Evening journal., 1889-05-24
CHICAGO'S SAD TRAGEDY.
DR.. Cronin's Assassination Stirs
the City.
/ PHILADELPHIA SUSPECTED.

Col. Rend Says He Knows the Man Who
Instigated the Bsurder-The Hack Driver
said to Have Been Lodged in Jail--sev-
eral Arrests to he Made.
CHICAGO May 24.-The very latest devel-
opments in the Cronin murder case justify
the belief that the guilty parties win soon be
apprehended. The police are now holding
an important secret conference in Capt
Wings office in Lake View, and there is no
doubt that something important is under
discussion. Judge Longenecker, when seen
by United Press reporter said that the
police were on the trail OF one Of the prin-
cipals in the crime, and he believed the whole
conspiracy would be laid bare within few
hours
Supposed to BE the Hack Driver.
II was rumored that the police had placed
under arrest the young man who drove up 10
the Conklin residence on the night Of Satur-
day, May 4, and carried away the doctor to
his doom. This, however, could not be con-
firmed. II was said the fellow was in Gus
tody at the East Chicago avenue station
Coroner Hertz impaneled jury for the
inquest After the jury had viewed the body
the inquest was postponed till next Tuesday
at 10 o'clock.
Col. W. +. Rend arrived at the Lake View
station and was taken into the morgue The
moment Mr.. Rend saw the corpse he ex-
claimed:
Startling Assertion.
YES, that is Cronin-there is no doubt
about it--there is the body of Dr. Cronin, the
victim Of most foul and awful murder. /
can lay my hand upon the man that inst-
| gated the crime, and point him cut and make
| no mistake
Mr. Rend was questioned about this state
ment, but would only say that all he knew he
would tell TO the state attorney.
Half an hour later State Attorney Long
enecker and two Of his assistants arrived
Judge Longenecker first examined the bloody
trunk and the corpse Of Cronin, and was
then closeted for an hour with Col Rend.
After the consultation the gentlemen would
say no more than that several arrests would
surely be made.
woodrun's Part in 1t.
Next to the mystery surrounding the cause
Of DIR. Cronin's removal stand the suspicious
statements made to the police by the man
Black, or Woodruff, now confined in the
! county jail for horse stealing His famous
story concerning the removal Of a trunk CON
tanning a human body from the Watrous
barn, on the morning after the disappearance
Of Cronin to the place where it was found by
the police, was after investigation, thought
by the police TO be false. But in the light Of
later developments it was thought there
might he truth in it Accordingly Woodruff
was again subjected 70 the pumping process.
The best that could be got, however, was
that he lWoodrufi1 would do his best to ex
plain certain things II the officer would secur,
Z bail for him. Woodruff insisted that it wa
not Cronin's body be hauled from the barn
that night, and that II Cronin is dead he wa
killed since that night, because he saw him
at the barn.
1t was rumored on good authority that al
arrest had been made Of a confederate ol
Woodruff. The police authorities were ex
I tremey reticent about the matter and would
neither affirm nor contradict the rumor
r. o. Sullivan, the Lake View ice dealer
was taken 70 the East Chicago police station
but his explanations were evidently satisfac
tory to the police, as he was allowed to 60
. II was to his place, II IS claimed, that Cronin
l was called the night of his disappearance.
! Three Suspects.
The case has been placed in the hands OF
: Detective William Pinkerton. There are
three suspects Two Of them are under sur
veilance These men are believed to be sc
closely associated with the foul murder as Il
! be able 70 tell how it was consummnted.
There is another class Of suspects. These are
the leading conspirators who, while they
5 probably took no hand in the actual assassi.
! nation, gave it their Endorsement, If not THEN
hearty support
Horribly MutilRted.
DR. Todd said that the skull Of the dead
r man was cut open and the brain removed.
After the scalp had been taken Off the ply
sicians discovered that the bones composing
the skull had been marked by the blows ol
the sharp instrument which probably caused
, the doctors death. There was no sign OF
. congestion about the brain, but the lung
8 and pulmonary cavity were filed ith blood
. Dr. Todd says this might have resulted from
, the fact that the body was head downward
in the catch basin. A cut one-half inch deer
= was found upon the neck, and several bruise
upon the lower limbs The theory that Dr.
Cronin was choked to death was exploded
The doctors found no signs Of suffocation
n The passage through the windpipe was un
Q obstructed.
s 1t has been decided TO hold the funeral ser
4 vices on Sunday and bury DR. Cronin ii
g Calvery cemetery. The other arrangement
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