The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-06-14
The CRONIN MURDER
Was 1t Planned to Break the
Force of the Pigott
Disclosures
in Favor Of Parnell Before
the Times Com
mission?
What VIII! Use Its Eject on the Irish
Cause in ireIand-seycra,
Important Subjects
Discussed.
Ketrospec. 0! tho c~onin Murder.

Retrospect Os GEo SrTn1n hufuST'
CHICAGO, June 6.-If the Cronip rTur-
der had been planned and plotted with
the deliberate intention of breaking the
force of the sensation created by the
Pigott disclosures and the general revu.
sion of sentiment in England in faror Of
Parnell as the result of the evidence be-
fore the Times commission 1t could not
have more admirably succeeded in it
purpose. Nor, moreover. had ii been
concocted with the deliberate purpose of
robbing certain prominent ltishmen of
..,c credit due 10 them for one CT the
greatest COUP Il etats in Irish affairs for
the past hall century could ii have been
more successful. 1t will be remembered
that little more than fortnight prior to
the disappearance of the physician an
elaborate cable dispatch was published
which puported 10 giye the inside facts
! connected with the Pigott expose. 1T
sho.7ed that the rcbuttGl evidence which
put the notorious traitor and perjurer to
fight and finally compelled him to put
an end to his miserable existence had
been prepared from existing documents
by Patrick Egan and Alexander Sullivan,
and that II was entrusted to Rev. Father
Dorney for delivery to Sir Charles Rus
sell and Mr.. Parnell. These facts have
never been successfully denied or i'm
peached. The result was to direct gen
| eral attcnti9a to the nGtion&lisis in ques-
tion both at home and abroad Popular
es they had been before, they were
twice more so now. Had not through
their instrumenttlily the Irish leader been
enabled to smile the Zines hip and thigh,
! has he not practically demolished its
case and held j, up 10 the scorn OF the
civilized world7 :cnd all through the op-
poltune action of three Irish Americans?
| Ali this was gall and wornwoOd to the
anti Sullivan clement Of the Irish party.
| Tney realized full well hat the only et-
| feet OF tllls brilliant stroke would be to
render still more natea ard popular men
agains. whom they possessed sn ha'fee
amounting alt1cst to Q fanntacisnl, and
they set to work With sRenergy that
/ wo;.ld have done credit even 10 ennis
sarics of the Tires, to weaken confidence
in the developments aGa those whose
names were mentioned IN connec-
! ton with the matter. Within few
days after the appearance Of The
cable dispatch in question local paper
! L.;nted lengthy and INSPIRED article In
which it War inainuated 30 strongly as TO
almost amount 10 ii positive declaration
that the dispatch was manufacturers IN
! Chicago and sent to New York TO be dls-
tribwto5 54or She wires of q press ssso'
ciation az though II were genuInec caoie.
and that its subjec; matter was Fnlsiesd-
ing and untrue. The first portion of this
story vss promptly denied By the rep
rnren,atives Gf the press association, the
second received qliletuS from Labou'
chcre and Parnell, TO say nothing OF the
bearer of the precious documents 10
England, Father Dorney, respect for
} whose cloth alone, should have silcnccd
/. ell contradiction aud inuen6c In this
!. incident itself there was a crushing re-
;oinder to the oft repeated charges that
had beer made against certain prominent
nationalists anu 'shich were 10 bt
brought TO the front again at the fort!
coming convention. The Sullivan has
; was again in the ascendanCy: from al
over the country there came aeniahi
that he should again become the head o
the national league, and SO general wa
0 the recognition of the great service tina
a he he had aided in performing for Par
4. n.ll and the Irish Cauge that it is be
' lievcl in good many quarters that ha'
y the charges been prevented they "ouI
!, have been thrown out Of court without
e hearing. Certainly the ex-ilish leade
!, cnr,r not to all appearance
n tar,a harn Lao anything 70 fea
y y from This source, hu' noa ~ '"nn, ,ho
!. had the rhysician dis3pPe-- 9a' u r.
J his friends began 10 direet suspicion :
~ ward Alexander Suliivat Tten my
u terious hints we're thrown out thas
:, would be well fer Patrick Egan to kee
81 quiet and finally il was broadly charge
!, that Father Dorney had white washc
III Sullivan in the Investigation into Y
financial aifsifs of the C!an-na-Ga
which he wae deputed to work son
years ago No other names were brongl
ne into the case, only those OF the thr'
ps men to whom both the Irish la1
~ league on both siles OF the wa'e
=. Parncll and his followers, and L
oi Irish people in general owe the practlc
he demolition of the anti-self govcrnmc
ng fabric that the Times had constructed
of such an enormous cost. That there
on sisniticcnce in these facts gay the frien
X. of Sullivan, must be apparent TO eve
nd one. just what alleged evidence Poil
ist ing to the ex, president is in the poss
ng sion of the states attorney remains, III
n say, to be seen, but until something IL
ed is definite is made public they prefer
IS. believe that the entire hue and {
gs against the we'll known nationalist is
nd additional evidence that Cronin's frier
nd have taken up the mantle of the I'M
'ut scribable hatred that the latter have
IN ward his OnponeEt.