The Crime of the Century; Or, The Assassination of Dr. Patrick Henry CroninHunt, Henry M.
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The Crime of the Century; Or, The Assassination of Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin
Hunt, Henry M.
Cronin, Patrick Henry, 1846-1889; Trials (Assassination) -- Illinois -- Chicago
Canada, Province of Manitoba, County of Selkirk: The information
and complaint of John M. Collins, of the City of Chicago, in the
State of Illinois, and the United States of America, police
officer, taken upon oath before me, the undersigned, one of Her
Majesty's Judges of the Court of Queen's Bench for the Province of
Manitoba aforesaid, Judge under the Extradition Act at the City of
Winnipeg, in said County of Selkirk, this 20th day of June, in the
year of our Lord 1889, who says he has just cause to suspect and
believe, and does suspect and believe, that Martin Burke, alias W.
J. Cooper, late of the said City of Chicago, in the said State of
Illinois, did commit the crime of murder within the jurisdiction of
the said State of Illinois, one of said United States of America,
to wit: That the said Martin Burke, alias W. J. Cooper, on or about
the 4th day of May, in the year of our Lord 1889, at the said City
of Chicago, did feloniously, willfully, and of malice aforethought,
kill and murder one Patrick H. Cronin.
Taken and sworn before me, John F. Bain, Judge of the Court of
Queen's Bench, Manitoba.
JOHN M. COLLINS.
Upon this information a warrant was immediately issued and served on
Burke in his cell by Sergeant McCharles. He was then taken from the
police station to the County Jail, where he was incarcerated as a common
prisoner, and H. M. Howell, Queen's Counsel was retained to conduct the
case for the State of Illinois.
THE IDENTIFICATION COMPLETE.
The fast express on the following day had among its passengers from
Chicago the Expressman Martinsen, and Officer J. M. Broderick. They
were taken at once to the jail. Fifty-two men were drawn up in line in
the yard of the structure and Burke placed among them. Martinsen passed
along the line slowly, beginning at the right. He scarcely stopped in
front of Burke as he passed, but he looked back after he had gone a few
feet. Then he went back, from left to right, and this time scanned Burke
more closely.
"I am pretty well satisfied," he said, but he passed once more along the
line, and stopped again in front of the suspect. Then he walked over to
the side of Govenor Lawlor, the Superintendent of the jail.
"I have got him," he said, to the Crown Attorney and Burke's lawyer.
"What number from your left?" asked the former, "from your left as you
face the line." Mortinson stepped out and counted.
"Number 21," he said. Number 21 from that end was Burke. The prisoners
were taken back to their cells. The identification was complete. Burke
had been picked out of fifty men. What more was needed?
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