The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-19
GROVES, IN NEW PUBLIC LETTER,
 GIBES SLEUTHS
Alleged Soup Poisoner Says He's Going To Travel
 Along Soon.

post office buildings and ran down every clue which was supplied, Jean Crones, the chef who poisoned soup served at a dinner given for Arch bish- op George w. Mundelein at the Uni versity Club in Chicago on Feb. 10, remained at large yesterday in New r ~rk, and at o'clock last night a third letter from him was received at Tho Times office.
 Tlle letter had been mailed at the Hudson Terminal post office and was postmarked D. It was stated at police Headquarters that detectives had been detailed at that building, and that no one fitting the description of gCrones had been seen there.
 In his latest letter Crones announce ed that he would remain in New York 4S hours longer, but after that have to disappoint the good police and leave the city, He did not say where he intended to go after that time.
 Crones Gives More Details.
 More details of the alleged poison plot are given by Crones. He wrote that he did not put poison into the soup served to the 300 priests and oth CT prominent men but put it into the stock, in the co4d-rneat room, where he was employed He denied that there were explosives in his room and that he knew about plots to destroy public buildings or other acts of vio- 1ence
 The statements made by Crones tall lied in many instances with informa- ton gIeaned by the detectives under Captain Tunney of the anarchist squad.
 Crones, for instance. said that he was not an anarchist until the Lud- low massacre in Colorado,'' on April 2O 1914, at the time of the labor troubles at mines controlled by the Rockefeller interests. The po'ce found that Crones was not we'll known here as an anarchist. Another state ment he made was that he had work ed alone and had not seen member of his family for three years. The latter statement tallies with what the police have learned. No one, Cronesl wrote, knew where he was stopping in New York.
 The police of Chicago again were held up to ridicule by the chef. who asserted that all of the men arrested in Chicago in connection with the poison plot were innocent. He sug- gested that the whole Chicago police force be sent to correspondence school.
 Catholic Churches Watched.
 On the theory that Crones might again visit police Headquarters. as he said he did on Thursday, and perhaps attempt to explode a bomb there, de- tectives were detailed to watch all en- frances of the building. Others kept an eye on the properties owned by the Catholic church in the belief that the act of Crones in Chicago was part of a nationwide plot against Catho- lies. Sixty-five detectives under Inspector Cray were detailed to attend the Knights of Columbus ball at Madison Square Garden last night and men were even placed the fire escapes of that building. The detectives min gled with the crowds about the build ing, and the inspector and a small squad attended the ball. But they got no trace of any man who even remotely resembled Crones.
 The third letter was turned over to Captain Tunney and detectives were put at work immediately. Be sfdes~t the postmark,t there was nothing Crones had spent the day. In place of an address on Page 1 of the letter he wrote Nowhere
 The letter was in the same hand writing as the others which had been received. The grammar was faulty and many words were naisspe1Ied. But the letter gave further facts which had not been published and which proved concIusively that the writer was telling of things he knew. Crones made 21 specific points, many of them devoted to the defense of others who have been arrested
 Text of Crone's Letter. Here is the letter as he wrote it:
 New York Is February 1916
 Jean Crones
 Nowhere The Editor of The New ' ork Times Dear Sir:
 Will you be so kindly and see that these statements come in the hands of the Chicago Lawyers which have taken up the defence of a, dozen inocent people which were arrested through my fault and from wofm begg pardon
 CD There was no arsenic any other poison in the Chicken 4 soup served at that dinner and no Chemist will have found any poi son in the soup for arsenic is nearly inso1uble in a clear soup and will go to the bottom of the casserole. If I had put the poi son in the soup many other peo- pie would be infected for the same Chicken stok was used for differen purposes. The poison was somwere else. The same re- port says that two grams of Ar senous Oxide In the minimum a deadly quantity and say that O.1 to O.4 grams is an deadly adult.
 (2) have left Chicago and the
 day of the dinner I was 500 miles away from Chicago
 (s) That there were no explo- sives in room
 (4) That tere was any poison fund in my room besides the chemicals which received from the Schools
 (5) That tere were no bonn
 hacking apparatus in my room besides the apparatus received from the Schools
 (69 I deny also that there is letters or plans against society fund in my room
 CD deny also that I have had any meting regarding that diner