The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-10-31
CR0NIN TRIAL.
TRSTIMONY OF MRS. CoSKLIN NE
sCRIBING THE STRANGER WHO
DROVE AWAY CRONIN.
He Wore Short Cropped Beard and n
Faded 0vercOat- Evidence
Corrsborated by Others.

CHICAGO, October 2S.-At the opening of
the Cronin trial this morning the state
called for Mr.. Cronin, brother of Doctor
Cronin, but that gentleman was not in the
room at the time, and Napier Moreland,
an employe of Patrick Dinan the livery
man, was called instead. He testified to
the fact of hiring a white horse on the
evening of May 4, when Doctor Cronin
was killed. His evidence did not differ
materially from that given by Dinan him
self Saturday, but a new point was reached
when he described the condition of
the horse when he returned it to
the stable about $3.50 O'Clock that night.
Witness said: "He was in the condition of
horse that had been driven very fast for
the length of time he was out. He was
sweating all over. His nostrils were bleed
ing, and he looked as though he had had a
hard drive. The buggy was covered with
sand and boulevard mud"
Mrs Conklin, at whose house DR.. Cronin
last lived, was the next witness. After nu-
merous questions as to the location
of the rooms in the fat. Mrs.
Conklin proceeded to tell the story
of how the doctor was called away from
her house on the night of May 4. She
said that at 7:20 p. m. stranger who
seemed nervous and excited rang the door
bell and when she opened the door in
quired for DR.. Cronin. He seemed very re-
luctant to enter but finally did so. When
told the doctor was engaged with other
patients the stranger took a seat in the
waiting room. When DIR. Cronin came out
of his office the man advanced and said:
"Dr. Cronin you are wanted to attend man
who has been hurt at O'Sullivan's ice office"
The doctor made remark which did not
hear. At that moment the man drew card
from his pocket and presented it to the
doctor. Doctor Cronin took the card and
said: "Oh yes; what is the nature of the
acCident?" He said: "a man has been
run over by wagon" The doctor said:
II will be with you soon," or something to
that effect. The man sat down again on the
edge of chair and the doctor turned, lay
ing the card on the mantel piece. The man
said OSullivan was out of town and left
word that Doctor Cronin was to attend
his men. Doctor Cronin ran to his private
room and gathered together some bandages
of cotton batting. He brought out with
him surgical case and a case of spirits.
Then drawing on his coat as quickly as pos
slble he left, running out carrying these
things and the case in his arms The two
went hurriedly out of the house as fast as
they could and did not even shut the door.
L heard them running down stairs.
Witness continued her testimony, saying
she then went to the window overlooking
the street and saw a buggy with a white
horse attached standing before the door.
Doctor Cronin and the man who called for
him got into the buggy, which was then
driven northward. The man seemed anx-
ious to get away.
Mrs. Conklin then went on to give a
description of the man who came for the
doctor. He was, s,she said, of medium height, |
with stubby beard of few days growth |
on his face. A small soft hat was drawn |
down over his eyes and he had a light or |
faded overcoat on. Her description tailed |
very closely with that given by the former |
witnesses of the man who hired the white |
horse from Dinan. Witness told the story |
of the proceedings of the day following
Cronin's disappearance. In the morning
she and her husband discovered the card
which the man had brought-that of O'Sul-
livan, the ice man. Mr.. Conklin went to
OSullivan's place at once, and that after
noon q Pinkerton detective brought Sulli-
van to Conklin's.
Mrs. Conklin then related her converse
ton with O'Sullivan. She told him in sub
ssance that she thought very strange of q
who had had an accident would employ a
physician to be ready on call in case of
ench happening. Furthermore, it was
strange that he should pass by hundreds of
competent physicians who lived near by
and go seven miles to arrange with DIR.
Cronin, and it was strangest of all that very
soon thereafter the man should appear
with his (0Sullivan's card and take Doctor
Cronin away, presumably to his death.
Mrs. Conklin then related how she sub
sequently identified Dinan's white horse as
the one drawing the buggy in which Doctor
Cronin was driven to his death. Mrs.
Conklin was then cross-examined at great
length by Mr.. Forrest.
Mrs. Conklin's scross-eXaminatlon brought
out the fact that within few days after
the disappearance of Doctor Cronin Police {
Captain Setback had brought Dinan's '
white horse and buggy to her house for
identification, and that she had
failed at that time to identify the
animal as the one which hauled the doctor '
away to the Carlson cottage. On the 18th !
of MAY, when the animal was brought by
a reporter, she identified it. Mrs. Conklln
accounted for this by saying that clrcum-
stances of weather and light and the angie
at which she viewed the horse when J
brought bv the captain were different from !
those under which she saw him when the
man called for Doctor Cronin. Ihe re- !
porter presented the animal under slml-
lar conditions. She particularly no {
ticed a peculiar and unusual mo-
ton of the horses name wheD
standing, both when the doctor was taken
away and when the reporter showed her
the animal. Furthermore, when captain
Setback brought the horse it was raining
and the rain changed the horses color, In 6
addition to that the horse was driven Pc I
yond her house so that the buggy was Oe- |
tween her and the animal.
The cross examination lasted until Iate I
in the afternoon and witness was plled {
with questions in reiteration as to the clr-
cumstances under which she saw tne noIse,
as to complexion and color OF tle IilouS'apn pI,f
of the man who came for the doctor. Dut
her statements on direct examination c
were not materially snahe f
In reply to question as to ~hefe