The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-06-15
THE OR0NIN MURDER.


The c%oroner's jury i'll the CroniI
murder case reached a verdict las
Tuesday. 1t was as follows:
1--WE, the undersigned. a Jury ap
pointed to make inquiry according {,
law as to how the body viewed by IL
came to his death, state as our YER
diet from the evidence:
-. That the body is that of Patrick
IL. Cronin, known as DIR. Cronin.
50. That ms death was not from
natural causes, but from violent means
-. That the said Patrick IL. Cronir
was decoyed from his home on NORTH
Clark street on the evening of May 4
1889, by some person or persons to the
cottage known as the Carlson Cottage,
situated at No. 1872 North Ashland
avenue
~. That at said cottage the said
Cronin was murdered by being beaten
on his head by some blunt instrument
in the hands of some person or persons
10 ms unknown.
IS. Tina the body after said murder
was placed in a trunk and carried 10
Edgewatcr on a wagon by several Fer.
sons and by them placed in a catch
basin AZ the corner OF Evanston avenue
and Fifty-ninth street, Lakeview,
where il was discovered May %.
SO. That the evidence shows con-
clusively TO II minds that a plot or
conspiracy was formed by a number
of persons for the purpose OF numbering
said CrOnin and conceallng his body -,
said plot or conspiracy was deliber-
ately contrivcd and cruelty executed.
~. We have carefully inquired into
the relations sustained by said Cronin
to other persons while alive to ascer-
tain il he had any cause or enmity
with any person sufficient to cause his
murder.
IS. 1t is our Judgment that no 9TH
or persons, except some of those who
are or had been members of a certain
secret society known Us United Broth.
crhUOd' or Gael had any
cause to be the %msligalors or executors
ol such "A plot or conspiracy to murder
said Cronin.
80. Many of the witnesses testifyinp
in the case have done so with much
evident unwlilingness, and, as we be-
l!evc. with much mental reservation :.
We find from The evidence that a num-
Der of persons were parties to this
plot u conspiracy to murder the said
CrOnin, aud that Daniel Coughlin, Pat
rick .. Sullivan, Alexander Sullivan,
and one Woodruff, alias Black, were
either principals, accessories or had
guilty knowledge of said plot and con-
spiracy to murder said Cronin and con-
ceal his body, and they should be held
TO answer to the grand jury.
"We also believe that other persons
were engaged in this plot OF had guilty
knowledge of it, and should be appre-
hendcd and held to the grand jury.
ave further state that this plot or
conspiracy i'll its conception and execu-
ton was II of tue most foul and
brutal that has ever come to our
knowledge aud recommend that the
proper authorities offer a large reward
tor the discovery and conviction of all
of those engaged i'll it in any way.
1--WE further state That in our judg-
ment all secret societies whose objects
are such as the evidence shows the
Clan-na-Gael, or United Brethren, to
be, are not in harmony with and are
injurious to American institutions.
We hopc 'udt lutuic SiSoT anu VIZ
lance by the police force will more
than compensate for past neglect by a
part of the force in this caSn.r
Ii is signed by ). 5. Critchell, Ru
dOlph Seitert, IL. A. Haugan, Victor
U. Suffer, John III. Vanhousen and
Justus KILN.
Alexander Sullivan was found at his
home, i'll bed, by the officers who went
to arrest him upon the finding of the
above verdict. He was quickly taken
to Jail TO await the action of the grand
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