Telegram-herald., 1889-06-09

LUXE DILLON
10 agree with DR. Crontn, and found tha.
Sullivan was a dangerous man OF great
ability for evil" Alexander Sullivan,
believe, j." hisscd Mr. Dillon, is indirectly
responsible FOR the murder OF DR.. Cronin, u
not a principal in the crime"
Mr. Dillon Was asked why Sullivan should
have sought the death OF Dr. Cronin- Then
came the startling development OF the day.
Dr.. CTOnin had been a member of a COM
mite which tried Alexander Sullivan,
Michaei Boland and .. C. Feeley on charges
OF malfeasancs, betrayal and treachery.
Cronin and Or. McCahey, OF Philadel lphia,
had found Sullivan and the other members
OF the triangle On those charges guilty.
As soon as that fact became known Sullivan
was furious He and his friends began To
denounce Cronin Is = traitor, - spy mud u
perjuer.
Then Dillon told the story Of the Buffalo
committee. Sullivan protested against
Cronin sitting in Judgment IN his case,
though he ayowedly represented II faction
hostile 10 the Sullivan faction. AT Buff
falo," said Dillon, Alexander Sullivan
used such foul and abusive language
towards Cronin us 10 suggest that murder
might follow if CrOnin persisted in his in
vestigation of Sulliyans management OF
Irish finances"
The trial occurred about year ago The
witness produced a circular letter pur-
porting 10 have been written nine
months ago by Alexander Sullivan, but
which tho witness declared was the pro-
duction OF the last thirty days, in which
DR. Cronin's character was virulently as
sailed The circular has been widely cir
culated among the Clan-na- Gael camps
during the last two weeks, the witness said
This circular was deemed highly important
evidence, as conclusively showing how
Alexander Sullivan felt toward DR. Cronin
Tho reading was listened 10 with the
most absorbing interest, broken only by
suppressed exclamations OF Indignation
from the friends OF the dead man
Sullivan evidently tried to impress the
committee with the idea that Croain was a
British spy, that his oath Of allegiance taken
when he was a member OF a Canadian
militia regiment governed his actions as an
American citizen. The Sullivanite expires
sions abounded in the protest Cronin had
not the 'decency of dog" The word
'periurer was burned into his scoundrel
brow" The protest was not Us well writ
ten as it was venOmouS
Cronin was concerned was speedily dis
puted by Dillon. Cronin had told him and
others that he was member Of the Cana
dian militia regiment He had joined the
military force to learn the soldiers glo-i-
Gus trade" The charges about Cronin's
citizenship We're frivolous and Sulliyans
references TO Cronins statements about the
Boston convention We're false.
f-~o.f,so cborr-ru tho Tho Poe4C,, convap-
tion was packed were susceptible of proof
Captain Meckey Lomasney, who was repre-
seuted as being present as Delegate from
Chicago. was in England at the time and
was since dead lie perished in dynamite
explosion.
But Mr.. Dillon was not quite through with
his surprises Sullivan had never been ac-
quilted by the Buffalo Committee His
friends had circulated that statement in
Chicago. DR.. Cronin acted injudiciously in
correcting that impression lie should
have waited for the convention to submit
his report He spoke too much about the
evidence he had IN his keeping. Sulliyans
friends In the Executive Committee
began TO call tor the evidence. Cronin
refused 10 produce IL lie had made 50
pages Of notes of the evidence offered He
had preserved those notes. DR. McCahcy
had also made notes. Those had been pre-
served They were damning 70 Sullivan.
The presentation OF those notes in the con-
veutIon meant the conviction of the triangle.
NJ Dillon suggested that SullIvsn's friends
IA the executive could not be safely IN
susted with the notes under the peculiar
circumstances
Thus the witness went on piiiug up testi-
raonv against the chicago members of the
triangle lie tod how the vouchers
and papers of the triangle were burned at
Boston in l~,8 in accr,dance with the vote
of a convention bossed bv Alexander Suili-
van and Patrick Egsn He told of how the
widow OF one Of the men who had perished
sln active service across the water" had
been on the verge of starvation until he
Duloni raised 81 GO for her relief The
triangle which had spent ~ two years
s. 20 for which there was not a voucher,
refused o. give this woman any aid
AnI then came the story aaoIr the 80 -
rlo given 20 Or GaiIag1er. now n prison
IA England The triangle caused The im-
preston 70 screaG in tea order that Gal
lsrher rot shat amount. tit as q natter -
fa7t ths triangle d.d na- Far " Gala ler
one Gems u kno,v tlat. sala Dillon. Tisa
er1r basis
Tas triao-e raust therefore have raissp-
rroQrfated tae whole s9n af $500
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men lad BEEN s-rt to sag.s on 1sneer-
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