Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-12
CoughIin Wanted the Doctor Disfigured
for Life,


CoughIin Wanted the Doctor Disfgured
for Life.
CHICAGO, June 11th.-In the Cronin in
quest this morning John C. Garrity, a
saloon-keeper, testified that Detective
Coughlin tried to hire tough character,
known as Major" Sampson, to slug DIR.
Cronin. He wanted him slugged with a
baseball bat and dis6gured for life. If it
killed him it wouldn't make much diff
ference.
]. D. Haggerty, railroad clerk, also
gave testimony. After the trial of DR..
Cronin, he said Alexander Sullivan told
him that Cronin was scoundrel and a
menace to the Irish cause. 1t was the i'm
preston of the witness that Sullivan said
Cronin should be eXterminated. Witness
was OF the same opinion at that time. La
Caron, who was friend of Alexander Sui
livan, was a member of the committee
which tried Cronin. He was introduced
to witness by Sullivan at the trial as a
man worthy of confidence in the Irish
cause. The police say that the men ar
rested IN New York are not important.
At the afternoon session number of
witnesses were examined without develop
ing anything of importance.
Then Chief of Police Hubbard was sworn
dLlu bOlu VI al iultlNltW WHICH lie udu
with Woodruff, the horse thief Hubbard
asked him if he was the one who drove the
trunk from the Carlson cottage Woodruff
said he was, and he then described the cot
tage.
He said" continued the Chief that he
took the trunk about midnight on May 4th.
He had been given $25 by two men the day
before TO do the job. At 11:30 on the night
of May 4th two men, according to agree
ment, raped on the door of Dinans stable.
He opened the door and let out the horse
with rags on its feet and hitched it to the
wagon. They then drove to within a
hundred feet of the Carlson cottage He
was then told to wait and the two left
him and went into the cottage. They re-
mained there five minutes and then beck
oned to him to drive up. He did SO, and
the two, King and Fairburn, and third
man came out with heavy trunk. The
third man was P. o. Sullivan.
when the trunk was put in the wagon
Sullivan returned to the house. Woodruff,
with King and Fairburn, drove on Lincoln
avenue to Fullerton avenue and thence to
Lincoln Park. The men intended to take
the trunk and contents into boat out on
the lake and sink them, but owing to the
bright night and the presence of strangers
they changed their minds and drove back
When they reached manhole at Sixty
ninth street they tried to dump the trunk
into it, but failing they kicked the trunk
open, having lost the key, and took the
body from it and threw it into the hole
Woodruff was then to drive off,"
Chief of Police Hubbard was asked il
regard to the grounds on which Mcdonald
and Maroney were arrested in New York
to-day on suspicion of being concerned in
the Cronin murder. With regard to the
man Mcdonald, who seems to be the most
important of the two prisoners" Hubbard
said, we attach no great importance to the
arrest, as all the fellow had TO do with the
case, so far as we know, is that he was q
New York crook, and was absent from
New York at the time of the murder, and
we think he was here, but we don't know
yet"
TELL-TALE PAPERS.
The Chief then produced some private
papers of DR.. Cronin, which were turned
over to him by saloon-keeper Conklin
with whom Cronin lived. Conklin identi-
fed the papers as being in the handwriting
Of DR.. CronIn, and the Coroner read the
documents to the jury.
Luke Dillon, of Philadelphia, on
whose informatiun the arrest was
made declined to say what
the grounds of arrest were. He states thai
attorney Longenecker would talk. how.
ever, if Dillon would not. The men are
arrested, and there is nothing to conceal
now. Maroney is the man who is sus-
pected of driving the doctor from his office
to the Carlson cottage. About the other
man don't know much, but we expect to
prove that he was in the conspiracy
Maroney is a laborer, think, and No
Donald is a blacksmith. l got this in
formation from Dillon, and we will learn
how much truth there is in it later on"
1t was decided by the jury that the names
OF the parties mentioned in the documents
should not be made public, except those
already brought into the case.
The first paper was telegram from J
d. Mcmahon calling for the Doctor to meet
him at the Windsor Hotel, New York. by
order of the committee, January IS, 1888.
There was another telegram from j. II
Renayne calling for the Doctors report on
the Sullivan trial To this the Doctor
replied, as copy of the letter showed, that
he would vote again as he voted at the
trial.
Then the Coroner read the minority re.
port of the trial committee dated Phila
delphia, January 10, 1889 and signed by
]. H. McCahey and P. H. Cronin.
This report blames Alexander Sullivan
for neglecting the family of Mackey Cana
sey, and scores Sullivan, Boland and Feely
for excluding C. H. Mccarthy from the
Boston Convention, and also for excluding
the delegate of the home organization from
the same place.
1t was alleged that the report of the Bos
ton Convention showed a deficit of Sl3,00t
at the instance of Sullivan, when there
really was balance.
That Sill, 900 was improperly spent ant
not accounted Tor by the triangle.
That the men sent to England on "mis
sions" were not sufficiently supplied with
money and an agent of the triangle was
responsible for this.
That SS7,19l. drawn from the treas
ury for "active work, was not used for tha
purpose by the triangle, but with the sur
plus money was in the hands of the tri
angles agent.
This report was signed by McCahey ant
Cronin with recommendation that it bt
printed aud sent to each Camp.
The Coroner then read DR.. Cronin':
notes taken at the trial.
The objections Alexander Sullivan mad,
to DR.. Cronin sitting on the committee arr
stated at length, and also that thev wer,
overruled by the votes of Burns, Rogers
McCahey and Cronin.
One witness testified that he was sent t.
England to do active work, and was give1
four pounds and steerage ticket. H,
came back by steerage passage without bed
clothes or other necessaries. He slept, h
said, on the soft side of plank.
He went again, and was told to get SOM
one to help him. John ]. Maroney wa
| one of the men who was to help him. H,
was given $780, and when he got to Eng
land he got no more.