St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-31
AWoMAN IN THE CASE
Another Theory to Account
for the Murder Of DR..
Cronin,
Il.
III ~
TO the Eject That Sullivan
il Had q Woman Scrape
81 ON Hand.
Er0nin Started to Prosecute
~ and Had to Be Re-
IT. moved.
.
Another Arrest That Is Con-
sidered Somewhat Inn
pOrtant.

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CHICAGO, May S0.-The police have
been making an active search for
CrOnin's clothes and medicine case, and
the thirty-two yards of ingram carpet
which was tackled on the floor of the
parlor in the Garrison cottage. Lieut..
Schuettler and his men went through
the ice mans house to-day, but did not
discover anything which could be used
as evidence. They looked under tine
carpets and ripped up the flooring in
one or two places, and searched every
room and closet in the dwelling. One
officer examined every possible hiding
place In the attic, and another looked
through the cellar. The barn and out
houses were also searched. Before
giving up the search, the officers will
look through all the catchbasins, and
under the sidewalks on School street
and Belmont avenue, and Ashland av-
enue to the river. The Daily News
this evening prints the following:
AN OLD DETECTIVE
at the city hall. who has been keeping
tab on the case pretty closely, was re-
viewing the evidence to-day. He said:
1.-THE three men now in Jail know all
about the murder and could give the
police the right clewS which would re-
suit in the arrest of the actual perpetra-
tors OF the crime. But these prisoners
can never be convicted Of murder on the
evidence the states attorney now has
in his possession. One Of them, there
fore. must squeal, and it will not be
C0ughlin. 1t lies between Sullivan and
Woodruff. The states attorney would
prefer to get the iceman's story, and I
think he would promise to let Sullivan
off easy if he gave the whole plot away.
1t he did give up everything think it
would be something like this: Cough
lin made all the arrangements in the
first place for the murder. He made
ont the plans. OF course he knew his
men before he approached them. 70
Sullivan he intrusted the work of fixing
up contract with Cronin. The hiring
OF horse and rig Coughlin attended to
himself. He first met Woodruff. whom
he knew to be crook and always ready
for
ANY SHADY TRANSACTION.
He did not c0nfde anything to him,
wanted some work done at an early
hour in the morning. Then he made
the dicker with Dinan about the rig.
! which his friend was to call for the
hight of May 4. The Williams brothers
did all their own work, the hiring of
the Carlson cottage and the buying of
the furniture. l think that, although
there were at least twenty persons in
the conspiracy, but two or three, be-
sides the actual murderers, knew that
Cronin's life was to be taken. "Will
the murdererS ever be brought to JUS
tIce?'' The chances are as FIVE to one
against the police. With the evidence
thus far obtained, there can be no con-
victions. It is not at all likely that the
men who committed the crime itself
did the actual declare in Chicago, or
even in the country. They had ample
after the report of finding the body. I
ANOTHER THEORY,
which, however, Is not as tenable as nv
first one. 1t may. have been that there
was no Clan-na-Gael conspiracy at all,
and that another motive altogether
prompted the murderers. It is possible
that Sullivan got some woman into
trouble. The woman may have been
relative of Coughlin. DR.. Cronin be-
came acquainted with the facts in the
case, which were very damaging to the
ice man. The latter, knowing the strict
religious principles of the doctor, and
urged on by fear that the physician
would inform the authorities that Sulli-
van was guilty Of a grave crime, made
the contract with the doctor which lured
him to his death. cannot but think
that WoodruH's story about woman
has some foundation in fact. The police
ought surety, it seems to me, to look up
Sullivan's history of the last year, and
see if he was not involved with some
female"
CHIEF HUBBARD
talked with an Evening News reporter
regarding the above quoted remarks of
the detective about woman in the
case. Eyes," admitted the chief, tive
have men working on that feature of
the murder. Sullivan is bachelor.
and it is not at all unlikely that he got
some woman into trouble. If such is
the fact, we do not know whether
there is any connection between the
circumstances and the murder of DIR.
Cronin. It is being thoroughly looked
into" 'Do you put much faith in it?"
Il do not" 1t is rumored that the po-
lice, i'll their further search to-day of
the cottage in which DR.. Cronin was
murdered,
FOUND A PICK
anu OIaoA Ao0 OvOios YlcSuHicu W nave
been the property of p. 0. Sullivan, the
ice dealer. The authorities are reticent
as to the result of tO-day's investiga-
ton, and refuse to affirm or deny this
rumor. The theory is advanced that it
was with these instruments that DR..
Gronin was SO fOuily murdered But
when it is remembered that a notable
discovery Of the pOSt-mOrtem examina-
ton was that the skull was in no place
fractured, this conjecture does
not appear reasonable. A prom
inent ice dealer stated to-
night that single blow from an Ice
pick, even though slightly admins
tered, would be sufficient to penetrate
/ the skull OF any living man. so sharp
/ and peculiar is the construction of
this instrument. The tools to-day dis
/ covered are understood to have been
+ Hidden partially under ground, and in
q rubbish heap in an out room or shed
adjoining the cottage. The greatest
+ Importance Is attached to this report.
as it is construed into browning evil
dence of ice dealer Sullivan's compile
ity in the murder.
= HAS HIRED A LAWYER.
THE statement will be printed to-
morrow that Alexander Sullivan has
. engaged A. S. Trude as counsel, and
/ that within the last three days the two
have held several long conferences.
"What about your retention by Alex
I ander Sullivan?'' was asked of MIR.
Trude to-day. ''Oh, l have known
I Alexander since he was reporter, and
/; have been consulted by him. He
knows nothing about this Cronin affair.
He did not believe he was dead, but
thought he bad disappeared for the pur-
pose of affecting the result in the
Philadelphia convention. This is
question of tail pulling" continued the
attorney. 'You see, every Irishman Is
trying to twist the British lions tail,
and in their ardor they get jealous and