The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-24
AFTERACRONIN WITNESS
CHICAGO DETECTIVES LURKING
IN SAVANNAH.

VIC SUSPICION InaL anything Is
Known Here of the Cronin Tragedy
What Prominent Irishmen Say
About the Matter.
1t is drawing it mildly to say that the
Brunswick dispatch in yesterdays MORN
ING NEWS created sensation in Irish and
Irlsh-American circles here, and the fact
that two Chicago detectives had been sent
to the South Atlantic coast to hunt up wit
nesses in the Cronin murder case was gen.
orally discredited. tits not witnesses they
are looking after" said prominent Irish
American. "Every Irishman is suspected,
and II one has left Chicago since Cronins
body has been found, British gold will be
freely spent to dog his steps, although he
may be as ignorant of the facts sorround-
ing the killing as Sioux Indian
The detectives will get nothing in
Savannah" said another. SIN the first
place we know nothing whatever about
the case than what We learn from the
newspapers, and there are no strange IRISH
men here. The Irish societies and the in
| telllgent and conservative classes of Irish
and lrlsh-Americans have no sympathy for
murderers, and would do nothing to shield
them. We do not believe that Alexander
Sullivan lad anything to do with the kill
ing of Cronin.n
FRESHMEN ON THEIR METTLE.
1.-THE Chicago authorities are not the
movers in the effort to besmirch the Clan
na-Gael by seeking to fix the responsibility
upon 1T for Cronin's taking off, but the
English government, recognizing the fact
that there is wide and growing sentiment
OF sympathy for the sufferers in Ireland
from British oppression, seek to make all
they can out of the Cronin murder and to
connect Irish organizations in America with
the crime. That they have in part sue
ceeded is not to be denied, for the mere
suspicion which they have created will re-
quire some time to overcome. President
Fitzgerald has, however, felicitously
stamped the suspicion as false. The Irish
American societies have never counseled
crime, nor do they sympathize with it,
When the whole matter is sifted
down it will be found that Alexander
Sullivan, who is a prominent member of
the bar and a law abiding and self respect
ing citizen, is as innocent of completely in
the murder of Cronin as a child unborn
He will be vindicated as thoroughly as
Parnel was, although the whole influence
OF the British government was exerted to
convict him of a slanderous charge, and
the weak tool Of the London aristocracy
was driven to exile and suiciden
FAvoRITE PLACE FOR SPIES.
Another Irish-American, prominent in
irish affairs, said he was not surprised chat
the spies of the English government had
| been sent to Savannah SIT is not the first
nor the second time" he added. "Whsn
Mr.. Esmonde. of the Irish Parliament, was
here last winter, and lectured at the theater.
| ne was Swallowed by an English detective
| VINO stopped at another hotel from that
where Mr.. Esmonde was a guest. and the
distinguished orator was followed daily to
see If he TRANSCRIBED the bounds of con-
| sentative speech while in America
Another Irishman said: Savannah and
brunwlck have always been under British
surveillance. As far back as 1866 they sus-
pected that these two points were seaports
| from which shipments of arms might be
made with the least danger of being dis
covered, and, in fact, they believed. or pro-
tessed to believe, that large collections of
war munitions had been collected at Savan-
nan, Brunswick and Darien to be shipped
TO Ireland with Fenian volunteers. and
detectives were located at these three points
TO cable the first suspicious circumstance
10 London. All the mo1ey spent for this
| surveillance was SO much money wasted,
! just like great deal has been wasted In
paying an army of spies throughout the
United States to watch Irish movements
| NO EVIDENCE IN SAVANNAH.
They will rever connect any Irish or
| ganlzatlon with the murder of Croninn
SAID another lrishman yesterday, ''and it is
a piece OF folly to look about Savannah for
| any developments in the Cronin murder
case. Congressman Finerty of Chicago has
repealed the Islander on the Irish-American
| organizations of that city. Did you read
his letter. Well, he offers 1000 to any one
who Will produce an Irishman who was
connected with the communistic riots
there. de says that the Hessans, who are
| always mercenary, and who are at the
bottom OF the SANDER against the Clan-na
Gael as an organization, were princi
pals In the Chicago riots, and
tnar not an Irlshmaa was connected
with them, except as preservers of law
and order, who helped arrest the murderers
and saw them hanged. He ironically saws
that there are lots of these Hessians, who
would like to have the 1000 to start a
corner groggery as headquarters for COM
munists, and that he is willing to furnish
the 81 900, if any Irish organization can be
convicted OF being connected, or in SYM
pathy with murder.n
THE DETECTIVES LAID LOW.
1t is believed that the publication of the
| brunswick dispatch has sent the two Chi
| cago detectives to cover. While it is be-
heved they reached Savannah yesterday
morning over the Savannah, Florida
and Western railway, they took good care
uot W sup at any OF the nOteiS up to q late
hour last night. Two strangers, one a
short, stumpy Irishmaa, aud the other an
Engllshman with side whiskers, which an
swers the description of the two detectives.
took dinner yesterday at a South Broad
street restaurant, and went down to Tvbee
on the 2 O'Clock train in the afternoon.
They returned at o'clock, and after thor
oughly scanning the crowd boarded a Belt
Line car and were seen to get off on Ray
street, operating, probably to meet later
at place agreed upon.
1t was expected that they would confer
with the police authorities here. but they
we're evidently afraid to make beginning
until they went over the ground carefully.
THE PLAN WOULDN'T WORK.
1t was believed that the Irishman ex-
| pected to gain the confidence of the Irish
Americans here and learn what he could
about the Clan-na-Gael, but the publication
| IN the MORNING News was calling the turn
on him, and q stranger would have had to
be identified and have gilt edge credentials
to have had an audience with any
member of an Irish organization
on Irish affairs While DENYING
any knowledge of the Cronin affair.
except what has been published in the
| papers, stranger who comes here and
hints on the subject will be an object of
susplcion,no matter how well recommended
or how plausible his talk. "We are on tue
lookout for the detectives" said an Irish
American last night, mot that we have
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