Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-25
CRoNIN,s MURDER.
SENSATIONAL CHARGES IN TIE
DEAD MANS PAPERS.
Cottage Where the Murder Was
Comrhitted-Unearthing Work Of
Detectives and Reporters.

Especial DISPATCHES TO THE REcoRp-us1os.J
CHICAGO, May 24th.-It was learned to-
day that the police struck quite an i'm
portant clue in the Cronin mystery. It
seems beyond doubt that they have dis
covered the place where Cronin was muir
dered, a vacant cottage in Lake View.
Apparently the authorities have had some
information about the place for several
DAYS, and since the discovery OF the body
an officer has been constantly watching the
suspected cot tage. Reporters heard of this
surveillance, but the police would not give
them any information. Accordingly, this
morning three reporters watched their op-
portunity, and when the officer was in the
rear of the house
THEY FORCED AN ENTRANCE
Into the building at the front. Stains re-
sembling blood were seen on the front
steps, but when the reporters entered the
front room or parlor they found undoubted
blood-stains on the floor, also in the corner
of the back parlor and in the hallway
The parlor floor is covered with bloody
marks, although here the assassin evil
IDENTIFY made strenuous efforts to destroy
the stains, as the floor is daubed recklessly
with brown paint, and it can be plainly
seen that the work was not that of an ex-
pert. 1t was evidently done in such haste
that several places were left where the
BLOOD STAINS ARE PERcEPrIBLE,
Notably in the center of the Aoor. In the
paint were prints of bare feet Evidently
the person who made the marks was much
excited, for the footprints are seen in every
direction, indicating that the owner had
rushed all over the room. The reporters
had not completed their investigation be-
fore the arrival of the officer, who put a
stop TO their work
Before breaking into the house the re-
porters had peered through the basement
windows, and
DISCOVERED SPADE
Standing against post, and that the earth
had been freshly turned up. 1t is said
that the police found bloody clothing con-
cealed in the house or basement, but on
this point they refuse to talk. The cottage
In question is situated within few hum
dred feet of the home of P O. Sullivan,
the ice-man, whose card was presented to
DR.. Cronin, and which led him TO leave his
home on the night of his disappearance
The man who preSentedsthe card said that
one of Sullivan's employees had met with
an accident and required Cronin's services
The cottage belonge to a man named
Carlson, who lives on the rear of the same
lot. 1t appears that about seven weeks ago
YOUNG WOMAN RENTED THE HOUSE,
Paying month in advance People were
given to understand the woman had rented
it FOR her brothers, who had been hired by
Sullivan. Sullivan declares he did not hire
any such men. Though the rent was paid
the house remained unoccupied until about
the time of Cronin's disappearance, when
she came with what appeared to be a
bundle of carpets If they were preparing
for Cronins assassination this would have
been good way to smugsl lie into the house
the large bundle of cotton batting found
with the body.
Proceeding on the theory that
cRoEIN WAS MURDERED HERE
ii pointed out that the house is admirably
located for that purpose as being near
Sullivan's house Cronin could be con-
Quoted to it without exciting suspicion,
while at the same time it would furnish a
perfect hiding place for them to spring
upon him as soon as he would enter the
place. 1t is also surmised that the carpet
may have been used upon the hallway or
other front room to give the place the ap-
pearance of being occupied. The attention
of the police was directed to the house by
Carlson, the owner. This afternoon it was
visited by Inspector Ebersold and the
Coroner. When Lieutenant Schuttler
found that
REPORTERS HAD GAINED ENTRANCE
To the house he was very angry. He sus-
pended the officer who had been on watch,
and sent another to the place. The Lieu
tenant himself, however, was no more sue.
cessful in keeping the secret, for a re-
porter succeeded in drawing from him
some of the important admissions, among
them that the police had a clue to the
murderers. The most important admis-
sion was that the clothes of the dead man
had been recovered and identified.
Late this afternoon Mrs. Carlson turned
over to the police a letter signed Frank
Williams" which, she said, was written
by one of the two strange men who occu-
pied the cottage, and disappeared after the
murder. The police would not diyulge the
date or contents of the note. but it is sup
posed to relate to the renting of the house
The police officials appear to think to-
night that Cronin's assassins may have inn
itated
BooDLER M'6ARIeLE's FAMOUS ESCAPE
Up Lake Michigan. 1t is said that men
were noticed early the Sunday morning
following Cronin's disappearance in row.
boat on the lake, making for the north
pier. They were heading almost in q
straight line from the beach in Lincoln
Park near where the prisoner Woodruff
said halt had been made with the mys-
terious trunk. Since that night row boat
has been missing from an establishment
close by.
The suburban police have always de
clared that there were three men seen in
the wagon supposed to contain the my s.
teripus trunk. Woodruff from the first
falt t-al IF txx-r o+h harc oil
police are very anxious to hear from the
missing boat.
CRoEIY's PAPERS.
CHICAGO, May 4th.-A morning paper
publishes what Processes to be the papers
left by DR.. Cronin. Following are extracts
June 1s, 1sss.-John Dewey in the Convention
OF the U. B. made four charges with specifca.
tions against Alexander Sullivan, Michael Bo
lard and Denis c. Feely. The charges were
1, Violation of their oaths of membership aud
Office. 2 Misappropriation of the funds of the
U. B.. 5. Betrayal OF trust and of the interests
OF the U. B. 4. Malfeasance in Office.
At the Clan Ma Gael Convention in Chicago
in August, 1881, the above named were elected
members of the Executive Body, and by that
body members OF the Revolutionary Directory.
IT is charged that the three men named de-
ceived and misled their colleagues on the Revo-
lutionary Directory who represented the l. r. b
on that body, and through them deceived and
misled the supreme Council of the /. R. b.,
with whom they were sworn to act in union
and to assist in revolutionary work and by
such deceit aud misleading created misunder-
standings and distrust between the two allied
governing bodies Of the Irish revolutionary
movement.
They levied on the executive body Of the
United Brotherhood in the name of the reyolu
tionary directory during the years 1851 1882
1SSS and 1881, sums Of money amounting in the
aggregate to sl2S 600, received and expended
the same, or ordered ii expended, without the
knowledge or consent of their colleagues of the
revolutionary directory. II is alleged that they
together with O'Farren of Leadville, subse
quently audited their own accounts.
SULLIVAN DIRECTED TO. cRoSIN.
At "a meeting of the committee appointed
TO try these charges. on August %, 1888
in Buffalo, Dr.. Cronin was present as one
of the committee. Sullivan objected Il
Cronin's presence, as he was an enemy
who was always trying to ipjure him. Th'
committee consisted of six members Foul
of these found Sullivan and his colleagues
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