The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-09-11
ceoMlM MURDER CHRONOLOGY.

cRoNlN MURDER CHRONOLOGY.
The Crime ssA Osas ~ Eveasa Bseh nsssre
asa Amer Ne.
Briefly summarized, the principal events
iu the remarkable Cronin murder case, for
which Ave men are now ON trial In Chica-
10, stand ~ follows:
February ia room il hired ny ~. d.
simmons" at No. III Clark street. directly
opposite Cronin's office, whence the doc-
tor's every movement could he watched.
February H-ssSimmOns', buys furniture
aud q trunk, which are takent 10 his room.
March 10-@Simmons'' room L. found
u~noccupied and all his furniture taken
away.
March S-Frank Williams, Thought to
ms j. b. Simmons, hires a little house in
Lakeview from the Carlsons.
April 29-P. O'Sullivan. ice dealer, living
near the Carlsons. has cards printed.
May 1-Sullivan makes n contract with
Cronin by which latter In to attend ice
dealers men one of those cards
May ECronin 1. sent for tn attend ono
Sa %'i by his n frisn ana y s-" nSxsa sssn S'i nis
friends make Inquiries, and reports are
received from various cities. that
insist that he has been made away with.
May. 5-A bloody trunk is found i'm
May ii:F. T. Woodruff is arrested for
DEMONSTRATING, and says that on the night
of May 4 he was hired TO take ~ trunk out
of Chicago, and that il contained the body
of n woman. He adds that DIR. Cronin
WA present when the body was X
away.
ing marks of a fearful crime, found in a
sewer i'm Lakcview.
May At is discovered that the house
in Lakcview hired bv Frank Williams was
tie scene of the murder. The trunk is
Identified as that bought i'm February by
]. b. Simmons. The furniture i'm the house
.-a. .1a. 0.s.svI ly lsr. M fla AM rna rtunrsa
and moved before March 10 from the
rooms on Clark street. Daniel Coughlin.
"a detective. is suspected OF completely, or
scent.
May 26-King. described by Woodruff
a. an accomplish, is captured I'm "a disor-
May 27-Scveral other suspects arc ar
rested, hut nothing new of Importance is
discharged; not the King wanted.
May 2s-Coughlin, Sullivan and Wood
ruff indicted for murder.
Jnne m-Aiexander Sullivan. Maroney
leased ON bail June IA.
June Is Burke arrested in Winnipeg,
and Maroncy and Mcdonald liberated.
june II; +. Bcggs of the Clan-na-
June .29-Danicl Coughlin. John F.
Beggs, Frank Woodruff John Kunze;
Patrick ooney Indicted by Especial grand
jury, Alexandc Sullivan not indicted.
alleged meeting Of Camp 20. CIan-na-Gaci.
when TN. "rsinovaf' of DIR. tronin was
July :D-Burkc's cxtradition papers
signed i'm Winnipeg. August 3 officers
start with him for Chicago. arrive on the
6th.
August . Burke arraiened. pleads not
guilty. Cnughlin, Bcggs. Woodruff,
kunzc and O'Sullivan had entered SINH
lar pleas July ~.
August a6~Thc trial opens. Counsel
for the prisoners move for separate trials.
developing the probable policy of the de
it's strength by rrsorting to all known
legal obstacles.
August ga leading witness against
Burke assaulted and nearly killed. Al
legged attempts at bribinR Witnesses for
The defense are also reported.
The plan of the prosecution may tx, out
First That Alexander Sullivan and his
Irish Nationalist colleagues are dcfaiilters
to- the lrish.Amcrican fund I" the extent
S~econd-That the late DIR. Cronin had
taken steps To expose their shortcomings
and to defeat their Threatened expose. Mr..
Sullivan and those Interested with him,
.:Snrs;ns an ,ha agitation ~. Mns ;'E Er;,isb s Ss; 'r""''''
Fourth-Tlat this agitation took thu.
form of a. conspiracy. from which DIR:
treason to the Irish cause by the Nortl,
Side Camp of the Clan-na-t;ael, tai which
DIR. CrOuin belonged.
Fifth-1hath he was '.rcnnovcd" as "a CON
sequence of such conviction.
Sixth-That DIR. Cronin was not a Brit.
ish spy. but was made To appear so 10y the
false testimony of his former friends.
Seventll-Tha the camp of the Clan-tla-
Gael tn which he belonged selected seven
men ny secret ballot, charged with the
duty of '~'reInoving" him.
E~ighth-That he was accordingly 'rt.
movCtl'' i'm the manner already exposed
Foreign Nvts, of Iuterrst,
The Japanese are learning how To ea,
una.nf In 1SSl only .AlIO head of lalIlt