The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-09-26

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Prem she Chicago Tribune.
An e~x-bctectivc who mo lonGc Wishes
IN be quoscd by name has n delightful
homo on the North Side, waters his
0owers morning and afternoon, and plays
With his children i'm the evening.
called upon him the other day and
murder of Cronin which differed from
many TINT have already been given and
printed.
He replied: ..Noue that I could give you
without trouble tn myself. There Ia no
doubt Cronin WA murdered. / do not he
lieve therr is any further doubt as Ia why
he was murdered. The question remain
ing tn he solved is, who is the guilty man
III do not know IL. hat ! uppos that
convicted on circumstantial evidence. i
had N case once-that is To say. l was in
scrcsted i'm q casc-in which the circ,m-
stantial evidence against the accused was
strong, hut the man is still living. and the
last I heard of him he was "a commercial
"r ~, II = a IN si with sia, When e. S the earlier set
dcrpole 4 Field were bankers i'm Manis-
member NJ the firm and a married
man. Field was the moncyed man
of the concern. One Monday morning
revealed the fact that Field could nowhcr.
he found. v~andcrpole was at his house.
and when informed that the hank had mot
been opened expressed all the surpriss. Of
am innocent man. He came tai the bank
and opened il. I'm the private office the
discovery was made. that q piect. had been
of u starter, hut i'm trying to learn why II
had been done some one dropped an Incl
dental remark tn the effect that the menu
hers Of the firm had been quarrcling
about their business affairs, and that
Vanderpole had been trying to get the up
per hand.
"a search Of the basement of the hank
resulted i'm the finding OF u hatchet. IL
was blood stained. yandcrpolc explained
accident. and he had taken him into the
room to perform some kind of am opera
ton ON him. This stained the carpet. and
thrown the hatchet into the basement.
this Vanderpolc was arrested.
About q week from that time the body
Of Field washed ashore near the mouth. Of
the river. The nature Of the injuries
on his head was such as to
cause the suspicion that they had been i'm
tied around the body and a moose i'm Il
showed that some heavy substance had
S Sss5n 6sima sS - H,nc the b i% the """"'' tho
"The theory was that he murder had
been committed Sunday and the body
dropped in the water, and that the murder
was done with the h~atchet. Vanderpole
made n statement i'm which he accounted
sss,cttIatteIy - HiS WiterNtitthptitS every tlhln-
ute Sunday not one of which had been
passed ut the bank. To make this state
ment stronger IL had some confederation.
"He was, however. found guilty and was
remanded for sentence, as / remember IL
now. The usual motion for u new trial
was argued and granted. A change of
venue to another county was made, and
the result of that trial was that he received
n p~enitentiary sentence. Mr.. Van Arman
OF Chicago. who was then the leading law:
yer Of our criminal bar, was sent for and
habeas corpus proceedings followed.
Vanderpole was taken from prison and
had n thirl trial. On this he was released.
General Cutcheon, now member of COLI
gress from Manistee district, was then
prosecuting attorney. / never hear detcc-
tives and lawyers talk about circInstan-
tial evidence that I DONE recall this trial
and it's result"