awfully, feloniously, and of
their malice aforethought did push, shove, strike, thrust, and
penetrate, giving to the said Patrick Henry Cronin then and there
with the said sharp instruments as aforesaid in and upon the head,
face, and body of him, the said Patrick Henry Cronin, divers mortal
wounds, contusions, and lacerations, each of the length of two
inches and of the depth of one inch, of which said mortal wounds,
contusions and lacerations the said Patrick Henry Cronin then and
there instantly died. And so the jurors aforesaid, upon their oaths
aforesaid, do say that the said Martin Burke, otherwise called
Martin Delaney, otherwise called Frank Williams, said John F.
Beggs, said Daniel Coughlin, said Patrick O'Sullivan, said Frank J.
Woodruff, otherwise called Frank J. Black, said Patrick Cooney, and
said John Kunze, him, the said Patrick Henry Cronin, then and there
in manner aforesaid, unlawfully, feloniously, and of their malice
aforethought, did kill and murder.

KUNZE'S SUPPOSED PART IN THE CRIME.

Considerable surprise was occasioned by the appearance of the name of
John Kunze in the indictment. Nobody had supposed that a German was
connected with the conspiracy, while it was regarded as remarkable that
the police should have been able to keep the fact that there was another
suspect so complete a secret. Now, however, the facts came out. Kunze
had come from Germany a few years before, representing that he was the
heir to a large estate in Luxemburg, and had worked at various places
and at anything he could get to do. For some reason or other he was
taken under the protecting wing of Dan Coughlin, of whom he came to be
regarded as a protege. The two men were together almost daily, and could
scarcely have been on more intimate terms. Before the Grand Jury,
Mertes, the milkman, had identified Kunze's picture as that of one of
the two men whom he had seen drive up in a buggy to the Carlson cottage
between eight and nine o'clock on the night of the murder.

[Illustration: JOHN KUNZE.]

"He was the man who staid in the buggy and held the horse while the
other man ran up the steps and entered the door," were the milkman's own
words.

In addition to this, a young man named James had positively identified
the German as one of the tenants of the flat on Clark street, saying
that he had seen him, coming and going, and at the windows, f