St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-30
PATCHING UP ALIBIS.
Witnesses for the Cronin Sus-
poets Cut a Very Sorry
Figure.
The Majority Were Blind
5 Drunk on the Night Of
the Murder.
I wo Knives Belonging to DR..
CpOnin Found on Cough
d Inns Person.
States Attorney Longenecker
Begins His Address TO
the Jury.

MIR. Forrest stated that he had eight or
ten witnesses to introduce to-day, and
that this evidence would probably con-
sumo the whole Of the day. The court
room was crowded long before the case
was called, aud many were unable to
gain admission. 1t was 10:15 O'Clock
when Judge LOngenecker, i'll c0ntinu-
ance OF the rebuttal testimony, called
Il. +. Carberry, who swore he was i'll
Danahy's saloon the evening of May 4
from $3.50 to $3.50 O'clock. and he was
positive the proprietor of the place was
not in the SALOON during that time. This
contradicts Danahy's testimony. which
was that he was in his place at this time
and saw Martin Burke there. Carberry
was cross-examined by Mr.. Forrest. who
was wholly unable to make a point. On
the contrary. by his Intellectual efforts
he strengthened the state materially.
Nj. j. DWyer, a salooikeer on the West
side, was called by the defense and
asked if John O'Malley was ever III his
saloon.
NEVER" SAID THE WITNESS.
The purpose of his examination was
to contradict that of Witness Swanson.
who swore that on the night OF May 4.
he drove O'Malley to a saloon opening
on the West side. and that OIL the way
he stopped at Dryers saloon, into
which all went to get drink. On the
crOss-eXamination Dwyer said he opened
his saloon last April, and had never
been absent from it on SATURDAY night
since. He could not tell who was i'll his
saloon ON May 4, but he knew that
O'Maiiey was not there. John Fleni-
ming, brother of the salOOnkeeper who
had an opening on May 4. which OPEN
ing O'Malley and William Coughiin
swOre they attended, SwOre he was at
the opening. He was member of the
Clan-na-Gael. His mind was very
clear. He recalled the events and
remembered that O'Malley and
William COughlin came there to-
gether IN carriage driven by
Swanson. Swanson Swore that William
COughlin was not in his carriage that
night. Fleming, continuing, said that
in the course of the evening, OMalley
and Swanson exchanged clothes, and
when the party returned, he, Swanson
and Coughlin rode inside the carriage
and O'Malley drove on the box. Swan
son, he said, was somewhat under
THE INFLUENCE OF LIQUOR,
but the witness was never more sober.
Pat Rouse, part owner of the saloon
at which the opening occurred. and Z.
C. Rogan, who tended bar. were AZ the
opening and saw OMalleF and William
Ceughlin drive up together and depart.
Rogan was once member of the Clan
na-Gaal. William Fortune was the next
witness. He had not yet gotten over
his THANKSGIVING spree. When asked
to relate what he knew of the o'cur-
renees of May he locked sleepily
around the room and then testified that
he was at the opening and remembered
seeing O'Malley and William C0ughlin
there He did not think he was very
drunk that night, and he was certain
about seeing Coughiin and OMalley
come up together. although not SO clear
on other subjects. Nothing new was
brought out on the creSs-eXaminati0u
Walter Flpmming, Henry GaynOr and
Peter O'Maliey, all saloonkeepers and
all present at the opening, followed
with corroborative testimony. Robert
Gibbons told of beng sick in bed on
May 4. and of William Coughin and
John O'Maliey calling for him to go
with them to the opening. He acknoWl-
edged that he did not see them. but his
wife did and told him. This ended the
morning session. The first part of the
afternoon session was occupied in
PATCHING UP BURKE's AIIBT,
so badly perforated Y the rebuttal of
the state. Martin Kennedy said he was
i'm William Coughlin's saloon OH the
night of May when Swanson. the
driver, called for Coughlin and O'Mal-
ley. anu swore positively that the driver
had on brass-buttoned livery. He
was corroborated by George Dickey.
nd l.rn Mott
Dickey. The brass buttons were no
tjceabIe, they said. and very bright
Hugh Gleason, the bartender for Matt
Danahy. in whose saloon Danahy swore
that Martin Burke was during the
whole of the evening of May 4, tpok the
stand and swore that he lthe Witness)
was not in the saloon that night between
$50 and III. Witness Garberry in the
morning had sworn that Gleason was I'm
The saloon between $50 and S:30On that
night. The state
THEN SPRUNG A SENSATION
that had come into its possession In
the. morning, by showing bv Officer
FLYNN that when Dan Coughliu was ar
rested two knives were found on the
SUSPECT, and that the knives belonged
to DIR. Cronin. To identify the knives
4. Conklin took the sta d and swore
that they were identical In every detall
with two knives carried by the witness
for Two years and given by him to the
doctor shortly before the murder. He
was not positive that they were the
same. but he believed them to be so.
The testimony created decided stir in
the room. Dan COughlin locked stead
iIy at the ceiling aud tried hard to as
SHINE Indifference. but the nervous
twitching of his eyelidS and hands told
a tale of anything but composure. The
defense will put in rebuttai evidence
to-lnorrow. Livery Stable Keeper Ole
son. recalled, swoie that Swanson wore
no livery on May 4; that there was none
i'm the stable for him to wear, aud until
MAY 10 or Is there never had been. lie
added that Swanson was
MAN OF SoBRIETY,
and had been since he knew him. The
driver himself came next. and in his
blunt, honest way. so strongly noticed
in the rebuttai, eOrroborated the teStl-
mony of Oleson, and declared that no
one drove his carriage on May but
himself, and that no one wore his
clothes. I he livery purchased week
after the murder was thet produced,
There was not brass button on it
black cloth buttons only. which had
been on it since its purchase. This was
the end of the states case. The tables
were Immediately showed back, and a
SPACE of comfortable dimensions made
n, front of the jury. This done, the
states attorney began his speech. He
spoke in plain conversational manner,
emphasized at times 10y little earnest
feeling, but with no attempt at oratory.
He said he would not make the argu-
mental addresses-that he would leave
TO his assOciates-cOntenting himself
with simply reviewing the evidence.
The murder of DIR. Cronin, he said. was
one of the feulest in the annals of crime,
aud was the