Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-05-25

THAT THE DOCTOR WAS LUREp To HIS DEATH
BY THE DETECTIVES TRIEND"-rHE STABLE
MANS STORY OF THE wHIrK HORSE AND BUGGY.
CHICAGO. May 25-The Tir.os this morning
says: The Times within the last twenty-four
hours has come into possession OF a most inn
portant and most startling chain Of facts. Tie
white horse and the buggy, which carried the
man who lured DIR. Cronin 20 his death. have
been discovered, and the man who ordered
this rig, according 20 the story Of tho
livery stable keeper. is a detective in the
employ OF the Chicago police force. and his
name is Daniel COughlin. ON the morning os
saturday, May 4, Coughlin called at the livery
stable OF Patrick Dinan. at go North Clark
street, and gave notice that friend" would
call about Z o'clock that evening and that he
was TO be given horse and buggy. That
evening man called. given the white
horse and buggy and about 7:l5 O'Clock the
man left the stable with the rig and drove
north on Clark street. According TO Frank
Scanlon II was five minutes thereafter when
the stranger drove TO 470 North Clark street.
and informed DIR. Cronin that he
WAS WANTED AT sULLIvAN's IcE-HorsE
Oman says the man asked for buggy with
side curtains, but he had none 20 give him.
The white horse and the buggy were returned
to the stable by Coughlins friend at $50, or
just two hours and fifteen minutes after they
had been hired Mr.. Dinan describes the man
as being about thlrty-five years of age. and OF
ordinary height and build. He had a weeks
growth of beard on his face and wore a soft
fclt hat with a narrow turned up brm. Mr..
Dlnan says he thought nothing more of the
matter until Monday morning, when the papers
began to publish Dr. Cronin's my sterious dis
appearance and the peculiar connection of a
white horse and a buggy with the sensation.
Then he became suspicious OF the trip his own
white horse made under the guide of Detective
4 a ~, ...E-s
East Chicagot ot,venueb btation.to tell Capt. Schaak
of the curious coincidence. He found Detec-
tive Coughlin who took him aside and
! CAUTIONED HIM NOT To ANYrHINa
about the affair of Saturday night. because, not
being on good terms with DIR. Cronin. some
people might think he had something TO do
with the disappearance. Mr.. Dinan was still
uneasy. He told Captain Schaak his story and
insisted that full report be made TO Chief
Hubbard But becoming suspicious that the
report had not been made he called on the
chief himself The matter is being investigated.
and Chief Hubbard said last night that unless
| Coughlin could make a satisfactory explanation
he would lock him up
| DIR. CRoNIS's SERIOUS CHARGES.
The charges that Dr. Cronin and his friends
made against Alexander sullivan. Michael Boil
land and Denis {. Feely, the triumyirate that
acted a board of directors for the United
are stronger Inan mere emDCZ-
| Element OF funds and malfeasancc in Office.
| There was charge not long ago brought
| against the members of TINS board that thew
had not only Incorporated large sums OF
| the money subscribed for the good of the Irish
national movement IN the old country. butal
| that they or some of them. either Intentionally
! or otherwise. allowed secrets of the order 70
| escape them, resulting in the imprisonment of
| several emissaries of the Clan -Na-Ciael and the
| death of two on British soil.
| The charges said 20 have been based
| merely on suspicion. but DIR. Cronn was said
| to have been very active in the accumulation
| of testimony calculated to corroborate these
| suspicious.
| In addition to this and more sensational than
| all Is the undoubted fact that IN the possession
of DIR. Cronin was an affidavit made by a we'll
| known lrish-American that he heard one of
| the parties interested in these and other dis
| closures say that DIR. Cronin must be put out
OF the way. The name of the man who made
this statement is in the possession of the state
attorney and warrant for his arrest may be
| looked for at any moment.
THE MHK-DEALERs STORY.
William Mertes, a milk dealer. who lives on
\ Woodside avenue near Addison, tells a story,
| which, III view of the fact that il has been def
| initely settled that Dr. Cronin was murdered
/ IN Carlson cottage. has an important bearing
on the investigation. Two weeks ago last sun
| day night between $50 and 3 O'Clock Mertes
1
| OF Ashland avenue and Otto street, which is
| only a short distance south of the Carlson cot
I tage. As he neared the Carlson cottage a
| buggy containing two men drove up to tho
| side of the ditch. One of the men. whom
! Mertes describes tall and apparently ath-
| letic man sprang from the buggy and ran up
| the front stairs of the cottage, the door OF
which was thrown open before he even knocked
| for admission. Scarcely had the door closed
| again when he heard the sound of loud and
1 81 M
| the buggy then whipped his horse into a gallon,
drove to Addison avenue, and then turned IA
! the direction of the lake. Mertes was unable
to describe the man in the buggy, as his face
| was partly concealed by the brIm of a soft hat.
! He thinks the horse was light sorreL
THE MURDERERs NOT RESIDENTS OF CHICAGO.
The Herald this morning saws: Yesterdays
developments given point to the belief
that the murderers are no: and may never
have been rsaldents of Chicago. On the con-
| trary there Is some reason TO suppose that
his slayers crossed the water from England
with designs on his life, and that. as soon as
| they completed their work they made their
| escape. Ii will be remembered that one f. J.
Kirby, native of Canada. came to Chicago last
year from London, England. on a secret mission
for the London Times. Kirby knew Cronin
when he lived at ST. GATHERINGS. Ont: when ho
came to Chicago he renewed his acquaintance
with the doctor. Ii Is known that the two met
spy work for the London Times The connec-
tion is suggestive 10 say the least. When the
British spy Lecaron was on the witness stand in
the Parnell ease he refused to give the names
of his American accomplices on the ground that
| it would be much as their lives were worth
| to be known. Lecaron was ordered by tho
bench, however, to furnish the name or names
privately TO the prosecuting council which he
did Might il not be that detachment of tho
band that followed Carey to his death followed
Cronin TO his cruel fateg
STUPIDITY If NOTHING WORSE
Further investigation into the hiring of the
white horse by Detective Coughlin only adds
to the evidence of the stupidity if nothing
worse with which the case has been handled by
some of the police officials.
Capt. Setback, under whose orders Detective
Coughlin acts, says that when the livery stable
keeper told him the story be at once
called Coughlin to account: that Coughlin
| told him that he had hired the
rig for friend of his who lived in Northern
Michigan, near where Coughlin's people live
and who had come to Chicago to see the sights.
CAPT. sCHAACK SAYS
that he then directed Detectives Coughlin and
Whalen to go out and find this man; that they
went out and soon afterward reported that
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