St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-11
THE LAST OF ALLIE. !"
An Awful Night Ride, and
/ What the Driver Over
heard.
Much Light Of a Chastity Hue
Shed on the Cronin
Mystery.
The Body in the Trunk Was
That Of a Woman Spoken
Of as "Allie."
She Had Died Under an Oper-
alton Performed by DR..
CrOnin.

CHICAGO, May 1O.-The most start
ling information IN the mysterious case
OF the missing Irish-American, DR.. P.
H. Cronin, came out tonight. A bulle-
tin from the City Press association
issued this evening reads as follows:
'Frank G. Woodruff, the horse thief
arrested at Twelfth street has m ade
full confession. He sneaked a horse
and wagon out of Deans barn, 400
Webster avenue, early Sunday morn
ing and met DR.. Cronin, William King
and Dick Fairburn at the barn in the
rear of 528 North State street. A trunk
containing the body of woman
was placed in the wagon. Woo d.
ruff drove, King. and Fairburn rode
Woodruff left the body and his two
companions in Lincoln park and then
drove with the empty trunk to the place
on Evanston avenue where it was
found. From conversations between
Cronin. King and Fairburn which WOods
ruff overheard, he judged the body was
that of woman killed by an abortion,
perhaps performed by DR.. Cronin.
Thursday evening the Twelfth street
officers arrested young man who
was trying to sell white horse and
wagon in livery stable near the
police station. The young man offered
to part with the rig for the
sum of $40. and the suspicious of Foley,
the livery stable man were immedi-
ately aroused. He telephoned the
station and the horse trader was taken
into custody. He gave his name at the
swering the routine questions always
addressed to prisoners. his face
blanched, his hands began to tremble
and he fell IN dead faint. The officers
wondered at the time that their pris-
oner should appear SO much concerned,
J but the reason was apparent next morn
ing, when he sent for Capt O'Donneu
and said he had something to tell him.
He was taken into the captains office,
and, in the presence of several officers,
voluntarily
UNFOLDED THE STORY
Of his connection with the trunk mys-
tery, To-day policemen investigated
his story and found it cOrTObOrated by
many circumstances tending to show its
truthfulness. Brown said his real name
was Frank 6. Woodruff; that he was
working for Dean & Co., livery stable
keepers at 4O4 and 406 Webster avenue.
His story, told in his own words, is as
follows: "Wednesday night week
ago [ was in the Owl saloon on State
street, and met a man there that had
been very we'll acquainted with several
his real name, I think, is William III.
King, although when l first met him he
called himself Harry Bothworth. We
had number of drinks in the saloon
and then started together towards
Madison street. We exchanged
condolences, and among ether
things I told him that l was out
of money. l told him how l had lost
considerable money playing cards, a
great deal more than could afford, and
that wanted to secure something that
would pay me better than working in
Deans livery stable. He said to me:
Il can put you in the way of making
some money, and that easily, too" L
asked him what it was, but he said he
would not tell me then. but would later.
Just before we separated he said that
he would call me from the stable some
evening and tell me now we could
MAKE THE STUFF.
Saturday evening just at dusk. was
in the front part of the stable, when he
walked past and motioned to me. |
went out and walked down the street
horse and wagon out of the stable
without any one knowing it and told
me he would give me $25 if / would do
it. I told him I could and we agreed
upon place of meeting at 2 o'clock. l
went to bed as usual, about II o'clock,
in the room over the stable. but as soon
as the boys were asleep, l got out of
bed as noiselessly as l could and walked
down the stairway to the floor where
the horses were, carrying my shoes all
the way in my hands. l had taken
the precaution to leave the wagon out
doors in the alley in the rear be-
fore going to bed, SO all l had to
do was to get the horse out of the rear
door. chose the white horse, because
knew it was a good roadster. l muf-
fed its feet carefully and walked it out
over the sawdust, opened the rear doors,
and had it in the alley without making
the least noise. | found King waiting
for me at corner on State street. l
think it was the corner of Webster ave-
nue.. He got in with me and we drove
together to barn in the rear Of big
house on State street. We drove
I'D the alley between State and
Dearborn street to the barn doors.
King said very little to me while we |
were together in the wagon, but re-
member that he was smoking at the |
time and seemed very anxious about
As we wheeled up in front |
of the barn the door was pushed open |
by some one inside and two men came |
out. One was Dick Fairburn. know |
Dick quite we'll and have known him
fora number Of years. The other man,
l am SuresWaS
DIR. CRONIN.
Although it was quite dark at the |
time, had several opportunities to look
closely at his face. He had muStache
and little goatee and answers DR..
Cronin's description in every other way.
I never had seen DR.. Cronin to know
that it was he, and l did not hear any |
other men address him as Cronin. They |
called him Doc The three men went
into the barn together and returned with
a trunk. 1t seemed to be an ordinary |
trunk with leather or paper
covering. They lifted it into the
wagon and then climbed in. We drove
straight through the alley to the first
cross street, turned OH that, and then
went up Dearborn to the park. AS
soon as we reached the park we turned
into the Lake Shore drive and started
north. / kept the horse on run all
the time. / heard several expressions
in the. conversation between them, which
convinced me that there was
A BODY IN THE TRUNK.
In the first place, noticed that Gro
min was very anxious for us to hurry.
Two OF, three times he said Get out of
here, boys; get out of here quick and
each time Dick answered, That's all /
rights, that's all right, Doc; we'll hurry
up when we get started Noticed that
the trunk smelled as il there was de.