Omaha daily bee., 1889-06-13
Issued to Alexander Sullivan By
Judge Tuley.
REVIEWING ALL THE EVIDENCE.
The Judge Will Carefully Consider
the Testimony Taken Before the
Coroner's Jury-Maroney
and Mcdonald.
A spec ecial Grand Jury Impaneled.

expected u full, exhaustive, impartial inves
tigation of 1.-The murder of DR.. Cronin. The
entire resources of the county, he said,
would be at the disposal of the jury, and wit
nesses who would not testify should be made
to do so. The grand jury had it in its
power to do so. There are only
two 1rishmen on the panel-W. j.
Quan, a wellknown wholesale grocer, and
O'Neil, eX-county commissioners.
The special venire for jury was returned
into court by Sheriff Matson in person.
He stated that he chose the jurors by turns
ing to the business part of the directory and
selecting the names of men well known IL
care that no one should be drawn who enl
tertained prejudlces for or against the Clan
na-Gael. Judge Shepard appointed John p.
Claugh foreman of the jury. The greatest
the nproceedings secret, although the
jury went over the old ground and
heard witnesses who had already told what
they knew at the coroners inquest. After
the jury had organized they listened to the
story OF Lieutenant Schuttler, who told what
he knew of the Carlson cottage.
Subp9nas were served on DIR. Cronin's
friends, Saloon Keeper Conklin and wife;
the two Carlsons, father and son; James
Mullin, manager of Revell u Co.; e. G.
real estate agents; Salesman, w. p. Hat
field, of Revell & Co.; M. Il. McHale, car
pet layer for Revell & Co.; Joseph Cronin,
brother of DIR. Cronib, and Justice Mahoney,
told of the renting of the fiat
at West Clark street by ~. b. Simmons"
1t took ten minutes for Mr., Hatfield to re-
late all about the purchase of the furniture at
Revells. He came down IN fifteen minutes.
Justice Mahoney then entered the room and
stayed for two hours, all the other witnesses
being presently sent home. The magistrate
was pressed very hard about the contract p.
o. Sullivan had made with DR.. Croniu. 1t
is reported he was charged with having
guilty knowledge of that contract; with at
tempting to suppress part of the truth
about the so-called Washington literary soci-
ETY.; with being bitter hater of the doctor,
and with attempting to shield his supposed
murderers. Mahoney, after long examina-
ton, emerged in very much excited and
trembling condition, and the grand jury
ourned until tomorrow.
Alexander Sullivan declined to see any
callers this morning except his law partners.
None of the horde of curiosity seekers who
on one preteXt or another, gained admittance
to the cage, were able to get glimpse of
him, he quietly folling all such efforts by re.
naming at the far end of the cell,
just out Of reach of the many pairs of eyes
strained in his direction TO friend who
sent Sullivan a note from the Jail Office ex
pressing mistaken confidence in his mno-
cence, the famous eX-president of the Irish
National league returned the following reply:
II AN very grateful 1OF your KIM WOruS.
Time and the truth will Justify you in their
use. Sincerely,
ALEXANDER SULLIVAN"
This afternoon Sullivan made application
by attorney, returrable at o'clock, for a
writ of habeas corpus. 1t asserts the verdict
of the coroner's jury is insufficient for his
commitment bail. That though large
amount of extra judicial evidence was taken
by the coroner, no testimony sufficient TO JUS
THY his incarceration was produced, and his
,.tc ln,At 10 hn md
prejudice. He declares he is entirely inno-
cent OF any connection with Cronin's death.
After listening to the petition Judge Tuley
issued the writ rs prayed, returnable at p III.
The judge announced that he would read
the testimony taken before the coroner's
jury in the Cronin murder case, and decide
whether or not there was enough evidence to
hold Alexander Sullivan without bail. He
will announce his decision Friday forenoon
at 10 o'clock.
A very strong chain of circumstantial evl-
dence has been wound about John j..
Maroney, one of the men under arrest in
New York under suspicion of beng con-
nected with the murder of DIR. Cronin. The
story as given by the authorities is as fol-
lows Photographs were procured of
Maroney and Mcdonald, the other man
arrested at the same time in
New York. These were mixed with a num-
ber of others and shown first to Salesman
Hatfield, Of Revell & Co., who sold the fur
niture subsequently found in the Carlson cot
tage in Lake View, in which DR. Cronin was
murdered. Hatfield, without hesitation,
picked out Maroney's portrait as that of the
man to whom he sold the furniture. The
pictures were then shown to Throckmorton,
the real estate agent who rented the rooms
on Clark street opposite Cronin's office, to
which the furniture was first Carted from
Revells. Throckmorton picked out the pic
ture of Maroney as the man to whom he
rented the rooms. Once more the pictures
were shuffied, and this time they were shown
to EXpreSsman Martenson, who carted the
furniture from the Clark street rooms to the
Carlson cottage in Lake View, where Cronin
was murdered. The result was the same.
Maroney's picture was again selected, this
time as the man who had hired the furniture
moved. Neither of these persons knew
what had been done by the other. In each
of these cases the man gave his name as j. B.
Simmons. IT now remains TO be seen
whether or not the Carlsons will recognize
nm as one of the alleged brothers named
Williams who rented the cottage
Chief Hubbard said later he understood
that Maroney's picture had been shown to
Mrs. Conklin, and that she had recognized il
| as that of the man who drove DIR. Cronin
| away. Requistion papers were secured from
| Governor Fifer and at 10 o'clock this morn
| ing Pinkerton detective started for New
| York with them. Luke Dillon has Maroncy's
| signature on the Mccoy hotel register in his
| possession. The signature is "W. J.. Mel
| ville," and the clerk Identifies the picture o.
| Maroney as that OF Melville. There is somo
thing more startling in the signature
| The "i's," ISIS" and 'l's" IN Melvill,
| are similar in shape to those in the letter tc
| the Carlsons from "F. W." one Of tho Will
| Jams brothers who hired the cottage.
Luke Dillon left for Philadelphia this af
ternoon. "My business has been neglected.
| he said, "but shall be back in a few days
| and expect to work harder than ever in
I bringing the murderers to justice. 1 have
| not a particle of doubt that they will be al
| convicted" He said that the censure by tn,
coroner's jury will hurt the Clan-na Gael
| but that that body will be reorganlzed anC
| its effect neutraized by eliminating some o
| the at present Objectionable features.
Arraigned in Court.
New YORK, June l2.-Maroney auC
and Mcdonald, the two kCronin sus
poets arrested yesterday were arraigned il
! court to day and remandcd without bail u
await the arrival OF Chicago detectives.
After Deing arraigned and remanded bot
| men talked 10 the reporter. Mcdonald sat
| he came here from Philadelphia four year
| ago and has never been out Of the city since
and has not Travelled five miles on railroat
| since that time. For the past thirteel
months he has been employed in black
| smith shop on First avenue. Referring u
| the statement in the morning that he ha