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blazing toggery Of the uprising population
would do his heart good could he have
stayed 10 see H. 4 youth passes my win
for the war path, could not present more
terrifying spectacle. l think he has on
green stockings. blue brooches. u rel shirt,
yellow coat and pink hat. BY his side
troops n squad of girls. their faces shining
with midsummer health and happiness
and their clothes combining so many colors
that the COWS being driven up the dusty
road pause and gaze at them in surprise
out OF their warm brown eyes. Yonder on
the green sits a squaw OF civilization. Her
wigwam Is a lace parasol. and under IL she
reads a summer novel.
We may write TO tell you as rapturously
as we choose about all the other wooden
cities that are flung down SO negligently
along the coast. but it is away up on the
edge OF this queer. extensive and pretty
substantial State of Maine that we find.
after all, the most popular. most tumultu-
Gus summer resort in all America. People
are here like swarms ot bumtle bees.
wasps, blue bottle fies-anythng that
fits. flutters and flashes with a ry effect.
The reports TO the effect that il is impos-
sible TO find accommodation are not
needed. and in the midst OF the furious
enjoyment you are instantly stumbling
over people who haven't a place TO sleep
unless they curl up on a billiard table. II
piano, or tennis lawn.
Never have i seen such n splendid tumble
OF young and giddy people in one place be-
fore. What will ever become Of these boys,
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out in lights that tell II the good cheer with
in their luxurious cabins. II like "a man.
moth theatrical picture. and have no doubt
the hundreds OF romances worked out amid
the flashlights would supply our dramatsts
with plots TO last them through eternity
If you will walk down through the main
street where dainty women and gaudy men
are shoping for ices and carames and fol-
low the road down TO the steamboat wharf
you will be thrilled by the sight of the lusty-
lunged canoeist who is. in my opinion. ono
OF the most inspiring and attractive ex-
amples OF American girlhood. L shall
not soon forget the young woman from
New York who faded into the gloom OF the
bay the other night closely pursued by n
half dozen fellows who confessed their de-
votion 10 her by every word they uttered.
She had rolled her sleeves up over her
round white arms. ami. il am any Judge of
feminine sincerity. no steel or bones COM
pressed the tender outlines OF that healthy
ri is fine figure. She was as supple as a
young deer. and she could not refrain from
kicking up her heels as the boatman drew
her canoe alongside the steps for her. She
setti down into the bottom of the boat az
easily rs though there wasa't n rebellous
joint in her whole body. and as the canoe
was pushed into the clear water her arms
and the PADDLE flashed in the moonli mt.
and | could have thought her some Indian
maiden racing away from her suitors.
But no boating at Bar Harhor is prettier
than that Of the boys with their miniature
yachts. When life looks downright un-
bearable. when you can't remember you
ever were happy. when you are soaked
with certainty that you are not happy. and
when you feel yourself Obliged to b 'lieve
you never will be happy. just go to the sea-
shore ant see the children play around in
the big puddles damned Oft from the big
ocean for their special use. or course
the children don't know they are happy.
but you do and il is a blessed thing that
the sight OF springtime and OF childhood
that we capt 60 padding about yelling at
the tops % our voices. and getting sun
blisters on the back of our necks. doesn't
trouble us; but we gather in a sort of
peace from mental contemplation OF that
other fact that be the world ever so full OF
grown folks who wish themselves dead.
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geographically and unexpectedly per-
Beet As fair blush on natures virginia.
breast. IL is without flaw. Without the
disporting themselves on all sides, the
place would still be immense in its adj
vantages. The ocean. the drives. the lakes.
the diamond mornings. the moon flooded
nights. the exhilarating air az all hours,
make OF this half-ragged village gem 10
rave about. AS the primitive Indian OF
vanished years came down from the hills
10 this queer floor alongside the sea. I'll
venture TO believe that great throb
OF appreciation agitated him. and he
bethought himself that he should re-
main here through eternity. But
our Indian, as is customary with his spe-
cies. reckoned too solidly upon his BIRTH
right. and to-day he is nowhere TO be
found in this gorgeous landscape. The
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surrounded as they arc by frolicsome.
lovely. serpentine girisY They can turn no.
whore but a pair of passionate eyes are
dwelling on them. Every instant cap
tivating figure bounds across ones vision
the musical tones of feminine laughter
ring in a continual chime. and glimpses
that are calculated 10 inhume and tempt
the ungirt youth are gracefully submitted
while the bands play their intoxicating ac-
compartments. No wonder the whole
town ia out so often at night searching for
an unfortunate pair that have been lost on
the mountain. When the night is clear and
warm. and everything else delightful. there
is nothing the matter with the mountain.
