| Show ANOTHER LINK Dctcclircs Male Ono More Important Impor-tant Arrest IA fc Croln Caso COWARDLY MURDER AT A PRAYER MEETING Mass Meeting at New fork to ConsiJcr the Surer Question THEATRICAL BENEFIT FOR MRS BLAINE JR Mysterious Disappearance of A Frenchman Maclecnjcar old JInrJercr f I lIp Te1egrah 10 Ih bnW Till CUOMN AltniATS J II ICrllrr nbltnt smith In the llflrcllirik lent Krrpiuc ST Louis Feb 18 Detective Thomas of Chicago accomrauM by two local detectives maJo an a tt important arrot last tilghl w ill nakt > t lryqulet until tDiby Tim prisontr Is bellied to be one of thu tircn badly wanted itt > enhettIon with the Cronin cat and Thomas had been odvltd tIt arties would arrfvu tonight from Chicago to oily dcntlfy him The prUoucr gac his name as J II Jell and admit ted that he was a man bar whom the Chicago authorities had been look log but denied that he was Smith Dan Coughlina frluid who was believed to hatu driven the Litg I which Croniu iaa tonvejed irom illS Home jie millie denied complicity In the murder Detective Thomas says his prisoner pri-soner is known in Chir go as J JJ Keiiey but is tupx > rtl to ho the man known as Smith If he proves to te so the arrest is one of the niot mot important made in the Celebrated cubs Smith was the lat man hi whose company the muderctt phj friend Icau was fcctn alive bi Croniua When questioned bi ttporiers this aftenioon the prisoner was very Ujlj He tald he was J U Kelli or Chicago but that he knew noth fog of the Croiiiu case or the parties I inureted in it except Tom Dot mond of San Franctco lie never belonced to any Clan na Gael camp ant WaS toot an active Irish ympa thlier He would let talk fiirUiw except to My that he ilIad been In fat Louis about two necks His I statement however is disproved by the fact that th kkctirn locitetl him at the Peoples Hole where lie registered tIle n hot Unto on August 20th ITU and lie has been there nliro ciSlitillUaiiy Inc He was shabbily dreswJ and to the hotel mople pretended t le a ticd dlerof booKs Hcjold for lila lodg iiig regularly but iieverteemed to have much Done ThIs evening IiLUluiant Clark and Detective Collins of Dellto COIIS Chicago arrived ar-rived and iu eonpau with etetec tIc Thorni went t the prlon hen JCelley was brought out both Clark and Collins kodded their heads and paid c he I lie DU Tliej had a brief talk with the prisoner but claimed to hive elicited nothing from him Kelle was seen afterwards and said Thee men claim to know me ctnl but I do not know them flu agreed t return t Chicago Ithout a requisition Whether the cllkors identified him DO thu wanted tus IId or not Is unknown |
