Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-05-31
THE GREAT SENSATION.
THE Full STORY OF CRONIA'S
DJS1PPEiR1NCE.
HOW THE DOCTOR WAS LURED
AWAY PROM HOME BY A
MYSTERIOUS MAN.

a
MYSTERIOUS MAN.
Saturday night, May 4, a man
drove up 20 DR.. CIonlu's lodgings
in the Windsor Theatre Block, on
North Clark street, and asked that
gentleman 10 60 with bin and at.
tend man who had been Injured
while working in Sulliyan's lee
houses in Lake View. lInrriedly
gathering mp his surgical instru-
ments, medicine.case, and a guam
tity of cotton such as surgeons use
DIR. Cronin got in the open buggy
with the messenger and was driven
rapidly north on Clark street
That was the last seen OF him alive
There are many singular things
about the contract with the lceman
which it is known CrOnln entered
into only short time before ms
death. Mrs. COnklin is positive
that the man who called for the
doctor in the buggy presented one
of SulIivan's cards. Sullivan has
but four or FIVE men working fol
HIM, and it is a rather remai kable
thing that an iceman employ lng
only this number OF men should
enter into u contract with Dr.
CrOnn to pay him a stated sum
monthly to attend them in case OF
injury. II is not at all customary
for lcemen to do this. II has been
ascertained that Sullivan Was the
first to make overtures for such Il
contract, aud that it was at his re-
quest that Justice.of-thc-Peace
Mahoney, Of Ravenswo0d, intro
Queen him to Croniu. The ar
rangement was distinctly made
that when the doctors services
were needed Sullivan's manager
was to bring business card ct
the firm to the doctor. The ques-
ton IS and has been where did the
messenger get Sullvan's card, and
how did he know that that would
bring CrOnin, for presumably only
three people in the world knew
about the cOntract-CrOnin, Snlll'
van and MahOney.
Sullivan is man OF Teputc, and
by his straightforward story, ac-
counting for his whereabouts at all
times the previous evening by
promptly gong before Mrs. Conk-
lin, who failed to identity him; by
apparently aiding the police 10
the best of HIS ability in their ln-
quiry, and in sundry other ways,
he has succeeded almost complete
~ in turning away suspicion.
Only CrOnin's most intimate friends,
those who insisted that he had been
murdered, dared to east rcilcc.
ton upon the iceman. But last
night the suspicion that somebody
IN some way connected with Nulll-
vans ice.hOuse had guilty knoNl'
edge of the crime was rapidly gain
ing ground, aud talks Oh arrests
before daylight were openly made.
Luther Latin Mills, j. appears,
has been retained by Cronin's
friends, and the Lake View police
last night were awaiting an inter.
view with HIM before taking any
steps IN the way Of arrests.
For nearly ten years the Doctor
had been living in the family OF /.
4. Conklin at 81 North Clark stree,
and he had been long IN the habit
of sending them word when he
was detained from home beyond
the time anticipated. AS nothing
was heard of him during all Of
Saturday night, the Conklius be-
came uneasy, and on Sunday M
stituted a search. The places OF
his usual resort were visited and
his intimate friends questioned,
but as nothing could be learned OF
his whereabouts, il was believed
some injury bad beiailen him.
Late Sunday night it became
generally known thai DIR. Cronin
was mysteriously missing from
home. It was stated that his life
had been threatened by persons
who feared him On account OF
evidence in his possession proving
big thefts against certain leaders
in the principal Irish national
organizations in tins country, but
until the body could be found no
firm belief could be- placed either
i'm his death or the extent Of the
enmity against him. On tie Mon
day following his disappearance
an empty trunk was fund at Il
roadside IN lonely sectlon,ol Lake
View. Blood spots were found IN
and on the trunk, and a quantity
of cotton. such as DR.. Cronln took
with him on leaving his Office, was
also found. \ lock OF human halT
was in the trunk, but whether II
was CrOnin's or not remained an
unsettled question. Later Frank
Woodruff. stable hand, WAS ar
rested while trying 10 sell horse
and buggy which apparently dId
not belong to him, and he con
fessed that on the >aturday night
in question he, with "A man called
"Doc,r whom he supposed to be
DR.. CronIn, and two other men,
had hauled the dead body 81 Il
woman from a barn on North state
street to point in Lake View near
where the trunk was found, ana
then threw the trunk down by the
roadside. This story seemed TO
connect the doctor with a case ol
criminal malpractice, and furnished
motive for his dlappearance from
the city. But many Of those VINO
knew most of the doctor ana MS
affairs held firmly to the opinion
from the start that Cronin had
been murdered. Capt. Nilllers, OF
the Lake View police, secured the
woods in the north portion OF his
territory and dragged the ponds,
hoping to find the body OF either a
woman or a man, but without re-
suit, and for the past week the
search has been practically abdn'
doned, except by the doctorS's H.
innate friends.-ChicdgO Hcrdld.
DR.. Francis Buckncr, OF COving-
ton, Ohio, has broken all modern
records IN his success III dealing
with the class of spirits which are