There are a full dozen lost pairs at Bar
Harbor every season. / have never heerd
OF case when IL was pair OF girls. How
ever. the girls do go In couples. and their
dialogues are sometimes worth cavesdrop-
ping 10 hear.
L think it's real snobbish Of Emma TO
keep n maid, said Maud its just part OF
her fastness. And what does she want TO
call maid by such name as Charity
for2"
Il suppose Ella oontemptuously replied.
because she covers multitude OF sins
1t is a popularity often pointed out and
yet mover so thoroughly believed as it
should be. that the entire soul of Bar Har-
Dor is concentrated i'm the Office of one
hotel. This office Is called The Hish Pond"
For the greater number o! visitsrs tho
glories Of the country and ocean are as
nothing compared with the remarkable
turmoil and display found In this small
room. And tho fact is that the enllvened
influence OF The Fish Pond" is irresistible
even TO the most fatigued man Of the world
who could ever get this far from his club
You can scon away at the silly children
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L. was n remarkable crime both in it's concep-
don and i'm its execution The conception
ehowed great shrewdnoss and forethought
Every detail carefully planned and exc
cuted with remorseless precision. Still more
remarkable was the far-reaching and elaborate
machinery set in motion 10 cover up the crime
and 60 blacken the character OF the murdered
man.
That &c was the work OF conspiracy directed
by men of brains and having great financial re-
sources nj their back has been made perfectly
plain by tho evidence far secured. They had
u strong following among the membership or
Irish societies, We're able 20 command the sery-
ices of n portion OF the press. and had resolute
and INSCRIPTIONS adherents on the Chicago
police force.
The plot has as yet been scarcely half laid
bare, and yet 10 reveals more intrigue, more
clashing OF personal interests more cold calcu-
lating vilany cloaked under the gUise OF patri-
otism, more human passion and frailty, except
in one particular, than can be found in any ro-
nance of modern times.
The one thing lacking 20 make IL Guido the
widest conception of the novelist IL the pres
ence of woman. In spite of very determined
efforts ON the part OF the murderers' friends the
woman i'm the case is missing The crime was
purely political
What was the motive OF this most extraordi-
nary murder and what is tho inner history OF
the conspiracy which led up TO il?
The answers 10 these questions can only DE
given under oath Mt the trial II the murderers.
At present they are largely IA Subject OF conlec-
ture, or of conflicting partisan opinion. But the
facts of the murder and the events which imme-
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Slightly Strained Relations.

A novel and quite singular marriage
has just been brought to light,
which was celebrated in New York city
recently. The groom is wealthy old
bachelor who has seen not less than
seventy-fve summers, while the bride is
a handsome blonde of twenty-five,
The gallant lover is the great uncle of
the youthful spouse, and his marriage
TO her makes his wife the aunt of her
father, the great aunt of her sisters,
and the laughter-in-law of her fathers
grandfather She Is her own aunt by
marriage, the aunt of her mother, and
her first cousins great aunt.
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animation was made.
The evidence OF the teeth was suggested as
valuable, and John L. Seaman pried open the
mouth OF the corpse with n lead pencil Cronin
had gold-flled teeth and it was declared by
those familiar with his appearance that the
teeth in the mouth OF the deceased exactly
matched with his.
1T is Enthusiastically DIR. Cronin's body" said
John +. Seaman. Il knew il the minute l en-
tered the room, and was as certain of il then
am now, after making more careful examina-
ton. IL had nothing else To go by could
identify him by the teeth. Cronin had two
large front teeth remaining on the upper jaw
ana the left eye-too,s was gone.
His lower teeth were dark in color, placed
quite apart, and rounded in shape. / can
identify the body also by the shape OF the fore
head, 10y the expression OF the mouth, and even
by the hair which remains and the mustache
and goatee believe hat he was the victim of
the foulest OF murders. believe that the fact
that the Agnus Del was untouched was most
significant"
DIR. Lewis, the dentist who last worked on
Cronin 3 teeth, reached the station late in the
evening and also positively identified the body,
rs did 4. G.. O'Keefe, who for many years was
Cronin's tailor. 4. T. Conklin the Clark street
liquor merchant in whose house Cronin lived,
pronounced emphatically that the body was that
of his missing friend.
