Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-05-29
THREE INDICTMENTS FOUND.
Sullivan, Coughlin and Woodruff
Charged with DIR. Cronin's Murder.

Detective Daniel Coughlin, Patrick O. Sulli-
van. the ice man. and Frank J. Black alias
Woodruff, were indicted by the grand jury In
Chicago last evening for the murder of Dr.
Cronin. This result was reached after an in
vestigation which began at noon and lasted
| seven hours, during which two witnesses were
examined and mass of evidence considered.
The three prisoners were included in one in
dictment. to which there were three counts
one charging them with killing DIR. Cronin
with blunt instrument, the second alleging
the use of sharp instrument and the third in
struments and means unknown.
No evidence was introduced to prove a con-
splracy, and DR.. Cronin's private papers were
not placed before the grand jury. The wit
nesses called were those whose stories have
been told in general outline, if not in detail
In the press. Judge Longenecker thought it
advisable to tighten the coils into which the
three prisoners had already been drawn. and
fasten them with indictments, probably to pre-
vent any attempt to secure the release of one
or more of them on bail
Woodruff is the man who saws he carried a
body IN wagon to Lincoln park on the night
of DIR. Cronin's disappearance
The jury took only one vote after hearing
the witnesses. and that was unanimous for
lndlctlnS All three prisoners. States Attorney
LonSenecker said tonight that no mention of
Clan-na-Gael affairs had been made in the iurv
room. The charge of conspiracy was not in
vestigated, ;" he added, land Dir. Cronin's papers
were not brought in. Those matters will come
later, probably before another grand jury"
THE CoROSERs INQUEST.
The coroner took the jury out to the cottage
to view the place where the murder was COM
mitted, to the catch-basin where the body was
found, and over the route taken by the wagon
Ill which the body was taken after it left the
Carlson cottage. The jury is an intelligent one.
They started out In carriages, and after taking
IN Lieut.. SpeDgler at the Lake View police
station. they went to the cottage, at No 1872
Ashland avenue, where the murder was done.
The jury noted the steps where blood-stains
had turned them a dirty brown. They went
into the front room, saw the rudely-painted
floor daubed crude mud-colOr. examined the
footprints from the fresh yellow paint on the
purplish red of the hall and bedroom floors,
examined carefully spots of blood in the center
of the floor. and scrutinizing with eyeglasses
the splotches of blood on the wall where the
llfe-tlde had spurted when the assassin struck
the blow.
THE TELL-TALE LAMP.
A fresh discovery was made yesterday. and
that is that the handle of the lamp was smeared
with the yellow ochre. showing that the floor
had been painted after dark, probably immedi-
ately after the murder.
From the cottage the party drove out Evans
where the bloody trunk was found Thence
the party drove half mile farther on to the
man-hole, where the doubled up body of the
murdered doctor was found Lifting up the
lid, Lieut.. Spengler pointed out the cotton bat
ting still sticking to the splinters of the rough
wood frame work.
1T is this gentlemen of the Jury" said Cor
oner Hertz. pointing to the thin fluffs. now
grayed by moisture. lit is this which connects
the body of DIR. Cronin found here with the
trunk mystery and the cottage. for the trunk
bottom was covered with cotton and there were
tufts of IT found in the cottage
After viewing this the jury returned to Chicago
at O'Clock and the further investigation was
deferred until this morning at 10 O'Clock.
BRUCEs UNLIKELY STORY.
Detective Robert Bruce, who has been con-
Quoting private agency i'll Chicago, walked
into Lieut.. Horace Elliott's office Yesterday
morning and said that several months ago AL
derman Mccormack offered him 81 100 to kill
DIR; Cronin. Bruce, who has just returned from
a three months stay In Texas, saws that McCor-
mack paid him 800 in advance. and agreed to
pay the remaining $1,000 when the lob was
done. Bruce declares that Mccormack told
him to feign sickness in his office. and then
send for DIR. Cronin and kill him Bruce saws
he took the 800, spent it for liquor, and
never made move toward carrying out the
contract
Bruce bears a rather unsavory reputation,
and the ponce do not place all the reliance in
the world in his story