ed him with extraordinary intensity. Men
like Parnell and Michael Davitt, however, extended him their full
confidence, and were the first to come to his defense when the
news of his arrest was published on the other side of the Atlantic.

THE OTHER ACCUSED MEN.

Dan Coughlin, the detective, at this time was about 34 years of
age. He was a native of Michigan, and worked in the iron mines of
the northern part of that State when a boy. He arrived in Chicago
at the age of 26 and immediately fell in with Tim Crean, Florence
Sullivan, and Tom Murphy. They introduced him to Alex. Sullivan and
he secured a position on the police force through the latter.
Sullivan's influence was such that he had an easy time. He became a
pet of Capt. Schaack and stood closer to that officer than was good
for the discipline of the force.

P. O'Sullivan was born in Galena about 1853. His parents were from
Galway, Ireland. They moved to Southern Michigan soon after he was
born, and subsequently to Wisconsin, where they worked a farm which
O'Sullivan owned at the time of the tragedy. He moved to Chicago
about 1877, obtained employment as a street-car conductor, and quit
that position after about eight years to go into the ice business.
He went into politics in Lake View, and was a candidate for
Alderman on the Democratic ticket, and was beaten.

Frank Woodruff, or Black, was the son of a farmer of San Jose, Cal.
He was born in Wisconsin. He had been in various penitentiaries,
but for petty offenses. He moved to Chicago about five weeks before
the 5th of May. He was an American.

CHAPTER XII.

AT THE TORONTO END OF THE CONSPIRACY--INVESTIGATING LONG'S CIRCUMSTANTIAL
STORIES, AND HIS INTERVIEWS WITH DR. CRONIN--A CHICAGO FUGITIVE
CONCERNED--HIS SUSPICIOUS MOVEMENTS--A CHAPTER OF STARTLING
COINCIDENTS--LONG ON THE RACK--MAKES DAMAGING ADMISSIONS AND BREAKS
DOWN--THE OBJECT TO DISTRACT ATTENTION FROM THE SCENE OF THE CRIME--
ANOTHER CONFESSION FROM WOODRUFF.

With the recovery of the body of the murdered physician, and the
developments that followed in such rapid succession, attention was
attracted anew to the reports that had emanated from Toronto during the
week following the disappearance. The circumstantial stories and
interviews that had been scattered broadcast from that city over the
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