Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-11-21
THE cRoEiN CASE.

THE cRoEiN CASE
a corcIse Resume Of the Crouin Maraer
Trial Up to the Close Of the Case for the
State-What Has Been Proven In Regard
to the Several Alleged Conspirators and
Generally In Relation to tho INDUSTRIOUS
Crime.
A fair and impartial review of the evi.
| dence against the men on trial for the
murder of DR.. Cronin in Chicago is Of
special interest at this time. The evil
dence upon which they must be convict
ed, if convicted at all, has been present-
ed. Upon that evidence, involved, in-
| tricate and chiefly circumstantial, the
prosecution must rely. Has the coit-
| spiracy been proved? Have some of the
murderers been unmasked? Have the
promises made by the States attorney
| in his opening address to the jury been
| fulfilled?
Beginning with John F. Beggs it has
| been proved:
That as senior guardian of Camp 20 he az.
| pointed a secret committee February on
| the motion of Dan Coughlin.
That February 22, in fiery speech, he de-
nounced DIR. Cronin and declared there must
| be peace in the clan If it had to be obtained
through war.
That he wrote letters to Edward Spellman
about the trial of DIR. Cronin, using language
susceptible of double interpretations.
That May to O'Byrne and Morris, friends
| of Dr.. Cronin, he said the doctor was NOS
dead, using the words 1--WE are in the inner
| circle and know what we are talking about"
By ave" he meant Dennis Ward, who was
| also present, and himself
That, in a nutshell, is all the evidence
against Beggs.
Against Kunze it is proved:
That he was intimate with Dan Coughiin,
| with whom he was seen near the Carlson
cottage.
That a man looking like him drove a man
| resembling Coughln to the cottage the night
of May4.
That with Coughlin and O'Sullivan he was
drinking in a saloon near the cottage at
eleven O'Clock that night
That he rode in a buggy with O'Sullivan
one day, claiming to others he had purchased
O'Sullvan's horse.
That he lived on Cottage Grove Avenue un.
der an assumed name, and borrowed news.
papers of friends, saying he wanted to see
about the Cronin case because he had heard
the police were looking for him.
That this occurred long before his name
was mentioned in connection with the crime.
Against Coughlin it is clearly estab-
lished:
That he stood sponsor for the white horse
which took DIR. Cronin away.
That he lied about the transaction to Chief
Hubbard.
That he was never able to explain it or to
explain where he was the night of May 4.
That for four years he had been the avowed
enemy of DR.. Cronin.
That he endeavored to hire Major Samp-
son to waylay DR.. Cronin late at night,
and said he didn't care whether the "slug.
ging" he wanted inflicted upon the doctor re-
suited fatally.
That he was a member of camp 20 and
in that camp moved for the appointments OF
a secret committee in connection with Dr..
Cronin s report of what was proved at the
trial of the triangle.
That he was intimate with O'Sullvan,
Burke, Cooney, Kunze and Beggs.
That on several occasions he denounced
DR.. Cronin as spy and traitor who ought to
be killed
That he was hanging around the vicinity OF
the Carlson cottage and late that night was
seen in the saloon near by in company with
O'Sullivan and Kunze.
Against Burke it is proved:
That he was the tenant of the cottage un-
der the assumed name of Frank williams.
That he hired Martensen, the expressman.
to take the furniture from III Clark street to
the Carlson cottage which was afterward
found there.
That he never occupied the cottage for any
usual and ordinary purpose.
That he fed to Joliet. where he lived about
two weeks and worked only one day.
That Sunday morning, May 5, he and
Cooney bought new shirts, and that he be.
came angry and profane when the salesman
asked him to take off his coat SO his size OF
:hrt could be determined by measurements.
That he belonged to Camp 20 and was upon
terms of the greatest intimacy with Cooney,
Coughlfn and O'Sullivan.
That he fled to Winnipeg and, from the
ditch where he had only worked occasional.
ly, started for Europe.
That he was under the assumed name of
j. Cooper when arrested, but admitted he
had previously used the name OF Delaney
and Burke.
That he was in and around the Carlson cot.
tage until May I, when he fed from the city
leaving the furniture there.
Against O'Sullivan is:
His contract with DIR. Cronin for medical
attendance, about which he told several
falsehOodS.
That he knew and talked with the occu.
pants of the Carlson cottage.
That he vouched to old man Carlson for
Burke's willingness and ability to pay tho
rent
That he was member of Camp 20 and in.
innate with Coughlin for a long time, be.
sides being seen with the other defendants
and having been with Coughlin and Kunze
the night of the murder.
That DIR. Cronin was decoyed to the nearest
house to his under q call to fulfill the de.
mands of the strange contract.
That the card given by this man who took
Dr. Cronin away was one of a new and spe-
one of a very few he took from the printing.
Office before the work was done.
That he was not at his home the night of
May 4, although he claimed he was.
That he lied about every important thing
proved against him.
In general way the State has proved what
it promised to. The State has identified the
furniture in the Carlson cottage; has proved
the trunk was part of that furniture; has
proved that DR.. Cronin was killed, and has
traced him to the Carlson cottage; has rea.
sonably traced the wagon with the trunk to
the body was put in the catch basin, the
ing hidden in the sewer; has Identified tho
identical with the one purchased when the
trunk and furniture were bought; has estab.
lished the scientific detection of the blood
murder was committed in the Carlson cot.
alton of DIR. Cronin.
made any objections or saved any excep.
tions. He has accepted jurors whose in
competence, in case they are incompe-
every bridge behind him. If the iury
should convict him he has not a plant to
stand on, not shadow of a chance for new
trial. He has practically staked his life upon.
his acquttal.
Confederate Monument InvaiIed.
NORFOLK, Va, Nov. 15.-All the mill
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