St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-29
FOR CRONIN's MURDER.
Coughlin. Sullivan and Black In.
dicted by the Grand Jury.


dicted by the Grand Jury.
CHICAGO, May 2S.-Detective Daniel
Coughlin, Patrick o. Sullivan, the ice
man, and Frank ]. Black, alias Wood
ruff, were indicted by the grand jury
this evening for the murder Of DR..
Cronin. This result was reached after
an investigation which began at noon
two dozen witnesses were examined
and mass of evidence considered. The
three prisoners we're included in one
Indictment, to which there were three
counts, one charging them with killing
DR.. Cronin with blunt instrument,
the second alleging the use of
sharp instrument. and the third
instruments and means unknown.
No evidence was introduced to prove a
conspiracy. and DR.. Cronin's private
papers were not placed before the
grand jury. The witnesses who were
called were those whose stories have
been told, in general outline if not in
detail, in the press. Judge Longe-
necker thought it advisable to tighten
the coils into which the three prisoners
had already been drawn and fasten
them with indictments, probably to pre-
vent any attempt to secure the release
of one or more of. them on bail. The
grand jury was engaged in lnvestigat-
ing the charge against DR.. j. Lucius
Gray, ex-physician at the detention
hospital for the insane, of appropriating
county property fer his own use when
JUDGE LoNGENECKER,
Capt. Setback. Lieut.. Schuetter, Capt.
Wing and number of officers and wit
nesseS in their charge drove up to the
criminal court building. The Gray in
veStigatiOn was stopped at once, and the
witnesses who had been summoned to
testify in that and other pending cases
were dismissed. Capt. Setback took
possession of Assistant States Attor-
ney Bakers Office across the hall from
the grand jury room, and kept the wit
nesses there under lock and key until
they were wanted in the jury room, to
and from which they were escorted by
a strong guard of bailiffs and police Of
ficers. The guard was not to keep the
witnesses from getting away, but to pre-
vent reporters from extracting some Of
their testimony en- route. Judge LOnge-
necker himself conducted the investiga-
ton, assisted by Mr.. Jampolis.
JOHN J. CRONIN,
brother Of the murdered man, was the
uISG WlUIlcSS CdiICus LIZ ICOtlHCu ClldU
the body found in the Lakeview catch
basin and buried in Calvary cemetery
last Sunday was that of his brother.
Thomas O'Neill, Mayor Cregier's pri-
vate secretary, took his notes of Detect
i've COughlin's statements with him
when he went before the investigators,
and it was half an hour before he came
out again. Liveryman Dinan told about
Coughlin's ordering a horse for a
friend the night of May 4, and described
the horse and the man who drove it
away. His hostler, Napier Morland,
was also summoned. Willard j. Smith
and j. S. Smith. Coughlin's friends
from Houghton, Mich, who say
they did not hire Dinan's white
horse, Notwithstanding Coughlin's state
ment to the contrary, went before the
Jury together. Frank Scanlan. and Mr..
and Mrs. r. II. Conklin completed the
chain of evidence which led to the hold
ing of Coughlin and Black. Justice
Mahoney, of Lakeview, told the jury
that he knew of Sullivan's contract
with DR.. Cronin for surgical services,
and John Carlson, his son Charles, and
the latter's wife were called upon to
give the particulars Of the
RENTING OF THEIR COTTAGE,
in which DIR. Cronin was killed. DR..
Brand and DR.. Belfield gave expert
testimony as to the nature OF the
wounds which caused his death, and the