat He is well knowu bj Dean When he came back he complained Viat it was not the horse be bad had be- fore The man said it did not drive like the one he had always had The following day night I went to McCoy's hotel to find Melville but was unable to do so day morning 1 took tho horse and to the south side intending soo Melville and Alexander Sullivan and get some money but could soo neither of Then I to Foley's stable and offered to trade tta horse and was arrested This is the first and only statement I have made since my arrest It contains substan- all the facts in my knowledge and 1 have determined to make a clean breast of this matter now Woodruff Is Considered a Liar But little credence is placed in this confession The only evidence that the lice take any stock in it is the fact that Lieut Schuettler and his men went to the foot of Graceland avenue and searched in the gand for Dr Cronin's medicine The officers dug up an acre ol along the beach but found nothing It has that in the testimony given before the special Daniel was a visitor to Alerander Sullivan's of- fice in the Chicago Opera house block six ox seven times in March and April last Chicago Witnesses In New York NKW YORK June 17 Chicago William B who sold the furniture to J B E G who rented the flat No 117 Clark street to the same mysterious person and Halcam the who re- moved the from Clark street to the in avenue where Dr was murdered have arrived They will visit the Tombs and should they identify one or both of the suspects there will Le no difficulty about Governor Hill's signing the requisition papers for extradition OVER ARTHUR'S GRAVE The Late Unveiled IT HAS ERECTED BY HIS FRIENDS And In a Picturesque In Rural Cemetery Albany Y Near the Gravel of the Chief Family ALBANY handsome and bronze monument erected at the grave of the late President Chester A Arthur in Rural y by some of his personal ad- has boon officially unveiled by the donors The monument which coet was by R a sculptor of New York Ita cost was defrayed by of TO PRESIDENT Front View Arthur living in various but chiefly in New York state The monument Is a dark granite gus perfectly plain and highly polished resting upon two piers of a lighter colored granite highly polished The stand upon a broad base of granite The sarcophagus is larger at the top than at the bottom The upper surface resembles a four sided roof At corner of the sarcophagus in heroic size stands a bronze figure representing placing upon the a leaf Sorrow's left aim is extended along the top of the and the palm leaf branch held in the hind sweeps over the remainder of the sarcophagus and beyond its northern end The right arm of the figure hangs downward touching one of the bronze wings The sarcophagus Itself has no tion it is perfectly plain but upon the ite base there is the word Arthur in large characters There is sunk Into the face of the granite base a brans tablet with the words inscribed upon SUNDAY AT JOHNSTOWN A Systematic Sanitary Survey to Be JOHNSTOWN Pa June quiet reigned here and instead of the booming of dynamite the sound of sacred hymns was heard In she few churches remaining ices were but the largest meetings of the took place in the open air The weather was fair and the men glad of on opportunity to turn from hard labor to religion They about the lough pulpits by the hundreds and the blue coats of the militia were freely distributed among the jeans Jen Hastings took his first vacation since he ai i in Johnstown companying a party of newspaper up the Pennsylvania rood to South Fork by special train The wonderful cold weather has saved this valley from horrors too dreadful to think of The most sanguine calculators have reduced the population of the flooded district prior to Mny si to They say about booa tide registrations have Dcon made and bodies found leaves over people to be accounted for Engineer Phillips states that the big blast at the bridge con- 000 pounds of dynamite and in the future the mme amount will be used The state board of health has begun a sanitary survey of the flooded dis- taking from South Fork to Nineveh The vey will be a thorough one and when completed will give the board a detailed history of the sanitary condition of house and family now remaining iu vicinity It will be conducted ly by physicians if competent ones be obtained If not the best men obtainable outside the medical profession will be used There are now something like 250 men in the employ of the board of health at place The majority of them are laborers employed in getting out and burning the bodies of animals disinfecting the houses aud cellars and cleaning up generally The others ai e tho physicians who are making the vey and attending the sick Six bodies were recovered Saturday They were in an advanced stage of decomposition and were buried without identification The channel in the drift is open twenty feet One hundred and flf ty barrels of oil were emptied on the drift and ignited The wreckage is burning fiercely for 200 yards and the entire valley is illuminated The de- bris was searched previous to being fired but no were found Rewarded PHILADELPHIA June H man secretary of the K of L who stumped Indiana and other