Show ABDUCTED AND MURDERED t every day the dispatches throw fresh liblit on the murder of dr P II 11 cronin of chicago and it ia biow without daubl eliat lie was abduct cu and murdered the audacity of his abduction and murder was so great that it almost belond belief but that such is the fact is not beyond any quest ion of a doubt the killing of dr cronin was nary murder when mr snell the millionaire was shot down in the darkness of the night in his own parlor a thrill of horror ran through the whole nation but that was only the case of a burglar who caught in the act killed to keep himself from being killed for money the burglary was committed and to protect liim self in his illegal work the burglar shot alie man who would have exposed or killed him in the cronin case the distinction i marked the doctor had neither money to tempt a criminal nor a weapon to defend himself against one on a mission of mercy he was decayed decoyed to some rendezvous and there mercilessly slain his body denuded of everything except his agnus dei was placed in a trunk and carried to a lonely place in the suburbs distant from any house and dumped into the man holo of a sewer undoubtedly all concerned hoped it would remain ther until decomposition would defy recognition tho decoy or abduction the method of murder and concealment and the determined and almost successful effort to make the public believe he dead all point aka bly to the theory that his taking off was the result of a conspiracy to which there were other members than those who actually did the deed but that is not all it is well understood that for two or three yeara there have been grave differences between dr cronin and some men who were interested with him in the irish causes tasse differences which were fully detailed in last tuesdays Tuesday a issue of the ENQUIRER havo grown so bitter that dr croom and some of liis friends believed his life was in danger so sure was the doctor of this that he cave special instructions as to some things in case he should be assassinated even if he had been murdered and robbed in bis own home justice would liace demanded alie closest investigation into the circumstances which caused such fears on the part of the doctor and his friends and now when these circumstances are re enforced by those others which point so plainly to conspiracy any investigation which embittered some of the irilli for years would be mere childs play in this century and nation there can with badty be no toleration of anything that looks like a return to the methods of those eailler ana darker days when assassins acie necessarily a part of the retinue of public men and were ready for hire to do alie bidding of conspirators spira tors if dr croninn Cr onins death wan the result of a conspiracy as all the circumstances indicate neit lier time nor money should be spared to break the conspiracy and bring every conspirator to justice the ordinary murder is terrible and should command the most diligent efforts to bring the criminal to justice but a conspiracy to minder a man because he is obnoxious to some members of the conspiracy aims at the very foundations of society and must be re oriented by every resource society possesses |