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The Abilene Reporter.
VOL. VIII.
ABILENE TEXAS FRIDAY MORNING MAY 31 1880.
NO. 22
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IN FOR IT.
Three Parties Indicted for the Mur-
5 der of Dr. Cronin.
Clan-Ha-Oaol Adopts Resolotiona Denounc-
ing the Murder and Pledging
Assistance.
A SENSAllON DENIED.
Chicago III. May 28 The Times
in a late edition this morning prints a
statement that Patrick O. Sullivan the
ice man has lifted the veil of the con-
spiracy made a full confession and
given the police the names of every
tbne he knew that was implicated in the
murder of Dr. Cronin. The statement
is made chiefly on the authority of
Mayor Uoldenmeck of Jakeview who
is said to have taken part m the exam-
ination of Sullivan by the police au-
thorities but that gentleman on being
interviewed this morning pronounced
the whole story untrue.
Coroner Hertz convened his jury at
1 1 o'clock this morning and before
taking testimony in the case lie took
the jury out to Lake View to examine
the Carlson cottage where tiie mur-
der is supposed to have been commit-
ted. About 1 1 o'clock P. O. Sullivan
was brought from Lake View station
before Justice Kersten at East Chicago
avenue station and held without bail
until Tune 10. A mittimus was made
' for his cpmmittnl and he was taken
to the county jail. Frank Woodruff
Che horsethief. was brought before
Judge Williamson this momig to plead
to a charge of larceny. He entered a
plea of not guilty and was taken back
to jail. Woodruff is the man who
says he carried a body in a wagon to
Lincoln park on the night of Cronin's
disappearance.
IIEFOKK THE CKAND JURY.
The coroner's jury after inspecting
the blood-stained cottage in Lake
View the sewer manhole in which Dr.
Cronin's body was found and other
places connected with the case return-
ed to the city and will begin taking
evidence some'time in the afternoon.
- States Attorney Longenecker went be-
' fore the grand jury this afternoon in
company with a number of the police
officials and that body at once took
up the Cronin case. It is expected
indictments will be returned this after-
noon. a detective's stoky.
Chicago 111. May 28 Detective
Robert Bruce who has been conduct-
ing a private agency in this city walk-
ed into Lieut. Horace Elliott's office
this morning and said that several
months ago Alderman McCormack of-
fered him $1100 to kill Dr. Cronin.
Bruce who has just returned from a
two months stay in Texas says Mc-
Cormack paid him $100 in advance
and agreed to pay the remaining $1000
when the deed was done. Bruce de-
clares McCormack told him to feign
sickness in his office and then send for
Dr. Cronin and kill him. Bruce says
he took the $100 spent it for liquor
and never made a move toward carry-
ing out the contract.
Bruce bears rather an unsavory rep-
utation and the police do not place all
.reliance in the world in his story. lie
has been in numerous scrapes in this
city.
SULLIVAN DENIES CONFESSING
Sullivan himself and officials high
alul low declare that the statement
published this morning to the effect
that he had made a confession laying
bare the entire details of the plot for
the murder of Dr. Cronin is untrue.
An afternoon paper professes to have
information to the effect that nothing
like a sweeping confession was secur
ed from him. It is now given out that
Hany Jordon the bar tender has not
been arrested ns was stated yester-
day. After returning from Lake View the
coroner decided to adjourn the inquest
Until to-morrow.
CLAN-NA-GAEL SPEAKS.
Chicago III. May 28 Two hun-
dred delegates representing eleven
local camps of ClanNa-Gael met last
night at No 143 Randolph street to
take action regarding the murder of
Dr. Cronin. Luke Dillon of Philadel-
phia presided. The following resolu-
tion was adopted. .
