The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-20
In the GRIMM Case.

CHICAGO, Nov. 19.-The first witness in
the Cronin trial this morning was Police
man Redmond Mcdonald. He testified that
he saw Dan Coughlin at the East Chicago
police station between S :45 and 9 o'clock on
the night of the murder. On cross-eXami-
nation the witness fixed the time at to
9:15 O'Clock. The cross examination de-
Yeloped the fact that the witness was a
member of Camp 20, Clan-na-G Gael. Wit
ness did not speak of the fact to anybody
but Officer Scott, who was also member
of Camp 20, until last Saturday, when he
told Captain Schuetler. Witness said the
fear of being mixed mp in the matter kept
him from speaking Of it sooner.
The witness being asked when he first
| learned of the connection of Coughlin's
name with the horse and buggy in which
| Cronin was driven away, stated it was be-
| fore the body was found. There was a SEN
satiOn when counsel for the prosecution
asked the witness if he did not remember
| that COughlin'S name was never connected
with the horse in any manner in the public
press until three days after the discovery
of the doctors body.
| William Mulcahey, an employee of O'Sul-
| Iivan, testified that he heard O'Sullivan
speak of his contract with DR.. Cronin on
the day of the murder. The witness fur
Their testified that O'Sullivan and he were
on the ice wagon together; they had sup
| per together; both read during the evening,
going to bed at the same time and sleeping
| in the same bed. C'Sullivan was not out
of the house that night Witness also said
he had heard a conversation between
old man Carlson and OSulllvan about the
| tenants of the Carlson cottage. The old
man testified that O'Sullivan said he knew
that they were all right. This witness tes-
titled that O'Sullivan said he knew nothing
of them. The ground work was laid in the
cross examination for connecting the wit
ness with the driver of the white horse
who decoyed Cronin to his death, but wit
ness denied that he let his beard grow at
time or wore a different overcoat from that
brought by him to the court room.
Mulcahey knew of O'Sullivan's contract
with Cronin, having spoken once to his
employer about lame foot, and being told
to go to Cronin, who was under contract to
treat all of his men.
Edward Jones, Daily NeUs reporter,
testified that he and another reporter went
to the Carlson cottage after the discovery
of Cronin's body. AS joke they got
some cotton batting and piece of liver, and
smeared the blood from the latter upon the
cotton and put the blood-stained cotton in
the cellar. Witness denied that he put il
there to furnish material for a sensation in
his paper.
Three of O'Sullivan's employees cor
roborated the evidence to establish an allbi
for the iceman. One of them told about
distributing a number of O'Sullivan's
cards, which had been produced in evil
dence with view to working up trade.
On examination of Patrick Bren-
nan, another employee of O'Sullivan, the
fact was brought out that the lawyers for
the defense got lot of their witnesses to-
gether at O'Sullivan's house last Sunday
and went over their testimony in the pres
ence of the entire company.
Thomas Whalen, whose wife kept the
boarding house where O'Sullivan and his
men lived, was quite sure the iceman was
not out of the house the night of the MUIR
der.
William Glenn, an IgterOeeGn reporter,
testified that one week after the murder,
Mrs. Conklin told him that, the white horse
brought to her door from Dinan's stable
did not resemble the horse behind which
| DR.. Cronin was driven away.