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Show THE CRONIN TRACEDY. Sensational Developments Slay Occur at Any Time. Chicago, May 23. There are likely to be seusatioual development growing out of tho assassination of Dr. P. A.Cronin before many weeks. Over three years have passed since the noted Irish patriot was sent to his last account; one of those couvicted of complicity compli-city in the murder has died in prison concealing con-cealing his secret to the end. two more of the assassins are still behind the stone walls of Joliet, while a dozen of those directly or indirectly concerned in the conspiracy have either died or been scattered as Ishmaelites over the four quarters of the country. In all these years, however, although conducted with great secrecy, the efforts of the Iilsh friends of the murdered physician to penetrate the mystery surrouudiug the crime and conspiracy, and to secure se-cure a grip on others known to have been identified with it, have never for a moment relaxed, and it is now stated that their labors lab-ors are approaching a point where the case is likely to be reopened and astounding disclosures dis-closures made public. One of the most prominent mem tiers of what is known as the Cronin wing of the Irish party in this city, and whose name is known wherever a half dozen Irishmen have gathered together on either side of the Atlantic, said today in reference to this subject: '"People think we have been sleeping. On the contrary we have been piling up fact upon fact, proof upon proof, until we have reached a point where we believe that the entile conspiracy and crime is revealed. When wc think that the proper time has arrived the facts in our possession will be placed in the hands of the state's attorney, and those facts will be strong enough to warrant the in mediate arrest, not of one man or two men. but of ten or a dozen. Some of them, moreover, have such a local standing that the very suggestion that they were implicated in the crime will create a sensation. Ihere are men walking the streets of Chicago today who are even more guilty than the men in Joliet. They think their secret is safe as long as they live, but they are mistaken. As was stated in the dispatches from Joliet during his fatal illness ill-ness Patrick O'Sullivan would have made a clean breast of that he knew were it not for the fact, as he expressed it himself, that his statement would implicate a fellow countryman country-man with a large family. He knew all about that, even before O'Sullivan had said so. When it was first stated that the prisoner pris-oner was ill this man lost no time in making arrangements to fly the country in the event of O'SulIivan's making a confession. We knew of his plans, however, and he was under un-der surveillance morning, noon and night until O'Sullivan had died without testifying to what he knew. The slightest effort on the part of this man to have gotten away would have led to his immediate arrest. There are many more in the same boat. People may think that the Cronin case is a dead issue. It is not, nor will it ever be until un-til every one of those directly connected with it is brought to justice. It will not be very long before the next nhase of this case will develop a sensation a'.most as great as that following the disappearance and murder mur-der itself. |