Show > llliams crsion T Cnicvoo May 31An evening paper says that some valuable information in the Cronin case has been gathered from Mack alias Williams alias McWilliams who was arrested in a cheap lodging house Mack claims to be a carpenter He told the following fol-lowing storj On the 2d of May he was working for a Mrs Wilson 01 North shard avenue scarcely a block from the Calson cottage Mack was putting in screen windows While at work a lady whose name he understood to be Mrs Dudley came in and began to talk with Mrs Wilson Mack was in the same room and he heard every word Mrs Dudley who is a tout fleshy woman was talking very bitterly against a physician who hud attended her husband Mack says he heard the name of Dt Cronin mentioned but he didnt know whether the physician complained com-plained of was the Cronin referred to or not Mrs Dudley seemed vary much excited and frequently made the remark in great spirit 1 will get even with him Mrs Dudley said she was working in the orphan asylum Burlington street but that she was going to leave tho asylum and that she daily expected to go to live with her two brothers in a cottage near bj Mrs Dudley pointed in the direction of the Carl son cottage in referring to tho place she was going to move into At the Chicago nursery and hal orphan asylum on Burlington street it was found that a Mrs Dudley had been there but had since gone away It is believed that Williams is one of the men who rented the Carson cottage and that he is a carpet layer by trade and that he laid the carpet in the cottage Later tonight the police officials say the have learned that Macks real name is C L Dudley The supposition is that he is the husband of the woman mentioned in his story Tho police say he was animated ani-mated in telling his storj by a desire to cause trouble for his wife who left him on account of his brutality and drunkenness They deny that they have any evidence connecting Mack with the case but in this connection it should be stated that but little of the story except the denials made bj the newspapers is obtainable from the police For tho past few days they have been very secretive This afternoon exDetective Coughhn the iceman Sullivan and Frank Wodruff alas Black were arraigned before Judge Williamson on the charge of murdering Dr Cronin Each of the men entered a formal plea of not guilty and they were returned to jail Late tonight it is learned that Dr Cro niles clothes have ben found The first clue was obtained by the finding of his underwear bj the children mentioned in these dispatches several days ago The police began a rigorous search for the reminder mainder of the clothing and near the mouth Fiftyninth street sewer unearthed the murdered physicians pants coat shirt and undershirt They wore buried OVAl a foot underground The shirt bore the name of the murdered doctor and the other articles were readily recognized as portions of his apparel Strange to say however his vest was missing and in its place was a vest of much coarser material This garment pre sumably belonged to one of the murderers or one of the accomplices For this reason the police are using ever effort to suppress their discovery hoping that Cronins vest may be discovered in the possession of one of the murderers The pants found wore deeply stained with blood |