The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-10-31

tee to investigate the qualifications of an
applicant for membership, the states
attorney said he proposed to show
that one OF them was No 81, borne by one
OF the prisoners at the bar. Coming down
10 the matter OF the camps action on the
supposed allegations against Doctor Cronin
IN connection with the trial of the triangle
IN Buffalo, witness read as follows;
Moved and seconded that an imperative
demand be made on the executive COM
mlttee at once for immediate information
OF the trial committee. 1t was amended
that the senior guardian notify
the district member of the report that
report of the trial committee right in one of
carried,
motion was made and seconded that a
secret committee be appointed by the SEN
ior guardian to investigate rumors afloat
regarding the trial of an ex-executiye BODY.
Motion carried.
said, was John f. Beggs, one of the men now
on trial.
The examination proceeded as follows:
what occurred then before the motions
were nader"
AS l said before, it was Tom O'Conner's
remarks and asking if we got the report of
the commissioner that tried the triangle, as
it is now called. Beggs said: he had not
ana SAID It was strange our camp never got
1t. That he had heard it read in another
camp in this city and that he could tell the
man that read it and the camp that he
heard it read in if desired. An effort was
made to show by witness that
there was combination between himself
and Michael ]. Kelly, A. ]. Ford and P. H.
Moler about the advisability of destroying
the books of the camp, but the defense
objected and the court sustained the OBJ
lection. The ecross-examination of the wit
ness than began. Witness further testified
that when Captain O'Connor moved for the
appointment of acommittee to investigate
the report, that the report of the trial COM
mlttee had been read in another camp
Senior Guardian Beggs said that
the camp had no power to investigate
another camp. and that the proper thing
to do was to refer the matter to the district
officers. Witness had no knowledge as to
whether or not the committee to investi-
gate another camp was ever appointed.
"Did you hear Captain O'Connor in any
statement he made in the Camp 80 meeting
mention Doctor Cronin's name that night?n
Il did not hear him pronounce it, but as
said before" witness was interrupted at
this point by tilt between counsel, at the
conclusion of which he answered that he
did not hear it.) Witness in answer to a
further question said the trial of the trian-
gle, as he understood the matter, took place
in Buffalo in October 1885, and that the
members of the triangle on trial were Sui.
liVan, Feely and Boland.
AT the opening of the afternoon session,
A. Feehy, member of Camp 20, was put on
the stand as witness. Mr.. Feehy was a
very non-committal witness and with the
greatest pertlnacity avoided the giving of
pertinent answer, even to the most inno-
cent questions. II suppose So" II guess
so" 81 can't say" were favorite forms of
reply with him. Finally he was brought
to admit that he made speech at meeting
of Camp 20, when the matter of the report
of the triangle trial came up. After max
ing several attempts to explain the circum-
stances under which he made the speech,
and getting the narrative mixed up with
statements as to himself so that it was i'm
possible to understand what it was all
about he said:
las far as remember, Captain O'Connor
made the statement that Lecaron, who was
a witness it seemed before the Parnell COM
mission at the time, was the paid agent of
the executive body of the Irish organization |
in this country"
What else did he say about the fund.-" |
"As well as | can remember" he said. ~ |
thought 1t very strange when / heard |
that there was $28000-I am not positive |
was $685. 900 of the funds of the organization |
gone to ..Lecaron for some object in England |
or Ireland. He did not specify where it |
was spent exactly, but have the general |
it was spent in England"
Did he speak then of having heard the !
report of the trial committee received in /.
another campP"
This speech" witness said, "caused !
much excitement in the camp and wast the
nf tuhi xryif
After it he went down stairs and took a
rink. What made witness angry,-"hot''
IS he expressed it, was the thought that
Lecaron got any of the camps funds for
my purpose whatever, and it also made
lim hot to learn that the report of the trial
committee had been given out in other
lamps sooner than in camp 20. He sup
posed that others felt in the same way, for
hey also got up and spoke.
The next witness was Michael ]. Kelly,
brennan Of the metal department of the
ADAMS & Westlake Manufacturing COM
,any and Junior guardian of Campo at the
ime of the meeting of February last He
old of the proceedings, though his memory
vas deficient as to details.
The next witness, Anthony ]. Ford, past
uardian of Camp 20 testified that, at ;
Meeting of the camp on February %, Pat
lck McGarry and Richard Powers made
peeches denouncing the triangle, and
hat the senior guardian replied
efending Alex Sullivan, one of the mem
ers of the triangle. 1t was pretty warm
iscussion and Beggs,said it would have to
e peace or war, or words to that effect.
Witness said that at the meeting of the
amp in March he (witness) had called the
ttention of the camp to the statement that
1ere was danger that members of the op-
osition order, the United Order of Depu-
es, might succeed in getting some of their !
lembers initiated into the Clan-na-Gael
amps and pointed to the defendant
5 his authority for his statement. This
as after talk with O'SuIlivan, who had
cen present when Doctor Cronin instituted
camp of the Clan-na. Gael in Lakeview.
Stephen Colloran, laborer, was the last
itness An attempt was made 10 get
etailed statement of the proceedings of !
amp 20 on the night OF February from
i'm, but with poor success. q