Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-13
THE CR0NIN MURDER.
A Suspect" Found in. the
Angelic City.
He "LAMH DEARG ABOO."
T. ONeil, a Young Irish Physician,
Falsely Connected with the
Chicago Case.

A great many Angelefios know well
handsome and promising young physi-
clan OF this city named P. j. O'Neil. He
was formerly in the employ of the Los
Angeles Furniture Company. His am
bition led him to join class in the Los
Angeles Medical College, from which in
stitution he graduated in due time. Not
satisfied with this, he went East some
eighteen months ago and spent year at
the Jefferson Medical College in Phila-
delphia, where he graduated last spring.
The Doctor is true Irishman, and not
ashamed of his native heath. His card
bears the legend, "P. ]. O'Neil, M. d."
in the center; in the lower right-hand
corner his Office in the Valla block is
given, and in the upper left-hand corner,
in red, is the legend, Lamb Dearg Aboo,
followed by the figure of
mans hand, in red too. The
English of the above is 1.-THE Red Hand
Forever" This is the famous legend of
the O'Neil family.
The doctor was pursuing the even
tenor of his way here among the orange
groves of Los Angeles, and about two
weeks ago he went into a restaurant to
get his dinner. AS he came out a
sprightly young man, Irish too, who
gave the name of O'Brien, accosted him
and asked him if he were DR.. O'Neil.
The stranger said he had seen DIR.
O'Neil before, in Philadelphia and else
where. Thus an acquaintance was
formed, which O'Brien improved, and
for days piled O'Neil with all sorts of
questions as to his movements during
the past spring. O'Neil, not suspecting
what O'Brien wanted, was open about it
all , and told where he was all through the
past spring and early summer. So frank
was the Doctor about his goings and
comings that O'Brien, at last satisfied
he was on the wrong scent, made q clean
breast of everything and told O'Neil what
he was after. This is the story:
Luke Dillon strongly suspects that
Alex. Sullivan killed DR.. Cronin, and is
determined to bring him to punishment.
In some way the detectives got photo
graph OF DR.. O'Neil, which they took H.
the store where the furniture was bought
to furnish the cottage where Cronin wa
killed. The man who sold the furniture
was positive that the photograph was the
PlCbuI0 vi bu0 Adh WLlO UOukub bht
things. This sent O'Brien out to Los
Angeles to look up O'Neil. He had il
the meantime obtained possession of let
| ters written by DIR. ONeil to DR.. Macahey
of Philadelphia, and to Luke Dillon, both
leaders in the Clan-na-Gael, and in
these letters were such expressions as
"Where is Cronin ?" Before O'Brien
set eyes ON DIR. O'Neil and found him 30
frank about the matter, he was dead
sure he had one of the men. After stay
ing nearly two weeks here, he has come
to the conclusion that he has crossed the
continent on wild-goose chase.
DR.. O'NeiPs story is conclusive in all
its details. He graduated at the Jeffer-
son Medical College April Sd. On the
10th he left Philadelphia by way of New
Orleans for Los Angeles, where
he arrived on the 23d. On
the 11th of May he went to
the Sisters Hospital, where he
remained some days and then he went
to Arrowhead Springs for vacation
has not been out of the State since
day Of his arrival.
10 be sure the cottage in which DR..
Cronin was killed was furnished some
time before the killing took place, weeks
before O'Neil left the East. The detect
i've had learned every movement the
young medical student made while in
Philadelphia about the time this thing
was done. He found out each day he
had been absent from his room. He set
up the claim that be had been away from
his lodgings for few days Just at the
time. But O'Neil explains that the Clan
ma Gael people in Philadelphia were get
ting up big BANQUET to DR..
Macahey, and wished to make
him a suitable present. A microscope
was determined on, and DR.. O'Neill was
employed in procuring this. Thus he is
able to establish com plete alibi, and the
detective will go back empty handed.
The detective is reported to have made
queer statement about the identiica-
tion of Cronin's body. The only mark
by which it could be told to be the CORPSE
of the missing Doctor was by the UNI
bilious. At the Doctors birth a bit of
very clumsy midwifery was committed
in the treating of the umbillical cord. A
bad hernia was the result. If this is the
only Identification made. it is simply
none at all. There is not sane man in
America who will swear that this body
was that of Cronin on any such evidence.
Doctor O'Neil is a mem ber of the CLAN
na'Gael, and has some startling theories.
He thinks Piggott did not commit sui
eide, but that he was put out of the way
by the English Government to stop his
mouth. He thinks Cronin may be alive
and hidden by the English to throw sus-
picion on the Clan-na-Gael. Cronin was
suspected of being British spy. He
proposed LIE Caron, alias Piggott. for
membership in the Clan. The enmity
between Alexander Sullivan and Cronin
arose in this way: DR.. Cronin charged
Sullivan with misappropriating 5000 600
subscribed for the Parnell fund. The
charges were investigated by a proper
committee, and two reports were made.
The majority report cleared Sullivan, and
the minority report held him guilty. By
the rules of the order Cronin was bound
to stop right there, but he did not.
He still charged Sullivan with embez-
zling the funds. These two circumstances
cause the Clan to suspect that Cronin
was, like his friend Le Caron, a spy.
There are queer arrangements in a
secret society like the Clan.na- Gael,
Some one has often to be trusted i'm
plicitly in delicate missions. The Clan
did not desire to appear as contributors
to the Parnell fund, lest that fact should
prejudics the cause of the Irish leader
before the people of England. In such
circumstances trusted man like Sulli-
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