The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-10-25
THE CRONIN TRIAL
AT LAST BEGUN IN CHICAGO
YESTERDAY.
The states Attorney sets Forth
the Allegations Necessary TO be
Proved In order to Justify a Con-
victiOn-Ome witness Examined.

case was formally opened to-day anu the
States attorney set forth what were the
material allegations in the Indictment
which it would be necessary for the State
to prove in order to justify convection.
These were, that Cronin was killed, SO
that the killing was done in this State,
that it was done without prOvocatlOn,
and that these men did it as the result of
a conspiracy. He spoke of the motive
for crime, and said that in order to
show what that motive was, it be-
came necessary to examine into the his
tory in this country of the organization
known as the Uuited Brotherhood, com
| monty called the Clan-na-Gael. Before
doing thiv, he reminded the jury that
! they were not trying the Clan-na-Gael,
but the prisoners at the bar.
Longenecker then proceeded to sketch
the history of the Clan.na-Gael in this
country, saying that it was made up OF
patriotic IriShmen, Irishmen who went
| into it for political effect, and lrshmen
who went into it for the money there
was in it and that its bjtct was to free
Ireland by force of arms as soon as a
favorable opportunity should offer. He
declared that the triangle was supreme; ;
|
mand superior to the laws OF the nation.
Forest objected to this line of state
ment, as inadmisSible in advance of
proof.
Judge Mcconnell said that he did not
know what would beproved, but warned
the States attorney that he was making
these statements at his peril The States
attorney said he would prove what he
had said, and he accepted the response
bility. He proceeded to say that when
Sullivan, Feely and Boland got control
of the executive board, they changed the
plan of work of the organization and
inaugurated the dynamite policy and
implanted in the constitution clause
commanding perfect and unquestioning
obedience to the commands of the board.
The defence again prayed an exception
to this line of statements.
The States attorney spoke of the
adoption of the triangle as hesymbol OF
the executive board. The membership
board did not know who constituted the
triangle, so secret was it; but neverthe-
less they obeyed its orders and were sent
on various special missions in England in
the way of active work, and under as
sumed names. Notwithstanding this Sc
crecy these men were betrayed by the
board to English authorities, and twenty
of them, he said, are now in prison. This
was, he declared, to enable the board to
steal the funds and when at last show
ing was made, the board claimed that
the order owed them S 5000, when there
was $3.50 900 in the treasury when they
took charge.
At this point the States attorney in
troduced DR.. Cronln in connection with
the order, and proceeded to sketch the
history of his fight against the triangle
told of Cronins expulsion, the subse-
Guent union convention, the trial OF Suli-
van Feely and Boland by the secret COM
mittce of which Cronin was member in
Buffalo last August.
The committee was there in session
for days and days" said Longenecker,
hearing evidence. That evidence as we
have it will be introduced here. Cronin
took the evidence fully, and witnesses
and facts were produced to show what
they had done i'll the old country. and
what had been done across the water un-
der the direction of this triangle. All
their active work was shown. That was
all being investigated there. The COM
mittee had not made its report, but Gro
min had taken full notes of the trial. He
had taken down what each witness had
said about certain things
The States attorney went on to say that
Cronin insisted that all of the evidence
be sent out to all of the camps, but
up to the time of Cronln's death the
report had not been sent out. 1t would
| Ia, hat haN hnI VII
lated the laws of the order, and of this
country, but also those of England, anc
had robbed the order OF its funds, anc
men of their liberties. Only day OF
= two after Cronin's death, however, tn,
report OF the trial was sent out. Gro
nin's part of it, however, was rejected
and that part used which accused Cronii
of being a traitor. He claimed that they
would show that all this denunciatiol
: of Cronin was sent out over Alexander Sui
livan's signature, and that it was sent ou
after Cronin had disappeared and i'll tn
;. belief that his body would never be found
1t was not sufficient to make way witt
, Cronin, but the same unseen hand tina
r regulated this conspiracy from its incep
i ton, had to make it appear also tina
Cronin was traitor. For ifCronin hat
4 published his evidence against the trian
!, gle as he was about to do, it meant tn
ruin of the triangle with the Irish pee
h pie; and to have it published to all the'
r camps was to convict these men OF EN-
bezzling these funds that had been accr
n mulating for years. 1t would hav
r. proved them not only violators of tn
" laws of the two countries, but traitor
u to the cause i'll which these people ha
= enlisted and instead of crediting ther
Il with doing that which was to benef
- poor old Ireland it would brand them a
q the worst men on earth among the Iris
d people.
The States attorney then went on t
p show how Coughlin had begun denour
cling Cronin as spy way back in Febrl
ary how Beggs at certain meeting
Camp 20 had said that Cronin's denul
citation of Sullivan and the triangle ha
, to be stopped "if it took blood
a. After several weeks delay Beggs, q
N guardian of Camp 20, announced the
If the charges against the triangle woul
of have to be investigated. The next day
n fiat at 117 Clark street was rented
trunk and furniture which was atterwarC
removed to the Carlson cottage bough
and preparations began for the murde
The States attorney then went ov'
!. le the whole story of the conception and C
II, ecution OF this plot, which has so ottt
" been told.
m At the afternoon session Longeneck
n concluded his address. Then all the lay
he yers for the defence waived the right
address the jury, and ex-Captain Villier
of Lake View was put on the stand.
The testimony of Villiers was uniI
he portant except as to one fact, that
ar knew Cronin in his lifetime, and that
al the body was being conveyed in the p
es troll wagon from the catch basin to t
q. morgue he had identified it as that of t
,r- dead doctor.
Notified to Leave.
BERLIN, October 24.-The police ha
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