The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-13
THE CR0NIN CASE
Assuming Much Larger Proportions.
Tho Speculations as to His Prob
able Whereabouts
Cause Irish Nationalist to Unto
and Rush to tho Defense
or the Unfortunate and Absent
Doctors Moral Character.
That He is Connected with Lo Caron
in that Spy's Efforts to Weaken
Parnolrs Case Is Denied by
Irish sympathisers.

NEw YoRK, May l2.-Thc Morning
Journal has Il following
The feeling among Irish Nationalist in
this city over the mysterious disappear.
anco OF DIR. j, II. Cronin, of Chicago,
grows deeper from day TO day. The be-
lief that the doctor was murdered finds
many more believers now than when the
news first came, and the persistent insinu-
atoms tclcgraphed from Chicago on the
the authority OF unnamed persons, that
Cronin wasa British spy, ARE regarded
by some "a omanating FROM those respon.
sihlc for his disappearance.
\ conference OF leading Irish National
lists was held at the residence Of one OF the
number for the purpose OF taking steps 20
countcract the effects OF what they term
IN organized system OF misrcprcsenla-
ton" regarding the circumstances Of the
doctors disappearance, in which they
charge that some Chicago correspondents
are nling u helping hand The follow
ing letter, written to one Of those present
by John +. Seaman, Of Chicago, was
read:
"With the terrible fact staring Va in the
face that Cronin was decoycd away and
the firm conviction that he is dead, our
friends are met on the streets los the gang
whose faces are wrrnthcd not in SMILES
but In lean, and who offer TO bet that he
will turn M all right lie Is of ON
spree, they ay. 1T isa love affair lie
W,u u companion ol LcCaron.' lie Is
In Ia
aud ~ ON al libitum. IL u lies. lies,
lies, aud every morning are met by
now batch Of them In the
newspapers. You know, as We here do.
that Cronin never went on a spree, that
his moral character was good, that hc was
not a friend OF companion oi lcCaron. but
that. on the contrary, LcCafon was one Of
tho very gang who are now circulating
these stories, aud that they alone are re-
spon-iblc tot the spy But everybody
does not know this, and some tools OF tho
| gang On the press uto working might aud
! main TO deceive the public. Tho conac-
qucnce Is that u lnrgc portion OF the pub
lir 40 not look nj lhc serious side of the
case, and regard il as Joke"
Letters from other we'll known ffishmcn
I In various paris Of tho country, much 90
the same pufpori, wcru also read aud
committee appointed 10 prepare a state.
mcnt ~ the case which would enable the
public 10 SOC the Necessity Of probing the
matter TO the bottom. II was freely slaiud
that ihc developments In the Cronin case
would result IN exposing one Of the holdcst
aud most startling crimes oi the century.
THE bursting Of the Toronto bubble"
said un old friend Of Cunin Yesterday,
gives az most valuable clcW, and win
be uf material aid IN thc Chicago police.
Stnfkcy's pursuit OF Crunin Tor several
years IN the interest Of the doctors deadly
enemy aud his relations with lawyers em-
pl0yci IN defending crooks aud gamblers
ap known ~ ~ many Chicago people 10
allow the iull significance IT his Toronto
performance a. 10 misunderstood. The
circle 81 ut last narrowing aud VI the Chi.
cngu police 10 their fall duty. am salts.
ncl q murder will bcpro,cd and the mur.
ducr, arrested
A runor WIS current in this city last
evening that certain man described M a
thug. aud who has been lof long time
under suspicion Of being British
spy, las not been seen for some
weeks around bis usual haunis
A man described o. resembling him
has, 10 is said, been seen among DE-.
Cfunin's worst enemies In Chicago within
ten DAYS. Chicago lrishmun have been
urged 10 hunt him up and put tho police
on his track.