Theremainder of tbe confession deals^mainly with the night of tbe murder, and^Coughlin, so Woodruff alleges, paid^bim twenty-five dollars to bring^to Lincoln avenue from Dean's^hvesy stable a conveyance in which a^trunk^could be carried. Near Ashland and^Lincoln avenues Melville and a man named^O'Shea, alias Mike McDougall, joined^Woodruff. The latter says this man was a^machinest or blacksmith from Philadel^^phia, but that he had known him in Witch-^ita, Kas. Melville, he said, he had also^met before in I'eona, in connection with^Irish affair*. They drove out to the Carl^son cottage, reaching there about 2 a. m.^The two men went In and soon after I'.^O'Sullivan, Melville and Williams came out^carrying a trunk which they placed in the^wagon. Here follows a new version of^tbe ride with the trunk and the disposal of^the body in the sewer. Woodruff now^says the intention was to have the trunk^sunk in Lake Michigan, off Lincoln^park but thinking they were pur^^sued tbe plan was abandoned. Woodruff^claims that Cronins instrument case was^probably buried or thrown into the Lake^by Melville and William* when they left^the wagon in tbe woods for a abort time,^lie does not know what disposition was^made of tbe clothing. Woodruff concludes^with the assertion that be has recently been^approached by a lawer who offered to take^his case gratuitously and that this lawyer^had to keep strict silence, as he and Alex^^ander Sullivan's attorney would work in^unison and that one of Sullivans bondsmen^had agreed to pay for Woodrufl's defense.^The climax of the whole ^confession,^ is an^assertion by Woodruff that all his previous^alleged ^confessions^ are bogus and that^this is the first and only statement^I have made since my arrest.^ Tbe^intimation being that the other^^confessions^ were given circulation by^interested persons to create the Impression^that he i Woodruff i was a liar. Woodruff^gave his age when arrested as 26 years.^Tbe last Kenian invasion of Canada occur^^red about 1366 This would make Wood^^ruff about 3 years old when, according to^his own story, he was a member of ibe^Canadian militia and first became intimate^with the Fenians.
