Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-05-31
STRONGER TESTIMONY.
Fresh Evidence Fastens the CronIn Muir
der on the Ice Dealer.

der on the Ice Dealer.
CHICAGO, May 30.-The Police have
been making an active search for CrOnin's
books aud medicine cs1e, and the 80 yards
Of ingram carpet which was tackled on the
floor of the parlOr in the CsrlsOn Cottage.
Lieut. Schuettler and his men went through
the ice mans house to-day but did not
discover nything which could be used as
evidence. They looked under the carpets
and ripped up the flooring in one or two
places and searched every room and closet
in the dwelling. The barn and outhouses
we're also searched. Before giving up the
search the officers will look through all the
catch basins and under the sidewalks on
School street and Belmont avenue from
Ashland avenue to the river.
A SENSATIONAL RUMoR.
It ia rumored that the police in their
further search to-day Of the cottage in
in which DIR. Cronin was murdered, found
pick and other ice tools, presumed
to have been the property of p. o. Sulli-
van. the ice deal.r. The authorities are
reticent as to the result of to-day's investi-
cations. and refused to affirm or deny
this rumor.
The theory is advanced that it was with
blows from these instruments that DR..
| Cronin was so f0ully murdered. The tools
to-day discovered are understood TO have
bsen hden securely under ground and in
a rubbish heap in an out Ioom or shed ad-
joining the cottage. The greatest import
ance is attached to this report, as it is con-
stIued into crowning evidence of Ice
Dealer Sullivan's completely in the muir
der.
A DEFENCE FOR SULLIVAN.
The statement will be printed to-mor-
row that Alexander Sullivan mas engaged
A. S. Trude az counsel, and that within
the last three days the two have held sew
eral long conferences.
"Whst about your retention by Alexsn-
der Sullivan?" was asked of Mr.. Trude.
"Oh, have known Alex since he was a
reporter, and have been consulted by
him. He knows nothing about the Cronin
affair He did not believe he was dead,
bat thought he had disappeared for the
purpose of affecting the result in the Phil
adelphia convention"
This is a question OF tail pulling, "
continued the attorney, you see every
Irishman is trying TO twist the British
Lions tail, and their order, they get jeal-
ous and Jump on each other.
In the Philadelphia convention
the greatest Irisi intellects in
the country clsshed. There was never an
Irish convention in the United States in
which there were such intrigues and such
bitter conteets, Alexander Sullivan came
ont on top. electing Henry Sheridan dele
gate. Inat victory made Sullivan mark
for the jealousy Of every prominent Irish
msn who did not belong to his party.
In talking of the alleged division OF the
fund of Cau-Na-Gael, or Unitsd Brother
hood, Mr.. Trude, said; That has been ex-
planned dozen times, and in five minutes
any impartial man can understand that
Mr.. Sullivan has been rs clear from mis-
doing as a sunbeam"
Mr.. Sullivan was seen this evening by a
reporter, to whom he said that he had not
formally retained Mr.. Trude, bat had |
counseed vita him as friend.
The Daily Nelrs, this evening, prints the
following:
THEY COULD UNRANEL THE FLoI'
An old detective at the City Hall said |
to-day: "Tbe three men now IN jail know
all about the murder, and could give the
police the right clews which would result
In the arrest of the actual perpetrators OF
the crime But these prisoners can never
be convicted of murder on the evidence
the States Attorney DOW has IN his pos
session. One of them, therefore, must
soueal. and it will not be COughlin. II
lies between Sullivan and Woodruff. The
States Attorney would prefer to get the
ice mans story, and think he would prom
ise t. let Sullivan of easy if he gave the
whole plot away.
He also advances the following theory |
II may have been that there was no Clan
Ma Gael conspiracy at all, and that another
motive altogether prompted the murderers.
II is possible that Sullivan got some
woman into trouble. That woman may |
have been relative Of Coughlin. Or. Gro
min became acquainted with the facts IN
the case. which were very damaging to the
ice man. The latter knowing the strict
moral and religious principles OF the Doc
tor and urged on by fear that the ply
sician would inform the authorities that
Sullivan was guilty of grave crime, made
the contract with the Doctor WHICH lured
him to his death. 1 cannot but think that
Woodruff story about woman has some
foundation in fact. The police ought
surely. it seems to me, to look up Sulli-
wants history of the lsst year and see II he
was not involved with some female.
: WOMAN IN II.
Chief Hubbard talked with an EUenfRg
NeOs reporter regarding the above quoted
remarks of the detective about a woman
in the case. yes" admitted the Ohiei,
1--WE have men working on that feature oI
the case. Sullivan is a bachelor, and IL Is
not at all unlikely that he got some
woman into trouble. If such IS the TACT,
we do not yet know whether there IS any
connection between the circumstance ana
the murder Of Dr. Gronin. 1t Is being
Thoroughly looked into"
"Do you put much faith in tY'
al do not"
starkey Maintains His Innocence
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