Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-12
THE CR0NIN u
Beggs Hal Gone to wisconsin-Police-
man Brown Arrested.

Beggs Has Gone to wisconsin-Police-
man Brown Arrested.
CHICAGO, June TN the Cronin inquest,
to-day, John N. Beggs and Michael Whaleu,
detectives, and Peter Mcclellan, who were
expected to testify, were conspicuously ab-
sent. 1t was discovered that Beggs had
left the city. A card on his door said:
"Gone to Wisconsin"
Policeman Brown ~testifies that he pre-
ferred charges Of treason against DR.. Cronin
in the Clan-na-Gael camp, and asserted that
he did it OF his motion, not at the i~nstiga-
ton Of anybody. At the close of his testi-
mony he was arrested on suspicion of being
the man who drove the buggy in which
Cronin a decoyed to his death, but q
clared he did not resemble Brown, and the
latter was therefore released.
Luke Dillon, oil Philadelphia, t~estifies
that Cronin frequently said to him that he
believed that IL Alexander Sullivan was to
forward his ambition to rule Irish and
American politics, he would murder him
Cronin).
A DAY OF SENSATIONS.
CHICAGO, June This was a day OF sen.
Stations at the inquest of DR.. Cronin. Luke
Dillon of Philadelphia, the highest. or one
OF the highest, OF executive officers of the
clan.na-gael, took the witness stand, and
in the course of his testimony read from
the archives of the association q document
penned under extraordinary circumstances
by one of his wi predecessors in the high
est council Of the clan.na-gael, Alexander
Sullivan of Chicago. This document was
dated New York, September Is, 1888, and
and is q protest by Sullivan of the presence
OF DR.. Cronin in the membership of the
committee to investigate the charges
against Sullivan, which held it's session in
Buffalo. Mr.. Sullivan protests against
Cronin OF three grounds:
First--That Cronin is his personal enemy.
Second-That he has expressed an opin-
ir the case.
~Third-Thath he is aperiurer and a scound-
rel, unfit to be placed on any jury.
To the first objection. Sullivan cites Gro
Minis well.knewn and evident personal hos
tility toward the writer in many ways, his
writings on the subject, etc.
In regard to the second objection, Sulli.
van said it was only necessary for him to
notice that Cronin was . member of the
executive board of the United Brother.
hood, who had formulated the charges
him; that he had expected decided
opinions in the case and would not be &C.
as a juror in any civil case in which
Sullivan had anything to do.
CAPT. LAwRENcE's TESTIMONY.
Capt. Lawrence Buckley Of the Chicago
guards, was a mem
Der OF the committee hat expelled
Cronin as q traitor in 1885. He testified
that Dan Coughlan a on the committee,
too, but that LeCaron was not. He said
the attaching Of S%ullivan's protest to the
report OF the trial committee was approved
by all Il the executives except Patrick Ea-
gan. who was not present.
The coroner asked Buckleysif the execu-
tive committee ordered Cronin's removal,
and witness answered emphatically in the
negative.
The inquest was here adjourned for the
day. The suspects, ex-detective Whalen
and Peter Mcclellan the Philadelphia,
were in the court roo during the latter
part OF the afternoon.