The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-05-31

DIR. CRONIN'S MURDER.
no CRIME FOR YEARS HAS AT.
TRACTED SUCH INTEREST.
M Theory IL that Engiish Tories Are RE-
sponslble, Another that Cronln Was .
Asritash Spy-StM Others Believe an OPP.
s posing Faction Of the Irish Planned the
(. Foul Mursler.
There are more rumors about than de-
velopements In the circumstances concern
ing the certainly brutal fate Of Dr.. p.
r.. Cronin, says . Chicago telegram Of
Friday, Nay 81 That he was
the victim OF . murderous band Of
conspirators IVA not doubted. His brother,
Sohn y. Cronin, came here from Arkan.
eas, viewed the bloated corpse under the
t1ickitn& waters in the basement morgue
Of Lake View, and positively declared
that It was the remains Of his brother.
Chief Deputy Coroner Eckhardt will
hold the inquest. The jurors chosen BY
him are: R 8. Twitchell, Justice Killian,
=: y. Vac Duzen, H. A. Hangen, Victor
y. sutler, and Randolph Seifert. After
viewing the body the inquest was adj
Journed to Tuesday at ~ .. m.
Inc post-mortem examination Of the re-
mains began at 2:45 O'Clock. It was con-
Quoted by County Physician Todd, DR.. f.
O.. Porter, city physician of Lake View,
and DIR. l. L. Gregory.
q doctors were occupied in making It
B O'Clock. They examined the broken
finger, the teeth, and other marks Of iden-
tiicatton, and made a record Of their OBJ
~eervatfons. They refused to sa3. what the
result Of the examination M, for the
reason, IS they said, that they Gould not
disclose their information until itAswas nut
In the possession Of the coro-
ner's jury.
The police have done nothing to cast
light on the dark mystery. So far O.
capturing any one who might know any
thing OF the foul means adopted in con.
summattng the removal" of Cronin, the
police have accomplished nothing. Indeed.
Cronin's friends are going to ignore the
Chicago police in the Investigations they
propose to prosecute. Pinkerton detectives
held surveillance over the only man put in
durance yesterday. He was the iceman
F. o. Sullivan, one of the parties to the
contract which blinded the eyes of the muir
dered physician to the flshiness of the story
under which he was decoyed from his office
to his fate.
States Attorney L~ongenecker talked
with Sullivan, n also with Justics
Mahoney. who had helped Sullivan to
make that contract. Mahoney's state
ment was taken in detail by James NJ.
Purcell, official stenographer Of The Grim.
inal court: but, according to MIR. Longe-
necker, not IN atom of information was
CLEANED that had not been detailed in the
press reports. The States attorney is
only hopeful that he may be able to un-
earth the details of q conspiracy, of the
existence of which there is no APPARENT
doubt.
The Pinkerton national detective agency
has several operatives at work. In ex.
PLANTATION of their employment it was said
that Cronin' S friends did not have entire
confidence in the city and Lake View de-
tective force. 1t is an established fact that
many of the city force are ardent Irish
nationalist, and it is believed that many
OF them opposed the faction to which
Cronin belonged.
Money is rapidly pouring into the fund
now being accumulated for the
of investigation, and the promoters of the
investigation say there will be $50, 900
easily raised for the cause. They appear.
determined to go to bedrock for facts.
and the result of their investigation is
awaited with keen impatience, as the gen.
eral impression is that facts peculiarly
startling and sensational will be sprung.
The Rev. Father Dorney, pastor of st.
Gabriel's church, who became famous in
the Chimes Parnell'' case, discussed the
Cronin mystery yesterday. During his
talk with a reporter he said: 81 have
rmedn no theory about this terrible mat
ter and ! must say that l nave not had
time to keep myself posted. 1t was a ter
rible surprise to me. The theory that his
Irish movement is absurd. If there was a
semblance of truth in it / am sure that my
connection with such affairs and my init
mate relationship with those prominent in
the Irish movement would have enabled
me to know something about it. 1t is alb
surd from the fact that all those WHO were
opposed to Cronin i'll uch matters have
dropped out ana have ceased to take any
interest i'll 1t, leaving Cronin andfhis friends
in control. To say that he was killed by
any one connected. with an Irish society
would be to say that he has killed by his
friends.n
The possibility that the English govern
ment through its secret agents may have
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mystery is not being lost sight of. Irish
Americans generally, with this thought in
view, have been closely watching develop
ments. One well-posted gentleman said:
Scotland yard has q finger in every
Irish pie. 1t would be queer indeed if the
Cronin business proved the first exception.
improbable, yousay-not q bit of it. Who
= would have believed beforehand for a mo-
ment in the horrible truth about Pigott.
There was an instance where, with the
funds OF the British xcheguer, the high
est Tory officials Joined in q f~ar-reaching.
cunningly devised plot to destroy the Irish
movement by running the leader, Parnell.
Forgery, perjury, absolutely no crime
necessary was stopped at. Parnell, by
Whatever MEANS, was to be shown up vir-
tuslly an assassin, the confederate Of the
Phoenix park murderers. Details were
wrought out with the utmost nicely. Gil
max followed climax in a manner dramatic
beyond precedent, and slowly but surely
the coils frightened around the great leader.
He was delivered only by an accident.
'sNow," said the speaker, warmly,
"who is the beneficiary in this Cronin bus
iness-who is the loser: Let it hurt or
help what single person it may. the chief
gain, immeasurably, is to the Tory gov
eminent of England, the main harm, far
exceeding the disgrace of any ndividual
is to the Irish national movement in
America.
Let me tell You something peculiar and
perhaps not II little significant. The very
date Of Cronin's disappearance was the an
niversary Of the Fh9nix park assassina-
ton, the identical odious event with which
it was sought to connect farnell. Tie
London Tines conspiracy to destroy the
Irish movement at home was opporfunelv