The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1889-05-28

/ We're other lrishmen in the condemned lis,.
/ and tbe} would have al shared CrOnIn' :
fate nan the chance TO dispose of them
I safely risen 1t Is asserted that W J
| Hyne-, an attorney. Father Gleason. Capt
! j. p. O'Conner. John Dewey and two others
hsd been tried and convicted and their
death sentence signed"
| The police claim to be tightening the
chain OF evidence against Peter McGeeha an.
the man under arrest charged with partici
patton in Cr0niDs assassination. This
morning a real estate agent Identified him
as the man who rented a room opposite
Cronin's Office. The furniture found in the
cottage where CTonin was murdered was
/ hrst taken 20 this ROOM McGeehan was
not at his boarding place on the night of
| the murder and cannot give an account OF
himself at that time. IL Is charged he had
threatened TO remove" CrOnn.
QUEER CoINCIDEScEs
An extraordinary chain of circumstances
in connection with the Cronin case was
brOnght 70 light yesterday. Young Miss
Murphy, who declares she saw DIR. Cronin
coming down town several hours after he
left home on the night of his disappear
ance, is the daughter of saloon keeper in
whose place it is said an attempt was made
TO arrest CrOntn for connection with
Murpsy NJ alleged sG@an ssa repSI,sR ssTsRe Miss Is
a relative of Detective Whalen.
the partner of the suspected officer, Cough
lin- Street Car Conductor Dwyer. who
corroborsted the story that Crontn was
seen coming down town and presumably
took the train out OF the city. Is said to
have resigned his position and disappeared.
An eN-street car nan named Tiernan,
whose whereabouts AlnnOt be located. has
recently been IN the employ of ice dealer
Sullivan. IL was one of the cards of this
ice man that played such part in Cronin's
death.
Another arrest has been made in connec-
ttOn with the case. The man King, de-
scribed by prisoner Woodruff as the person
who hired him TO steal a horse the night of
DIR. Croain's disappearance. was captured
yesterday In house of ill-fame. The ar
rest was made with great secrecy. In |
number of particulars King answers the |
description given of him by Woodruff II |
Is somewhat of u mystery why King has /
not been arrested before, as . is understood /
from the officers that he has at no time an.
parently manifested a desire to leave the
city.
THE "sMITH" MYSTERY.
If Willard J. Smith tells a true story,
Detective CoughlIo's "UnEnown Smith,"
the man for whom he says he hired horse
on the night OF Cronin's disappea arance, is
more than ever q mystery, At sOcialistic
meeting at Waverly hall yesterday re-
porter was approached by an acquaintance
and Smith was the man pointed Gus as i'm
piicated IN COughlin's story. The reporter
accosted Smith, and the latter said he
did not know anything about the
white horse. He is going 10 see
Chief of Police Hubbard about the story,
as he wants the chief 70 know he had moth
ing to do with CrOnin's disappearance.
Smith says he came here from Hancock,
Mich, three years ago. He knew Cough
lin in that city, end Intended several times
To look him up, but ne yer did so until last
Tuesday, when, happening 10 pass the
East Chicago Avenue station, he went in
and TALKED with Coughlin. He saw him
again last Wednesday afternoon, accident
ally meeting him on LaSalle street, and
has not heard of him since.
Smith is at present employed by a real
estate Office here, and he refuses 10 give his
previous to entering his present
position That he knew COughlin he admits
and that he was twice with the detective
preceding the latter's asser-
ton made on Friday, that the man for
whom he engaged a horse was "Tom
smith," formerly of Hancock, Michigan,
who had since gone to New Mexico.
Smith says he has no relatives in the city
and no brother. He does not know anyone
Dv the name of Tom Smith in Hancock.
Smiths friends assert that Coughlin finds |
{ necessary To invent a namet tor the un-
known buggy driver. He chanced TO think
# his newly found friend and afterwards,
% carry out the story, gave the mysterious
Individual not only the name, but the
Ormer whole address Os his friend.