Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-25
AFTER THE DRIVER NOW
J.J. Heffernan Supposed to Be
the Man Who Drove DR..
Cronin to His Death
Reported to Be in San Fran
cisco-Chicago Detectives
Now on the Track.

CHICAGO, September 21.--The Eyenin,
Journals Oakland, (Cal.) special says
Chicago detectives are here locking for j
J. Heffernan, who is said to be the mar
who drove DR.. oronin to his death on the
night OF May 4. Suspicion was first di.
rscted toward Heifernan in July when
the Chicago police were inquiring into Tom
Desmond's connection with the case. just
before DIR. Cronin was murdered. Desmond
went on from San Francisco to Washing.
ton, stopping some time in Chicago. He
was accompanied by q man who, it has
since been ascertained. was Heffenan. The
latter was introduced under an assumed
name as a member OF the Clan ma Gael in
good standing and senior guardian OF a
camp in California, in short q man to be
trusted. Desmond, after getting Heifernan
well acquainted with the Chicagoans, went
on to Washington and left his California
friend in Chicago. There Heffernan stayed
until few days after DIR. Cronin's murder,
when he quietly dropped ont OF sight. When
the Chicago police began to in
quire into Mr.. Desmonds visit
they learned he was accompanied by
another Irishman who was mysteriously
missing. This man was Heifernan, but they
did not know it. In the effort to find him
the detectives were sent to San francisco,
where they arrested Morris Walsh, cook on
the Panama steamer Acapulco, but OF
course he turned out to be the wrong man,
and they released him. -:
- L. -
OF Chicago secured photograph OF Heffer-
nan. It was shown to Mrs. Conklin, the
lady with whom Dr. Cronin, boarded. She
at once said that's the man who came here
with % white horse after the doctor. This
was pretty strong evidence but the police
wanted to be dead sure, SO without saying |
anything about Mrs. Conklin's indentifca-
ton, they handed the photograph to Frank |
Scanlon, another intimate friend Of DR.. |
Cronin, who came along just as the |
latter was stepping into the |
call from O'Sullivan the iceman.
Scanlan stopped for moment to speak /
with the doctor, and thus got better
look at the driver OF the white horse than /
Mrs. Conklin did. Seanlan's Identification
was thoroughly satisfactory. He said:
"Th4t's the man, sure" Copies OF the
photograph were then taken and sent out /
on police circular, calling for Heffernan g
arrest, and it was through one OF these
that he was finally spotted here. Heffer.
nan is young man about 30, neat
In dress and OF very frank and gentlemanly /
demeanor; feet TX inches in stockings, 10
rather stout with a light stoop to the
shoulders and had light brown hair; his
checks fair and plump, bright pink tint; he
wears long flowing dark moustache, and
has 0 clean-shaven chin, but 10 capable OF
growing thick, stubby beard very rapidly.
The man who drove DR.. Cronin from his
home on the night OF May B answers the
description OF Heffernan perfectly, except
that he was poorly dressed and had q
stubby beard. Both OF these features it
would be an easy thing for Heffernan to
assume, especially il he wished to disguise
himself as lie undoubtedly did. There is
another strong point against Hef rnan
and one which he can't deny. The officers
who are after him say that while in Chicago
Heifernan was almost constantly in COM
pany with d. w. Coughlan and on the night
Of May 8, it is alleged, the men were seen
leaving the house OF q leading suspect in
the case at ate hour. l.
An Oakland dispatch is supplemented by
the Chicago end OF the story, which 10
to the same effect. 1t says:
"Heffernan registered under an assumed
name while here; that his identity was
discovered by well known member Of
camp No. 20, Gan ma Gael, who followed
up all the clues. The requisition on the
governor OF California was secured from
Governor Fifsr, and officers we've dis.
patched to San Francisco last Tuesday.
SAN FRANCISCO, September 21.-An even
ing paper says Chief OF Police 1hompkins
and Captain Fletcher OF Oakland, were in
terviewed this afternoon and denied any
knrwledge OF Chicago police or Detectives
being in Oakland in search of ]. j. Hsffer-
nan, said TO be wanted in Chicago for COM
plicity in the Cronin case. No such name
as J. j. Hefiernan appears in the Oakland
directory and no one appears to have any
know la6oo M him. L