Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-31

for him.
Mr. Oman told witness not to send out
the horse which was hitched up, and
ordered him to bring out the ''old white
horse. Mr.. Forrest here objected to the
introduction in evidence of everything
relating to the man who called for the
white horse, and to anything he said OF
did. Dan Coughlin not being present.
The court overruled the objection Mr..
! Forrest taking an exception. Witness
described the man as looking like a me-
chanic He had a short, dark beard OF
about week growth. He wore a round.
soft SLOUGH hat and faded brown or gray
overcoat, with the collar pulled up around
| his chin.
There were no side curtains on the
buggy and the man asked for them, but
did not get them. The strangers boots
or shoes were muddy and stained. The
/ horse was returned between 9 and $50
o clock. Witness then described the con-
dition of the buggy and horse. The
/ buggy was covered with sand and mud.
and the horse warm and blowing hard
as though having been driven rapidly for
long distance.
When the rig was returned the man did
not come into the barn, but jumped from
the buggy outside and walked rapidly
away.
The principal witness of the forenoon
however, was Mrs. Conkling, at whose
house Dr. Cronin last lived. After nu-
merOus questions as to the location of the
rooms in the fat, Mrs. Conklin proceeded
to tell the story of how the doctor was en-
ticed away from her house on the night of
of MAY f. She said at 720 %. M. a
stranger, who seemed nervous and excited
rang the door bell, and when she opened
the door inquired for DIR. Cronin. He
seemed very reluctant to enter, but finally
did so when told the doctor was engaged
with one of his other patients. The
stranger then took seat in
waiting room When Or. Cronin came
out of his Office the man advanced and
said: DR.. CronIn, you are wanted to at
tend a man who has been hurt at O'SuIli-
vans ice office The doctor made a re-
mark which did not hear. At that mo-
ment the man drew a card from his pocket
and presented it to the doctor Dr. Cronin
took the card and said oh yes; what is
the nature of the accident? He said: "A
man has been run over by wagon. The
doctor said: 4 will be with you soon, or
something to that effect. The man sat down
again on the edge of chair, and the doc
tor turned, laying the card on the mantel
piece. The man said Q Sullivan was out
of town and left word that DR. Cronin was
to attend his men. DR.. Cronin ran to lis
private room and gathered together some
bandages and cotton batting. He brought
1t out with his surgical case, and a case of
splinters. Then drawing on his coat as
quickly as possible, he left-running out,
carrying these things and the case in his
arms. The two went out of the house as
fast as they could, and did not even shut
the door. | heard them running down
| the stairs.
Mrs. Conklin's cross-examination
brought out the facts that within a few
! days after the disappearance of Cronin,
Police Captain Shaack brought Oman S
white horse and buggy to her house for
identification, and that she had failed to
identify the animal. On the 25th of May
when the animal was brought by a re
porter, she identified it. Mrs. Conklin
accounted for this by saying the circum-
stances of the weather and light were diff
ferent at these times. The reporter pre-
sented the animal under similar condi-
lions as when the doctor was driven away.
The crOss-examination lasted until late
in the afternoon. Charles W. w. Beck,
the reporter who drove the horse to Conk-
Inns house when Mrs Conklin identified
it, merely testified to this effect.
Sarah McNeary, who was in DR.. Gro
nln's reception room, when the
mysterious man came for him, and gave a
| description of that individual which tallys
closely with that given by Mrs. Conklin.
DIR. Cronln s brother from Arkansas tes-
tilted briefly to having identified the Lake
View corpse as that of his brother.
L. t. Conklin, the saloon keeper with
whom Cronin resided, was recalled, and
testified to starting out the first morning
of CrOnin' absence to search for the doc
tor. At O'Sullivan' house the ice man
was seen and denied having sent for Gro
min or that any of his men had been hurt
Another suspect, whose connection with
| the case seems to be a trife remote, has
been added to the already long list in the
Cronln murder. He is no other than ex-
Warden w. J. McGarigle, he OF the pro-
tracted bath 1t came about In this way:
Alexander Sullivan was McGarige's at
tOrney In the celebrated Doodle case, and
Thursday it came to the ears of one of the
detectives who is lodging Cronin suspects
In general that the knight of the bath was
IN the office of prominent Irish-Ameri-
can attorney"
The sleuth went up to the office of Mr..
Sullivan, In the Chicago opera house
/ building, but when he arrived at the door
| he wanted an excuse to enter. The real
detective is never at loss for stratagem.
So as this ones eye lit on the hard-coal
bin in the hall he said: Hal
Quick as flash he scooped up a lot of
the coal in his hand and entered the
office.
Mr.. Soolivan," he said, as with the
eye of a Lecoq he swept the room, would
We be afther wantin' to by some coaI?"
Coal" cried the attorney, an arch and
piquant expression spreading itself over
his manly features. mo: certainly not. =
But Lecoq had won his point and had
seen McGarigle.
Now Mr.. McGargle owned Jersey COW
which recently died of broken heart, and
one day last week, shortly after the events
described above, hied himself to the Gage
farm to purchase another But 10! when
he arrived there-there where a Cronir
witness had been captured educated
eye fell ON the skulking figure of Juma
the stranger, the same who, in another
disguise, had offered lump cool per sample
to his attorney some days before.
Mr.. McGargle says if this thing con
tinues he'll have to take another bath
WINNIPEG, Oct. 2S.-Assistant State,
Attorney Baker, of Chicago, who was here
during the Burke extradition proceedings
returned to Winnipeg to-day, to try to in
duce Chief McRae to go to Chicago as
witness. Baker is also investigating thu
statements of prison inmates that Burk,
i j.