St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-20
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A motion TO strike out all of the ques-
tons bearing OF inSinuation and their
answers was oVerruled, but the court
instructed the jury that they were not
TO be considered as evidence. Thomas
Whalen, cousin of Patrick 0'Sullivan.
was the next witness. He was married
and his wife kept boarding house, al
which O'Sullivan and his men lived.
He was not member of any Irish sOci-
ETY.. He testified that on Sunday, May
), when he returned from work, he
found the two HyIands with O'Sullivan
at his house. They all had supper to-
gether. tie remained at home when
O'Sullivan and the two men went out
and WAS there when O'Sullivan re-
turned, about half an hour later. he
remembered the night before. and that
O'Sullivan
SAT NEXT HIM AT SUPPER.
About half-paSt his wife and sister
went out and O'Sullivan and some OF
the other men were sitting in the kitch-
en-. Som after the women went out, at
about quarter to 9, O'Sullivan went TO
bed.
Was there anything to call your attention
to that," asked the lawyer.
My little girl haIlOed after him. She was
in the rocking chair and he started and
come back and kissed my little girl. l went
to ted about half an hour after O'Sullivan."
The witness was then subjected to a
long crOSS-eXaminatiOn. after which the
court took a recess. The first witness
at the afternoon session was William NJ.
Glenn, reporter for the Inter Ocean.
He testified that one week after the
murder Mrs. COnklin told him that the
white horse brought TO her door from
Dinan'S livery stable in no way re-
ID = D., oh
CrOnin rode on the fatal night; the one
which Capt. Setback brought, she said,
was jaded old nag, while that which
took DR.. Cronih away was a snirited
animal. Robert BoyingtOn, one of the
inmates of O'Sullivan's house, testi-
fed that the family had sup
per on the night of the murder at
about O'clock. 0'Sullivan had supper
with the others. Between S and $50
the witness went out TO a saloon with
two of O'Sullivan'S men and there
played cards for an hour or an hour and
a half. Returning, O'Sullivan, whom
they had left in the house, let them in.
They
PASSED THE CARLSON COTTAGE
both in going ant coming. 1t was after
10 O'Clock when they reached the house
on their return. On crOSs-examination
lltC hiLilCSS Sdiu uc Nlu HUI uOllCC uC
passed the Carlson cottage whether or
not there was light i'm it. The wit
ness, who testified that the two Hylands
were at O'Sullivan's house on the night
of May 5, and that they went away
about 10 O'Clock. Witness did not know
where they went. or whether O'Sulli-
van went with them. Edward Jones, a
reporter for the Daily News, testified
that he went to the Carlson cottage sew
eral days after the discovery of DIR.
Cronin'S body. He went in eOmpany
with another reporter. A story had
been told that morning, in a vague
way, about the Carlson cottage, and, as
a joke, on the way there, they got some
cotton batting and piece of liver, blood
from which they smeared upon the cot
ton. They went into the cellar and put
some of the bloOd-stained batting in the
chinks in the ceiling and in some rat
hoies in the floor. The witness, in re-
Spouse to a question, denied that he had
put 1t there to furnish material for a
sensation in his paper. On cr0ss-ex-
animation the witness said that he en-
tered the cottage itself that day, and
first saw what he supposed to be
BLOOD ON THE STEPS
then he and the other reporter burst
in the front door and saw footprints in
the front hall. They also saw that the
front parlOr floor had been painted, but
that in the middle of it was a spot
which they supposed to be blood. There
were apparent blOodstainS elsewhere
also. a policeman fired" them after
they had been in the cottage about two
minutes. Neither he nor the other re-
porter put any Of their blOOd-Stained
batting in the cottage up stairs. James
TrrhE Of n-Gnf1fx-ar,-r NJ,
corrOborated the evidence of Robert
Boyington about the visit to the saloon
on the night OF the murder. and 0'Sulli-
van letting them in when they returned
after 10 o'clock. He also testified that
the two HylandS were at OSullivan's
house on the 9Th of May. and that
O'SulIivan went with them when
they left the house, and was
gone about twenty-five minutes. They
left the house about 10 O'clock.
The next witnPSs was James Mime
ham, another emplOye of 0'Sullivan.
He testified that IN the latter part of
April he went to printing Office and
got a lot of OSullivan's cards which
had just been printed. He gave some
of these to Muleahy, as testified to by
that individual. He gave them to any,
body that asked for them and diStrib-
~
ers with a view to working up trade.
The witness then told of the trip to the
saloon in company with Knight and
BOyingtOn on the night of May 4. He
said that some time after their return
from the saloon he heard Mulcahy and
O'Sullivan talking. This witness also
cOrrobOrated former witnesses as to the
visit of the HylandS on Sunday night,
thu 5th. Jacob Schnur, trunk maker,
testified that the trunk which is sap
posed to have
CONTAINED DIR. CRONIN's BODY
was made in his factory. 1t was. he
said, a common kind of trunk which
had been on the market for years and is
sold to dealers indiscriminately. The
lock was of kind which he was in the
habit of buying by the hundred dozen.
1t had been on the market eight or nine
years at least. Patrick Brennan, an
Other employee of 0'Sullivan's. cOrrob-
grated the testimony OF other witnesses
as to the whereabouts of O'Sullivan on
the night of the murder. On the cross
examination the fact was brought out
that the lawyers for the defense got a
lot of their witnesses together at O'Sul-
| livan's house last Sunday and went
! over their testimony in the presence of
| the entire company. The court then
| adjourned till tomorrow. Mrs. CUnklin
| this afternoon saw the witness Mulcahy.
| but failed to identify him as the man
who drove the white horse.
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