Morning journal and courier., 1889-10-29
NeWS Dv lelegrapn
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE MARINE CONFERENCE A Coed Attendance at Yes-
 terday's Session. & ns-
 THE HARLAN COUNTY WAR. TheHoward Gang Fleeing
 For Their Lives. MURDER IN BRIDGEPORT. Important Testimony in
 the CrOnin Case.
THE rnRonIn TRIAL.


 Was Taken Away on the Night of
 May 4-Her Identification Of the
 White HOrse-Dr. Cronin's Brother
 Tessiaes-Other Testimony.
 CHICAGO, Oct. 2S.-The brother of Dr. Cronin not responding to the call of the State this morning, Napier Moreland, an employe of Patrick Dinan, the liveryman, was called instead. He testified as to the fact of the hiring of the white horse on the evening of the 4th of May, when Dr. Cronin was killed. His evidence tallied very closely with that of Dinan's last Saturday, both as to the taking out of the horse and description of the man.
 The next witness was Mrs. Conklin, at whose house Dr. Cronin last lived. She de- scribed the location of the rooms in tho flat, and said that on the night of May at 7:2O p. m. stranger, who seemed nervous, rang the door bell and inquired for Dr. Cronin. He reluctantly took @ seat in the waiting room. and whom the doctor came into the room said: "Dr. Cronin, you are wanted to attend a man who has been hurt at O'Sulli- vans ice office."
 The doctor made remark which I did not hear. At that moment the man drew card from his pocket and presented it to the dec-  "Oh yes; what is the nature of the accidenta" He said, "A man has been run over by 8 waeon." The doctor said: "I will be with you soon." After burriedly gathering up some bandsges and his surgical instruments the doctor and the stranger left the house as fast as they could. I heard them running down the stairs.
 ing that she went to the window and saw Dr. Cfonin and the man who called for him get into buggy with white horse attached to 1t. The man seemed anxious to get away and drove northward.
 Mrs. Conklin then went on to give de- scription of the man who came for the doc tor, which tallied very closely with that giv- en by former witnesses of the man who hir- ed the white horse from Dinan. The wit of the day following Dr. Cronin's disappear anoe. In the morning she and her husband discovered the oard which the man had brought, that of O'Sullivan, the icepan. Mir. Conklin went to O'Sullivan's place at once, and that afternoon Pinkerton detec- tive brought O'Sullivan down to the Conklin flat. Mrs. Conklin then related her conversation with O'Sulli. van. She told in substance that she thought 1t very strange that e man who employed only thzee men and who had never had an accident should employ physician to be ready on call in case of such a happening; furthermore, that it was strange he should pass by hundreds of competent physicians who lived near by and go seven miles to ar range with Dr. Cronin, and it was strangest of all that very soon thereafter . man should appear with his (O'Sullivan's) card and take the doctor away presumably to his death.
 Mrs. Conklin's cross examination brought out the fact that within few days after the disappearance of Dr. Cronin Police Captain Schaack had brought Dinan's white horse and the buggy to her for identification and that she had failed at that time to identify the animal as the one which hauled the doctor away to the Carlson cottage. On May % when the animal was brought by reporter che identified 1t. Mrs. Conklin accounted for this by saying that the circumstances of weather and light and the angle at which she viewed the horse when brought by the cap tain were different from those under which she saw it when the man called for Dr: Gro min. Furthermore, when Captain Schaack brought the horse 1t was raining and the rain changed the horses color. In addition, the horse was driven beyond her house so that ! the buggy was between her and the animal. The cross-examination lasted until late in l the afternoon. Her statements on direct ex- animation were not materially shaken. Miss Sarah McNeauey, who was in Dr. Cronin's reception room when the man came
  l ing very nervous and with piercing stare. Her description of the man, the color of his moustache, of his coat, etc., accorded closely | with that given by Mrs. Conklin.
 | Dr. Cronin's brother from Arkansas wal l the next witAees and simply identified the Lake View corpse as that of his brother. Frank Scanlon gave evidence as to seeing Dr. Cronin drive of from his office in the white horse rig.
 T.T.Conklin, the saloon keeper with whom Dr. Cronin resided, was recalled by the State
 He testified to starting out immediately afte' breakfast the first morning of Cronin's ab
 sence to search for the doctor. At O'Sulli. van's house the foe man was seen and denied
 having sent for Cronin or that any of his mer had been hurt. Conklin then went to polio,
 headquarters, proceeding sfterward to th'
 East Chicago avenue police station. Captain
 Schaack at the station thought evening wa time enough for alarm. Conklln went a once to the Pinkertons. The saloon keeper
 was still on the witness stand when cour
 adjourned.