Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-05-14
THE TRUNK MYSTERY.
Now Row Boat Il rissing-Bogus Inter
terylows With Cronin.

tervlows with Cronin
CHICAGO, May IA rowbOat belong.
ing to private parties has been missing
from pier on the lake shore, near the
north end Of Lincoln Park, since the
night Of DR.. Cronin's disappearance.
Where the boat WAS usually moored il
the spot where the prisoner, Woodruff,
skys the body Of the woman in the Cronin
disappearance case was left After Wood
ruff drove from the park with the trunk he
says man shouted to him. The man
who did the shouting was a Lake View
policeman. The police claim TO have dis
covered that Woodruff was implicatc 4 in q
murder in Colorado come time ago.
The theft of this boat the night the
disposal Of the body in the trunk was
made may have been merely coincidence,
but Capt Scbsak is inclined TO the theory
that it was stolen by King and Fsirburn
after they took the body from the trunk
and sent Woodruff away.
The following was given out, on good
authority, this morning: On February
25 DR.. Cronin called on Mr.. Burrell, of
the Western Bureau of Press Clippings,
in this city, and requested him to collect
for him all the newspaper clippings he
could on the subject of extradition. The
clerks accordingly got up for him volu-
minous pile Of matter. March 15, when
they were delivered to the Doctor, he ex-
pressed his dissatisfaction, because the
majority of articles favored extradition,
and said he wanted arguments against ex-
tradition for friend of his in Philsdel-
phia.
Every effort to verify the Toronto stories
about DR.. Cropin has proved abOrtive.
Saturday morning the Chicago papers con-
tained telegrsms from Toronto saying that
CrOnin was in that city, and had been
recognized by an old acquaintance lately
hailing from Chicago. The Sunday papers
printed interviews with Cronin, creditiDg
him with saying many peculiar things.
ALI the Toronto stories were apparently
telegraphed by one and the same person,
and he apparently had the information ex-
clusiveiy. A local paper to-day attempted
to get at the truth of the matter. In an
bWci W u bClCklhln nCub w u nh0
prominent editor OF Toronto came the fol-
lowing: $50 far as known Cronin is not
here. 1t is suspected he is in st. Gather
ines, where he has many friends, but there
is no certainty"
Another Toronto newspaper man tele-
graphed: Cannot find anything about
Cronin. Whole thing believed to fake. +"
The story from Toronto, ID the effect
that Cronin has been seen and interviewed
there, is not believed by many of the Dec
tors friends here. "It's all part of the
same plot" said Conklin. 81 know
Long, and DIR. Cronin knew him and be-
friended him often. The statement made
in the alleged interview are absured. We
have been right throughout and you will
see change in public sentiment in few
days"
Mrs. Conklin denounced Long bitterly
and accused him of being British spy.
One of the Nationalists who is friendly to
Cronin, and also to the murder theory,
said: at is easy enough to understand
why such reports are telegraphed from
Toronto. William Starky is there. HIS
share in the initiation of the plot against
Cronin is well understood, and, besides,
Starkey is a Clan-na-Gael man and would
have an interest in starting such reports. F"