Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-05-24
COL. REND KNOWS HIM
He Says He Can Put His Hand on
 the InStigator of Cronin'S Death.
RUMoI.s OF ARRESTS.
the Night of His Disappearance, said to be Behtnd the Bars Tw Q Nlen Under the Ev of the Detect tves.

Nten Vnuef the hy OH the DetecttNes.
 CHICAGO, May 24.-The vcry latest.de- velopments In the Cronin murder case justify the belief that the guilty parties will soon be apprehended. The police are now holding an important secret con- ference in Captain Wings office In Lake View, and there Is no doubt that some- thing important Is under the discussion. Judge Longenecker, when seen by repor- ter, said that the police were on the trail ol ono of the principals in the crime. and he believed the whole conspiracy would be laid bare within few hours.
 It was rumored that tho police had placed under arrest the young man who drove up to the Conklin residence on the night of Saturday, May i, and carried away the doctor. It was said the man was locked up at the Larrabee street station late yesterday afternoon by Lieu tenant Schuettler-
 Coroner Hertz yesterday impaneled q jury for tho inquest. After the jury ad viewed tho body the inquest was post poned until next Tuesday at 10 o'clock.
 Colonel w. P. Rend arrived at tho Lake View station yesterday, and was taken inte the morgue. The moment MT. Rcnd saw the corpse he exclaimed ::
 Yes, that Is Cronin-there is no doubt about it-there is the body of Dr. d awful murder. 1 can lay my hand upon thc man that instigated tho crime, and point hlm out and make no mistak O."
 MT. Rend was questioned about this statement, but would only say that all he knew he would tell to the state attorney. Half an hour later State Attorney Longenecker and two of his assistants arrived. Judgo ,Longenecker first exam ined tho bloody trunk and the corpse of J,, nI hnn a1nSnth1 fnu hour with Col. Rend. After the consul tation the gentleman would say no more than that several arrests would surely be made shortly.
 Next to the mystery surrounding the cause of Dr. Cronin's removal stand the suspicious statements made to the police by the man Black, or Woodruff, now con fined ip the county jail for horse stealing. His famous story concerning the removal
 of trunk containing a human body from the Watrous barn, on tho morning after the disappearance of Cronin, to tho place where it was found by the police, was. after investigation, thought by the l police to be false. But in the light oi Wednesday nights developments 1t was | thought there might be truth in It. Ac- | cordingly Woodruff has again been sub- | jected to the pumping process. The | best that could be got, however, was that l iiS l"pcui uill "obiSi uo HIS bVSi to explain certain things If the off, | ger would secure bail for him. Wood | ruff insisted that it was not Cronin's l body he hauled from the barn that night | and that if Cronin is dead he was killed
 since that night, because he saw him at
 the barn.
 F. O. Sullivan, the Lake View Ice l dealer, was taken to the East Chicago l police station, but his explanations were | evidently satisfactory to tho police, as he
 was allowed to go. It was to his place, | it is claimed, Cronin was called the night
 of his disappearance.
 1 The case has been placed in the hands l of Detective William Pinkerton. There ! are three suspects. Two of them are
 under surveillance. These men are be.
 lieved to be so closely associated with
 tho foul murder as to be able to tell how | it was consummated. Therc Is another
 class of suspects. Theso arc the leading
 corspirators who, while they probably l took no hand i'll the actual assassination l gave it their indorsement, If not theil hearty support.
 It was rumored on good authority here yesterday that an arrest had been
 mada of the confederate of Woodruff,
 who is believed to have been implicated
 in the murder of Dr. Cronin. The police | authorities were extremely reticent about l the matter and would neither affirm nol | contradict the rumor. It Is also stat ed | that another arrest will be made.