Show The Testimony in Cronins Case CHICAGO May 29 There have been nor no-r w developments in the Cronin case to daj of a startling nature The authorities say that the report of the proceedings before be-fore the grand jury as printed in the morn lug papers a portion of which was used in these dispatches was great exaggerated They claim that there was no such testi many as that accredited to Carson and that nothing particularly new was adduced before the jury Capiases in accordance with the indictments were served on three persons today Woodruff when seen bj reporters refused r talk further about his confession saying he had said too much al I readj Cou hlin woud have nothing at JliU to siy dither to the reporters or to the i bt cliief cf police when the 1 latter visited him The coroners jurj assembled this morn lug but after consultation with the states attorney the coroner decide to postpone the inquest further until next Tnursduy I i understood it was the desire of the authorities author-ities that this be done for fear some testimony mon might come out before the public inquest in-quest which would retard the police work cg Hubbard when seen by a reporter to p5it said there was nothing new to be said out that they were busy working on several clues but that no fresh arrests were contemplated I i understood that the police are not satisfied that Smith has no knowledge of the case and still regard him with some suspicion I is understood that he is under surveillance I is stated tonight on good authority taat the present grand jury will not beaked be-aked again to give the Croniii case any further consideration < LL JUC serious cnaracier oi inis announcement announce-ment is best appreciated when itis remembered remem-bered thata considerable nu of is memo bers at present are Irishmen or men of Irish descent While States Attorney Longnecker i voiceless as aephinx as to the reason for declining to continue the investigation under the present jury those high in authority do not deny tnat the question of nationality much to do with his decision Byron L Smith receiver of the defunct Traders bank in which it is said Cronin had funds and his mysterouspiimpbletswas clSGeted with the chief of police an hour or mere This would JOlc that the authorities have widened the scope of their inquiry beyond the responsibility of the perpetrators of the murder and are acting on the inuendoes of the doctors professed friends who have been doing s much taVjfg 1e police were busy all day searching every concievablespot in the vicinity of the Carlson cottage and the place where Cronin was found and arc endeavoring to find some trace of Cronins clothing and the case of medical instruments of which no trace has been found The underclothing found by Widow Hambergers children proves not t be that of the dead man Peter McGeehan the Philadelphia suspect sus-pect in talking this evening to a reporter said that several days ago he was taken by a detective r see Mrs Conklin She first said that McGeehan was not the man who called for the doctor Then her husband came in and the de tSfctive introduced McGeehan in form Immediately on hearing the name Mrs Conklin surveyed McGeehan again and declared positively that he was them the-m lured the doctoraway McGeehan said I believe that that is sd bcl e woman capable capa-ble of swearing a mans life away Conklin had added to her reckless judgment judg-ment some stories about me that I shall call him to legal account for Dinan th livcriman says I do not answer the description of the man wanted by the police Now I know that I had nothing r do with the case Tbelieve that the plot or conspiracy or whatever you please t call it was purely a personal matter and that the right clue has not yet been struck or if found has not been published pub-lished |