The times., 1889-07-12

The Grand Jury In the Cronin
Case Makes It's Report.
True Bills Found Against Beggs, Burke.
Coughiin, O'suilivan. Cooney, Woodruff
and Kunze-The Latter's Connoc-
tion with tho Case.
CHARGED WITH MURDER.

CHARGED WITH MURDER.
CHICAGO, July After sixteen days of In
dustrious inquiry the special grand jury on
Saturday found indictments against seven
men, four of whom are now locked up in
the county jail to await trial for the muir
der OF Dr. T.. ii. Cronin. The men indicted
are:
John Il. Beggs, senior guardian OF the
famous Camp 20 OF the Clan ma Gael. who
is believed to have known something of
the organizing of the mock tribunal which
condemned Cronin to death.
Dan Coughln. the ex-city detective, who
is supposed to have found the active men
for the work and to have been general
director OF the conspiracy.
Martin Burke, the Winnipeg prisoner,
who IL believed to be one of the men in the
cottage at the time OF the murder
Patrick Cooney, the Fox" who was
BurlSe's pal" He is now fugitive
p. O'Sullivan, the Lake View ice-man,
whose contract with Cronin made it easy
for the other conspirators to lure the doc
tor to death.
Frank Woodruff, alias Black, who con-
fessed that he had carried the butchered
body pits catch basin tomb.
John KunZe. young German. His name
had not been mentioned in connection with
the case until the indictment against him
was returned before Judge Shepard
The omnibus" Indictment under which
the charges were rendered against the
seven men was lengthy document in nine
counts, each eclpsing the other in redund-
ant abundance of 'wherefores," ''afore-
saids," and other similar terms with
which the drawers OF indictments
are so prodigal. The first count
charges that the seven men conspired,
rraudulently, deceitfully, maliciously,
feloniously to murder Patrick Henry
Cronin; the second that they did assault
and kill, with weapons unknown, the said
Cronin, and inflicted bruises, wounds,
decorations and contusions, of which
Cronin died; the third that they did in such
above described manner kill Cronin. In
the other counts the weapons are described
as both blunt and sharp Instruments; the
wounds are minutely described, and with
much legal verbiage the charge is reiter-
ated against the seven men named in the
indictment, and loopholes OF every kind
are carefully closed with adjectives and ad
verbs in great number. The form of the
indictment is such that the States Attorney
claims all the men mentioned in it will
have to stand trial together, as in the cases
against the Anarchists and the 'boodlers"
The most startling evidence against Dan
Coughlin was reserved for the last He
was shown to be the head of the active
work done in the murder. For him was
left the arrangement of the details, and
by him, it is believed, the muir
derous blows were struck 1t was
shown before the jury that he
was at the Carlson cottage the night Cronin
was murdered, and the man who drove him
there was the mysterious Kunze, who was
indicted with him. Kunze has since disap-
hut hafn hal laft I, , lad
in his conversation, and from his own
lips was obtained the most important
evidence so far adduced against the leader
in DIR. Cronin's murder. IL is the belief of
the grand jury, after the hearing OF the ev-
idence, that CrOnin was killed by Coughlin,
Cooney and Burke, and that Z. O'Sullivan
was present in the cottage when the blows
were dealt, If not actually engaged in the
bloody work
Foreman Clough, of the grand jury, said
in an interview that more damnable con-
spiracy was never conceived and executed
All of the men named in the in
dictment were deeply implicated in the
murder of DR.. Cronin. John O'Neil, another
Juror, said he believed DR.. Cronin was
sentenced to death in Camp 90 of the Clan
na-Gael. Kunze, who has hardly been
mentioned with the case until his indict-
ment, he said, was surely one OF the
murderers His connection with the
murder he said can be shown by twenty
witnesses. Kunze is the man suspected Of
driving Dr. Cronn from his boarding place
to the Carlson cottage.
CHICAGO, July 2-John Kunze, who was
indicted by the grand jury for the murder
of DR.. Cronin, was arrested yesterday and
placed in Jail He was captured in South
side grocery store, where he was working
under the name of John Kelser