We representatives of Clan-Na-Gael
place on record our utter detes-
tation of the crime of assassination
and we enter our solemn protest
against the evident attempt of the mur-
derers of our brother to place the
crime of his death on our order. It is
not the spirit nor the object of Clan-Na-Gael
and we repudiate it and here-
by pledge our best efforts to the au-
thorities to aid in hunting down the
criminals and to vindicate law and
order.
MURPHY AND CRONIN.
It was rumored to-day that Thomas
Murphy father of Miss Annie Murphy
the young woman who declared so
positively that she saw Dr. Cronin on
the street car the evening following his
disappearance had rented a room at
1 1 7 South Clark street opposite Dr.
Cronin's office about the time the mys
tenous Simons first made his appear-
ance in the case. Acting upon the ru
mor an investigation was started Mr.
Murphy denied the story. He said he
was never in 117 Clark street and did
not know anything of Simons. Mur-
phy stated that he was always friendly
to Cronin and denounced reports to
the contrary as lies. He shook hands
with Cronin he said about two weeks
before the doctors disappearance. Mor-
timer Scanlan was with him at the time.
The three men were on the best of
terms with each other.
THE TRIO INDICATED.
Detective Daniel Coughlin Patrick
0. Sullivan the ice man and Frank J.
Black alias Woodruff were indicated
by the grand jury this evening for the
murder of Dr. Cronin. The result
was reached after an investigation
which had begun at noon and lasted
seven hours during which twenty-four
witnesses were examined and a mass
of evidence considered. The three
prisoners were included in one indict-
ment to which there were three counts
6ne charging themwith killing Dr.
Cronin with a blunt instrument the
second alleging the use of a sharp in-
strument and the third with instru-
ments and means unknown. No evi-
dence was introduced to prove a con-
spiracy and Dr. Cronin's private pa-
pers were not placed before the grand
jury. Witnesses who were called were
those whose stones have been told in
general outline if not in detail in the
press. Judge Longenecker thought it
advisable to tighten the coils into
which three prisoners had already been
drawn and fasten them with the in-
dictments probably to prevent any
attempt to secure a release of one or
more of them on bail.
Mrs. Hamburger a widow living at
1542 Diversy street "has turned over
to the city police articles of clothing
which may have belonged to Dr. Cro-
nin. Mrs. Hamburger's two boys
nine and eleven years old were play-
ing in the woods south of Rosehill last
Sunday. They were perhaps a mile
from where Cronin's body was hid in
the catch basin and nearly two miles
north of the place where the bloody
trunk was found in the bushes at the
roadside. One of the boys was push-
ing his way through some bushes when
he discovered a woolen undershirt on
the ground. A little way from the un-
dershirt were a pair of drawers and a
vest. The boys went through the
pockets of the vest and found several
cigars several pennies and some
matches. From the fact that the
clothing was scattered about when
found it is supposed it had been pre-
viously overhauled by someCody who
went off with whatever he deemed of
value.
IIKFORE THE GRAND JURV.
The grand jury was engaged in an
investigation of the charge against Dr.
Lucius Gray ex-physician at the De-
tention hospital for the insane of ap-
propriating county property for his
own use when Judge Longenecker
Capt. Schaack Lieut. Schuetler Capt.
Wing and a number of officers and
witnesses jn their charge drove up to
the criminal court building. The Gray
investigation was stopped at once and
the witnesses who was summoned to
testify in that and other pending cases
were dismissed. Capt. Schaack took
possession pf Assistant State's Attor-
ney Baker's office across the hall from
the grand jury room and kept the wit-
nesses there under lock nnd key until
they were wanted in the jury room tq
and from which they were escorted by
a strong guard. The guard was not
to keep the witnesses from running
away but to prevent reporters from
extracting some of their testimony en-
route. Judge Longenecker conducted
the investigation assisted by Mr. J. M.
Mollis.
John Cronin a brother of the mur-
dered man was the first witness called.
He testified that the body in the Lake-
View catch basin and buried in Calva-
ry cemetery last Sunday was that of
Ins brother.
