Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-30
EASTERN.
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN THE
CRONIN CASE.
Breweries Brought by Britons-The
Bishop Inquest-Bandits on
Trial-Races-Etc
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE szOoRD-usIos.l
cHIcAGo's LATEST HORROR.
Continued Interest but No New Develop
ments In fhe Cronfu Case


ments In The Cronin Case.
CHICAGO, May 29th.-Several important
links in the evidence connecting the cir
cumstances surrounding Dr. Cronin's death
were brought out before the Grand Jury
yesterday. Milkman Mertes testified that
shortly after he saw man resembling
Cronin go up the steps of the cottage he
heard sounds like pounding or crunching.
Young Carlson, whose parents own the
blood-stained cottage, learned from the
Swedish truckman who brought the furni-
ture to the cottage, that ii came from rooms
at III Clark street, opposite Dr. Cronin's
office. A description of the man who
bought this furniture and took it to III
Clark street, is now in the hands of the
police. Young Mrs. Carlson gave a close
description of the man who hired the cot
tage.
THE TORONTO DISPATCH.
The attorney who was sent to Toronto by
DR.. Cronin's friends to see c. T. Long, the
newspaper correspondent who wrote the
fictitious interviewiwith the doctor, has re-
turned. Long was laboring under a great
nervous strain, but could not be brought TO
confess, in spite of the fact that Cronin was
dead, that the alleged interview was not
genuine. While the attorney was in To-
ronto he met BILLY" Starkey. the ex-
Chicago attorney who left the city to
escape going to the penitentiary for Jury
bribing. He found upon investigation that
Starkey and Long, who were professional
shorthand writers in Chicago six or seven
years ago, were on terms of friendly init
macy, and about the time the fictitious dis
patches were wired to Chicago they were in
daily consultation. From this he deduced
the conclusion that Starkey had hand in
concocting the dispatches. He knew Gro
min as well as Long, if not better for
he was engaged in an effort to compel Gro
min to make certain statements before a
| Justice of the Peace in q fictitious suit put
| on record by the doctors enemies.
EXAGGERATED REPORTS.
CHICAGO, May 29th.-There have been no
| new developments in the Cronin case to-
day of startling nature.
! The authorities say that the report of the
| proceedings before the Grand Jury, as
| printed in the morning papers and por-
| ton of which was used in these dispatches.
was greatly exaggerated. They claim there
was no such testimony as that accredited
to Carlson, and that nothing particularly
new was adduced before the jury.
| Capiases in accordance with the indict-
ments were served on the three prisoners
| to-day.
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refused to talk further about his confession,
saying that he had said too much already.
| Coughlin would have nothing at all to say,
| either to reporters or to the Chief of Police.
when the latter visited him. The Cor
| oner's jury assembled this morning, but
after consulting with the States attorney
the Coroner decided to postpone the in
| quest until next Tuesday.
| 1t is understood that it was the desire of
the authorities that this be done for fear
some testimony might come out before the
! public inquest which would retard police
| work.
Chief Hubbard, when seen by reporter
| to- night, asserted that there was nothing In
be said and that they were busy working
| on several clues but that no fresh arrests
were contemplated.
| TALK OF SURPRISING THE INQUIRY.
1t is stated tonight upon apparently
! good authority that the present Grand Jury
will not be asked TO give the Cronin case
| any further consideration.
| The serious character of this announce
ment is best appreciated when it is remem-
bered that considerable number of the
members OF the present Grand Jury are
Irishmen or of Irish descent.
| While States Attorney Longnecker is
voiceless as sphynx as to the reason for
declining to continue the investigation un-
| der the present jury, those high in authority
do not deny that the question of nationality
has much to do with his decision.
| This evening Byron S. Smith, Receiver
of the defunct Traders Bank, in which, il
| is said, were deposited funds which Cronin
had mysteriously referred to in his PAM
| phlet alleging stealings, was closeted with
| Chief Hubbard for an hour or more.
| This would indicate that the authorities
have widened the scope of their inquiry
beyond the responsibility of the perpe-
traitors of the murder and are acting on the
innuendoes of the doctors professed
! friends, who have been doing so much
talking.
The police were busy all day searching
| every conceivable spot in the vicinity of
! the Carlson cottage and the place where
! the body was found in the endeavor to find
some trace of Cronin's clothing and case of
medical instruments, of which no trace has
been discovered. The underclothing found
| by widow Hamburgher's children proves
| not to be that of the dead man.
THE PHILADELPHIA SUSPECT.
Peter Mcclellan, the Philadelphia sus-
pect. talking this evening 10 reporter, said
| detective to see Mrs. Conklin. She first
said Mcclellan was not the man who
called for the doctor. Then her husband
came in and the detective introduced Nc
Geehan in form. Immediately on hearing
the name, Mrs. Conklin surveyed Nc
Geehan again and declared positively that
he was the man who lured the doctor
away.
Mcclellan said II believe that woman
is capable of swearing a mans life away.
Conklin has added to her reckless judg-
! ment some stories. l shall call him to ac-
count, for Dinan, the livery man, says that
l do not answer the description of the man
wanted. The police now know that l bad
nothing to do with the case believe that
! the plot, or conspiracy, or whatever you
please to call it, was purely personal
matter, and that the right clue has not yet
been struck, or, if found, has not been pub
lished"