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1AY 28 1889.1.THE NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE: NEW YORK. 7
to Uie Pot. The cover of the trunk had been forced Later developments prove that there may be more in UI~Af ~ D A
I open. The interiorotthe trunk was bespattered with the trunk phase of the subject than was at first HARVA ' BOYS HURRAH
blood and partially filled with absorbent cotton, which thought, it is now positive that the trunk did not con-
A*- H' was saturated with gore. Alderman 'Chapman drove fain the doctor's body..bnt it may have contained the They Give the Gaiety Girls a Great enrd-oT' in
h urriedly to the Lake View Police Station and gave the body of a womani who may or may not have been ac- etr Bo~on a n d
alr.Captain Villiers and a detachmentof officers iiainted with the doctor. A special from Chicago to7
in'leaped into the patrol wagon and made a furious run the New York papers tells the following story. It ais rvaral boys took /osesion of the ;ollis Street
d to thelonely spot were thetrk stood. When they dated last Saturday:a
got there they found a large crowd of gaping men and 'The police arrested a man named Frank &. Wood. theaLoton Satitoayiuhtas gave thegirls of
]:rnk oun inLin~Company such asend-off asi abi-
rOyniiFoLi lhad trampled the grass in evey directiontdo non -aiet
ihe ti'umk was.taken to the station house. clsin er.
The first thing Captain Villiers did alter he clearedItformahe of 'giss Es-
Park ~~ lil private room of the curiosity seekers, who had meralda. Several
S, - - - swarmed into the statloi house.,was to make a Careful /hundred Harard stn-
S - , investigation of the trunk. He found enough evidence
to t atisfy him that agrown person hadbeen murdered, dents filled the first,
thrust into the trunk and then carted to the spot be- four rows of the or-
SQ flRtween the two cemeteries. The trunk is new and large. . e
d ian six feet tall 'could be cramped into it' A trunk tihe proscenium .b oxek;.
aler who was summoned to the station house by
Captain Villier says that it was made eitier in Rtactie greeted with anuproar-
or itwuukee .Ii of chapPater'ad wt 'eidnlytouauefissonly to be 11k-
H Afad ei'purchased for the purpose for vhichi it wsused.
,H ,Afad f.3ig iread y Oet political meeting
id Intieir haste to remove the body the murderers had great idtal eei-g
Conpiatosthrown the cover back with such force thait Pne of the ' inothcampdt ain All t
onspirat s. heet-iron hIinges was broken. Captain Villiers picked incipa ll the
the cotton Out; and paced it upon his table.' Captain ia ladi
Vilhers nsed to be a doctor, and his examination of the companywore crimson -
cotn led hima to believe that t4emurderu1st have roses and showed the
THE MAXWELL :U SE RECILLED. been committed some time after midniiht. Some of the Cpresene of theirexub-
absorbent material was still soft with blood and there eanfind
was a poolof fresh blood in one corner of the trunk. J. erauenaswi s
A trunk' mystery which is excitngas .much ,con' Careful examination of the cotton revealed other 'u gg . ONZ Or THE ruZZ
mentas theSt.Louislreller-Maywellcase, wlh ter. things to the officer. Ilefoundla lock of dark brown< ,- though'Greek to the myy
inated in the legal strangulation of young Maxwell hair. which was almost as line as% a woman's bitt not so 'with delight.
glossy. hisnwuinhepart ofssthe taudience, modeto the boys simply yell...
