Cronin Trial - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Trial of William Cronin, 22, charged with burglary in connection with the robbery of a filling statin in this city last winter has gain been postponed and will start next Monday in Montgomery Circuit Court. The trial was originally scheduled to have started last Monday but due to the unusual length of another case being tried in the court, it was postponed. Cronin was involved in the filling station robbery by a confession made for police by Robert (Boob) Thompson who probably will be returned here as the sate’s chief witness from the state reformatory at Pendleton where he has been taken as a parole violator Thompson also previously implicated Cronin in the theft of an automobile at Greencatle in January and appeared as a state witness in the second of two trials, each of which ended with a hung jury in the Putnam circuit court during recent months.