Show being cleared up THE bloodstained BLOOD STAINED COTTAGE in which he was brutally murdered CHICAGO may 24 the frienda of the murdered dr cronin are confident that his murderer or murderers will be apprehended in a short time this belief is strengthened by guarded statements from the department part ment at the city hall that they have important clues and by the more bold assertions of the state attorney longnecker this gentleman said today to day with much that the authorities are convinced that a conspiracy did exist which resulted in the death of the doctor woodruff the horse thief who claims to have hauled the mysterious he night cronin disappeared still maintains that if taken from jail and bent out with officers he will ackar up the trunk mystery and the cronin mystery in forty eight hours this is contingent upon a promise of immunity from prosecution for the stealing of the horse for which crime he was indicted by the grand jury this afternoon the chief of the detectives has been impressed by his story and it is likely that he will be taken from jail and given a chance to verify his assertions state attorney longnecker thinks that woodruff knows more than he has told and that it is possible he may be implicated in the murder of cronin it is still believed by many that in spite of woodruffs story that the body in the trunk was that of a woman it in reality was that of cronia the reported arrest of the ice dealer sullivaa this morning created a sensation he was closeted with the authorities for nearly two hours but when he went away would not talk to the reporters the police said the report that they suspected sullivan of implication ia the murder was all bosh nevertheless it was apparent from subsequent actions that they gained some information of importance from him sullivan is the man from whose place the mysterious messenger is said to have come summoning the doctor away on the night of his disappearance since the dicapr bearance pe arance of dr cronin several of his friends have been talking in rather an intemperate manner of plots and assassinations and making assertions sert ions as to their views in the matter this afternoon colonel W P reno treasurer of the association formed to prosecute a search for cronin went to lake view station to view the corpse he was greatly excited and said with much emphasis 1 I think I 1 could put my finger on the man who concocted this murderous plot when pressed for an explanation of his remarks aeno would cay nothing further the police officials say they have been met at every turn by just such assertions irom friends of cronin and an official in the detective department said tonight to night that all the people who have been afraid to talk in this manner will be summoned to the coroners inquest next tuesday and compelled to make plain their bagne insinuations alexander sullivan today to day again denied vigorously the charges of some of cronas friends that he knows something of the money shortage vaguely referred to as the beginning of the trouble which led to Cr onias death an attempt may be made to arrest the manlong man long who sent the fake interview from toronto purporting to be with cronin is said by croninn Cr onins frienda that his action in so doing was inspired that he might divulge important information A morning paper publishes what purports to be the papers left by dr cronin the following are extracts june john davoy in the convention of the TJ B made four charges with specifications against alexander sullivan michael boland and dennis C feely the charges were first A revelation of oaths of membership and office second misappropriation of funds of the TJ B third betrayal of trust and of the interests of the TJ B fourth malfeasance in office at the clan na gael convention in chicago in august 1881 the above named were elected members of the executive body and by that body members of the revolutionary directory it charged that the three men named deceived and misled their colleagues on the revolutionary directory who represented the I 1 B B in that body and through them deceived and misled the supreme council of the L B B with whom they were sworn to act in union and to assist in revolutionary work and by such deceit and misleading created misunderstandings and distrust between the two allied governing bodies of the irish revolutionary movement they levied on the executive body of tuo united brotherhood in the name of the revolutionary directory during the years and 1881 1 sums of money amounting in the aggregate to received and expended the sums or ordered it expended without the knowledge and consent of their colleagues i of the revolutionary party it is alleged that they together with officers of the league subsequently audited their own accounts at the meeting of the committee appointed to try charges on august 1889 in buffalo dr cronin was present as one of the committee sullivan objected to croninn Cr onins presence as an enemy always trying to injure him the committee consisted of six four of these found sullivaa and his colleagues all right but mccahey and cronin made a minority report sustaining the charges so far there has been no developments in the cronin case the police zealously were guarding a vacant cottage in lake view rented shortly before dr croninn Cr onins