The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-05-14
PATRICK HENRY CRONIN.

With the News Of the Death of Iceman
O'>uliiyIn Comes the Intimation that
the Murdered Mans Friends Have
Neither Siumbered Nor slept In Their
Efforts to Trace the Horrible Crime to
Its Source - Sensational Developments
Promised.
CHICAGO. May lO.-It was three years
ago last Wednesday night that Patrick
Henry Cronin, the noted local Irish
patriot. met his death at the hands of
the assassin who had been designated
by lot to accomplish that end, but,
although some of those directly con-
cerncd in one of the most dia bOlical
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 To slave
until death comes tn their release, il is
nevertheless certain that the principals
in the atrocity are still at large, and in
some eases holding high their heads in
the community.
The report is current, however. in
wcll-informci Irish circles that are
identified with what may he termed the
Crnnin wing of the race element in this
city. that important disclosures are on
the tapis. which will involve men to-
ward whom the finger of suspicion has
never yet been directed.
1t is fact that evidence pointing to-
ward the implication of certain indi-
viduals whose names have never yet ap-
pcarcd in connection with the case. has
been in course of collection. fragment
by fragment. for the past year. and eS-
pccially during the past two months. and
one Of those who is closely associated
with the inner circle is responsible for
the statement that when these devclop-
mcnts reach u climax there will he a
sensation second only to that created
by the disappearance of the physician,
and the subsequent discovery of his mu
tilated body in the sewer trapat Lake
View
Although not generally known. it is
also fact that since the conviction of
those supposed to have been acccsso-
rics in this diabolical crime the effort on
the part of the friends of Dr. Crnnin to
fasten the guilt and responsibility upon
the principals has never tagged for n
single day or hour.
There are those who believe that the
true story of the conspiracy by which
that unfortunate Irishman met ~
atrucious death is shortly to he re-
vcalcd. That the revelation must come
sooner or later is beyond peradventure.
When it does come, it will be known
for the first time where the conspiracy
was concOctcd. when il was concocted.
how it was concoctcd. who was the man
who drove the white horse attached tn
the buggy in which DIR. Cronin was con-
vevcd t. the place of execution. who was
the man who opened the door of the
Carlson cottage. who was the man who
waited outside while the bloody work
was being accomplished
Greatest of all. who were the men
that confronted him on the threshold
If the place whittier he had been de-
coycd as a miniStering angel. who were
the men with whom he engaged in
hand-to-hand conflict. who were the
men that piled the weapons with which
his limbs were broken and his head bat
tered. who were the men that stripped
his body as naked as upon the day of
his birth and yet shrank with horror
from laying their hands upon the in
sigma of the Catholic church that were
fastened around his neck. who packed
and jammcd his lifcless remains into
the trunk. aud who drove them to the
sewer?
All these queries must have answers.
and these answers. according to those
who are spending their lives and their
incomes in vindicating the memory "f
the murdered patriot. and in following
up his asSassins. will not much longer
bp DELAYED