Mr.. Conklin looked long and earnestly at the
bloated corpse 1T is the body Of DIR. Cronin. "
said Conklin, his eyes filling with tears. i
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CHAPTER II.
WEAVING THE NETWORK OF MURDi

WEAVING THE NETWORK OF MURDER.
DIR. Cronin was an unmarried man, having no
relatives in Chicago. He lived with n native
American family, named Coullin, in u large fiat
in the Windsor Theater Building. North
Clark street. There he had his Office and re-
ceived his patients morning and evening
In the large Opera House Building, corner OF
South Clark ana Washington streets, he had
another Office on the NTH floor Ii consisted OF
two small rooms Nos. 5Ol ana SOB These he
used between - clock and p. IN. for patients.
They were also used evenings sort OF club
room or headquarters by his Irish friends
The window of room 5Ol and that of the hall
way looked ont on a narrow alley running from
Clark TO la Sale street At the other side OF
this alley house fronting on Clark street,
which was let in Offices and apartments. The
windows on one floor commanded n view OF one
OF DIR. CrOuins rooms and Of the hall sde.
One j. y. SimOnds rented the floor of this
house, No III Clark street the window OF
which gave view OF DR.. Cronins Office, the
blinds on which were seldom drawn down. This
was Feb 49,
Simonds is described by Thockmorton. the
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ton, called on Captain Setback, ut the Chicago
avenue police station, and informed him that
his detective Dauiel Coughlin, had hired them
After hearing this the Captain put Coughlin in
charge of the case.
Coughlus efforts were confined 20 two things
He eudeavored 10 brighten Mrs. Couklin into
giving up To him DIR. Cronin s papers, to enable
he police to find out motive for murder, and
he circulated the report that the Doctor was
alive. On the Lake View end of the case Cap
tain Setback put Detective Whalen, brother
in-law of Iceman O'Sulliyan.
Naturally, progress was made in the
search for the body and the public began to be-
leve that the outcry of Cronins friends
throughout the country was the result of pref
udice or malice. IL is a notabls fact that all the
Irishmen since indicted for tho murder, and all
those reasonably suspected OF completely be-
long TO the faction Of the Clan na-Ciael accused
of the crime by Cronin's friends from the start.
The friends OF Cronin were growing disheart-
ened and the public tired OF the whole Cronin
mystery when accident led TO the discov-
cry of the body. This in turn stirred up the
police.
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(. ou-frou Of skirts. and the stairs loaded
down with "sitters." form picture and an
experience which are so tile unpleasant
that you are willing to. AMI do, stand about
there for hours enjoying yourself much
more than you care TO confess
As to the stairs. | saw three persons GO
ing up some stone ones in the neigh
borhood. Let their utterances speak for
them
Stupid old husband - Bless her little
heart! how heavy she does drag back.
That's 10 make me hold her hands tight.
How she does love me!
Frisky young wfe-Oh that delightful.
naughty American. he's Just holding az ound
my waist like everything.
Level headed Young American = This
beats Getting up hill by myself all hollow.
The Bar Harbor Hotel is a somewhat in
definite institution. not altogether unpleas-
ant, nor especially trying TO luxurious peo-
pie on account Of its pristine simpl city.
The st-known houses in the place provide
the least attractive viands. The managers.
clerks, porte :. and bell-boys OF every hotel
are all good natured sous. glal TO know
you, glad you come. and sorry when you
go. They are Maine from their irregular
trousers TO their hair brushed on.y in front
and their shoes with the heels left unpol-
ished. and this Is gratifying Just in the way
OF "a change from our glistening friends
who ornament the marble rotundas In no.
tells nearer home. imagine the majority
Of people think that hotels here charge an
extraordinarily high rate Cor board. but that
is "a mistake. for tue prices range from two
70 three dollars a day. which is less than
the tariff at the average American watering
place.
Sometimes a bit OF dialogue between two
Bar Harbor ladies proves that here, as at
other watering places, there are wives who
pine for their absent husbands. and some
who do not. For example:
Belle-EXcuse me. dear, while | glance
over Hubby's letter.
