The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-29
Still the Cronin Murder.


Still the CrOnin Murder.
CHICAGO, May 2S.-Detective DAME
Coughlin, Patrick o. Sullivan, the ice-man
and Frank J. Black, alias Woodruff, were
indicted by the grand jury this evening fol
the murder of DR.. Cronin. This result was
reached after an investigation which began
at noon and lasted for seven hours, during
which time two dozen witnesses were ex-
amined and mass of evidence considered.
The three prisoners We're included in one
indictment to which there We're
three counts; one charging them
with killing DR.. Cronin with blunt
instrument, second alleging the use
of sharp instrument, and a third
with using instruments and means un-
known. No evidence was introduced to
| show conspiracy and DR.. Cronin's private
papers We're not placed before the grand
grand jury. The witnesses called were
| those whose stories have been told in the
press. States Attorney Longrecker
| thought it advisable to tighten the coils in
which the three prisoners already have
been drawn and fasten them with indict-
ments, probably to prevent any attempt to
secure the release of one or more of them
on bail. The grand jury took only one vote
after hearing the witnesses. and that was
unanimous for the Indictment of all three
prisoners.
States Attorney Longracker said to-
night that no mention of the Clan-na-Gael
affairs had been made in the jury room
The charge of conspiracy and Dr. Cronin's
papers Will be taken up later, probably be-
fore another grand jury.
The ice man, Sullivan, and the police
officials declare the statemet -. 80 iisszsed
this morning to the effect that he had made
confession, laying bare the entire details
of the plot for the murder of Dr. Cronin, is
false. An afternoon paper processes to
have information to the effect that nothing
like asweepfng confession was secured from
him. An admission, it is said, was obtained
that one of the men who hired the Carlson
cottage had sought work from him and had
been frequently about his place; that he
told this young man of the terms of the
contract with CrOnin and that the young
man could have secured one of his cards if
he so desired. 1t will be remembered that
one of Sullivan'S cards was used to lure
DR.. Cronin from his home The coroner's
jury, after viewing the blood-stained cot
tage III Lake View, and the place where
the body was found adjourned till to-mor-
row. Mrs. Hamburger, widow living
at 1902 Dorsey, has turned over to
the police some articles of clothing
which may have belonged to Dr.. Cronin.
Her two boys, nine and eleven wears old.
while playing in the woods Sunday about
a mile from where Cronin was, found a
wooden shirt and pair of drawers and a
vest. Nothing was found in the pockets of
the vest to identify CrOnin, ana from the
fact that the clothing was scattered about
it is supposed that it had been pre-
viouSly Oyerhauled. The boys didn't
tell their mother of their discovery
until that night. On hearing of it. she |
sent them back after the clothing. and |
notified the police. Captain Setback men, |
it is claimed, cautioned her and the bows |
not to say a word about the find to any one |
and it only leaked out by accident.
A reporter called on Mrs. Hamburger to-
night, but she had been instructed not to
tolk. The police officials Were equally
mute.
CHICAGO, May 2s-The most sensational
developments 50 far in the investigation of
5he Cronin case was announced late to-
hight, in the shape of a new confession by
Black alias Woodruff, in which he tells the
whole story in connection with Dr. Gro
inns murder. 1t seems he was not con
lected with the murder itself, but simply
lcted as adriver of the wagon which dis
posed of the dead mans body Wood
'uff has been taken by Captain Setback
md his men to the scene of /
he murder to the sewer where the body
vas found, and the place where the trunk
vas first seen. He gave driving direc-
ions to the detectives and in every instance
coated the exact places. According to
lis confession he was directed by
hose who had charge of that part
# the conspiracy and whose names
we're before the grand jury to-day. The
Connection of the ice man Sullivan with
he Cronin mystery was made almost ;
bsolute. Old man Carlson, the owner of ,
he cottage, testified that the man who
allied himself Frank Williams and rented ,
ne cottage, went over to see Sullivan, the ,
&c man, and talked Familiarity with him. l.
An hour after DIR. Cronin entered the {
ottage the man who is known as Williams ,
pened the front door of the cottage and !
ignalled to Woodruff, who at once drove :
p, and assisted by third man the trunk :
vas loaded into the wagon and Woodruff
vas directed eastward toward the 3
AXE At certain point that Wood +
utf has designated to Captain Setback
epositedin the lake had not an interruption
anne in the shape of a policeman This
aused change of plans, and Immediately I
tops were taken to get out of the officers q
way. a circuitous route again brought h
hem to the Evanston road, and as they E
ad been driving for nearly an hour with :
nat CHASTITY load, the men suggested they +
yere far enough. They stopped at
fifty ninth street. The top was taken off n
ne manhole and the trunk taken from the
'agon. 1t was impossible to put the
Junk into the manhole, as the key had r
cen lost the top was kicked, in and the F
ody put in the sewer and the trunk again a
laced in the wagon. They started again -
II the cottage, intending there to burn the u
Junk, but on reaching the spot where
lie trunk was found they heard "a noise of il
agon wheels, and throwing the trunk out s
the wagon, drove rapidly away l;
another direction. At Mullerton v
venue Woodruff's companions babe him n
bod night and left him. S
The remainder of the confession is Wood a
Ifs attempts in his wanderings to sell o
s horse and buggy. He says there is il
1thing in the woman story first told by Ii
m. The names of King and Fairburn