The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-06-06


told me that he had brought the furniture
from III Clark street.
The story of the men who rented the
cottage, having formerly roomed at
III Clark street, where the furniture was
taken by A. Il. Revels company, is thus
verified.
The Police Searching the Carlson Cottage,
and the Result
CHICAGO, May 30.-The police have
been making active search for Cronin's
clothes and medical case and the two
yards of ingram carpet which was tackled
on the floor of the parlor in
the Carlson cottage. Lieutenant Scheut
Ter and his men went through the
ice mans house to-day, but did not
discover anything which could be used as
evidence. They looked under the carpets
and ripped up the flooring in one
or two places and searched every
room and closet in the dwelling.
One officer examined every possible
hiding place in the attic and another
looked through the cellar; the barn and
the outhOuses were also searched.
Before giving up the search the officers
will look through all the catch basins and
under the sidewalks on School street and
Belmont avenue from Ashland avenue to
| the river.
| AN OLD DETECTIVES THEORY.
CHICAGO, May 30.-1he Daily News this
evening prints the following: "An old
detective at city hall who has been keep
ing up with the case pretty closely, was
reviewing the evidence to-day. He said:
The three men now in Jail know all about
the murder and could give the police the
light clues which would result in the ar
rest of the actual perpetrators of the
crime. But these prisoners can never be
convicted of the murder on the evidence
which the states attorney now has in his
possession. One of them must squeal,
or it will not be brought in. IL lies
between Sullivan and Woodruff. The
states attorney would prefer to get the ice
mans story and think he would promise
to let Sullivan off easy if he gave the
whole plot away. If he did give up every
| Thing think it would be something like
this: Couglin made all arrangements in
the first place for the murder. He made
out the plans. OF course he knew his men
before he approached them. To Sullivan
he entrusted the work of fixing up the
contract with Doctor Cronin. The hiring
of all horses and rigs CoHghlin attended
to himself. He first met Woodruff, whom
he knew to be crook and always ready
for any shady trans action. He
did not oonfde anything to him,
| knr kalI L.
wanted some work done at an early hour
in the morning. Then he met Oman
about the rig, which his friend was to call
for the night of May 4. The Williams
brothers did all their own work, hiring of
the Carlson cottage and buying of furni-
ture. think that, although there were
ut least twenty persons in the conspiracy,
but two or three besides the actual MUIR
derers knew that Oronin's life was to be
taken"
evil the murderers ever be brought to
| justice?"
"The chances are five to one against it.
With the evidence thus far obtained there
can be no convictions. 1t is
not at all likely that the men
who committed the crime itself and did
the actual deed are in Chicago, or even in
the country. They had ample warning
aud got out of the country after the find
ing of the body. l have another theory,
which is not as tenable as my first one. 1t
may have been that there was no Clan-na-
Gael conspiracy and that another motive
altogether prompted the murderers. 1t is
possible Sullivan got some woman into
trouble; that woman may have been a rel
alive of Ooughlin. Doctor CrOnin be-
came acquainted with the facts in the
case, which were very damaging
to the ice man. The latter, knowing
the strict moral and religious principles
of the doctor and urged on by the fear
that the doctor would inform the authori-
| ties that Sullivan was guilty of grave
crime, made the contract whistle doctor
which lured him to his death. l cannot
but think that Woodruff's story about the
woman has some foundation in fact. The
police ought surely, it seems to me, to
look up Sullivan's history of the last year
and see if he was not involved with some
| female"
| ONE OF THE SUSPECTS.
TORONTO, Ont, May 30.-W. J. Starkey
a lawyer who fed from Chicago to this
city some time ago to escape prosecution
for tampering with jury, and who has
been accused of completely with @. F.
Long in the preparation of dispatches
about Longs alleged interviews with Doc
tor Cronin, visited the newspaper Offices
this morning and said he arrived in the
city only yesterday, after months visit
In New York. He declared he had sbso-
lutely no dealings with Long, and no
knowledge of the CTonin case.
TOOLS DISCOVERED IN THE COTTAGE.
CHICAGO, May 30.-It is rumored that
the police, in their further search to-day
of the cottage in which Cronin was muir
dered, found pick and other ice tools,
presumed to have been the property of
p. O. Sullivan, ice dealer. The authori-
ties are reticent as to the result of to-
days Investigations, and refuse to affirm
or deny this rumor. The theory is ad-
vanced that it was with blows from these
instruments that Doctor Cronin was
so foully murdered, but when it
| is remembered that notable