death but has not been occupied since A reporter gained entrance into the cottage and discovered blood stains on the front parlor floor in a of the back floor in the hallway hall way and on the front steps blood stains can be plainly seen although the murderers evidently made an effort to wipe away the evidence of their crime the parlor floor is covered with bloody marks although here the assassins made strenuous efforts to destroy the blood stains the floor was daubed with house paint but the murderers did not succeed in covering up the blood there is said to be good reason to believe the detectives have found bloody clothing concealed either in the basement or attic it is learned today to day that the police struck quite an important clue in the cronin mystery it seems beyond doubt they have discovered the place where cronin was murdered a vacant cottage in lake view apparently the authorities have had some information about the place for several days and since the discovery of the body an effacer has been constantly watching the suspected cottage reporters had heard of this surveillance but the police wanted to give no information accordingly this morning three reporters watched their opportunity port unity and when the officers were in the rear of the house forced an entrance at the front stains resembling blood were seen on the front steps but when the reporters entered the front room or parlor they found undoubted blood stains on the floor also in the corner of a back parlor in a hallway hall way the parlor floor ay iy covered with bloody marks although here the assassins evidently made strenuous efforts to destroy the stains the floor is daubed recklessly with brauwn paint and it can be plainly seen that the mark was not that afian expert it was evidently done in such haste that several places were left where blood stains are tible notably in the centre of the floor in the paint were the prints of bare feet evidently the person who made the marks was much excited for footprints are seen in every direction indicating that the owner aad all over the room the reporters had not completed their m vesti gation before the arrival of the officers who put a stop to the work before breaking into the house the reporters had peered through the basement windows and discovered a spade standing against a post and that the earth had been freshly turned up it is said that the police found bloody clothing concealed in the house or basement but on this point they refused to talk i the cottage in question is situated within a few hundred feet of the homo of P 0 sullivan the ice man whose card presented to mr cronin led him to leave his home on the night of his disappearance the man who presented the card said that one of sullivans employed emp loyes had met with an accident and requested croninn Cr onins services the cottage belongs to a man named carlson who lives in the rear of the same lot it appears that about seven weeks ago a young woman rented the house paying a month in advance people were given to understand that the woman had rented it for her brother who had been hired by sullivan sullivan declared he did not know any such woman and though paid for the house remained unoccupied until the time of croninn Cr onins disappearance when they came on with what appeared to be a bundle of carpets if they were preparing for Cro ains assassination this would have been a good way to smuggle into the house the large bundle of cotton batting found around the body proceeding with the theory that cronin was mur deded here it is pointed out that is admirably located for the purpose as being eo near sullivans house cronin could be conducted to it without exciting his suspicions pic ions while at the same time it would furnish a perfect hiding place for them to spring him as soon as he entered the place it is also surmised that the carpet may have been used upon the hallway or the other front room to give the place an appearance of being occupied the attention of the police was directed to the house by carlson i the owned this afternoon it was visited by inspector ebersold and the coroner when lieutenant etler found the reporters had gained an entrance be was very aagre he suspended the officer who bad been on watch and seat another to the place the lieutenant himself however was not more successful m keeping the secret the reporters succeeded in drawing from liim important admissions among them that the police had no clue to the murderer the most important admission was thaltha clothes of the dead man had been recovered and identified late this afternoon carlson turned over to the police a letter signed trank williams which he said was written by one of two strange men who occupied the cottage and disappeared after the murder the police would not divulge the date or contents of the note but it is supposed to relate to the renting of the house police officers appear to think tonight that creams assassins may have imitated boodler McGaug Ies famous escape up lake michigan it is said that two men were noticed early the sunday morning cranias Cr onias disappearance in a boat on the lake making for the north pier they were headed almost m a straight line from the beach in lin where the prisoner woodruff bait bad been made i with tho mysterious trunk since