Omaha daily bee., 1889-06-12
ALEX. SULLIVAN ARRESTED.
The Coroner's Jury Recommend
His Incarceration.
PUT IN THE MURDERERs's ROW
He Is Taken From His Bed to the
Chicago Jail-Two Men Ar.
rested in New York
City.
City.
A Sensational Day.

A Sensational Day.
CHICAGO, June lit was given out at
an early hour this morning that James
Moran, a driver in the employ of the ice
firm of McGinnis & Moran, of Lake View,
was arrested late last night, and is held as
witness in the Cronin case. 1t is alleged
that on the evening Of DIR. Cronins disap-
pearance Moran, in company with another
man. was seen in the vicinity of the Carlson
cottage.
In the Cronn inquest this morning, John
Q. Garrity, a saloonkeeper, testified that he
was acquainted with Detective Coughlin,
now under indictment for completely in the as.
sassinatiop. Witness declared that Coughlin
came to him and said he wanted to hire a
tough character known as "Major'' Samp-
son, to slug man. Witness told Sampson
about it, and a few days later Sampson told
him (Garrity) that the man Coughlin wanted
slugged was DIR. Cronln. He wanted him
slugged with base ball bat and distigured
for life. If it killed him it wouldn't make
much difference.
j. ID. Haggerty, railroad clerk. gave most
important testimony THE morning. After
the trial of DR.. Cronin, he said Alexander
Sullivan told him that DIR. Cronin was
scoundrel and menace to the Irish cause
1t was the impression of the witness that
Sullivan was trying to express the opinion
that Cronin should be exterminatcd. The
witness was of the same opinion at that time.
About that time circular had been issued
saying that many Scotland Yard detectives
had left England for America to try and find
out some of the secrets of the order and
every person who was q member was on the
lookout for informers All that time Sulli-
van was not alone in his opinion. LIE Caron,
who was friend of Alexander Sullivan,
was a member of the committee which tried
Dr. Cron,n. He was introduced to the wit
ness by Sullivan at the trial as man worthy
Of confidence IN the Irish cause. He was
opposed to DIR. Cronin at the time on account
of the statements of Alexander Sullivan.
At the afternoon session number of wit
nesses were examined without developing
anything of Importance. Chief of Police
Hubbard was sworn and told of an interview
which he had had with Woodruff, the horse
thief. Hubbard asked him what he knew of
the Cronin matter and if he really was the
one who drove the trunk from the Carlson
cottage. Woodruff said he was and he then
described the cottage.
"He said." continued the chief, ''he took
the trunk about midnight on May 4. He had
been given S25 by two men the day before to
do the job. AT 30 p. m. on May 4, two
men, according to agreement, raped on the
door of Dinans stable He opened the door
and let out the horse with rags on its feet
and hitched it to wagon. They then drove
to within one hundred feet of the Carlson
cottage. He was then told to wait and the
two men left him and went into the cottage.
They remained there five minutes and then
beckoned HIM to drive up. He did so, and
two men, King and Fairburn, and third
man came out with q heavy trunk.
The third man was r. O. Sullivan. When
the trunk was put in the wagon Sullivan re-
turned to the house. Woodruff, with King
and Fairburn, drove on Lincoln avenue to
Fullerton avenue, thence to Lincoln park.
The men intended to take the trunk and its
contents in boat out on the lake and sink
ht,fp fha hr.ic srrhfn
presence of strangers, they changed their
minds and drove back. When they reached
the man-hole on Fifty-nipth street they tried
to dump the trunk into it, but failing they
knocked the trunk open, having lost the key,
and took the body from it and threw it into
the man-hole. Woodruff was then told TO
drive off,
The chief was asked. in regard to the
grounds on which Mcdonald and Maroney
were arrested in New York to-day With
regard to the man Mcdonald, who seems to
be the most important of the two prisoners,
Hubbard said:
1--WE attach no great Importance to the ar
rest, as all the fellow has to do with the case,
so far as we know, is this: He Is we'll
known New YORK crook, and was absent
from New York at the time of the murder,
and we think he was here, but we don't know
yet He can not or will not tell where he
was on May 4, but that doesn't prove he mur-
dered Cronin or had anything TO do with the
crime"
ut is learned that the Carlsons can ident-
ify hum as the man who rented the cottages"
"Bah, sheer nonsense
And that he was, in all probability, the
man who drove the doctor away!"
oThe chief IS reply, though inelegent was the
expressive: "Rats!'
Luke Dillon, of Philadelphia, on whose in
formation the arrests were made, declined to
say on what grounds.
States Attorney Longenecker would talk,
however, if Dillon would not.
"The men are arrested and there is moth
ing to conceal now. Maroney is the man who
Is suspected of driving the doctor from the
office to the Carlson cottage About the other
man don't know so much, but we expect TO
prove he was in the conspiracy. Maroney is
aborer, / think, and Mcdonald is black
smith. got this information from Dillon,
and we will learn how much truth there is in
IL later on.'
VERDICT OF THE coRoNER's JURY.
The following is the full text of the YER
dict of the coroner's jury: 1--WE, the under
signed Jury, appointed TO make inquiries
by US came to its DEATH state our verdict
from the evidence.
az That the body ia that of Patrick II.
Cronin, known as Doctor Cronin:
''2. That his death was not from natural
cause, but by violent means.
"3 That said Patrick II. Cronin was de-
coyed from home on North Clark street on
the evening of May l, 1889, by some person
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Carlson cottage, situated at No. 1872 North
Ashland avenue, in Lake View, Cook county,
Ills.
~. That at said cottage the said Cronin
was murdered by being beaten ON the head
with some blunt instrument in the hands of
some person or persons to us unknown, on
the night of said May 4, or between May
and May 8, 1889.
"5 That the body after said murder was
committed was placed in a trunk and carried
TO Edgewater on wagon by several persons
and by them placed in catch basin at the
corner of Evanston avenue and Fifty-ninth
street, Lake View, where it was discovered
May %, 1889.
"That the evidence shows conclusively
to all minds that a plot or conspiracy was
formed by number OF persons for the pur-
pose of numbering the said Cronn and con-
cealing his body. Said plot or conspiracy
was deliberately contrived and cruelty
executed
~ We have carefully inquired into the re-
iations sustained by said Cronin to other
persons while alive, 10 ascertain II ne mad
any quarrels or enmities, with any person,
sufficient 10 cause his murder.
AS IL is our Judgment that no other person