Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-01

CHICAGO, May a.-P. o. Sullivan, the
ice man, Frank Woodruff and ex-Detective
Coughlin were arraigned before Judge
Williams this afternoon, charged with
the murder of DR.. Cronin. They were
brought into court from the Jail through
the iron passageway and Immediately,
after pleading not guilty, were taken back
again.
Very few spectators were present, and
only one of the men-Sullivan-had an at
torney in court. Lawyers David and Dona-
hue, who are attending to the ice mans
case, Happened to be in court at the time
trying Another case. Mr.. David entered the
stereotyped motion to quash the indictment,
but no date was set for arguments. Each Of
the three prisoners was furnished with
copy Of the indictment against him.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION.
Some valuable information in the Cronin
case has been gathered from the man
"Mack9" alias Williams, alias McWill-
Jams, who was arrested in cheap lodging
house. Mack claims to be carpenter. He
told the following story: On the I'd of May
he was working for Mrs. Wilson on North
Ashland avenue, scarcely block from the
Carlson cottage. Mack was putting in
screen windows at the time,
understood to be Mrs. Dudley, came in and
began to talk with Mrs. Wilson. Mack
was in the same room and he overheard
every word. Mrs. Dudley, who is a stout
woman, was talking very bitterly against
physician who had attended her husband.
Mack says he heard the name "Dr. Cronin"
mentioned, but he did not know whether
the physician complained of was the Cronin
referred to or not. Mrs. Dudley seemed
very much excited and frequently made
the remark in great spirit: II will get even
with him."
THE WOMAN IN IT.
Mrs. Dudley said that she was working
in an orphan asylum on Burling street, but
that she was going to leave the asylum, and
that she daily expected to go to live with
her two brothers in cottage near by. Mrs.
Dudley pointed in the direction of the Carl
son cottage in referring to the place she was
going to move into
At the Chicago Nursery and Half Orphan
Asylum, on Burling street, it was found
since gone away. It is believed that Will
Jams is one Of the men who rented the Carl
son cottage; that he is carpet layer by
trade and that he laid the carpet in the cot
tage.
A portion of the dead mans clothes have
been found. They were buried over foot
under ground, and were only discovered BY
probing in the sand with sharp sticks. The
whi hop kba Of fho nm forfn 10
tor, and the ,other articles we're readily
recognised as portions of his apparel. The
pants in places were deeplyistained with
blood.
A MYSTERIOUS VEST.
Strange to say, however, the physicians
vest was missing and in its place was vest
of much coarser material containing in the
pockets five pennies and cigar. This gar
ment presumably belonged to one OF the
murderers or accomplices. For this reason
the police are using every effort to suppress
the discovery, hoping that Cronin's vest
may be discovered in the possession of one
of the murderers.
Considerable Importance is attached to
the fact thatswhen the first garment was
first discovered by two little boys, couple
of strangers appeared on the spot and
ordered them to destroy the, garment and
throw away the pieces. This mandate was
obeyed, and no more was thought of the
matter until the elder brother was casually
informed of the circumstance. Both men
were strangers in the locality.
The residence of the Carlsons was care
fully searched by the police to-day, but
nothing of suspicious nature was dis
covered. The people of Lakeview are de-
manding that the sewer in which Cronin's
body was found be searched from the catch
basin to the lake. They think it possible
his tools and hat and oyercoatmight be dis
covered in it,