Thomas O'Neill Mayor Creiger's
private sccietary took his notes of
Detective Coughlin's statements with
him when he went before the investiga-
tors and it was half an hour before he
came out again.
Liveryman Dinan told about Cough-
lin's ordering the horse for a friend the
night of Mpy 4 and described the
horse and the man who drove it
away. His hostler was also sum-
moned. WillardJ. Smith and J. S. Smith
Coughlin's friends from Houghton
Mich. who say they did not hire Di-
nan's white horse notwithstanding
Coughlin's statement to the contrary
went before the jury together1
Mr. Frank Scanlan and Mr. and
Mrs. T. T. Conklin completed the
chain of evidence which led to the hold-
ing of Coughlin and Black.
Justice Mahoney of Lakeview told
the jury he knew of Sullivan's contract
with Dr. Cronin for surgical services
and John Carlson his son Charles and
the latter's wife were called to give the
particulars of the renting of their
cottage in which Cronin was killed.
Two warrants for Daniel Coughlin
and Patrick O. Sullivan are not the
only ones that have been issued in the
case. Eight other warrants were plac-
ed in the hands of detectives to-day
and were taken to different parts of
the city and Lake View. Detectives
immediately began to shadow eight
different suspects. The warrants are
not intended for use save in such
emercency as would arise from any
attempt of any man to leave the
city.
woodrui-t's story.
Chicago III. May 28 Frank
Woodruff alias Frank Black has been
taken into camp by Capt. Schaack
and he has told the whole story of his
connection with ')r. Cronin's murder.
According to the statements he has
made to the captain he was not direct-
ly connected with the murder itself
but simply acted as driver of the wag-
on which disposed of the dead man's
body in the catch basin where it was
found. Woodruff h.is been taken to
the scene of Cronin's murder and also
to the sewer where the body was found
and the place where thevtrunk was first
seen. Woodruff himself gave direc-
tions to the detectives who managed
the reins and in every instance located
the exact places where the chief acts
in the tragedy occurred. According
to his confession he was directed by
those who had charge of that part of
the conspiracy and whose names Capt.
Schaack reserves for reasons that are
palpable to go to Dinan's livery stable
where he would obtain a horse and
wagon. He had already been instruct-
ed to drive the outfit to the neighbor-
hood of Carlson's cattage and he also
knew for what purpose hifnvas to go
there. Woodruff arrived at the cot-
tage about twenty minutes before Dr.
Cronin was driven up and he placed
his horse and wagon at a point where
he could keep his eyes on the front
steps. He saw the white horse rig
containing Dr. Cronin and his conduc-
tor arrive and three-quarters of an
hour thereafter the man who was
known as Williams opened the door
of the cottage and gave a signal by
stamping his foot on the wooden porch.
Woodruff at once drove up and assist-
ed by the third man the trunk was
loaded into the wagon. Two men fol-
lowed the trunk and directed Wood-
ruff who continued as driver to drive
eastward to the lake to a certain point
which Woodruff had designated to
Capt. Schaack. The wagon headed
for the lake and in its depths the trunk
and contents would have been SepbbTP
ed had not there been an interruption
from a Lake View policeman. This
smashed the original plan of the two
men and immediate steps were taken
to get out of the officer's way. This
was done by taking a circuitous route
which again brought them to Evanston
road They had now been driving for
nearly an hour with their ghastly load
and one of the men suggested the
sewer. A stop was made at the Fifty-
ninth street intersection of the Evan-
ston road. The top was taken off the
manhole on the southeast corner and
the trunk was lifted from the wagon.
It was then a new and expected diffi-
culty presented itself While it was
possible to drop the trunk with the
body into the lake it became a physi-
cal impossiblity to thus dispose pf the
load in the manhole It was resolved
to take the body put of the trunk and
to drop the body into the catch basin
and return with the trunk to the cot-
tage ami burn it up. Hut when the
trunk was to be unlocked it was found
that the key had been lost. Williams
said there was no more time to be lost
and he kicked in the lid of the trunk.