that night a rowboat row boat has been missing from an establishment close by the suburban has always declared there were three mou seen in a wagon supposed to contain the mysterious trunk woodruff from the first talked of two others besides himself the police are very to hear from the missing boat in a vacant cottage traces of blood were discovered in the place where the police had already decided was the scene of the murder of dr cronin this was found by detective officers who decided at once to try to got in tho lock of the mysterious trunk found by the roadside on the morning after borenin disappeared the key fitted exactly all doubt of the genuino connection between the prisoner woodruff and the doctors dead body the trunk and the bloodstained cottage has been put beyond question the carlson cottage has been thoroughly ransacked A new brush such as ordinarily use in the course of their work was found in the attic its hairs were smeared wit paint similar to that from which I 1 the blood stains had been partly obliterated lite rated in the attic was also found a pot containing the same kind of paint the indications were that the painting had been dono some time after the killing possibly involving a return to the house of the murderers or their accomplices after the paint had dried A son in law of old man carlson tonight said the cottage was rented in march and the rent paid in advance bya by a man who brought a bed bureau and some rugs to the house and told mrs carlson his sister was in the hospital sick and that before moving in he would wait till she was able to leave the institution after this he came back in company with another man they informed the carlsone Carl sons that they were brothers and their name was williams when the month was up april they came around and paid another months rent saying their sister was still sick the old folks became suspicious after this and determined there was something wrong and decided not to let them have the house after this month A singular thing is that last thursday another man who had not been seen before came to the house to pay the third months rent mrs carlson refused to rent saying they proposed to sell it the man said ho would call next day to take tho furniture he did not come and the furniture is in the house yet dr croninn Cr onins remains will be taken to one of the large public halls on the lake front where all who desire may on the ghastly corpse sunday there will be a short procession from the hall to the cathedral after the services the remains will jeby train to calvary cemetery efty cents will be charged each person going to the cemetery an amount which it is estimated will net the of arrangements thirty five bents for each fare the sum thus raised it is announced will be devoted to the discovery and prosecution of the doctors murderers philadelphia may 24 it was stated here in irish circles last summer that a man well known to the irish leaders made threats against dr cronin and declared he intended to kill him the man left suddenly and was next heard of in chicago A letter announcing his arrival there was received here by a prominent gentleman and the latter was asked as to tha standing of the man A reply was sent to chicago to the effect that the fellow was considered harmless and no attention should be paid to him that man whose name the leaders refused to divulge returned here and they have not found a trace af pf him his description with the name has been sent to chicago ont may 21 2 L long the correspondent who sent the chicago papers what purported to be a long interview with the missing dr croma a i week ago last saturday night stubbornly maintains that he did see and talk with croma here he claims cronin must have gone baek to chicago and been murdered afterward the canadian papers however place no more reliance in longs assertions and all the toronto papers denounce him as a disgrace to journalism CHICAGO may 25 the only man who heard dr croninn Cr onins dying cries except his murderers has been found be is william mertes a milkman who lives near the cottage where the assassination was committed on the night of the murder he saw two men drive tip to the cottage in a buggy one was dressed in a long brown overcoat such as cronin wore and got out the other answering the man who came for cronin in the buggy drove rapidly away cronin if it was he went up the cottage steps the door was opened before he reached it and as soon as be got inside it was closed and the milkman heard loud cries as if the men were fighting he believed then was the time of the death revelations this morning throw strong suspicion of complicity in the murder of cronin on detective dan coughlim Cough lm of the city police and show gross incompetency it nothing worse of captain of the north side police under whose orders coughlin works to begin with it is known in fact he admits it that coughlin and cronin were members of the same irish political societies and were enemies this lends significance to the following facts on the mom ing of the day of the murder coughlin engaged from the livery stable keeper dinnan a horse and baggy for a friend of his to be called for that evening about the time the man who decayed decoyed cranin away would have called had it been he chiff friend of coughlin called |