Flora-What! does he still keep on?
Belle-Oh, dear. yes; the trouble IS 10
make MIN keep on
A star-lit night mt Ba- Harbor. when the
bay is smooth. and the yachts are picked
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the Doctor the card and II was left In Cronin's
room.
death, abandoned his Office patients Cor the
evening snatched up his case of Instruments,
put on soft felt hat and started OF With the
man. As no took his seat I'm the buggy his
friend, Frank Seaman, came up and while hay-
ing n moment CONVEX sation with him, got
look at the strange man. Cronin I'm his hurry
forgot tho revolver which no always carried at
night.
The Doctor was never seen alive again. IL IL
now known that the message about the injured
iceman was decoy, that he VAS driven TO the
Carlson cottage aud there murdered. The de-
tails OF that murder have yet 10 be learned.
That there was n short, sharp struggle between
one unnrmed man, who was probably stunned
by a blow on the head nj soon as no entered tho
door and three or four armed towards who LETT
tho marks of their hideous butchery behind
them, 10 shown by circumstantial evidence
alOno
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have known him for twenty years and cannot
be mistaken. 1 have been in swimming with
him and know him better than any man living
There is no chance for mistake"
Capt. Nilliers. formerly OF the Lake View
police, who saw the body before the loose hairs
of the mustache had been wiped away, was
certain the body was Cronin's. Mayor Holden
week viewed the body and gave "A similar opin-
ion. John Sullivan, James sullivan OF the
Tribune, DR.. siebert OF Lake View, Patrick Nc
Garry, Frank Seaman Joseph Byme, Maurice
Morris, and more than twenty other intimates
also.positively idehtihed the body as that of DR.
Cronin.
John Buck, the barber who has shaved Cronin
for nearly year was positive that the corpse
was that of DR.. Cronin. He carefully examined
the shape Of the head and the texture OF the
hair. aud declared that they compared exactly
DIR. Brandt, of the Cook County Hospi nj, who
examined the hair found in the trunk declared
that IL was the same as that on the head OF the
murdered man. DR.. Ruthtord was Of the same
opinion.
A few days later the brother of the murdered
man came on from Arkansas and fully identi-
fed the body.
THE WOUNDS THAT KILLED.
Or. Gray, who made the first examination OF
the body after it's arrival at the station de-
scribes the wounds "a follows
-There are FIVE wounds. No. l ia on the front
parietal suturo, just here" and he took up
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whole Chicago press and n portion OF that OF
other cities treated the matter lightly and refus-
cd TO believe there was anything serious in the
case.
Then bogus interviews with Cronin here
there and everywhere stories that he had run
away with woman that no had fled from the
consequences Of disreputable and unprofos-
sional practices; that he was n British spy and
was on his way 10 London TO testify for the
Times appeared. One day il was in Canada,
the next in some place i'm tho United States
In all cases they we're telegraphed all over the
country. All bore tho ear-marks of the same
authorship in Chicago.
The story most persistently circulated WAS
that Cronin was friend OF lie Caron. The lat
ter was said TO have list OF three or four of
his American assistants, which, by some means
had come TO the knowledge of certain Irish
leaders. These statements were always made
ANONYMOUSLY but were occasionally fortified
by pretended interviews with Le Caron him
self cabled TO this country by the Associated
Press. The responsibility for lie Caron was
finally fixed in the most public manner on
Cronin's btterest entmies, and il was proved
that all these stories were the inventions OF
the murderers friends.
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real estate agents clerk, n man about 5 feet
inches in height, stoutly built, with dark brown
hair, brown mustache, u nose that was almost
Roman, blue or gray eyes pleasant address and
a slightly English accent.
1.-Two days later Simonds bought some furni-
ture OF Revell a. Co., and ordered il delivered mt
the rooms NJ No. III Clark street. He told Hat
field, the salesman, he wanted the cheapest
things he had, for temporary use only. He paid
a leather strap.
Simonds room WAS found 20 be vacant March
10 and the occupants of the house could give no
information concerning him. Aftor the dis
covery OF DIR. Cronin's body Swedish express
man named Martinsen was found who had been
hired 10 take that furniture from No. III Clark
street 20 the Carlson cottage in Lake View
where the murder was committed.
