The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-05-13
SENSATIONAL EVIDENCE.
New C!ews are Being Worked on the
CrOnin Murder.
said to Involve Prominent Parties-Sen-
- satiOn Promised.

CHICAGO, May lit was three years
ago last Wednesday night since Patrick
Henry Cronin, the noted Irish patriot,
met his death at the hands of the assas-
sin who had been designated by lot to
accomplish that end, but although some
of those directly concerned in one of the
most diabolical crimes OF the present age
have received their need of punishment,
and are now confined within the walls OF
the Joliet penitentiary, there to labor
and slave until death comes to their re-
lease, it is nevertheless certain that the
principals in the atroclty are still at
large, and in some cases holding high
their heads in the community.
The report is current, however, in
well informed Irish circles that are
identified with what may be termed
the Cronin wing of the race element i'll
this city, that important disclosures are
on the tapis, and which will involve
men toward whom the finger of suspi-
cion has never yet been directed. 1t is
a fact that evidence pointing toward the
completely of certain. individuals whose
names have neyer-yeC appeared in con-
nection with the case, has been in
course of collection, fragment by
fragment, for the past year, and
especially during the past two
months, and one of those who is
closely associated with the inner Cir
cles is responsible for the statement
that when these developments reach a
ond only to that created by the disap-
pearance OF the physician, and the sub
seuuent discovery of his mutilated
body in the sewer trap at Lakeview.
Although not generally known, 1t is
also fact that since the conviction of
those supposed to have been accessories
| in this diabolical crime, the effort on the
part of the friends of DIR. Cronin to fas-
ten the guilt and responsibility upon the
principals has never sagged for single
day or hour. Week by week and month
| by month the chain of circumstantial
| evidence has been forged, until to-day it
| is considerable stronger than that upon
which many man and many woman
has been sent to the gallows in this and
other countries.
There are those who believe that in
the wisdom of providence the true story
OF the conspiracy by which that unfor-
tunate IriShman met so atrOciOuS a
death is shortly to be revealed. That
| the revelation must come sooner or
later is beyond peradVenture. When II
does come it will be known for the first
time where the conspiracy was concoc-
| ted, when it was cOncOcted, how 1t was
cOncocted, who was the man who drove
| the white horse attached to the buggy
| in which DIR. CrOniu was conveyed to
| the place of execution, who was the man
| that opened the door of the CharlsOn
cottage, who was the man who waited
outside while the bloody work was be-
ing accomplished, greatest of all who
were the men that confronted him
| on the Threshold of the place whittier
| he had been decoyed as minister
ing angel, who were the men with
| whom he engaged in a hand to hand
| conflict, who were the men that piled
| the weapons with which his limbs were
| broken and his heac battered, who were
the men that stripped his body as max ed
as upon the day of his birth and yet
shrink with horror from laying theil
hands upon the insignia of the Catholic
Church that was fastened around his
neck, who packed and jammed his lii,
less remains into the trunk, and who
drove them to the sewer.
All these queries must have answers
according to those who are spending
their lives and their incomes in vindi
eating the memory of the murdered
patriot and in following up his assat
sins Will not much longer be delayed