last autumn, is now exciting sensational Chicago. The glossy.,This*-was the only Possible tangible clue as to All the favorite songs andance were encored sev
victim, if there be ..the idetityothovictimeral times, and this
,, ' N - i: . ,'B DOCTO IS nR V kWAY.,attnteva l by mesofhiss apluebtwe
Vicetm in the case. is said The lock of hair was.placed under amicrospe. It .ed4t quite a warfare, carried oi
to havebeen Dr. P. H. was foundto.be filled with blool.and particles of cot-. '. D.OCTO R IVEN I . at. intervals by imeaI softhisses and applarsebetvveen
Cronin.-a physician ,ofL tou. The lock looked as th ough I t had been chopped - tealryadhejl vrd boy's:-In the Ia
.hebig citybyIhe lakeii o with a blunt instrument.a triff o-da,'.pn the chargeOf horse stealing. .The pri u-- act, when .Letty Lind-
udoubt ,Tler'e were no Marks on the truink, and aside from onerconfessed to.havng stolen' .a horse and wagon - 'came on iil her white
but lteieistonicdobt Dean's baron sostnenu aemt by ape . a os s ewfor the
as t whether or nottbetheh lock ofhair there is absolutely nothing left for theu -mt.ebster avenue aboutl1 o'clock'-
wI Iers to bold for identifcation on Sunday morning last,.and 'soon, after.-met by'p- Gitana dance, she wore
d o c to r w h o , i s s a id w . ien Lt Id ~ i e t fi ~ i n , ' .,)
poie ee oce-pointmntb~r. P. H:, Cronin. William King and Dick on /aidl~ae
hae eeiexrene' Notwithstanding the fact ta k oiewr e - oAtukcnannitebdlfaw~a a lcd~~' tu'svrfln
faoedbefnewteal' tain that they had obtained a clew. tie recently buied. Fairburtu'at 528 North State streetL trelyaru-sefral-long
- notnoriety, hs nosput tunkcontaining t5e bodyofaWoaanwas placedsrae cio
in the wagon, into which-Ki g ahd Fairburn then en- ribbot.i tile sight of
up a little jocular job on tered with Woodruff leaving r.Cron ate. barn. which brought the boys
- i rends,. Iie i Worofth -drv the body and his two companions \ to their' feet wvith Ions-
were those who intimat- - to Lincoln.Park, where.King 'and Fairblurn removed Z - ingeheers. Four times
ed that Dr..Cren n was ' -_ the corpse, from the trunk, and Woodruff 'drove on she was encored, and
. e ct o aoRON talone to the place on Evanston avenue, where.the the ti;
e d cn . e vspiracycand'that nhas empty trunk was found some hours afterward.. cu the lithemarvellous
S o away with.This.is how the stOry From 'conversations- between Cronin. King and DO ThOU KNOW? dizzy dance, which she
goes: On Saturday, May 4, in the evening, Dr. Fairbturn.whieh Woodruff overheard, he judged that had only once beoretgivein Boston. The response
Cronin left his office with a stranger. . who.sum- the bodywas that of a woman who had been killed by was elect'ical andsotumultuousthat hardly a strain
anned him to care for an e~ployee of- the. an abortion. 'of the music could be heard through the din.,
Sullivan IeCombany. who. e claimed, had been in- A A dispatch from Toronto Saturday 'last said that
jured. The stranger was nervous and somewhat excit- -- Cronin had been seen there. He recog ized the corres-- T
ed. He urged the doctor to hurry, and when the latter u toahco pradm rdR LED TO HblADES.
peondent of a Chicago paper, ad impor ed'to be let
finallfy climbed into a waiting buggy the horse Was sent Talone. He appealed, to he-out of his.mind: and spoke - ISu3nECT O ILLUSTRATIOg.1
north at a rapid clip. Mr. Sullivau says nobody in with vehemence against Alexander Sullivan and other' The-setral story recently concluded in Che Dag'
his employ was injurel and that the doctor' neither --Chicagoans.'Dongs. entitled Night Rlders. a tale of the terrible
called al hisiceehouse nor his house. l=e,knows.noth- . '9 Woodufl's story is not generally believed, doings of the Ozark Bald Knobber, hala.tagic-end.
