Show THE CRONIN TRAGEDY THE latest lates act tact in the cronin tragedy is the arrest by direction of the coroner who held the inquest of Alexan alexander det sullivan ex president of the american trish irish land league A long line of evidence adduced at the inquisition seemed to attach to him as the probable instigator of the murder the head bead and front of the conspiracy out of which it evolved the jury naturally sought for a reason for the dark deed the only feasible one appeared to be that cronin had bad incurred the implacable hate of sullivan because the totter latter had been by the deceased exposed to grave suspicion of having acted crookedly in handling the funds of the society known as the clan na gael drs cronin and mccahey had signed a minority report af f an investigating committee which alleged the dishonesty it seems clear that sullivan had bad exhibited intense hostility toward the murdered man and that cronin expected an attempt to be made upon his life in consequence A great many facts point in the ch direction of sullivan which make his connection with the horrible and cowardly deed dead e doubtless the popular belief leans towards the theory of his guilt but it should be remembered that all the evidence so far as made public is purely circumstantial and the accused man should be esteemed as innocent pending his bis trial it is more than probable that in course of time the mystery will be solved and the guilty conspirators brought to light so far as the popular mind is concerned many of the papers are providing he be innocent doing sullivan much injustice aside from the publication of any alleged f facts act connected with the tragedy they are presenting to the public what purports to be a likeness of the accused man we hope that it is not a faithful presentment of the subject if it could be proved that tt it is while this fact would not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that sullivan killed hilled cronin it would go a long way toward making many people believe that he is quite capable of inspiring and directing the execution of the bloody transaction fortunately for the victims of the pictorial press it has come to be understood that even a philanthropist possessing a benign countenance is apt to be represented as something that suggests the finding of dar wins missing link |