Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-11
SOMETHING TO DROP.
Alexander Sullivan and others Are
Sure to be Arrested for
THE MURDER OF DOCTOR CRONIN.
All the Jurors Satisfied That Conspiracy
Has Been Shown.
NEARLY THROUGH WITH TIE INQUEST
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CHICAGO June 10.-It is probable that
the Coroner's inquiry into the assassination
of Dr. CrOnin will close tomorrow evening.
The Jurors are almost certain to recommend
that Alexander Sullivan, Senior Warden
Biggs, Police Officer Daniel Brown, Harry
Jordan and Garry Buckley be arrested.
Others may be dragged in, too. The grand
jury, which it is expected will indict these
men, viii be composed OF blue-blooded Ameri-
cans.
The present Grand Jury will be dismissed
owing to the fact that there are four Irishmen
IN the body. All the prisoners will be held for
murder and bail refused. The testimony before
the Coroner's jury to-day went further to con-
firm the belief that the Clan-na-Gael men who
are suspected of being directly or indirectly
implicated in the conspiracy are trying TO
shield one another by giving evasive answers
to the leading questions of the Coroner.
Detective Mike Whelan. who travelled with
Detective Coughlin after Dr. Cronin disap-
peared, and who was suspected by Chief Hub
bard because of his strange conduct while
searching for the man Smith, who drove the
doctor away, was the first witness. Mhelan Is
q hrst cousin of lceman z. Sullivan.
SOMEWHAT SHY.
Heproved a wary witness. He was pressed
to explain why be had so readily dropped the
case or had been SO indifferent in pressing an
inquiry when the discovery of Smith would
have relieved his cousin, Sullivan, from sus-
picion. He said he had been taken of the case
by Captain Setback. Further than this, the
description given him of Smith and OF the
horses and buggy which Smith took did not
tally with the description of the man and horse
and buggy which took DR.. Cronin away.
Il let the matter drop out of my mind, said
the witness.
Whelan admitted that he was a Clan-na-Gael
member, and that his number was lS6 he
thought however, that the society was sort
of pleasure club. The jurors scowled and
looked incredulous. He had seen detective
Coughlin and P. .. Sullivan fighting some un-
known man in a saloon. His excuse for not
arresting Coughlin was that he (Coughlinl was
police officer.
Harry Jordan, who is suspected with playing
a part in the tragedy, was a nervous witness.
He was not at all at ease. He could not re-
member whether he introduced McGeehan to
Detective Coughlin. Did remember, however,
OF loaning NEG SIS.
stand up" shouted the Coroner.
Jordan arose.
HE WAS THERE.
''were you in Conklin's saloon the 2Srd of
May"
81 was"
Now will you swear that on that occasion
you never used the expression, would not
take Dr. Cronin's body out of a sewer if l saw
u will; never gave utterance to those
words"
Coroner Hertz returned to the remark said |
to have been made by Jordan regarding DR.. |
Cronin's presence in sewer. Jordan got very |
nervous, pulled his mustache, and said he 1
might have said that if DR.. Cronin fell in the |
gutter he wouldn't help him out
did you ever say to Lawrence Buckley that |
you would hate like - to attend at DR.. |
Cronin's camp?''
Thomas Whelan, a brother of the detective, |
tried to establish an allbi for his cousin, P. o.
Sullivan. He swore that Sullivan went to bed /
before o'clock on the night of the murder, |
and that he was in the house all evening. The 1
witness admitted. however, that he could have |
LETT his house without being seen and gone to
the Carlton cottage, which is not minutes |
walk away. Then there was a sensational col
loquy between the witness and the Coroner. 1t
ehowed that the county officer was in possession
'of some startling evidence.
Were you at Sullivan's house when Sui
1ivan brought home new sofa?' asked the
Coroner.
'1 never saw new sofa-'
Weren't you there when Sullivan brought
in pot of paint?"
HE NEVER SAW IT.
81 never saw Sullivan bring in a pot of paint.
never saw anything of the kind you mention.
wanted the house searched, and was afraid
that something might be put there"
"What made you think that?"
'Well, the police tried to convince the wash
woman that she had washed some bloody
clothes at the house. Failing in this they told
her there was money in it if she would say that
she washed bloody clothes there"
How do you know the police said that?"
THE washwoman said so. She also said that
Captain Wing made the offer to herr
Did you ever see Dan Coughlin at SulliYan's
house?"
II don't remember"
''Do you remember the carpet in Sullivan's
front hall?'
''Yes, sir"
was it taken up on May 1872"
been"
Didn't you take carpet up from the front
hall after the murder of DR.. CroninH''
The witness grew very red before this volley
OF vague put sensational questions. 1t was evil
dent that the Coroner had heard something
Mhelan Wrlggled in his chair and stammered in |
his answers. When he left the chair a detec. ,
tive followed him. The rest of the evidence
taken during the day was unimpoI tant. The
inquiry Will be resumed in the morning.
A CONSPIRACY PROVEN.
During the noon recess the jury held a con. ,,
suitation with the Coroner in his office. The
talk lasted an hour and when it was over it had
been decided that all witnesses summoned to
testify, whose evidence would be but cor l
of what had already been offered
should be excused. the Jury being in their own {
minds satisfied of the truth of the principal '
that DR.. Cronin came to his death as
he result of a conspiracy and that sufficient
minus and motive existed to form CON
piracy.
Should any witness be on the list the testi- 9
nony of whom would contradict ANYTHING thus {
ar presented. il was desired that such wit Q
lesses be, of course, heard, as well as those q
Who would have anything new. This decision u
vii doubtless shorten the inquest by at least s
me day. v
Chief Hubbard and Luke Dillon have or a
ered the arrest of suspect who has taken Q
efuge in New York. His name is being kept Q
secret for the present, because there is q pos
lbility of the fellow eluding the detectives
tho are ON his trail. The mans description
allies exactly with one of the mysterious trio
hat figured so extensively in the actual mur-
er. He has restless, swapping black eyes coal
lack hair and mustache. muscular frame and
peculiar gait while in motion.
WHY HE IS WANTED.
1t is thought that he is the man who rented
ne top floor at III South Clark street and sub
equently purchased the cheap furniture from
|. II. Bevell & Co.. under the name of Il
imons. Attention was first directed to him
Luke Dillon, who remembered him as |
ne OF the most mischievous tools of the trio |
hat ruled the Clan-na-C5ael in 1889 When |
lr. Dillon frst heard of the mysterious Simons
nd read the descriptions furnished by persons
Iho had business transactions with him he
bought of the tool of the deposed triumvirate
He set on foot careful inquiry relative TO |
be fellows movements before and after the
lurdef of DR.. CrOnin, and received such
artling information that he FASTENED to Chief
hubbard to have the man placed under sur
eIllance. This the Chief did, and to-day he
rdered his arrest on the charge of murder.