The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

CHICAGO, May 1O.-Ihe most start
ling information in the mysterious case
of the missing Irish-American, DR.. p.
H. CrOnin, came out tonight. A bull
letin from the City Press association
issued this evening reads as follows:
Frank G. Woodruff. the horse thief,
arrested at Twelfth street, has made a
full confession. He sneaked a horse and
s Saga out morG nj Deans and Oa met e1 by
P. H. Cronin, William King and
Dick Fairburn at the barnin the rear
of No. 52S North State street. A
trunk containing the body of woman
was placed in the wagon and Wood
ruff drove, King and Fairburn rode
with him and Cronin remained be-
hind. Woodruff left the body and his
two companions in Lincoln park and
then drove with the empty trunk to
the place on Evanston avenue where
it was found. From conversations
between Cronin, King and Fairburn
which Woodruff overheard, he judged
the body was that of d woman killed
by an abortion, perhaps performed by
DIR. Cronin. Thursday evening the
Twelfth Street jail officers arrested
young man who was trying to sell a
white horse and wagon in a livery
stable near the police station. The
young man offered it for $40 and the
suspicious of Farley the livery stable
man, were Immediately aroused. He
telephoned the station and the horse
trader was taken into custody, he gave
the name of John Brown and after an
swering the routine of questions his
face blanched, his hands began to trem-
BILE and he fell in a dead faint. The
officers wondered at the time that
the prisoner should appear SO
much concerned, but the rea-
when he sent for Captain O'DOnnell
and said he had something to tell him.
He was taken into the captains Office
and in the presence of several officers
unfolded the story of his connection
with the trunk mystery. To-day
policemen investigated the story and
found it cOrroborated by many circum-
stances tending to show its truthful
| ness. Brown said his name was Wood
ruff and he worked in Deans livery
| stable
These remarks passed while they
were carrying the contents of the trunk
back into the cushion. l noticed that
each piece was carefully wrapped up in
cotton or something that looked like
cotton. King threw the trunk into the
wagon took out his pocket book and
counted out S25 from large roll. He
passed me the money and told me to
drive on and get rid of the trunk and
| get the horse back in the barn. After
1 left them began to feel rather shaky
and whipped the horse into gallop
On the whole trip from the barn
we had seen but one man
and he was in buggy, at the time we
pulled out of the track into the bushes
and permitted him to pass, l don't
think he saw us. When 1 left the boys
l drove on run, as l said, but haC
gone not over a block out of the pari
before some one yelled at me. l die
not answer, but instead urged the
horse to go faster. 1 don't think 1 was
over fifteen minutes in the run
when finally l dumped out the
trunk turned back. 1t broke open al
it fell but did not wait to see in what
manner it lay or how the pieces werl
placed. / returned to the barn.
How did Cronin look?
AS said l never saw Cronin on thu
street to know him. That night III
looked like man quite well along il
years, but L noticed most PARTICULAR,
the black eye and the moustache anC
goatee. The eye was badly swollen
He wore derby hat and blacl
clothes.
Have you seen either of the tire
men since Sunday morning?
l saw King Oh Monday on Wabasl
avenue and talked with him seVera
minutes, and from expressions that b
then used 1 felt sure that Cronin is il
the city and that King knows hi
whereabouts, and that if King can b
found he will tell where Cronin is.
The prisoner was taken out of tn
station with Captain O'DonneIl
! Thursday, and again to-day. III
pointed out the place where he left tn
trunk and fixed the identical spo
, where it was found. He pointed on
! the barn which proved to b
, in the rear of 52S North State street
The officers entered it but could find n
evidence for OF against the story
Woodruff says he suspects from the re
marks he overheard between Cronil
Fairburn an d King that the body In t
trunk was that of a woman W no
: death resulted from an operation, per
haps performed by Er. Cronin. n
draws this conclusion not Onl
from what he overheard, bu
also from the anxiety evinced b
the doctor to get the body out of tn
way and from the fact that Croni
had apparently been recently struck b
some one.
: Woodruff first read of Cronin's dis
5 appearance in Tuesdays paper an
e also read the story detailing the find
. ing of the empty trunk. He wa
greatly frightened, and thinking ths
! the officers were certainly on b
: track, took means to get OF
Il of the city. He had some money II
= naming, but decided to obtain lit
~ more and the result was his arrest +.
y selling the horse which happened to I
b the Identical animal he used TIL
/. night.