The Springdale news., 1889-05-31
THE GROWN MURDER.

Detective COughlin, +. o. SuitiNah anu
 Frank Black alias Woodruff Indicted Tor
 the Murder or Cronin Prominent Clti-
 zens Shadowed-t Newspaper Change
 CHICAGO May 29.-The grand jury last evening, after @ session of seven hours, indicted Detective Daniel Coughlin, r. Q. Sullivan, the Lake View ice-dealer, and Frank Black, alias Woodruff, for the will ful murder of Dr. P. H. CrOnin. Black is the man arrested for stealth. the white horse and rig in which the physician was | driven to his death, and who told woody story regarding Dr. Cronin having been taken to attend the woman, whose body, as he claimed, was afterward hidden i'll Y the trunk.
 Over a score of witnesses, including | both personal and political friends of tho N murdered man, were examined, but no | evidence was introduced to prove con- | spiracy, and the private papers, about which so much has been said, were kept ! from the jury. As a result of the lnyes- 1 tigation if was decided by unanimous vote to include tho three prisoners i'll one indictment of three counts, one charging them with killing Dr. Cronin with blunt instrument, the second alleging the use If a sharp instrument, and the third with instruments and means unknown" The indictments were returned to | Judge Williamson and the jury released | for the night.
 States Attorney Longnecker said sub- \ sequently that the question of con- | spiracy was not Investigated in any form, and that the matter would not be taken up again by the present body.
 \ It is said upon absolute authority that | the police arc only just beginning to get \ an insight into the magnitude of the con- ' spiracy. All along they have been work | ing on the theory that it was confined to a \ few. Within the last twenty-four hours, \ however, they have come into possession | of information that places 1t beyond the | sh0dow of a doubt that at least score of \ individuals were connected, directly or ! indirectly With the diabolcal affair. | Among these, it is said, arc eight of the most prominent Irish Nationalists in the | city. These are being shadowcd day and | night, not so much with the view Of any \ immediate arrest, but as the police put | it, 'The better to subserye the interests of justice." Among the best and most widely-known of the eight is Alexander ! Sullivan, the ex-prcsident of the Irish Land League of America. He is prob- ably the best-watched man in Chicago | to-day. Shadows infest the lobby of the | Chicago Opera house building, in which his offices arc located; they { it around the upper corridors; they dog his footsteps when lie goes across 10 the court house, and they have his house on Oak street ' under surveillance. Only when closeted l in his ofce or when iii the parl0r Of his | home is he free from their gaze.
 \ Chief of Police Hubbard practically ,l t1 l ble for this espionage, but he declined to ' say upon what grounds fl was based, al ' though he hinted that 1t was done to sat- ! isfy Cronin's friends. Almost in the | same breath he said that of all the stream | of direct evidence that had been poured in upon him, there was not single fact ' that pointed in the slightest degree to \ Alexander Sullivau's culpability Tho | friends of the latter-and their number is l le4ion-take the ground that he is being most outrageOusly persecuted He is, 1 they say, being made a mark of by men who have been opposed to him for years in secret societies, and who are now only too willing to take advantage of the pres ent excitement to identify him with the crime in the public mind
 The Herald to-day, in an elaborate ar- ticle, reiterates its former statement that Dr. Cronin was removed" by the Clan na-Gael after trial and conviction, on tue charge of being British spy. It de. clares circumstantially that an officer of the order known as a delegate called upon the senior guardian of North-side camp to appoint a committee. No names nor specifications were given. At the next meeting of the camp, it was an nounced, under the rules provided for such occasions, that d trial committee was required. Each man present wrote a name on piece of paper. When all the slips had been deposited i'll the ballot box it was delivered to a trusty member who counted them and selected the seven that received the highest number Each was quietly notified of the fact, while the unsuccessful ones simply received blank slips. The committee met within a week and for the first time became aware of each others identity, and also that of the man whom they were to try and the charges preferred. Hence, of all the members of the order only the commit tee the man preferring the charges, and the witnesses eXamlne- were cognizant of the personality of the body or it's pro- ceedngs. Charges were preferred against Cronin of being British spy; he was found guilty by unanimous vote and sentenced to be removed"
 In some way the knowledge of these proceedings came to c'ronin, and hence his frequent statements just before he met his death that violent end was in sts'e for him. The article also says that the only object of the presence in Chi cago of Luke Dillon, of Philadelphia, who
 is one of the triumvirate now ruling the Ord1r, is to learn the number of the camp bYfwhich the committee was appointed.
 fhe coroner's jury yesterday visited the cottage and the man-hole in which the corpse was found, and upon returning to tho city adjourned until this morning.
 CHICAGO May 29.-Detective Robert Bruce, who has been conducting a pri- vate agency ill this city, walked into Lieu tenant Horace Elliott'S office yesterday and said that several months ago Alder man Mccormick offered him eleven hun dred dollars to kill pr. Cronin.
 Bruce, who has just returned from a three months stay in Texas, says that Mccormick paid him hundred dollars in advance, and agreed to pay the re- maining thousand dollars when the job was done. Bruce declares that McCor- mick told him to feign sickness in his of- fee, and then send for Dr. Cronin and kill him. Bruce took the hundred dol lars, spent it for liquor, and never made a move toward carrying out the contract.
 Bruce bears a rather unsavory reputa- ton, and the police do rot place all the reliance in the world in his story. He has been in numerous scrapes in this city.
 The Unknown Driver Recognized,
 CHICAGO, May 29.-As Willard J. Smith was leaving the court room after the
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