A few days before this man giving his name
as Frank Williams, and having an alleged
brother rented the Carlson cottage in Lake
Wow. Vino furniiIrn from No LIZ Clnrl. sIr.aL
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Preaching a Sermon lie Hadn't Pre-
pared.

A tall man in butternut clothes and
a blue flannel shirt, with his hair
"squigety," came up the aisle and made
for the platform. Mr.. woodward tap
ped me on the shin, saying, That's
our minister"
The good man tossed his sompbrero
hat IN the floor to one side of the desk
and opened his sermon.
"Brethern and sisters, on account
of sickness in the parish the past week
/ have not prepared a sermon, but on
my way here through Brother Lanes
field picked up this rock and also this
nut'-both of which he produced from
the side pocket of his coat-"and now L
Will give you 'uns parable from these.
l take the rock and break the rind of
the nut, which represents the Metho-
dist Church, and the rind is unfit for
use. Next / break the shell, and this
represents the Hard-shell Baptists
this also is no good and only fit to put
under the heels of men, Next abstract
the vitality and life, the kernel of the
nut, which represents our church, the
old Presbyterian, and break the
she'll"
Here he stopped, and the kernel fell
out as rotten as sin The congregation
whooped and yelled like Kansas cow
boys, became boisterous and were dis
missed. The deacon took the writer's
arm, walked up and down the street,
saying, Why didn't he take n gimlet
and bore that nut before he gave that
parable? Say, brother, let's take
drink" And if the writer had minded
him he would have been slightly ailing
10y eight o'clock-1'rjnidad Daily
Citizen.
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was found shortly after the Doctors disappear
auce
The same roadway leads directly TO the catch
basin, nd the place where the Trunk found
is but "A few feet away from it. The same road
leads almost directly % O'Sullivau's ice-house.
whence the Doctor was summoned by the mys-
teriOus messenger who ned him away from his
home on the pretense that one OF O'Sullivans
men had been injured.
No trace could be found of the murdered
mans clothing.
ON the previous day reports were made DO the
Board of Public Works In Lake View that the
sewer at the corner OF Evanston avenue and
North fifty-ninth street seemed choked up, aud
That foul air in that neighbOrhood was begin
ming 90 be n nuisance.
Nicholas Rosch, tho foreman OF the sewer
gang, with John Finegan and William Michneis
his assistants, repaired TO the place indicnted
and found the ditch at the east side OF Evanston
avenue partially filled with water. which was
constantly escaping from n damaged fire-plug
About twenty feet north OF the hre-plug il "A
catoh-bnsin into which tho wa or FROM the ditch
shoua'how, inst as IL flows into them from gut
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CHATTER III.
THE DOCTOR LURED TO HIS DOOM

TIE DOCTOR LURED 10 MS DOOM.
Dr. Cronin was engaged with patient in his
Office ut his residence on Saturday, Maya. A lit
tie after y. IN. a man IN n covered buggy
drawn by white horse drove up 20 the door aud
rang the bell violently Mrs. COnkling opened
the door and let him In. She got good look at
him. and owing to his iurried, nervous man
ner. took particular notice of him.
He a strongly built man Of FIVE feet eight
inches, with "a sallow face, flushed with excite
ment, dark mustache, md pair Of small
furtiYo eyes. lie fumblod neryOusly at his hat
as he sat waiting for the Doctor, aud spoke
little
Mrs. Conklin summoned Dr. Cronin md saw
and heard what took place between the two
The man told CrOnin That ono Of Icoman Sulh-
vans men was hurt that it was ease OF life
and death, and he wanted him 20 como with
him I'm the buggy at once. Sullivan. no said was
away, but he had told him of the contract. and
that the card was 70 be tho token. He handed
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IHE WOUNDS IN THE skULL. the CROWN, Tine
skull Is not strong there. and heavy blow
would prove fatal.
"The third wound IL one-inch posterior to No
2-just here" and ho again lustrated by lay
ing his finger almost on the crown of his object
lesson.
"1he fourth is on the left temple aud IL only
one inch long. The rest arc about an inch and
half in length The fifth Is n crushing wound
left eye This one fractured the check bone
and must have beer delivered with great force. >
THE absence of wounds on the bands. y
said Walter V. Hayt. Health Inspector, would
indicate That the first blow whenever one OF
these five IL vas, delivered unawares
otherwise there woutd have bean struggle