Show ALSO RIS SURGICAL instruments things looking dark for CHICAGO nov 8 dr croninn Cr onins clothes and c as of surgical instruments were found this afternoon and fully identified and tho discovery has created the greatest excitement among tho officers of tho state it was staled in the court room that the clothes and instruments were found near a catch basin in lake view by lieutenant koch of the lake view station the clothes and instruments were found in a catch basin not a hundred feet from whore dr croninn Cr onins body was tl irown they were covered with slime bufa the instruments were moro easily recognized as belonging to a physicians outfit lieutenant koch as soon as he made the discovery at once started for chief hubbard said tho clothes and instruments are undoubtedly dr croninn Cronin 6 at this hour however two stories are allott as to the place of discovery so far as 1 can learn said attorney hynes of the state the clothes and instruments were found at buena park on the chicago and evanston road I 1 understood some workmen in excavating for a new building found the clothes and instruments st buried it is possible that the first story of the discovery was made is the correct one I 1 have not had time to investigate one thing is certain the clothes and instruments st are found and have been fully identified as the property of dr cronin who now will be bold enough to insinuate that the body found in the catch basin in that vicinity was not the body of the murdered dr complaints have been made recently that the sewer at the intersection of evanston and anena avenues was running over and today to day workmen were sent to investigate the trouble the cover was removed from the manhole in the center of the street and after a lew minutes work with poles and hooks two valises were brought up the one leather and tho other the remnants of a cheap paper one in the leather valise were foiani dr croninn Cr onins prescription book with several prescriptions bearing bis signature the paper one dropped to pieces as it was pulled out and from it rolled a mass of tattered clothing most of which had been cut in the stitches the only garment remaining intact was the vest which was in the center and which encircled the doctors case of surgical instruments the clothes had evidently been cot in the hope that they would soon drop apart and be borne away in the sewer with the clothing surgical case and prescription book the latter two were marked with grinins Gr onins name aud the latter being fully identified by the and others as tho property of the murdered physician the most damaging of all the circumstances cum stances for the prisoners is the fact that the find was made only ono block from the spot where the bloody trunk was discovered after it had been thrown hurriedly from the wagon and only half a mile south of where the body was found in the catch basin the paper valise is supposed to be the one purchased by J B simonds and tomorrow to morrow a clerk will endeavor to identify it A tragic event which occurred just in front of the court house while everybody was examining these articles caused wild excitement A shot was heard just at the entrance of judge mcconnells McCon nells court A doz on lawyers and reporters rushed out and found stretched out on the side walk the body of a large man with a revolver in his hand and his brains oozing from the skull he was dead and as no one could identify him it was at once presumed that his tragic death had some mysterious connection with the sensational discoveries of the day after a while however it was learned that his name was edward behm and that he had been for some time known to be partially insane he doubtless while laboring under mental aberration CHICAGO nov 8 application was made tins morning before judge baker for a discharge from the bail of alexander sullivan in which he was held last june the claim is made that two grand juries since then having failed to act his bail should be dropped the court inclined to coincide in this opinion but put the matter over tomorrow to morrow at the request of the state in the cronin case the cross exam of captain lor was continued thia morning nothing new was developed william jN ieman who at the time of the murder kept a saloon near the cadlaon cottage testified that osuld van entered his saloon between 10 and 11 on the night of the murder accompanied by two men according to his best judgment coughlin was one of the men he thought kunze was the other they talked together in an undertone with their hands to their faces the first witness this afternoon was andrew J monett who works tor mr stanton the man who printed the business cards for of which was used to decoy dr cronin to his death and identified the card heretofore placed in evi 1 benco kofl april 2 Ob callec before all of the cards were printed 1 and took jome of them away with him he aleo left instructions to give the rest to one othis men if he should call policeman haebig desk sergeant at the east chicago ayecue station where detective coughlin was stationed previous io his arrest in connection with this case testified that in the month of april ho a telephone message from who wanted to see coughlin at his house that evening when told of it caughlia Cough lia said all right on the first or second day of may he received the sama message again and again coughlin said all right it is the iceman policeman identified a foot marked portion of the floor from the carlson as being the same taken out by him ex police officer hunkeler Hun kaler of lake view testified that on iho night of about drove away two men a tall one and a short one who wore standing on the sidewalk near the carlson cottage telling them they had no business to be out at that hour of night the witness then walked past the cottage and noticed a bright light burn ing within ten minutes later when he re passed he noticed the cottage was in darkness policeman robinson testified that officer hunkler had called his attention to the carlson cottage about 1 on the night of may 12 and that between the time of going past it to the north and returning the position of one of the blinds had been changed and the lower opened adjourned |