Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-10-25

D0u&ht furniture and large trunk and
moved in. On the goth of March
Martin Burke appeared at the Carlson
cottage under the name of Frank Will
liams, rented cottage, and then. after
talking with O'Sullivan, went to III
Clark street and moved the furniture to
the cottage.
QUEER CONTRACT.
Some time in April O'Sullivan made |
an arrangement with Cronin by which |
If the latter received one of O'Sullivan's |
cards, he was to accompany the messen-
ger in order to attend professionally upon |
any OF O'Sullivan's men who might be |
hurt in handling ice for him. The |
States Attorney pointed out that this |
seemed queer contract, for up to this |
time there never had been an accident
to one OF OSullivan's men, and there
were many doctors nearer than Cronin.
Before that Daniel Coughlin had
declared in saloon that there was GER
tain North Side man, a leading Catholic,
that would soon bite the ground, or some
thing to that effect. OSullivan was with
Coughlin that night.
| Longenecker told about Coughlin's ar
rapgement with the livery-stable keeper,
Oman, and said the State will prove that
Coughlin was seen going into the Carl
son cottage the night of the murder, and
that the horse and buggy procured at
Dinan's livery stable were the horse and
buggy which drove DR.. Cronin to the
cottage.
At meeting of Camp 20 on the night
OF May I'd, some one inquired whether
that secret committee had reported,
whereupon Beggs said: THAT COM
mittee is to report to me and not
to the camp.
IMPORTANT CIRCUMSTANCES IN THE CASE.
"We will prove that Coughlin told
other parties that Cronin was spy"
said the States Attorney; "that year
before the murder he tried to hire man
to slug DR.. Cronin. We will prove that
O'Sullivan was seen at certain point on
the night of May 4th, showing that he
was in the neighborhood, and was not in
his house at the time. On the 9th Of
May Martin Burke had box, tAe con-
tents of which we're not seen, soldered
up by tinsmith. Where that box is or
what became of it no one knows, but it
is an important circumstance in the case.
"We will prove that .Kunze was seen in
the flat on CLARK street at the time it WAS
occupied that he had been intimate with
Coughlin; that ne and Coughlin were at
Peoria together; that Kupze stated to
man when the papers were talking about
Cronin's disappearance, that he (Kunze)
knew Cronin was murdered.
CATER the discovery of Che body and
it's Identification Martin Burke left the
city under an assumed name, was ar
rested in Winnipeg, having in his pos
session ticket to Liverpool"
MIR. Longenecker went on to say that
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dence can see very readily that the acts
evidence that they are the result of q
conspiracy. He then went on at consid-
cradle length to define the nature of a
conspiracy and the liability of the access
sories. He added that the State would
present it's evidence as speedily as posi-
BILE.
Counsel for the defense then one by
one waived their right to make an open
ing address, and the taking of testimony
began.
THE FIRST WITNESS
Was Francis Villers, ex. Captain of the
, Lake View police. His testimony was
unimporsant, except as to the fact that
: he knew DIR. Cronin in his lifetime
, and that as the body was being con-
|
morgue he had identified it as that of the
dead doctor.
, james F. Boland, cashier in coal
dealers Office, and an associate of DR..
, Cronin in various secret societies, also
gave testimony as to the identity of the
| body and the location Of Cronin's office.
THE DEFENsE's FIRST POINT.
Lawyer Forrest, for thedefense, elected
from Boland, on cross-examination, the
fact that contrary to the general belief
Cronin's office was 30 situated that a
: view into its window could not be OBJ
tanned from the Clark street fat, sup
posed to have been hired by the accused
, Oronin's office not. fronting on Clark
street, but being in the rear Of the build
: ing and facing on an alley.
Several other witnesses were exam
ined before adjournment, their testimony
relating wholly to the finding aud identi-
1cation OF the corpse. Nothing of i'm
portance was brought out.
APPEALING TO PARNELL FOR EVIDENCE
z. W. Dunno, who is indirectly con.
nected with the prosecution in the Gro
min trial, said today that efforts had been
made, and were to be further pushed, to
obtain, if possible, from Parnell or his
counsel, Sir Charles Russell, categori-
cal statemenJ that Cronin's name was
not one of the four handed in by the spy,
LIE Caron, as those of the men who were
Systematically betraying to the English
Government the secrets of Irish move
ments in America. Letters to this end
have been written, one at least by
Dunno. to the Irish leader Matt Harris,
1t is now proposed to forward to the other
side as formidably signed petition az
can DO secured, demanding the desired
Information, and taking the ground that
II Cronin's name was not on the list of
spies, no breach of trust will be made BY
breaking silence and saying 30.
Survivors of the Stevenson Expedi-
| ton.
New YORK, October 24.-The survivors
OF the Stevenson California expedition of
lS46, First Regiment of New York Vol
unteers, Mexican War, had an annual re-.
union at hotel on Fifth avenue this
evening. Fourteen were present. An
autograph letter from Colonel Stevenson,
now in his ninetieth year, and resident
OF San Francisco, was read. Major
Francis Clark, President of the Society
Lat Tree L.