New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-05-20
ARREST IN CRONIN CASE
POLICE SUSPECT MRS. WARNER OF
THROWING THE POTASH, BUT
SHE DENIES IT.

The police OF the West Forty-seyenth-st. station
last night arrested Mrs. Elite Warner, who says
she is thirty years old. and lives at No. 90 West
One-hundred-and-hfth-st. suspicion OF having
thrown the potash into the face OF Mrs. Cronin,
the wife OF DR.. John J. Cronis, OF No 4SS West
Flfty-hrst-st., Thursday night. the result of
which Mrs. Cronin will lose the sight of her left
eye The arrest made by Detectives Dale
Lyons and Hammer in the apartments occupied
by the woman and her husband, Harry, who. she
says. is a stenographer and typewriter. The pris-
oner has a ten-year-old son. who lives with her
mother. Mrs. Austin. No. l0l West Ninetieth-st.
When arrested Mrs. Warner protested that she
was not out OF her house the night the poison
was thrown. but the police say they have evidence
that she was
When the prisoner was taken into the station she
was placed in a back room. and Mrs. Elizabeth
1asette. the mother of Mrs Cronin: her son. John
Lasette. and Patrick Wright. a janitor all of whom
lived at No. 4Ol West Tnirty-eighth-st were placed
in adjoining room. where they could overhear
the prisoner when her pedigree taken.
Sergeant Flannery asked the mother of Mrs
Cronin TO identify Mrs. Warner the woman who
had called her home on Thursday night previous
Mrs addres ae MP cronn faed ide1
the SHe ons sha e 9q{ Paqd the voice
The woman's son, John Lasette, who is letter
similar TO that of the who called the
house on Thursday night and asked for Mrs.
A young man. who answered the doorbell at the
gave her name as .A9stin Called there on Friday
and conversed with Mrs. Cronin. He could not
tell the nature OF their conversation but said that
the Austin woman wept- DR.. Cronn the
Manhattan Ear and Eye Hospital with his wife.
When Captain Donohue asked if he had
enough evidence TO convict his prisoner he
Piled That is question for the jury decide
When the woman who threw the potash Mrs.
CroniD, was asked by Mrs. Cronin where she
wanted the doctor to call. she replied: 'Murrays,
No 800 West Forty-eignth-st-" Inquiry the
ty-eghth-st. house last night failed TO reveal
any family by that name and the tenants denied
that any person by that name lived in the house
Mrs Cronin was before her marriage forewoman
IN q dressmaking establishment Forty-second-
ST. and Fffth-ave. Among the women employed
there the prisoner and her sister. who married
a brother OF the prisoners husband and who lives
1n the same house in One-hundred- and -ffth-st.
Mrs. Warmers husband home last
night. but his brother who is married the sister
OF the prisoner, was seen. He said: Il have just
beard about my sister-in-law's arrest. We will
prove abb My sister-in-law attending
the funeral OF her cousin in Park-st Jersey City,
when the acid thrown. We have already told
the police that, but they do believe us
The prisoners mother and another sister, who
live in Ninetieth-St., could not be They sent
out word that they had been instructed
talk When Captain Donahue asked what evil
dencs he had against the woman he replied:
THE only evidence l have is Identification
made by Mrs LaSetti, John Lasett and the jantor,
Wright"