sng wbalerabout.thestragerwhodrove him-away.---------------- . On another page the POLICE GAzxr:rE presents an ing in Ozark-Mo.. on Friday. May 10. when.William
Dr. Cronin had a contract to attend the Sullivan em-. ' - illustration of the finding in Lincoln Park lake of the Walker. John Matthews and Dave Walker were hanged
ployees. and a strange thing about this is the fact that 7body of a finely formed female and gives the story of for the murder of James Edens. his son William Edens
the contract Dr. Cronin made to care for Sullivan's SX saw HM ON THE .CAA.te mystery. The two cases may have some conner- andChas..Green.his brotherinlawin1877. Afterthe
employees was a secret between himself, Sullivan and
Justice Mahoney. of Lake View. Mahoney first intro- 'bodyofadog was foundnearwherethetrunkwasdis- tion. In any event Cronin is in Toronto, and claims to menhadreached the scaffold andthe nooses wetead-
sluced Sullivan to the doctor. and after their business covered. Then the hair found in the trunk was taken have fled because of threats made by members of an justed, theie was a teri'lble scene. The sheriff had not
arrangement was copleted-they agreed to say noth toCronin's barber, who positivey asserted that it had' organization the secrets of which lie had betrayed. allowed for the stretching of the ropes.'Wheu the d'op
arrangemet was ompltedteyagreedn t :t0 yoth i ever adorned the head of the missing doctor. Taken all in all the case is a curious one and is very. fell Matthews alighited on the ground ot his toes and
neg about it. Now the poice wantto . Ma out wh .f moretangible clew. It much mixed up. struggled violently to get his aims free. He would
caed for the doctor must have knownaof itseXinman e.who ne Is dated'fora.Q4icago. and. if treicratlher knocks the lose his balance, regain it, and gasp and scream. He
alldfor the doe mst ha~ve knownof l'sexan stence, bottom out of the conspirac y 'toty,,but scarcely ex- JUST TOO AWFUL FOBL. ANYTHING. ihally lost the use of his litubs and was strangled. Bill
for he Presented one, f Suillivan's cards and then: said ' Wlke's opebroe. henbe.asscarrcetlpon thi
plains the mysterious conduct of thedoctor. It is ,OOWalker
follows: '' 'I s ~ . ~uzc ritu~tTo~ scaffold he was laid on his back. He spat blood in the
After DrCronin left his h0ome on-the eventful.even-' s nteiTer, otoeColby niversity at Water- scfoh aadoblack cap and over his shit fLrnteatodclotheCL Those
IngIlie boarded. the. Limitsgirip car atF ville. Me. sin a flurryof excitement over the pranks_ on the scaffold heard him say-to he slieriff: 0. God I
a redeick ofsom ofhis sthecause of all the
street. and rode to Lasalle and Madison streets. When -Ofenomiand theicause of ad the, Mr. Johnson. I hope you wont't have as terribic a death
h-se leftth car le toui-ie d wardin teiret n oftroubleis this:, The C nregationahist Church ot that as I am having, and Kill me. but don't let me tie
the tth De riedwsth a nge d on tf cityed a fair eeny'aud all the college students heie with my neck broken. -
cah onitson tip. If the on chartee esp eialy 'wereiuvited Some accepted, while others sawmore. It was an awful sight to see the Sheriff and'his
. o~ar on it down trip. If le had chartered it especially fun ahea& Those,who sawhe fun preferred to climb .ut sI n e ip oy n tabeinm w -ll the
- I , _. to avoid observation lie could not have enjoyed, more fn a e who ate fu trou cm b guards holding the limp body in the,ira whilethe
freedom in this respect. He was alone betwee a the ackwayand afier a lot of: trouble came pon 'noose was again adjusted, and the boy ed
strange conductor and a strauge gri man.oandsif esn t death. David Walker, the.father:;was ortnred'almost
a clerk ttu the Iteordes's ofice. Mis' upply'qf cakes and candies, It did not take long for as terribly as bis'son When the drop fell his feet al-
'/ .'' ,--4 --Xvitrphy, a clerkin the Recordrsofe h noteehm'l a ' -hiiioau t'ksres este . ih-feeyhn oth olg idh.:ot Joery tsheou .a'hndthe do'fselisp'ee a-
5''ahtuurphyhad not them th tranfa vi'tict tecleebuildingasmost touched the ground, and the noose slipped over
an a half block o t where ewhere they had a feast, After getting awa with the 'his chin He tried to stand, butrost his balanceand
trip, hls movements would,,be :efiNblupet-1 ysterw' greater part of these sweets they developed a spirit.of' swunxkoiomd and round.IHewas caught by a -defty.,
,Miss Murphy had been isiting friends devilishness and were ready for a great lark. Takin- ano the ndose was again adjusted aroumdhs neck, He
avenue..Shortly after 9 o'clock she boardedlt a horse tleCIcans along, they went, to. the retreat of, thi,.i was inall agled.
car that was subsequently attached to a grip eat at tfl . eds and wukened, them by drumming. - - y strangled, ' '
.Centreand Clark streets- At Divisiou stieet she left onthecans, 't-ti .,eared they were met with '. .
