St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-07
But No Facts or Clues by
Which to Definitely Lo-
cate Him.
Senator Pearee Denies I'M
proper Relations With
Mrs. Carter.
louisiana Regulators" Pre-
vent Negroes From Vot-
ing.


bloody mystery attached to the disap-
pearance of DR.. p. Ii. Cronin, who
was a member of great number OF
Irish societies. was partly disposed OF
to-day. Hair, supposed to be his and
found in a bloody trunk on the
prairie, near Lakeview, was taken this
evening to the barber shop which
Cronin frequented. The employees de-
clared unhesitatingly that the hair was
not Cronn's; that his was much
coarser, not as long and was inclined
to be kinky. Police Capt. Setback, who
has met Cronin frequently, expresses
similar opinion. The bloody cotton
in the trunk, another supposed clue,
be ordinary batting, and not
the absorbent article such as the doctor
carried in his surgeons outfit. A
report left at police headquarters by
Mr.. J. r. Elise that he
had seen Cronm on a street
car yesterday, was investigated
and the man proved to be
Manager Lennon, of the Windsor thea
ter. The people with whom Cronin
boarded deny that he is drinking
man; declare that the hair found is
really the doctors, and persist that
Cronin must have been murdered.
Several well-known gentlemen, friends
of Cronin, accept the same view. Many
ing the affair. and express the opinion
that the doctor will turn up
all right shortly. Rumors were
current in Irish Nationalist
circles tonight that Dr.. Cronin was in
New York Ell route to London for the
purpose of testifying before the Par
nell commission. The missing man has
always insisted and declared himself
prepared to prove that not one-teRth of
the funds published in the American
papers as having been collected for the
land league ever went across the water,
and of the hundred and one theories
concerning his disappearance, the one
that obtains the most credit is
that he had gone to London to
testify to this fact. John Conklin, the
saloon keeper with whom he boarded
was interviewed at length tonight, and
when pressed plainly indicated by his
agitated manner that he knew more
than he cared to say concerning the
mystery He would neither admit nor
deny that Cronin had received letters Or
cable dispatches from England within
the past few weeks, but contented him
self by insisting that the man was
dead, and that the mystery could not
be cleared inside of three month.
Among other things he said that
Several plots had been formed to kill
the missing man. and that within a
month he had been ShadOWed by dele
gate from another city who had been
sworn to kill him. The decree of death,
he added, had gone out against another
opponent of the Irish Land League
controllers, and who resided in Phila-
delphia. E. F. Cragin. a we'll known
citizen, said tonight that he met DR..
Clonin on Saturday last few hours be-
fore the doctors alleged disappearance.
DIR. Cronin said to him, in mysterious
manner: Unjust leave town for few
days" Cronin did not explain why he
was to leave the city.
James f. Pearce made dispositions
that he was fifty-eight years old. law
yer of Brooklyn, Land for the fifth or sixth
term New York state senator from
Brooklyn. He first met Mrs. Carter in
the summer of 1883, and was in
troduced to her by his daughter. He had
been at Coney Island with Judge Folger
and he was called to Cooperstown by
the illness of Mrs. Pearce. His family
was very intimate with Mrs. Carter, and
he frequently heard his daughters state
to their mother that they were going
to stay with Mrs. Carter. Pearce
said he did not know Mrs. MOrriSSey
and he was asked: "Were you stand
ing in the door of Mrs. Carter's room
between and o'clock in the morning,
in July or August, 1888, talking to Mrs.
Garter, with your vest unbuttoned and
your hat in your hand, and
Mrs. Carter in her night dress?"
mo, sir; the statement is an absolute
and unqualified lie. l was never at
Mrs. Carter's room in the Cooper house
at any time" Pearce denied with
equal emphasis that Mrs. Morrissey or
any other woman ever passed him and
Mrs. Carter and said to him that he had
better be attending to his sick wife, and
he returned positive 'no" to the ques-
tion as to whether he had ever sustained
improper relations with Mrs. Carter at
that time in Cooperstown, or at any
other time at any place. The court took
recess at this period until tomorrow.