Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-10-25
NOW FOR THE TRIAL.
STATES ATTORNEY LONGBNBCKBR'S 0P BN
ING ADDRESS TO THB JURY.
Be 0Ilinss the OsIs br the Prosecution and
Charges That The Murder Of Dr.. Oronin
Was Committed by Olan-na-
Gael Oonspirstors.

called the roll Of jurors. Every man re-
sponded to his name, and the Cronin trisl
formally began. States Attorney LOnge-
necker at once began his opening address
/ to the Jury.
The States Attorney theD proceeded to
define murder and to set forth what were
the material allegations in the indictment
which il would be necessary for the State
to prove in order to Justify conviction
These were that DR.. CrOnin was killed !;
that the killing was done in this State
that it was done without adequate provo
cation, and that these deieodants did it.
The speaker then defined direct and cir
cuDstantiai evidences. He illustrated the
latter by saying that man might see an
other pointing pistol at a third person;
might see the flash, hear the report ana
see the man drop, but if he could not see
the bullet strike the man fred at it would
ha only circumstsntial evidence of the
shooting.
The speaker spoke Of the disappearance
If De- Cronin and the finding Of his body
eighteen days aherward, end said that the
State proposed to prove it a murder as the
RESULT OF A CONSPIRACY.
He said: These men are charged with
having murdered DR.. Cronin. The evi-
denca we shall introduce will show q con-
piracy TO murder DR.. CONN. The evi-
denCe that we shall Introduce will be thst
n The conspiracy which was formed and
carried into execution, terminating in the
killing If DR.. Cronin, ali the conspiratofs
are liable for murder and that the punish
ment for conspiracy ends in the pnnish-
msnt for murder. That is toe position We
take in this case. Now, as l say, on the
aight Of the An Of May, at 7:3O O'Clock,
nothing was seen or heard of DR.. Cronin,
except, as We shall prove, that
THIS SAME HIDDEN HAND
tba. worked aud moved this conspiracy,
that c0ncoc,ed this scheme, was again
working in this community to lead the
people 10 believe thai DR.. Oronin was st,ll
alive. That same hidden hand, that came
mysterious work uDor which the corsplI-
acies rests in this case was at work tryice
20 make the people OF this community be
leve that D. Cronin was net murdered
hut wns alive Not content with having
beaten out his lie, not content with hay-
ing laid him 60 rest in q sewer, the same
c1nspirstols that brought it about were
sgain az work for the purpose Of blasting
the character and reputation CT the msn
they had murdered. Ana until the 22i
day OF May the people all over this city
and country had doubts as to whether the
POOR man Was even killed"
The States Attorney then proceeded to
speak of the motive for the crime, and ssi1
.ust in order to show Wha, that motive
was. it became necessary to examine into
ire history in this country of the Organizl.
ton known IS the United Brotherhood,
commonly called
CLAN-NA-GAEL.
Before doing this he reminded the jury
that they were not trying the Clan Ma
Gael. bat the prisoners at the bar. lie
proceeded TO sketch the history Of
the Clan-Na Gael in this coun-
try. saying that it was mace mp OF
patriotic Irishmen; Irishmen who went IN
to it for political effect, Irishmen who
went into it for the money there was IN 1t,
and its object was to free Ireland by force
Of arms az soon as a favorable opportunity
should offer. He declared that the Tri-
angle was supreme, the oaths OF the mem
bers made their commands superior to the
laws Of the nation.
Mr. Forrest objected to this line Of
statement as inadmissable in advance OF
proof
Judge Mcconnell said that he did not
know what would be proved, but warned
the States Attorney that he was making
these statements at his own peril.
The States Attorney said ne would
proye what be bad said and he accepted
me responsibility. He proceeded TO say
that when Sullivan, Fesley end Roland
cot control of the Executive Board they
changed the plan OF the work OF ganiza-
ton and inaugurated the dynamite policy
and implanted in the constitution the
clause commanding perfect and unquea'
tioning obedience 10 the commands OF the
Board
The defense egsin prayed an exception
10 this line of statement.
The States Attorney then spoke Of the
a6option of the triangle as the symbol OF
the Executive Board. The membership
did not know who constituted the III
angle. SO secret was it that nevertheless
thew obeyed its orders and we're sent on
various special missions in E1gland IN the
w,v of active work under assumed names
Notwithstanding this secrecy these men
were betrayed by the board to the English
authorities and twenty Of them are now IN
prison. This was to enable the board to
STEAL THE FUNDS,
and when ct last a showing was made, the
Board claimed that the order owed them
SIG 600 There was $3.50 600 in the treas
ury when they took charge.
At this point the States Attorney IN
troduced DR.. Cronin in connection with
the Order, and proceeded to sketch the
history of the fight against the Triangle,
told of Cronin's expulsion, the subsequent
convention, the trial of Sullivan, Feeley
and Roland by secret committee, Of which
Dr. Cronin was a member in Buffalo last
August.
"The committee was there in session for
davs and dsys," ssid LOngenecker, near
inc evidence. That evidence, IS We have
il. will he introduced here. Dr. Cfouin
took the evidence fuliy, and witnesses and
facts were produced to show what they hsd
done in the cid country, what had been
dome across the water under the direction
a
shown. That was all beiog investigated
thers and the committee had not made It's
renort. bat Dr.. Cronia had taken full
notes Of that trial committee
TIE States Attorney went on to Say
Dr. Cronin insisted that all the evil
dsncs be sent out to ell the camps,
but I'D to the time Of Dr. Gro
pip's delth the report had not been sent
out. Ii would have been shown that they
no. only violated the laws Of the order
and tbis country, but also those Of Eag-
land and had robbed the order OF its
funds and the men Of their liberties. The
Ststes Attorney then went on to show how
Couehlin had hegun dsnouuciDg Cronin as
a sny agsv back in FebruarT; now Beggs
At a certsin meeting of the camp hAd said
thai DR.. CIonin's denunciation Of Sullivan
and the Triangle bsd to oe stopped.
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