Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-23

1t soon appeared that about month be-
fore the murder an unknown woman en-
gagged the cottage and paid months rent,
s12, in advance. She has not since been
seen; but on the night Of the murder a light
was seen in the house, and after the murder
a letter signed Frank Williams was re-
ceived by the agent containing s12 for the
next months rent All this added to the
certainty that many persons were concerned
in the murder; but who were they?
One neighbor woman, and only one, had
seen and talked with the woman who rented
the house. and to her that woman had ex-
planned that she was to keep house for her
two brothers. One week before the murder
two young men brought some carpets and a
dressing case TO the house; but the carpets
were never laid, and no one could describe
the men-so ended that clew. L the cellar
the police found DR.. Cronin's clothes, and in
the upper room abundant evidences of the
murder. The indications We're that the doc
tor had been knocked down as he entered the
room and dispatched by successive blows
The evidence need not be detailed; suffice it
that the police were satisfied that the doctor
was murdered and stripped there.
The detectives insisted that the cause Of
the murder lay in the doctors difficulties
with some individuals in some of those Socie-
ties with which he affiliated.
1t soon transpired that the sewer catch
basin in which the corpse was found (acciden-
tally found, by workmenl was the only one
in all that section of the city which the police
had not examined in their first search. 1t
further transpired that Of the men who wrote
of seeing Dr., Cronin in Canada, not ono
could be found, and in connection with this
it soon appeared that OF the many theories
industriously circulated between his disap-
pearance and the finding of bis corpse, every
one was of nature TO mislead the police.
Evidently, say the experts, some man of more
than average criminal cunning is interested
in delaying discover. These and many other
facts combine to make it a case of surprising
interest-one that has already filed as many
columns in the newspapers as did the Nathan
mystery or the Burdel-Cunningha murder.
DIR. CRoNINS LIFE
The points at issue may best be understood
by considering the mans life. DIR. Cronin
was born in Mallow, Ireland, In 1916, and
taken to New York at early age He
took a degree at the Christian Brothers
academy at ST. GATHERINGS, Canada and af
forwards one at the ST. Louis College of Ply
sicians and Surgeons, in which he was pro-
fessor. He was graduated from the Missouri
Medical college in 1878, and received the de-
gree of Phi. B. from the Jesuits' college of st.
Louis, in which city he was druggist for
some years. He located in Chicago in 1882,
and made his home with Mr. and Mrs. T. T
Conklin, 40 Clark street, the lady being his
sister.
There having been serious quarrel in one
IF the organizations Ilr CrODin often
pressed the fear that his life was in danger.
On the fatal night he was called by an I'M
known man, who stated that workman had
had his leg broken at the buildings of P. o.
Sullivan's ice company, some three miles
away. The doctor took his case of instru-
ments and went with the unknown, never to
return.
And this unknown's team supplied the last
clew. The livery stable was found and the
proprietor declared he had let the conveyance
to an unknown man vouched for by Dan
Coughin, of the Chicago detective police.