The three men lifted thq body out and
deposited it in the sewer as it was
found. The trunk was again placed
in the wagon. It was intended to go
south for a distance and then drive
north to the cottage alul there deposit
the trunk.
How to be Happy Though Marriod.
This is a hackneyed subject I grant
you but not more hackneyed I am
sure you will allow than the unhnppi-
ness of homes. We are told that "God
setteth the solitary in families" but
surely when we look around among
our friends and acquaintances we see
many marriages that cannot be of
Heaven's making. It takes a good
deal of that charity or love that "seek-
eth not her own" to insure happiness
in any state and especially in the mar-
ried state.
"My children" said a white-haired
father as he bade good-by to his new-
ly married daughter and her husband
"you will be happy just as long as you
each seek the happiness of the other
instead of your own." There you
have the whole secret in a nutshell.
"But" asks a sad face wife "suppose
you have always tried to make your
husband happy without" having your
efforts recognized or apprcc ated ?"
Then I fear you can only find your
own happiness in the consciousness of
having done your duty ; and believe
me it will be a greater and higher
happiness than you can find' by neg-
lecting it for a vain search after your
own pleasure. Seeking the happiness
of a husband or wife does not always
mean that you must bear injustice and
ill-treatment in silence. Selfishness
and its twin brother thoughtlessness
are two of the greatest evils that mar-
ried people have to contend with. If
you find them to be the besetting sins
of your husband and that you cannot
shame him out of them by your own
generous conduct see if his past train-
ing has not had something to do with
it ; don't let it run on ; you will have
more influence to correct it during
your honeymoon than you will later.
Perhaps he has been the only son of a
doting and unwise mother. I once
knew of such a case where a gentle-
man of noble and generous impulses
hail had his home-life so narrowed by
his early training that when he mar-
ried he allowed his wife to fall into the
same state of servitude that his mother
had held before her. To my mind she
was rather the more to be blamed of
the two only poor woman she
erred in kindness and ignorance. Fif-
teen years of this servitude opened her
eyes to the fact that she had been
wrong but it was too late then to re-
pair the wrong. All unconsciously he
had grown to feel a contempt for the
woman who could so lavishly yield to
his slightest and most unreasonable
whim.
A young friend of mine without a
single penny by way of a marriage
portion wedded a gentleman of means
somewhat older than herself. There
was a true foundation of love and res-
pect but the husband having been
taught to believe that all women were
extravagant and not to be trusted in
money matters made his wife no al-
lowance and exacted from her an ac-
count of all she spent. Being a wo-
man of high and generous impulses
she could not brook this and while
yet on their honeymoon one day call-
ed him to her side and asked him to
make her a regular allowance. "I
want a certain sum of money that I
can call my own" said this intrepid
wife. "It need not be large but if it
is only five dollars a month I want it
to be my very own and I wish never
to feel obliged to give you an account
of it." Like a wise man as he was
he succumbed to the inevitable made
her a handsome allowance nnd thus
one of the worst perils of matrimony
was avoided When I commended
my friend for her courage she said :
"All my life I had seen my mother
suffer from this saint: trait in my father.
A man of great generosity outside of
his family he never allowed my moth-
er a dollar of pocket hioney and when
perfectly reasonable bills were present-
ed to him for payment there was
always a scene. Had mamma taken
a firm stand in the early days of her
married life we wpuld have been a
much happier family"
Don't condemn your husband as un-
generous until you have presented
your reasonable requirements in the
most tactful way and failed. If you
do fail in this or other matters as I
said before resolve Gpd helping you
to do your own duty and to so train
your boys tjiat ypur daughters-in-law
shall rise up and call you blessed
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Hoeny, John, Jr. The Abilene Reporter. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, May 31, 1889, newspaper, May 31, 1889; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth330615/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Public Library.