0'.., 11 the Gia-leld avenue car to enter one that was waiting awelldirected stream or &' ose which, . W-'.MURDEDTHIS G=1
n- sent~them back totheirroxo mk in ithu . ..No of h . ..
- .5.' .to convey passengers down State street, s hura .. e of the - ''
cAs I was walking to the State stretar. said Mss girls descended from a rear window and, tur'tlCo w
the water. but she.,did not escape the remarks of th lark Van Benthnt-sen. a fourteen-year-old
-Murphy. I turned ar oundto look at the bi ggip car. students, who had umbrellasovertheir heads to con- youngsiter. V.5 wading in the lake'a& licolnPark.
I had moved across the street,'and bad slopped diiect.- e hicago on last Mohduy, hisfoootstuuck a slide which
hyin front of the company's offlice. There was only one cal - their faces and blushes. as%tey all joined in,
THE LL GEI)HLOPY T - NK..e er. e b bo in is ap. Atfirs .1did shooting. Ali. there, my' dumpling I. and 'ther was sticking 'up Iabove the.sand.'He. Called a'park
u-g Te L O~ OO TRU NK, man in the car, He hada box i his la. At first did andhein . mmonedotersThey
theice4nA himself was out of town. With Cronin -- ulled the shbe, towhich was attaiched a foot. with aill
Outof the ay the detctives are trying to getasats-ength. but couldt budge it y then turned
foufe hay eete ti ae . try ingg t t ' ' CHCAGO'S=IN.GE1' R. An r t e d t
facto explanation fromSullivan and Mahoney, .The --on a str eamnowate and,'ble the'saultoall 'aides.
reras repeatedly said he knows nohingwhatever' OTnAtl - Iittle by little the boy of 'u woman a b t
'about the matter- Last night a delegationof the doc-,- .n. D. C. Cregier Chicago's .intelligent Mayor. 'toeeih tillat last themendrew it'oto fthesa.d, The
tor's friends called on Mahoney to yet his story, but - - - whose picture appears 'elsewhere In this issue.of-the boedy'*as naked, butthe gira'lwore a puir of stockings.
how 'ell, the' succeeded could not be learn~ed, - - ' POLICE GAZ , was born itn New York in 1829 .In apanYof kidglovesan'd- earrings,' There is no doubt
Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Conklin. with whom Dr. Cronin early life lie entered the iron business, and 'afterward ebut thatithe girl had been nmu-dered and, buried head
lvedtueieary ten h ars,.were~very emphatic yestetday' became attached tothe engieer corpsof the.U..S. mail -w'doward in the sand.
in.their. eclarations, that the,missing man has bee ' .'. steamships pling-betwee New Yoik. Havana and' - .
murde red. He always told. us Mrs. Conklin said. , tew Orleans, He moved to Chicago ill . 3 and I ' ' . WLItAIS 0N
tiat.if he disappeared we might, know lie was mur- 1881 was appoite Commissiotner of Public Works.
dered. Something dreadful has hap peuned to him.,I and.served 'ututil 18., when hue resigned to accept the, [WITit PonTiAT. ,
kuowl.if hue was not.dead we voauld have heard of hlis position of superintendent of the West. Division Street Amy Williamson, whose dark eyes and- fair face
wherqabouts before this time, for-' ,.ailwy Co. Mayor Cregier is a p ornin nt Musonr, grace oQurgalleW this weee is a miber of that Lou-
Duii'tg the whole ten years he has lived withnUs, andjis a, Past Grand Maaster. and has beet a trusted dn'GayetyCompany. w bich has catuseudcduides of'
Mr._ has bee*i interruptedo -be wneehrhwascauwdy fromdudesWo
Mr. ( outi in terrlted, 'he -never-was away from~ /' presidetof the Masoic.,1enevolent Associatiou andII the-ommunityto come ont u full coioi4& MissWil
home twenty four hours.without sending-us, word r President o ftheVestern SocietyofEngineer.,'Mayor inmson's admirers will'recognizethehkeness asan
either by telephone or telegraph.. If be.went awayout Cregier is a life-long.Deocralt ' ' xelent one, ' -
of. th*ciy he let us know, however. in advance of is ' .
denai iure. I cannot belteve he has broken his role in - -M.R OF H--. . B-. T i OUB -
. . I I E;EI - - PKCTDE.UTHIRD HODSR.
