Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-05-25

the date or contents of the note, but it is
supposed to relate to the renting OF the
house.
The police officials appear to think to-
night that Cronin's assasslns may have
initiated ''Boodler" McGarigle's famous
escape up Lake Michigan. 1t Is said
that men we're noticed early on the Sun
day morning following Cronin's disap- |
pearance in a row-boat on the lake, max |
ing for the North Pier. They were
heading almost in straight line from
the beach in Lincoln Park, near where
the prisoner, Woodruff, said halt had
been made with the mysterious trunk.
Since that night row-boat has been
missing from an establishment close by.
The suburban police have always de-
clared that there were three men seen IN
the wagon supposed to contain the mys-
terious trunk. Woodruff, from the first,
talked of two others besides himself.
The police are very anxious to hear from
the missing boat. ,5
| In the vacant cottage where the blood
stains were discovered, and the place,
which the police had already decided
was the scene of the murder of DR.. Gro
min, there was found by a detective TO-
night brand new key. The officers de-
cided at once to try it in the lock OF the
mysterious trunk, found by the roadside,
the morning after Cronin disappeared
The KEY fitted exactly. All doubt now
about the genuine connection between
the prisoner Woodruff and the doctors
dead body, the trunk and the bloou,,
stained cottage, has been put beyond
question.
DIR. Cronin's remains will be taken to-
morrow to one of the large public halls on
the Lake front where all who desire may
gaze on the CHASTITY corpse. Sunday
there will be street procession from the
hall to the cathedral. After the services
the remains will go by train to Calvary
Cemetery. Fifty cents will be charged to
each person going to the cemetery, an
amount, which it is estimated, will mel
. the Com mittee of Arrangements thirty
five cents on each fare. The sum thus
raised, it is announced, will be devoted
: to the discovery and prosecution OF the
doctors murderers.
The Carlson cottage has been thor
oughly ransacked. A new brush, such
as painters ordinarily use in coarst
, work, was found in the attic. Its hairs
we're smeared with paint similar to thai
, with which the blood stains had beer
partially obliterated. In the attic waf
l found q pot containing quantity of the
same sort of paint. The indications
are that the painting had been don't
some time after the killing, possibly in
volving a return to the house by thu
murderers or their accomplices after th'
i paint had dried. The son in-law o
i. old man Carlson said that the cottag
8 was rented in March and the rent paid IL
/: advance. The man who brought tn
I bed, bureau and some of the rues to tn
s house told Mrs. Carlson that his els
g ter was in the hospital sick, and that
9 before moving in, he would wait until sh
was able to leave the institution. Alter
g wards he came back with another man
? They informed the Carlsons that the
j were brothers and that their name wa
e Williams. When the month was up, o.
t the goth of April, they cam
: around and paid another month
q rent, saying that their siste
d was still sick. The old folks becam
r suspicious after this, and determined ths
i there was something wrong, and decide
s not to let the men have the house afte
o this month. A singular thing is tina
last Thursday, another man who had M
: been seen before came to the house
r pay third months rent. Mrs. Carso
e refused to re.rent the house, saying ths
q they proposed to sell it. The man sal
8 he would return next day to take tt
y furniture away. He did not come for tt
g furniture next day, and it is in the hous
: vet