New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-07
THE FATE OF DIR. CRONIN UNKNOWN
FRIENDS OF THE MISSING MAN GIVE OUT DARK
HINTS ABOUT A TRAGEDY.

HINTS ABOUT A TRAGEDh'
Chicago, May (speclaD.-The fate Of DR.. p. II.
Cronin, we'll known I'm Irish Nationalist circles who
has been missing since SATURDAY evening from his
home No 40 North Clark-st, IS still a mystery. II
was reported that Dr. Cronln was seen this morning
IN srroom on the North Sido, but the runor could
not he verified
Few additional details regarding tho mysterious
man who carried DT Cronin away I'm buggy TO Sro
an alleged patient or the bloOdstsin trunk with oh
u hair resembling Cronln's found cemetery in
fAkeview. have been learned Mr.. and Mrs. Conklin,
In whose house Dr. Cronin lived scout tho idea thai
40 Is on a spree There IA a dispOsItion on the part
Of Crunlns friends attribute his disappearuncc IN
conspiracy OF his Irish political enemies, and several
Of them throw out mysterious hints about Alexander
Sullivan and his rumny to CrOnln.
Mr. Cunklin IN talking TO tue reporter said " Tho
Doctor always afraid ho would he hurt by some
body and be Wa particularly afraid OF Alexander
sullivan and other members OF the opposite Irish party
lie said several times my wife: ~ los" my life.
anything happens g mo- Alex andeT sullivan Will
Dc the ono the back Of It aiL'7
Aruei with this quotston the reporter called on
Alexander sullivan and s,kci him what no hsd say.
" / haven't a word TO say on that point said Mr.
sullivan. d" 1t Is too contemplate to notice" For
three years he had hai nothing whatever do with
pr CrDun. feel he saii that Or Cronin will
urn up presently after he has made sufficient scnsa
simultaneously with The dsappcaranco Of Cruuln
appear pamphlet which he had printed for crcula-
ton among his friends. II Il queer iunbis OF words
and ideas In It he seems 10 DO haunted by amurbh
fear Of a man whom he does not nanio. but who Is
Alexander sullivan, and The slightest facts arc. 10
hls MIND prof that every body Is IN league With sull
van against him.
The story Of the aIsFrd murder rr-aied intense e1.
element In IrshAmcriean clrcos in this city yesfer
dAy, which vac EomcwhSt increased by the fact that
yesterday happened be the seventh anniversary u
the assassination Of Lord Frederick CGvendlsh AMI
IFYAae
talk among many wolLknoVn Iflshmen in his city
foul play.
" Dr. Cronin' said Of thee Irish isOiors Wa
ono Of the best known among tie Irish leaders IN the
United stairs and cnr Of the most adj, and scholarly
al the same time. lie vas about forty year, old And
came 10 ibis country frOTn his native plaep. County
Cork, Ireland, when he Wa Ave years old He lived
during several years IN Titusyllle Penn. There va.
scarcely an Irish benevolent political literary O,
social society Of which no not n monbar; In haet
10 hSd craze for bclng connected with Irish organI
EstIons lie moved 10 Chicago about the year 1880
In 1889 he was elected delegate 10 the convention
| al Philadelphia OF the Irish National Land League o.
| America, and again at the convention I'm Chlcaco OF
the Irish National Of America IN 1856 be was slyo
delegate. lie vas an ardent ard enthusiastic sup
| p0rtcr OF the policy OF ParncI Dr. CrOnn became 4
sisnch Repuhlran. Ike thousands of his countrymcr
IN 1889, and stump0d the State OF Indiana hr Ilainc
| A member Of mo Homo Market club OF Chicago
| he Old great service 10 Tho Republican cause
The hair, supposed Ia 10 CrUnlns and found I'm tbp
trunk. waS taken this evening the barber ShOp which
| ttuHn fTrquentcl. Tho employees declared unhesi-
| tatngU mat Tho hslr was not CrOnn's