states for aud Morton has been appointed a special agent of the y department Changes In the Buffalo Ball Team Billy op of the Syracuse Stars has signed and Pitchers Fanning and Gilmore boon re- leased by the club Shortstop berry will be this week CHESTER AT AN Twenty-first President of the United States Bora Oct 5 Died Nov IB 1886 THE KEARSAGE HAS SAILED Anticipates The monument is approached by white Ki unite steps the pedestals of tbe of the steps having urns resting upon The Bint sewer we to Melville will Melville and jumped out I to the holies took hold of tbe trunk but could not lift It called to to help him William it gave it a jerk and threw it to tbe Tbe weight of body the lid The trunk not nor was the body to Mwn and tried to crowd It It In The Into the Sewer The out thing they had lifted the trunk and tot the body foremost Into the ower They then triod to crowd the trunk in but finding not do this Melville can this back and bum it At this time I called out to get in for sake and get back drove back to Edgewater whore Williams and out and for the lake taf a little medicine f i which had our fuet were down I The wd perhaps twenty or feet away from me when I him I the i elm np on at tlie ng loud enough to be In a still londor I WM a He Is not this a Admiral He No Trouble NEW YOSK June The United States sailed from the lyn Navy yard yesterday morning for Admiral Gherardi is on board In spooking of the U lp the admiral There is ing in this trip considering the disturbed state of and the fact that we have but one vessel there The secretary of the navy thinks that the interests of the American residents would be better by two than one I do not anticipate any trouble whatever A Bloody Duel ST Loots June 17 John Manlon a young farmer with a wife and three children lived four mile from Fayette Mo The couple separated on account of- the attentions of Richard Fowler a cousin of Manion About noon Saturday Fowler and Mamon met in Fayetto and began to shoot at each other was shot the stomach and chest and the Fowler was wounded iia the nock and After emptying their revolvers both men stood up and pounded each other with their pistols Mrs is prosit ated and threatens to kill herself The principals are highly connected Bodor R I Maj J w Rudor of the Fourth United States artillery a attempt at suicide Imt evening and but for prompt action uu the part of some yachtsmen he must hare for caught he sinking for the last time was In a thoroughly exhausted and unconscious condition nooo and despondency caused the Hopes are entertained for recovery A Long Branch June The chief cook of IV Hollywood house Long Branch N a few day WM robbed of Be lowed the thief to this city he located him and made him return all he had left which wiu 600 Murder and Colo June At City Colo yesterday Newton O Moore an old time freighter murdered his young wife and blew out his own brains He was insanely jealous of his wife Mr 1 0 the eminent lawyer of hare bMn Vein of B for a good while troubled I hare It a TO Rear View It is pi elected from the highway by chains of bronze between gi unite pillars Thn monument itself it surrounded by a sloping to the northwest Near by monument is a beautiful white marble sarcophagus marked In old letters with Here Lies the Body of KH Wife of Chester A Arthur Born at Culpeper Va Aug Died at New York Jan Chief Rearon for the no- sett of In the fact that thli medicine accomplishes all tent Is claimed lor It Its real merit won 5 for Merit and late than that of any other Wood purifier It cm on Scrofula all Humora etc Prepared only ty C I nod 4 Co Health is Wealth r te N J I h Care for with which I have and ot Itr of upon a w the to with mue hour to be 1 Yes 11 have my way and am looking for to-n Wore drive then Melville aid I 0 Two white marble slabs mark the gi of the ond Ite monument the of Mrs Arthur's mother Elizabeth Herndon and a white marble cross the of William Lewis Arthur the born son of who died in A committee of friends was appointed In 1887 for the of raising money for the not only to pay the excuse of a monument over the grave but also In me should be a to pay the cost of a statue ot the to be erected in Hew York dlj Tha amount of money which It waa proposed to raise A tmunnt was rained for both the monument and the statue The lot was chased by the father the Bar William Arthur The lot Itself is not as large a oue as the committee would have but it was denned to havo the of the ex-president among those of hli own dred The cemetery occupies a gently sloped wooded hill that overlooks the ei u aide of the valley of the Hudson river the one looks upon vast gardens a plain like to the a lot in a the tide ot the liy It one MC the rise above the of weal Daniel Manning A Soldiers Suicide Qnt 17 John Anderson of tho Thirty-ninth was the river shors above left on In a of mind it it That he and his body was washed of Matter of the American Railroad will be held at Niagara this week The attendance to large the meeting will be oue of ever A Good Sanitary Water with iron for the next thirty at Baok and muft pom hat tot will bt Presents in the most elegant form THE LAXATIVE AND 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