The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-28
MURDER WILL OUT.
New Developments in the Cele-
brated DR.. Cronin Case.
OFFICER CoUGHLIN UNDER ARREST
The Warrant is Sworn Out by Brother of the
Murdered Man-What Mrs. LOmasney
Says-Niners' Riots.

CHICAGO, May 25.-The air today has
been filed with rumors of important de-
velopments,- arrests, etc, in connection
with the Cronin case, but with one or two ex-
ceptions it was next to impossible to con-
firm or disprove them, owing to the ex-
IRENE reticence of the police authorities, al
though the police to-day denied that P. o.
Sullivan. the ice dealer, whose name has
been connected with this mysterious case
from the first, had been arrested. 1t is as
serted this evening that he has not been
seen about his home or place
of business all day. Although some
of the police officials to-day de-
MED that Mcclellan, the man
who, it is asserted, came here from Phila-
delphia to laid in the removal" of Dr.
Cronin, is under arrest, there seems no
doubt they have him in charge and that i'm
portant evidence of some nature has been
secured against him. This afternoon Harry
Jordan, the man who came from Phila-
delphia some time ago, and who is said to
have been an intimate friend of McGeehan's,
was placed under arrest, to be held as a
witness. 1t is suspected he knows some
thing of McGeehan's movements that may
prove of value He is said to have belonged
posed to Cronin, and it is charged that he
had frequently denounced the doctor in
public.
Detective Dan Coughlin is guarded with
the utmost secrecy, no one being allowed
to converse with him without an order
from the mayor or superintendent of police
His partner, Detective Whalen, who ac-
companied Coughlin in his search for the
man for whom Coughlin hired the horse on
low A cd
pending an investigation The report that
Turner, one OF the employees of Sullivan,
the ice man, had disappeared is denied in
an evening paper which asserts that one
of its reporters saw him to-day. The man
w. L. King who is under arrest, does not
answer the description of the man of that
name who, Woodruff says, took part in the
removal of the trunk on the night of
Cronin's disappearance, and though he Is
something of a sporting man the police
don't believe he is the man wanted.
Luke Dillon, who came here from Phila-
delphia to assist in ferreting out the murd-
erers, says ne has received telegram say
ing that the Clan-na-Gael of Philadelphia
has sent him 81, 600 to forward the work
Woodruff was to-day shown a picture of
the man King, now under arrest, but did
not identify it. The opinion gains ground
that Woodruff's first story was not true
one.
1t is learned that Coughlin was today
subjected to severe course in the sweat
box" He is said to be one of the bright
est officers on the force and was one of
Captain Schaack's best men during the
time of the Anarchist trouble. The out
come OF the pumping process would be
matter of interest, but the police refuse to
talk. N0one was allowed 20 see. Cougfiin
all day, not even an attorney who had
been hired by his friends The Young man
King, arrested on the strength of Wood
rufus story, was released this evening. the
police believing him all right.
The story to the effect that Mcclellan
was the man who called for and drove
Cronin away was exploded tonight by a
positive statement from friend of Cronin
who saw the two men in the buggy, that
was not the man.
There was sensational and rather I'm
development in the Cronin case at
l0:40 tonight when Detective Daniel
Caughlin was formally arrested in the
police station cell where he has been de-
tanned on suspicion. An examination by
justice was held Immediately within the
stone walls of the dungeon. A few mo
ments later the magistrate ordered a com
and Coughlin was hurried out on
his way to the county jail. The warrant
was sworn out by John Cronin, brother
of the dead doctor. Coughlin is charged
directly with the murder.
AT a late hour this evening the police
admit that P. o. Sullivan, policeman, is
under arrest, but refuse to say where
he is confined or whether any facts which
seem to be evidence against him have been
secured. l alter it is learned that Detective
Coughlin was arrested on the charge of
murder, not because of any new evidence
that had been procured, but because his
attorney was attempting to get him out of
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