I.s instance. \ i .... .. w ou'm . . r1,
With the end in view of -clearingup -the.mystery; , , ' - I .° tE1r r I S lInsrrTIO.1 T i h n bo a
Captain Vullers has matte and us making frultnvestig~a- , - ,A Ayoung an d pr'etty wite girl. named.,Ro~a5 e. FoThere is. pelhaps tno man betteric kno twbnone
.. ..hasloradenanegissa-tki tha fullr-ek J. stigtt'hy1 name
ktiou. and the true inwardness of the. case will soon be ' THE iOtiCE ON THE Q .QVE,' agedI6ars. was-married to Charles. Helm, acolored, a it appeors 'otn oe age. M.urphy. is
laid before the public. The-river near Fullerton, inIat'20 years.of.ago5 recently. atXeula. Oui rthe House 4f. Repiresentaves, andis anold+
the neighborhoodof Wliioh-,the doctor.wasiast seen, -tosee all of his face. buttterewas.-somet.hing-aboutr The cn waresed in ble etyoasena' Ou eiepor'tri g mane ien ueoe'edngodi fello . ci-
Ae'do, ~~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~~~~Tegroom, was dressed. in blue tr'onsers.' a mouse--tm prigmn'o ivn n od el' e
la been dragged. butkwithont avail, nd while on the him tliateu'enied so familiar tat after' Icoit aboard of colored coat and jockey cap. whileLue b ilde vore a 'e spo dtinn the geial' Mn l is fel mg
looikout forany clew, that might give.reason for theuywn cat I lookedthim-gain. He was thei look blu caio dress and Jaunty hat,'hey were arstedvad dito ther rimt
disappearanee.Officers. fayden and Smith met with a Inc- up, au.u Isaw that he was Dr. Cronin. I am posi- for parding the treetln theeee stnes by the police., oc contan tap e
possible eud of the.tangled, twine-what the police tive that umnot mistaken] ,Ihave known Dr.Cronin on__tapsa.ty.on___
consider to be such. at least. They eFawtwo men driv- many years. t y hA , CHURC- ... .
ing thrutugh the sreets with a mysterious looking When Dr. Croninlett.Ahu omLe'on Saturayn -be PIZEDTHE CHURCH, X ERS
trunk. Tiey failed to arrest fhem but lateron Alder- carried with hm hiIlbox of'stuilcal instruments-and a - ;SUBJCT OF ILLUSTiATION 1, - LWTn POtTSMXT- _
man Chapman. of'Lake V'W, wa-drivintralong-Evans -bmdeofenoOn-battinvg, itisbelieved that the-doctor., - Father.'Gr odhowkki.' a'Pdiklsi'piest af'M-katse. Join. J. h Ltumphries is one of the leading-slportin
ton aveuue between raceland and the German Catho- was a passenger on the eleven o'clock train oa the Mihr. was assaulted in the street recetly hy one fa et
lie emee ktran ol t Mic.. as ssalte inthestret ecetlyby ne ac-men of western New York and proprietor of the Al-
licemeteryi and when lie reached a point five hun- Pennsylvania road, and that he is now. on his w,vto tion orthechurchfollowers, and a small sizediot was hambra Theatre in Buffalo.
dred yar-ss from Sultzer street he saw three men England,, the result. The militia was called out, butt it was not
standing around atrunk which stood bkof.bhhi ushn e tuerd ets for the'Whitechapei'itrders, contailnhga hi- until the, fire department had been sent for and
S t ory ofose tvsteriotscrims, wblhhave bafled the Lodon turned the hoseupon the mob that anything like'order s at cet s c ive K. sdb'lthei
th~oroughfare, Alderm Capmaaigihtetand wento hiLn. Fi seas t r t iam -eahicidK. Fox, ubu c,Franit
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