The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-11-15
WHO DROVE THE HORSE?

WHO DROVE THE HORSE?
EvIDENCE IN THE CRONlN TRIAL.
AGAINST COUGiILIN AND KUNZE.
They Are identified as Two Who Drove to
the Carlson Cottage On tl,e Fatal Might
COughlin Wont iM aud kunxe Drovs,
Away.
lChicsg0 telegrain.I
In the Cronin murder trial, Justice
Mahoney testified as 10 O'Sullivans ask.
ing him to introduce the iceman to DIR.
Cronin, aud how The Justice ACCOMPANIED
O'Sullivan to the Doctors office, where
the contract was mede for Cronin to ate
tend my of O'Sullivan's men who might
happen to be hurt.
Mrs. Addie j. Farrar was then called.
She said she lived at No. 81 Mohawk
street and had known O'Sullivan in q
business way, having taken ice from him
for ten or twelve years-when he peddled
for Smell and afterward when he went in
business for himself.
do you remember the discovery Of DR..
Cronin's body"
eyes, sir.n
ibid you see +. O'sullivan about that
time.''
'Yes, sir; he called at my house in the
latter part Of May to see me about TAXING
ice from him this season. l hail Just read
in the papers that morning about the find.
ing OF DIR. Cronin's body, and I asked
MI. Sullivan if he had heard about it.
He said lie had. I said 1t was q terrible
thing to kill anybody and throw his body
into u cntch-basin. Mr.. Sullivan said he
heard them say that Dr.. Cronin was a
British spy aud l said: w by should they
kin him even ii he was a spys' Then MIR.
Sullivan said: They say he gave away
secrets c: IL secret order, and IL that was
SO he ought to I've killed. 1 said: 1T he
did thut he was another Morgan and Mr..
Sullivan said: Such men get their inst,
deserts
Sebastian Steib then took the stand. On
the Attn of May he was IL police officer in
Lake View. About n:3O O'Clock on the
night If May 1 he and Officer john Riley
were standing on Fullerton avenue, near
Cooper street. A horse and wagon passed
by containing three men And what APP
peared to hs a large chest in the box be-
hind the seat. The wagon approached
them from the west. One of the men had
his back turned to the horse and his hands
rested on the large object in the wagon
The horse was u dark bay and they were
driving at al ordinary gait.
ether officers traced the route Of the
wagon containing the trunk by the time it
passed them OH their beats on tho fatal
night.
The State then called Il. T. Stan
ton. a printer and publisher of Lake
View, who printed for O'Sullivan the lot
of cards, one of which was carried 10 DR..
Cronin as a token. by the man who drove
the white horse. Mr.. Stanton testified that
in the last of April O'Sullivan came to his
place and ordered a lot of cards printed.
These cards were delivered to O'Sullivam
by the witness on May =.
W hen was the order given to you by
O'Sullivan:" askcl Mr.. Donahoe, who
conducted the cross examination.
II can not remember. l can tell only
the first entry on the book, which shows
shows that the shop ticket was made ont
on April %.
MI. Forrest took n hand in the cross.
examination. He developed that Stanton,s
foreman took O'Sullivan's order, Mr..
Stanton himself not being present. The
date of the delivery of the cards, May &,
aud the first charge made against O'Sulli-
van OH Stanton's hooks for printing, April
~, were all made by persons other
than the witness. Mr.. Mills, on re.
direct examination, fixed tlls date of the
printing OF the cards by asking Mr.. Stan
ton when he received tho special .:cut."
from which was printed in rel ink OH the
O'sullivan cards the picture of an ice-
wagon. Tho cut was received by Stanton
April 2G, SO that it was impossible that
any cards printed by him could nave been
ready much before May :.
Capt. Francisco Villiers WIS again called
to swear to the correctness of the hl,a