Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-06-07
A CELEBRATED CASE.
DR.. CNONIcs'S STRANGE DISAPPEAR.
ANCE AND DEATH.


Friends of the Dead Man Openly Charge
That Deep Conspiracy Lodi to His MUIR
dcr-ChicagO Police Searching for tho
Assassins-NIan Theories.
There are more rumors about than de.
veiopements in the circumstances concern
ing the certainly brutal fate of DR.. z.
Il. cronln, says Chicago telegram OF
Friday, May 81 That he was
the victim of murderous band of
consplrators was not doubted. His brother,
Jonn j. Cronin, came here from Arkan-
sas, viewed the bloated corpse under the
trucking waters in the basement morgue
OF Lake View, and positively declar ed
that 1t was the remains of his brother.
Chlef Deputy Coroner Eckhardt will
mold the inquest. The jurors chosen by
him are: r. S. Twitchell, Justice Killian,
>. II. Vaz Duzen, H. A. Hangen, Victor
v. Sutler, aud Randolph Seifert. After
viewing the body the inquest was adj
Journed to Tuesday at ~ a. m.
Inc post-mortem examination of the re-
mains began at 2:45 O'Clock. 1t was con-
Quoted by County Physician Todd, DR.. F.
u. Porter, city physician of Lake View,
nd DR.. L. L. Gregory.
me doctors were occupied in making it
until o'clock They examined the broken
hnger, the teeth, and other marks of iden-
tlheation, and made record Of their OBJ
servations. They refused to say what the
result of the examination was, for the
reason, as they said, that they could not
disclote their information until it was put
i'll We possession Of the coro-
ner's \jury.
The police have done nothing to cast
light q the dark mystery. So far as
| capturing any one who might know any
thing OF the foul means adopted in con.
summatilg the removal" of Cronin, the
police have accomplished nothing. Indeed,
Cronln's friends are going to ignore the
Chicago police in the Investigations they
propose TO prosecute. Pinkerton detectives
held Surveillance over the only man put in
du:ance yesterday. He was the iceman.
P. o. Sullivan, one of the parties to the
contract which blinded tie eyes of the muir
dered physician to the tishiness of the story
under which he was decoyed from his office
to his fatA
States Attorney Longenecker talked
With Sullivan, and also w tn Justice
Mai:oney. who had helped Sullivan tc
make thai contract. Mahonev's state
ment was taken in detail by James NJ
Purcell, Official stenographer of the Grim
inal court; but, according to Mr.. Longe
necker, mol an atom of information wa
CLEANED thtt had not been detailed in tn,
press repbrts. The States attorney i
only hopeful that he may be able to un
earth the details of conspiracy, of tn,
existence of which there is no apparen
doubt.
The Fullerton national detective agenc,
| has several operatives at work. In ex
planatiot of their employment it was sal
that Crqhin's friends did not have entir
confidence in the city and Lake View de
tective brce. 1t is an established fact tina
many Of the city force are ardent Iris
Nationalist, and it is believed that man,
of them opposed the faction to whic
Cronin belonged.
MondI IS rapidly pouring into the fun
now being accumulated for the purpose
of Investigation, and the promoters of th
investigation say there will be $50, 90
easily raised for the cause. They appea
determined to go to bedrock for facts
and the result of their investigation
awaited with keen Impotence, as the gen
eral impression is that facts peculiarl
startling and sensational will be sprung.
The Rev. Father Dorney, pastor of ST
GabriePs church, who became famous il
the ''Times- Parnell'' case, discussed tn
Cronin mystery yesterday. During hi
talk with reporter he said: 81 hav'
formed no theory about this terrible mat
ter and must say that l have not hat
| time to keep myself posted 1t was ter
\ rible surprise to me. The theory that hi:
\ death was caused by his enemies in TIN
Irish movement is absurd. If there was {
semblance of truth i'll it am sure that my
connection with such affairs and my init
mate relationship with those prominent il
the Irish movement would have enabled
me to know something about it, 1t is alb
surd from the fact that all those who were
opposed to Cronin in such matters have
dropped out ana have ceased to take any
interest in 1t, leaving cronin andIhis friend
in control. To say that he was killed by
any one connected with an Irish society
would be to say that he has killed by hi
friends. ~
The possibility that the English govern
ment through its secret agents may have
had something to do with the Cronil
mystery is not being lost sight of. Irish
Americans generally, with this thought IL
view, have been closely watching develop
ments One well-posted gentleman said
Scotland yard has finger in every
Irish pie. It would be queer indeed if the
Cronin business proved the first exception
Improbable, you say-nou bit of it. WHO
would have believed beforehand for a mo
mcnt in the horrible truth about Pigott
There was an instance where, with the
funds of the British exchequer, the high
est Tory officials joined in far-reaching
cunningly devised plot to destroy the lrisf
movement by running the leader, Parnell
Forgery, perjury, absolutely no crime
necessary was stopped at. Parnell, bJ
whatever means, was to be shown up vir
tually an assassin, the confederate of the
Phoenix park murderers. Details were
4 wrought out with the utmost nicely. On
max followed climax in manner dramatic
beyond precedent, and slowly but surely
the coils frightened around the great leader
He was delivered only by an accident.
SNOW" said the speaker, warmly
sswho is the beneficiary in this Cronln bus
iness-who is the loser? Let it hurt o.
help what single person it may, the chic
gain, UNNECESSARILY, is to the Tory gov
ernment of England, the main harm, fal
exceeding the disgrace of any ndlvidua
is to the Irish national movement II
America.
"Let me tell you something peculiar AM
PERHAPS not q little significant. Inc ver1
date of Cronins disappearance was the an
niversary of the Phoenix park assassina .,
ton, the identical odious event WIN "I m..
it was sought to connect farnell. -! ~.