Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-19
CRONS MYSTERY.
The Grand jury Closely Question Rev.
IAthnT DnInnN-


Father Dorney.
CHICAGO, June 15th.-The Cronin Grand
Jury came into Court to-day and reported
that w. + Bell of the Western Union
Telegraph Company, refused 10 disclose the
contents of certain dispatches deemed
necessary for investigation. The attorney
Tor the Western Union explained that this
refusal was merely formal to fulfill the re-
qulrements of law. An order was then
spread upon the record of the Court, direct
Ing the witness, under pain of contempt
and commitment to Jail, TO produce any
and all messages, caDlegrams or COPIES
thereof in the Chicago Office passing be-
tween Alexander Sullivan, Dan Coughlin.
John J. Maroney and Charles Mcdonald,
whether under their true names or anv
alias, or between either Of these men, or
other person or persons since the lst of
March last.
Fifteen or twenty witnesses were before
the Grand Jury this afternoon, but not
much information was attained from them.
Rev. Father Dorney was called and asked
to give the particulars of 2. w. Dunne's
charge of embeZzlement against Alexander
Sullivan, and his Dorney's) subsequent
investigation of this charge by agreement
OF the principals. Father Dornev related
the circumstances of the charge and stated
that only after full Investigation of the
affairs of Sullivan and the amount of his
annual income, that he had pronounced
Dunne's charge groundless.
The reverend gentleman was also Ques-
toned closely regarding his knowledge of
the Clan ma Gael affairs, but failed to dis
close any particular knowledge Of their
workings.
Dispatches from Winnipeg say that hat,
SIInnHSgi no fb4t of H.
found in the etrunkof Burke. Chief McRae
IS satisfied the hat is that of the murdered
doctor. HIS name was written on the band
but II has been carefully obiterated
The police claim to have more evidence
IN their possession against Burke than the
mere Identification of his picture They
Will not say what it is, but seem confident
that they have got the right man at last.
EXCITING RUMoRs.
CHICAGO, June ISth.-The most exciting
rumOrs were flying around this afternoon
IN connection with the Cronin tragedy.
They originated no one knew where, but
the hurried and mysterious movements of
officials who are investigating the matter
showed that something unusual was about
to happen. 1t was said that the entire
plot that led up to and resulted in the cow
ardly assassination of the physician had
been uncovered and that in q few hours all
the accomplices, accessories and principals
would be behind the bars
On what appeared TO be good authority
1t was stated that one arrest had already
been made. A man was taken into Gus
tody who was friend and "paI' of Martin
Burke, and itwa claimed he knew a great
deal of the details of the murder Captain
Schuettler had found him on the North
Side, and at once locked him up. Those
who would naturally know of the arrest
refused to talk about it. Captain Schuett-
Ter intimated, so the rumor had it, that he
and his co-workers had struck the bottom
of the whole conspiracy and located be-
yond doubt the men who are responsible
for the bu.chery of Cronin He had, il
his own words, succeeded in getting the
Seventeenth ward crowd of scoun drels
dead to rights