Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-11-22
ONLY SPECKLED GRAY
THB HISTORIC WHITE HORSE IN THB
CR0NIN CASH
Sent to Grass By Ready Witnesses for tho De-
isrss-A Man Who Saw Cronn Driven
OF Tsshfss-EIpsrts Canradcl
Each Other as Usual.

CHICAGO, November 21.-Shortly be-
fore court opened this morning, in the
Cronin case, Judge Mcconnell called Judge
Longenecker, Mr.. Forrest and Mr. Mills
to the bench, aud informed them that he
bad received letter from man who
claimed to have seen Dan COughlin at the
Chicago Avenue Station about 9 o'clock
the night Of May 4. Mr. Forrest took the
address and the man will be called as q
witness.
Patrick Dinan, livery-stable keeper and
owner Of the famous white horse, was the
frat witness called to-day. He testi-
fled that his horse was in a dime museum
in this city, and had been for three weeks.
This, he said, was the same horse that he
had let Coughlin's friend have on the
evening of the murder.
THE WHITE HORSE A MYTH.
Louis BudenbendeT, of Hoboken, n. j.,
was then called to the witness chair. He
testified that he WAS a real estate agent and
tunN nG AANNu ln llOUhhNh ANA - chAHf WIN
the exception of the period between August
8, 1888, and May 2l, 1889, when he lived
in Chicago. During that time be lived
near the Windsor Theatre fiat, in which
DR.. Oronio lived with the Conklins. On
the evening Of the murder witness was in
Jeckel's cigar store, opposite DR.. Cronin's
residence. He was positive he was in the
cigar store at 7 o'clock and may have re-
mained there until or 9 o'clock. After
he had been there few minutes be no
tieed the horse and buggy in front
of DIR. Cfonin's Office. II was an
ordinary side bar buggy, and had the
top mp The witness thea continued
~ saw DR.. Cronin and another man come
from the house and start to the buggy.
The driver started for the horse while the
doctor started towards the buggy. There
was some man on the sidewalk, near the
houee, who called to DR.. Cronin and at-
tracted his attention, for the doctor turned
around but still kept going toward the
buggy. Then the driver went 10 the
horse's head and unhitched the horse,
went to the buggy and got in, and sat on
the west sids; then d.. Croniu got in; he
WAS talking to this man all the while, 20 il
seemed to me, but / could not hear any
thing he said from that distance; then they
shifted their seats and this man got in
front Of the Doctor and then they sat
down and went off,.
ONLY A sPECKLED GRAY.
The witness also testified that DR.. Gro
min had what appeared to be h small chest
or box which might have contained bis
instruments or medicine. The witness was
standing in the door Of the cigar store
looking at the horse for about 10 minutes
and saw it before the men came down and
all the incidents Of their departure.
"Whst was The c0'Or OF that horst?"
asked the lawyer.
at was gray; a speckled gray With dark
legs. The horse which | saw yesterday at
the Dime Museum was not the horse that
drove DIR. Cronin away and did not resem-
BILE it. The horse / saw yesterday was a
white horse, but the horse ! saw take DIR.
Cropin away on the night Of May was
speckled gray. The legs of the horse that
took Dr. Cronin away were dark, while
the legs Of this horse are white"
The cross-examinati0n Of the witness
was then begun, and the first question
asked the witness, after ascsrtaining that
he left Chicago May %, was whether the
finding of the body of DR.. Cfonin hRS
ANYTHING TO do with his departure. The
witness said mo- and the counsel for
the defense called uron the Court 10 pro-
tect the witness from such questions.
The witness said that he had known Dr..
Cronin By sight for several months. He
could not say who pointed him out 10 bin.
He could not describs how the man was
dressed who was talking with DIR. Cronin
when he saw him.
SCIENCE KNOCKED ENDwIsE.
Marshall D. Elwell, who took a degree
Of Doctor OF Medicine al the Rush Medi.
cal College, and who is now Professor o.
Lsw in the Northwestern University Of
Evanston, Was the next witness. He said
he was also Director of the Bureau Of
MeteoTology and had given lectures on the
suiiect cf microscopical examinations
since 1884. He WAS . fellow Of the Cen
eral Microscopical Society Of London and
various other societies in this cOuntTy. To
his knowledge there was, in the present
state Of science, no means by which hu-
man hair could be certainly distinguished
from any other hair, and there is no way
by which it can be scientifically ascertain
ed that two given specimens Of hair came
from the same head.
The witness alfO testified that there WAS
no difference in the structure OF the hair Of
different people, and that tire microscope
was of no service in the examination OF
the color OF hair bnt that on the other
hand il was misleading. The testimony
of this witness was continued at length,
and was Of decidedly technical charac-
ter.
As Budenbender, the witness who testi-
fed concerning the horse, was leaving the
court room he WAS summoned by the State
10 appear as witness. Budenbender WAS
very much confused on cross examination,
and made some contradictory statements.
In the afternoon additional expert testi-
mony was given, all Of nature eimilar to
DIR. Elwelrs. DR.. Lester Curtis, micro
scopical expert. said that there was no way
known to science of determining the DIFF
ference between ibTea Of wood and iuzz
f-a.. tLo Iup,au hrdv