The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-11-22
THAT FAMOUS HORSE.
Was 1t White ! a speekIed
Gray is the Question
A TURN IN THE EVIDENCE
In Favor orthc Defense Ia the CronIn
TriaI-A Witness Who Could DE,
scribe the Horse, But Could Not
Dr, Cronln's Companion.

CHICAGO, Nov, 2l,-Patrick Dlnan
livery stable keeper and owner Of thu
famous white horse, was the first wit
ness in the Croniu case to-day, He ties
tilted that his horse was in dime mus
cum in this city, aud had been for three
weeks, This he said, was the same
horse he had let Coughlin's friend have
on the evening Of the murder,
Then Louis Budeubender, Of Hobo
ken, N, j., was called to the witness
chair. He testified that lie was a real
estate agent and that he had lived in
Hobokeu for tweuty.niRe years, with
the exception Of the period between
August 0, 1888, and May 81, 1880, when
he lived In Chicago. During that time
he lived near the Windsor theatre, iu
the fiat In which DR.. CrOnin lived with
tue COnklius. Gu the evening OF the
murder the witness was ia Jackrl's cigar
store, opposite Dr., Croniu's residence
After he had been there few minutes
he noticed the horse and buggy in from,
OF DR.. Oronin's office. II was an ordinary
sidu bar buggy, and had the top up.
The witness then continued: " saw
Or. Cronin, aud another man come from
the house and start to the buggy. The
driver started for the horse while the
doctor started toward the buggy. There
was some man on the sidewalk near the
house line, who called 10 DR.. Cronin and
attracted his attention, for the doctor
turned around, but still kept going
toward the buggy. Then thu driver
went to the horses head and unhitched
the horse, went " the buggy and got iu,
and sat on the west,side; then DR.. Gro.
nin got in. Then they shifted their
seats and this man got In front OF the
doctor and then they sat down and went
OIL" The witness also testified that Dr..
Cronin had what appeared TO be small
chest or box which might have con.
tanned his Instruments or medicine.
The witness was standing In the door OF
the cigar store looking at the horse for
about fifteen minutes and saw 1t before
the men CamO down, and all the Incl.
dents OF their departure.
"What was the color OF that horse ?"
asked the lawyer.
at was gray, u speckled gray, with
dark legs. The horse which saw yes.
terday ut the dime museum was not the
horse that drove DR.. CrOnin away and
did not resemble 1t. The horse saw
yesterday was white horse, but the
horse | saw take DR.. CrOnin away on
the night Of May Was u specified gray.
The legs OF the horse that took DR.. Uro-
min were dark, while the legs Of this
horse arc white"
CROSS EXAMINED.
The cross examination OF the witness
was then began and the first question
asked tho witness. after asccrtaining that
he left Chicago May 22, was whether the
iiuding Of the bsdy Of DR.. Cronin had
anything to do with his departure. Tit
witness Baid no and the counsel for tie
defense called upon the court TO protect
the witness from such questions. The
witness said that he lad known DR..
Cronin by sight for several months. Hu
could not say who pointed him out to
him. He could not describe how the
man was dressed who was talkingto DR..
CrOuin when he saw him.
Marshall ID. Ellwell, who took q de-
gree OF doctor Of medicine at the Rush
Medical College, and who Is now pro.
tessor OF law in the Northwestern Uni.
versity at Evanston, was the next wit
ness, He said he was also director Of
the Bureau Of Meteorolgy and had given
lectures on the subject Of micgoscopiCal
examinations since 1884. He was a fol.
low Of the general nIiCFUscopical society
Of London aud various other societies III
this country. To his knowledge there
was In the present state Of science no
means by which human hair could be
certainly distinguished from any other
hair, and thet0' is no way by which 1t
eau 10 scientifically asCertained that two
given specimens 0l hair came from the
same head. The witness also testified
that there was no difference in the
structure OF the hair Of different people
and that the microscope was Of no str.
vice In the examination OF the color OF
halr, but that on the other hand 1t was
misleading.
The testimony Of this witness was
continued at length aud was OF a
decidedly technical character.