The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-24
Pointing to Another Crime
Woven Into the Fabric
of the Cronin
Mystery.
IT LAY BESIDE HIS BODY.
A Theory That the British Govern
ment Instigated the Murder.


BY two reporters for the Inter-Ocean yes
terday afternoon, among ether things
found was the end of finger with the
nail and long piece of white skin at
tached. The nail is tapering and well
kept and has.the appearance of having
come from woman.
At first it was the belief of everyone
who saw the piece of finger that it had
come from one of the hands of the de-
ceased. For the purpose of making sure
visit was made to the undertaking shop
of Birren & Carroll, where the body Of
DR.. Cronin lies.
He stated that he was sure that it could
not be the Doctors finger, as, had finger
or nail been missing, he would have no
ticed it,
II the undertaken is correct in his OBJ
seryation, how did the skin and portion Of
q human finger come to be in the sewer?
Can 1t be possible that another life was
taken at the time DR.. Cronin was assas-
sinated?
Is it possible that the stories
told by Woodruff regarding the
mutilated body of a. woman
is true? Might it not be that the body of
the woman whom Woodruff called
Allie" was first disposed of; carted out
to the front near the foot of Halsted
street in the trunk, wrapped up in the
tarpaulin and dropped into the lake; then
the trunk was used to convey the corpse
of DR.. Cronin to the catch basin, where it
was found. The finger might have been
tangled up in the cotton and thrown into
the basin with the body of DR.. Cronin.
Facts in the case may yet discover to the
people another horrible murder
WAS THE DEED DONE HEREs
It was discovered yesterday that q cot
tage near the residence OF Patrick o.
Sullivan, the iceman was rented little
less than two months ago by unknown
parties, who paid one months rent in adj
vance, but never, SO far as known took
possession of the premises This inform
alton was given to the police by Mr. Sui
livan and the facts corrOborated by the
neighbors. A reporter visited the owners
Of the cottage, a Mr.. and Mrs Carlson,
two aged Swedes, but they refused to
talk about it, saying they would tell their
story to the police.
"a young woman living at Mr.. Sullivan's
said that about three weeks ago, one Sun
day night she saw light in the house,
but, as far as she knew, no one has been
seen there since. It is said that the par
ties who rented the place were two young
men, evidently Irish workingmen, and
that they said they were going to work
for Mr.. Sullivan. 1t is not improbable
that the cottage was hired by the assas-
sins of DR.. Cronin, and he was decoyed 10
it, murdered there. and then the body
ia ken away in the trunk.
WAS ENGLAND's HAND IN 1T?
The Nelcs this morning prints the fol-
lowing:-
The possibility that the English Govern
ment, through its secret agents may have
had something to do with the Cronfn
mystery is not being lost sight of.
Irish-Americans generally, with this
thought in view, have been closely watch
ing developments. One well posted gen
tleman said esterday:-"Scotland Yard
has finger in every Irish pie. 1t would
be queer, indeed, if the CrOnin business
proved the first exception. Improbable.
you say-not bit of it.
for moment in the horrible truth about
Pigottf There was an instance where,
with the funds of the British exchequer,
the highest Tory officials joined in a far
reaching, cunningly devised plot to de-
stroy the Irish movement by running the
leader, Parnell.
ssNow,n said the speaker warmly, 'swho
is the beneficiary in this Cronin business
who is the loser? Let it hurt or help
what single person it may, the chief
gain, immeasurably, is to the Tory Gov
ernment of England; the main harm, far
exceeding the disgrace Of any individual,
is the Irish National movement in
America Let me tell you something PEE
culiar or perhaps not a little significant.
The very date of Cronin's disappearance
was the anniversary of the Phoenix Park
assassination, the identical odi-
Gus event with which it was
sought to connect. Parnel. The Lon
Irish movement at home was opportunely
sprung in a time of sore need for the
Tories. If the Irish movement could be
ruined in America at such crisis as the
present, would not the Pigott fiasco be re-
trieyed, and with a vengeance?
HE WAS PROBABLE VICTIM.
''Granting the possibility of another
Plgott affair, no better intended victim
could have been chosen than the expires
ident of the Irish National League of
America.
"An incident. well known in his career,
once put him on trial for murder. Placed
under suspicion of q similar crime, the
man would be fearfully handicapped.
Cronin had for years boasted openly and
often of possessing proof of rottenness in
Irish organizations and alleged misconduct
by the ex-president. If anything hap
pened to Cronin, who delighted TO pose as
a mighty antagonist of the Land League
official what could be easier than to have
it appear that the latter was responsiblef
This phase of the mystery will not escape
attention, assure you, and to Irishmen,
who bitterly remember Pigott and LIE
Carron and hundreds of lesser demons
working systematically for years, the idea
is no mere idle theory.
"a check to the Parnellites now would
be worth heaven itself to the Tories.
Their London Times case is daily nearing
its ignominious end, and closely following
comes the great congress of lrish-Ameri-
cans at Philadelphia, where thousands
upon thousands of dollars, it has been ex-
pected, would be subscribed fo- Parnell.
AT this momentous juncture suddenly
stands revealed a horror and scandal
second to none in the history Of politics.
You can draw your own conclusions.
more than half have mine"
A Nctps special from Toronto says
Charley Long, the young man who claims
to have seen and interviewed DR.. Cronin
in this CITY, was asked last night what he
thought of the matter since the finding or
the Doctors body He still maintains the
correctness of his story and says that
when the time comes he will go TO
Chicago and vindicate his position. His
theory is that after his visit to Toronto
Cronin returned to Chicago and was
He went over the circumstances OF his
meeting Cronin on Thursday May g. and
also on the following Saturday, and tells
/ verv nlausible story OF the alleged In