The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-05-31

Ctvoos 9u0y 8T0 toklnB taCu9, C0n0lG004,
and theories prior to his disappsarancs.
They point to the accepted facts that Dr..
Cronin and his friends anticipated that be
would be killed. The apprehension was
induced because he had been engaged for
years in . relentless pursuit Of others
charged with a certain ofIense. That
ofSense was the misappropriation Of money
collected BY the Irisi, people for the Irish
His endeavors were directed largely
against one man. He wa using every
means ct his command to ruin and dis
credit that man among his fellow Irish.
men. These a-priori facts In the minds Of
these friends Of Cronin indicats to them
what was done with him, why it was done.
and the men who did 1t. But circumstan.
t!al evidence may be fatally misleading.
DIR. Cronin had been for years the per-
sonal and political-Irish political-enemy
Of Alexander Sullivan of Chicago, ex-
president Of the Land League. He had ut
one time accused Sullivan Of the mlsappro-
priatton of Irish funds to the amount Of
about *SO,OOO. Sullivan was tried In tho
Clan-na-Gael for this alleged offense and
acquitted. Cronin presided at that trial.
The acquittal Of Sullivan did not satisfy
either Cronin or Sullivan. They went at
each other again. Cronin was forced to
the wall. He was found guilty of treason
to the Irish cause.
But time brought swift changes. Cronin
recovered himself and rallied his friends.
He was reinstated in the Clan-na-Gael.
The charge of treason was wiped out. He
resumed his relentless pursuit of Sullivan
with an ardor intensified by the bitterness
of his experience. By an accident of
business the Traders bank of Chicago
failed. 1t was at this bank that Mr.. Sulli-
van did business. The books fell into the
hands of a bailiff named Mortimer Seaman.
He found. it is said, that, or at about the
time Sullivan was accused Of having APP
propriated the Irish funds, he had de-
posted $4,000 to his personal credit.
mans friends now hold out an intimation
that Cronin had acquired other proofs
against Sullivan. All of these proofs he
had promised to submit to a meeting of the
Irish National league to take place at
Philadelphia in June.
A trial is now in progress in London
which has tor its object the connection Of
Far. ell with the Irish secret or ,lssassina-
ton societies. There is no prospect that
it will sue eed. There is rumor that some
of the friends of Mr.. Sullivan say that this
So 1000 was paid to Parnell for use in
those societies. They say that this being
the fact, the trial being in progress, Mr..
Sullivan cant.ot disclose what he did with
this money. 1t would, they say, supply
the British G .vernment with the missing
link o: evidence.
Among the o.s is ore to this effect:
When lie Caron was testifying in the Par
nell trial lie was asked the names of the
other spies besides himself. These names
that We're asked for were the names of
II.iSlnnaO i'm film ~, ,,lnty of <la t,,s%s,I, ,..,
mn to inform upon their fellow
countrymen. lie Caron expostulated
against naming them, saying il he did so
they would be killed. 1t was. then agreed
that lie should submit u list OF these
names to the court and Queens
counsel. This was done. From no
IL knows where, impalpahle, unsus-
tanned, startling. the statement has gone
forth that the name of DR.. Cronin was on
this list of British spies. The story carries
with it the statement that Cronin's duty
was to spy IL, on the financial methods Of
the Irish societies and incidentally to create
doubt and suspicion concerning the proper
disposition of the money raised. An ac-
ceptance of this belief would make Mr..
Sullivan a martyr to the Vaccinations Of
n British spy.
At any rate this story that Cronin was
a spy is atioat. He might nave been q
spy. If he was..a spy and was found to
he one, it became the duty of patriot Irish
men to sremove'' him. That, at all
events, if understood to he their belief.
There is provision, it is said, for just
such emergencies in the constitutions of
the Irish societies. "Remove'' means
kill, abduct, assassinate-anything to put
a man out "f the way. 1t might lie that
he was killed because he was indeed an
informer. Or, it might be that i'll order
to secure his removal this story about
his being a spy was fabricated and launched
upon the sen of ruimor.
1t might be that Cronin was not q spy
but that the men men who killed him be-
lieved that he was. They might have
been deceived.
There are very few people in CHICAGO who
believe that Alexander Sullivan was in any
way connected with the taking off OF Dr.
Cronin. Being asked by IL reporter if he
that he was interested in the exposure Of
tho alleged misappliance of about $4,000
OF the league funds. which it is said that
Dr. cronin Threatened. Il know nothing
about those rumors.s he replied. that
If u properly authorized investigating
committees should examine into the mat
ter 1t will be found that there is MOTH
ing Whatever to conceal, and that no Irish
organization has any interest in any such
ccoun As to DIR. Cronin's murder. I
hoped and believed that his disappearance
was the result Of his being sent away on a
mission or errand somewhere. and now
that 1t has been proven that he was MUIR
dered. l am greatly shocked, as all good
citizens must be, and. Of course, / regret It
deeply"
HOW H MURDERED MAN VAS DEcoYED
RoM HOME.
DIR. CrQnin has been n resident Of Chica-
from st. Louis with Mr.. and Mrs. I. r.
Conklin. with whom he was living at the
time he was decoyed away. Cronin had
made his home with the Conklins for the
past ten years. His rooms in the Conklin
residence. at 40 North. Clark street, were
luXuriously furnished.
On the evening OF May 4 a stranger drove
up to DR.. Cronin's office and asked Mrs.
onklin II the Doctor was in. She replied
i'll the affirmative. He then handed Mrs.
Conklin n of o. T. Sullivan's business
cards and said that one of Mr.. Sullivan's
men had been injured. In a few moments
DIR. Ciontn n the stranger drove away.
ttty OF medicated cotton. T,at was the last
seen of him alive.
sunday: Mny s. Alderman Maxwell
found u bloody trunk at the junction Of
Snlzer street and Evanston avenue. Just
nfne-tenths of d, mile south OF where the
body OF DIR. Cronin was discovered.
The Doctor was murdered and taken in
nd on the way buck to the city the trunk
Was dumped off.
DakOta's Fertility.
Two Western men happened to meet