The Crime of the Century; Or, The Assassination of Dr. Patrick Henry CroninHunt, Henry M.
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The Crime of the Century; Or, The Assassination of Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin
Hunt, Henry M.
Cronin, Patrick Henry, 1846-1889; Trials (Assassination) -- Illinois -- Chicago
"On the 4th of May we find that about eight o'clock, or a little
after, at the Carlson cottage, a gray horse is seen coming up
Ashland avenue--the gray horse that was hired by Daniel Coughlin,
and that started from Dinan's livery stable northward at twenty
minutes after seven o'clock. Immediately after eight o'clock the
gray horse was seen coming from the north on Ashland avenue, driven
by a man whom the party could not describe. Remember that Dr.
Cronin started with a satchel and with his box of splints, and with
a roll of cotton; that he carried them on his lap, and that he wore
a slouch hat with a low crown, and a brown overcoat; and that this
horse and buggy that the man had seen coming north he observed that
the horse was gray. He saw the buggy turned round and a tall man
get out and reach in and take something out, as if it were a dark
satchel, and go up the steps into the cottage, and the man in a
brown coat with a high-crowned hat went into the cottage. The buggy
then drove south. It was a white horse that drew it away. Here we
have the white horse from Dinan's stable, seeming to start for the
Carlson cottage, and here we have the white horse taking Dr. Cronin
away in the buggy, and a man getting out of the buggy and going up
the steps into the cottage. It looks as if Providence, working in a
mysterious way, designed that there should be some one to see the
last steps taken by this poor man as he rushed up the steps full of
life and full of hope, going in there to relieve suffering
humanity. This witness heard cries from within--heard strokes and
cries as if there was a fight--and passed on. Do you have any doubt
now but that Dr. Cronin was driven to the Carlson cottage? Can you
as twelve men making up your minds upon the evidence have any doubt
but that it was Dr. Cronin who was driven into that cottage? If not
there, tell me where he was driven to."
THE MURDER IN THE COTTAGE.
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