The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-23

| CHICAGO, Nov 13.-At the opening of the
| Cronin trial this morning, Judge Mcconnell an.
| nounced his decision on tho question OF GO ing
| into the past history OF the Clan.nn-Gael. kte
| decided against IL. recess was then takel
| until afternoon.
At the opening OF the trial in the afternoon,
States Attorney Longenecker said that In view
| OF tho courts ruling, the State would only put
one more witness on the stand-a man named
| Clancy from New York, who, he said was not
now in the city.
! II was suggested, in view Of this announce
| ment, that the court ndiohrn until Monday, In
| order TO give tho defense time TO prepare its
| case; but IL was finally decided to adjourn until
| Saturday morning, which was accordingly done.
| In the course OF his statement to the court
| the States Attorney said that all he expected
TO prove by Clancy was conversation which
he had had with O'Sullvan. Clancy is New
| York newspaper man.
| p. Mcnamara a man arrested on suspicion OF
| being ~. B. Simonds," was released this even
ing, nothing being found to warrant his deten-
| tion.
The monotony OF the Cronn trial for the jury
was pleasantly diverted this evening, the
| jurors being taken to the Grand Opera-house
| to see Sol Smith Russell.
The Intec.Ocean says: another important
| Cronin suspect has come to light in the person
of n former resident of Lakeuew-an Irishman
named Mcdonald. He is now said to be in Eu-
rope, and the police are making strenuous eff.
| forts to locate him. Before the
murder Mcdonald was employed by
| the public.worSs department In
| Lakeview. After the disappearance OF DR..
Cronin Mcdonald suddenly appeared to be in
| aflluent circumstances, and talked to his neigh
bors about trip to Europe and exhibited
steamship tickets May 10 the family dislp-
peared. The neighbors assert that prior to May
| 4 Mcdonald was frequently visited by suspci
Gus characters"
The stnte's Attorney refused to talk about
| the matter.
CHICAGO, Nov. 1G-Tbcro was great crowd
| at the opening of the court for the resumption
of the Cronin trial this morning after two days
| recess.
| The first witness called was james Clancy,
correspondent of the New York Herald, who
testified on behalf of the prosecution. He said
| that he was sent here by the Herald in May
to investigate the Cronin case. He called at
O'Sullvan's house on the morning of the day
that Cronin's body was discovered, but before
the discovery was made known.
He then went on to repeat the conversation
that took place between him and O'Sullivan,
regarding the disappearance of Cronin during
which the latter declared his belief that Cronin
was not murdered, and would turn up all right.
Clancy called on O'Sullivan again in the
evening Of the same day, after the body had
been found. He informed O'Sullivan that
Cronin's body had been found, whereupon the
latter turned pale. Witness then stated that
the body lying at the police station, and
asked o Sullivan to accompany him and identi'
| fyt
O'Sulivan shook, ard sank into a chair, and
said mo; 1 could not go. I could not identify
him. 1t would be useless for me to go. II met
| him on the street 1 might know him, but 1
could not identify his body"
In the cross. examination It was brought ont
that the witness was in prison in England for
ten years, for connection with the Fenan con-
spracy, though he directly tried and sen.
fenced for shooting at the two policemen who
arrested him.
At the conclusion OF Mr.. Cancv's examine
tion the State reste1, and the defense moved,
on behalf OF Burke Coughlin, Sullivan and
Kunze, that all evidence respecting what the
stricken from the record The court overruled
the motion.
Mr., Forrest then moved that a lot more testi-
mony relating to Camp 90 be excluded, but all
his motions were promptly overruied
Next the defense moved to exclude certain
portions of Spellman's testimony, and the cor
respondence between him ana Beggs, and then,
taking up the testimony OF Mrs. COnkln, Mr..
ConlIlin and nearly all the witnesses, asked
that certain portions OF their testimony be eX-
cluded. All the motions were overrued.
Tho first witness for the defense was
Frederick j. Squibb. the stenographer who
took the testimony before the Coroner. He
testified as to certain differences between the
testimony as given before the COroners jury
by Major Sampson old man Carlson and
Frank Seaman compared with their evil
dence during the tria proper Court then ad-
journed till Monday.