wever, had only gone half way
down the staircase. Then he returned and took the elevator,
descending to the ladies' entrance, where the detective, not
finding him, thought he had been fooled, and again returned to the
head of the stairs. Cronin had disappeared. At 11 o'clock a second
detective was at the hotel to renew the watch over Cronin.

There is no trace whatever of Cronin since 11 o'clock. The people
at the Rossin House knew nothing about Cronin getting out. The
theory is that Cronin, fearing arrest on the charge of murder, has
gone to Montreal again. The only trains leaving the city to-day
were the morning and evening express and the noon train for
Hamilton. Cronin was seen after the morning express had left. The
evening express was watched, and few people went on the noon train,
no one of them answering to Cronin's description. The livery
stables did not hire out any rig that could have carried the man a
great distance out of the city. His disappearance is a perfect
mystery. Dispatches from St. Catherines to-night say that Cronin is
believed to be stopping there with friends. It would be outside the
range of possibility that he could have reached there except by
driving from Hamilton. Several dispatches have been received by Mr.
Axworthy, of Cleveland, and at the Rossin House, making inquiries
after Cronin.

In this, as in the previous reports, the one thing which it was
endeavored to bring into bold relief was the fact that the physician was
about to cross the Atlantic, and, while McGarry was _en route_ from
Chicago, Chief of Police Hubbard telegraphed to Chief Constable
Grossett, of Toronto, asking for definite information regarding Cronin's
alleged presence in that city. Instead of conducting an independent
investigation, the Canadian official went to Long, and on the strength
of the latter's statements, a reply in the affirmative was wired back to
Chicago. Even this, however, was not accepted as final, and Detectives
Reed and Reyburn were wired to follow up the supposed clue. Starkey was
interviewed as to the truth of Long's story. He replied that he had seen
Cronin, that the latter had been at his (Starkey's) house, but that he
had no knowledge of his subsequent whereabouts. W. Axworthy, an
ex-Chicagoan, when telegraphed by W. P. Rend to learn whether the
physician had actually been there, went to Long