The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-25
STAINED WHIRLPOOL.
The Cottage in Which DR.. CrOnin
Was Brutally Murdered.
THE ASSAsSINS LEFT TRACES
The Police We're Watching, But the Reporters
y Slipped in and Revealed the Story
Cronin's Journal.

-A5ErTcAGo, May 24-It was learned to-day
that the police had strukk quite an i'm
portant clue in the Cronin mystery. 1t
seems beyond doubt that they have dis
covered the place where CrOnin was muir
dered. a vacant cottage in Lake View.
Apparently the authorities have had
some information about the place for sew
eral days, and since the discovery OF the
body an officer has been constantly watch
ing the suspected cottage. The reporters
heard OF this surveillance, but the police
would give them no information. accord,
iugiV this morning three reporters watched
their opportunity, and when the officers
we're in the rear OF the house forced an en-
france at the front. Stains resembling
blood were seen on the front steps, but
when the reporters entered the front room
or parlOr. they found undoubted blood
stains on the floor also in the corner OF the
back parlor an IN the hallway. The parlor
fooris covered with bloody marks, although
here the assassins evidently made Strenu-
Gus efforts to destroy the STAINS. Inc fOOr
is daubed recklessly with brown paint and
il can be plainly seen that the work was
not that of an expert. Ii was evidently
done in such haste that several places were
LETT where the blood stains are perceptlole,
notably in the center Of the floor. In the
uajut were prints of bare feet. Evidently
the person who made the marks was much
excited, for the footprints are seen in
evsyE direction. indicating that the owner
M rushed all over the room.
i'he reporters had not completed their
Investigation before the arrival of the
officer. who put q stop to the work. Before
breaking into the house the reporters had
peered through the basement windows and
discovered a spade standing against post,
and that the earth had been freshly turned
up. 1t is said that the police found bloody
clothing concealed n the house, or base
ment but on this point they refused to
talk.
The cottage in question IS situated within
= few hundred feet of the home of p. 0.
Sullivan, the ice man, whose card, when
presented to DR.. CrOnin. led him to
leave his home on the night OF
his disappearance The man who pre-
sented the card said that one of Sulliyan's
employees had met with an accident and
'eduested Cronin's services. The cottage
,,longs to man named Carlson who lives
tsa,rear of the same lot.
Wa.ars that about seven weeks ago
coulc man rented the house, paying
ssNo. advance. People were given to
party I that the woman had rented 1t
Cod. Eother who had been hired by
the tPulliyan declared he did not hire
crasheian. Moreover. though the rent
of vrhiue house remained unoccupled
came me of Cconin's disappearance,
reachc men came with what appeared
va jundle of carpets. II they We're
,,ref2asjng for CrOniu'S assassination, TINS
UOula7have been d good way TO smuggle
into the house large bundle Of cotton bat
ting like that found around the body. Pro
ceeding with the theory that Cronin was
murdered here, il is pointed that the house
is admirably located Tor the purpose, as
ZD11i
Cronin could be conducted TO II WithouteX-
citing his suspicion, while at the same time
Il would furnish 4 perfect hiding
place for them to spring upon
him as soon as he entered the place. II Is
also surmised that the carpet may have
been used upon the hallway OF other front
room to give the place the appearance OF
being occupied. The attention of the police
was directed to the house By Carlson, the
owner This afternoon IL was visited by
Inspector EtecsOld and the coroner.
When Lieutenant Schuetler found the re
porters had gained entrance, he was very
angry He suspended the officer who had
been on watch and sent another to take his
place. The lieutenant himself, however,
was not more successful in keeping the
secret, for a reporter succeeded in drawing
fran him important admissions, among
them that the police had clue to the
murder The most important admission
been recovered and identified.
Late this afternoon Mr.. Carlson turned
over to the police a letter signed Frank
Williams which he said was written by
one(Of the strange men who occupied the
cottage and disappeared after the murder
The police would not divulge she date or
contents of the note, but it IS supposed to
relate to the renting of the house.
The police officials appear to think to-
night that CrOnin'S assassins may have
initiated stooiler'' McGarigle's famous es-
cape up Lake Michigan. 1t is said that
TWO men were noticed early Sunday morn
ing following Cronin's disappearance
ing for the north pier. They
were heading almost in a straight
line from the beach in Lincoln Park, near
where the prisoner Woodruff said halt
hssd been made with the mysterious trunk.
Since that night row-bOat has been miss
ing from an establishment close by. The
suburban police have always declared that
there were three men seen in the wagon
supposed to contain the mysterious trunk.
Woodruff from the first has talked of two
others besides himself. The police are very
anxious to hear from the missing boat.
DR. Cronin's remains will be taken to one
of the large public halls on the lake front,
where all who desire, may gaze on his
CHASTITY corpse. Sunday there will be a
street procession from the hall to the cath
edral After services, the remains will go
bv train to Calvary cemetery. Fifty cents
e will be charged each person going to the
cemetery, and the amount which it is es-
tiuated il will net the committee of ar
rangements is thirty-hve cents for each
fare. The sum thus raised, it is announced,
Will be devoted to the discovery and prose
cution of the Doctors murderers.
The vacant cottage where the blood
\ stsAas were discovered, the place which
thy police had already decided was the
scene of the murder of DR.. Cronin, there
u was found by detective officers key, and
e they decided at once to try it in the lock of
the mysterious trunk found by the road
side the morning after Cronin disappeared.
The key fitted exactly. All doubt of the
genuine connection between the prisoner.
Woodruff, with the DOCTORS dead body the
trunk and the blood stained cottage, has
been put beyond question.
The Carlson cottage has been thorough
Is Fansacked. A new brush such as paint
err ordinarily use in the course of work
was found in the attic. Its hairs We're
smeared with paint similar to that with
which the blood stains had been partly
obliterated In the attic were also found
n a pot containing the same kind Of paint
The indications were that the painting had
been done sometime after the killing, posi-
bly involving the return TO the houses of the
murderers or their accOmplices after the
paint had dried. A Son-in-laW OF OLD man
Carlson tonight said the cottage was rented
In March, and the rent paid IN advance.
The man who SrNnght the bed, bureau and
o.,