Evening journal., 1889-05-29
THREE MEN INDICTED.
Detective Coughlin, Iceman Sui
livan and Black Held.
ALEXANDER SULLIVAN sHADOWED

Robert Bruce Says He Was offered s1.1oo
TO KIN cronin = Patrick Gleason De-
nouncIng the Murder Eight Men Under
Surveillance.
CHICAGO, May 20.--The grand jury, after
a session Of nearly seven hours, indicted De
tectiye Daniel Coughlin, T. Sullivan, the
Iakeview ice dealer, and Frank Black, alias
Woodruff, for the willful murder OF DR.. p.
II. Cronin Black is the man arrested for
stealing the white horse aud rig in which the
physician was driven TO his death.
Over score OF witnesses, including both
personal and political friends Of the muir
dered man, were examined, but no evidence
was introduced to prove a conspiracy, and
the private papers about which so much has
been said were kept from the body.
As a result Of the investigation II was de-
cided by unanimous vote 70 include the
thres prisoners in one indictment Of three
counts one charging them with killing DIR.
Cronin with blunt instrument, the second
alleging the use Of sharp instrument and
the third with instrument unknown The
indictments were returned to Judge William
son and the jury released for the ght
Many Persons Implicated.
II is said upon absolute authority that the
police are only just beginning to get an in
sight into the magnitude of the conspiracy
All along they have been working ON the
theory that it was confined TO few. Within
a short time, however, they have come into
possession Of information that places it be-
yond the shadow OF a doubt that at least a
score Of individuals were connected directly
or indirectly with the diabolical affair.
Eight Men Being Swallowed.
Among these, 1t is said, are eight of the
most prominent Irish Nationalists in the city
These are being shadowed day and night, not
so much with the view of any immediate ar
rest, but, as the police put it, "the better to
subserve the interests Of Justice
Among the best and most widely known Of
the eight is Alexander Sullivan, ex-president
OF the Irish Land league Of America. He Is
probably the best watched man in Chicago.
Shadows infest the lobby Of the Chicago
opera house building In which his offices are
located. They fit around the upper corri-
dor They dog his footsteps when he goes
across TO the court house aud they have his
house on Oak street under surveillance.
Only when closeted in his office or when In
the parlor OF his home is he free from their
| gazes.
Sullivan Wrongly Accused.
Chief Of Police Hubbard practically ad-
mitted that he was responsible for this es-
pionage, but he declined to say upon what
grounds it was based, although he hinte1
that il was done 70 satisfy Cronin's friends.
Almost in the same breath he said that Of
all the stream OF direct evidence that had
been poured ia upon him there was not q
single fact that pointed in the slightest degrel
to Alexander Su,livans culpability Tn
friends Of the latter-and their number
legion-take The ground that he is being out
rageously prosecuted.
He is they say, being made a mark Of b,
men who have been opposed 70 him for year
in secret societies. and who are now only to-
willing to take advantage Of the present ex
citement to identity him with the crime il
the public mind.
Says lie Was Hired to XIII CronIn.
Robert Bruce, who has been conducting
private detective agency in this city walket
into Lieut. Horace Elhott's office and sale
that several months ago Alderman McCor
mick offered him Sl 100 20 kill DR.. Cronin
Bruce, who has just returned from a thre,
months stay in Texas, says that Mccormick
paid him 500 in advance aud agreed TO pay
the remaining 81, 100 when the job was done
and Bruce declares that Mccormick tule
him to fuign sickness in his office and ther
send for Dr. Cronin and kill him. Bruce
says he took the sl00, spent il for liquor and
never made a move toward carrying out til,
contract.
mcGeehan May Prove an Alabi.
There are a number Of people at Pullman
and Kensington who say positively that they
saw McGeehan on the night Of Dir. Cronini
disappearance John Burns and Georg,
Burns, two brothers who lived at Mrs Nor
rissey's boarding house on Watt avenue
Pullman, where McGeehan also lived, say
positively that McGeehan was in the hous,
playing cards the night Of May 4. Mrs Nor
rissey and a chambermaid in the house ar,
also sure that they saw Mcclellan that night
! Thomas Markey went to church with Nc
Geehan Sunday morning. and Lieut. Kane i
also quite positive that be saw him in Pull
man that night
Did Not steal the white Horse.
The story that Iceman Sullivan made q
confession was untrue. Frank Black, ALA
Woodruff, was arraigned and pleaded no
guilty to stealing Dinans white horse
The coroner's inquest was resumed hJ
Coroner Hertz taking the jury on a tour o
inspection Of the principal points Of interes
in connection with the case where the BODY
was found, where the bloody trunk wa
picked up and the actual scene Of the murde
the Carlson cottage. The hearing Of testi
mony was begun at the coroner's ofiice on th
return Of the party 70 the city.
A widow named Hamburger has turne,
over 10 the police a suit Of flannel undercloih
ing and a vest which were found by her tw
/ boys in a clump of bushes on the Evanstoi
road, not far from the spot where the trunl
was discovered. They were probably woll
by the murdered man.
Another Arrest.
SOUTH BEND, Ind, May 29-Millard Will
Jams has Leen arrested in farm house nea
| Chnin Iakes CHARGED with being the persol