Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-08
THE CRONIN INQUEST.
Luke Dillon Makes Startling
Revelations.
CRONIN'S CHARACTER CUT UP
Sullivan Charges Him With Being a
Perjurer, as Well as o Con-
victed Traitor.

| Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD
CHICAGO, June This was a day Of
sensations in the Cronin inquest. Luke
Dillon, of Philadelphia, the highest, or
one of the highest, of the executive off.
GERS of the Clan Ma Gael, took the wit
ness stand, and in the course of his testi-
mony read, from the archives of the
Association, document penned under
extraordinary circumstances by one OF
his own predecessors in the highest
councils of the Clan, Alexander Sullivan,
of Chicago. This document was dated
New York, September 15, 1888, is ad-
dressed to P. A. O'Boyle, Secretary, and
is protest by Sullivan against the pres
ence of DR.. Cronin as a member of the
committee to investigate charges against
Sullivan, which held its sessions in
Buffalo. Mr.. Sullivan protests against
Cronin on three grounds: First, that
Cronin is his personal enemy; second,
that he has expressed opinions in the
case; and third, thai he is a. perjurer
and scoundrel, unfit to be placed on
any jury.
In support of the first objection, Sull-
van cites Cronin's well known and evil
dent personal hostility toward the writer
in many acts, his writing on the subject,
etc. In regard to the second objection,
Sullivan said it was only necessary for
him to notice the fact that Cronin was a
member of the executive body of the
United Brotherhood who had formulated
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pressed decided opinions in the case, and
would not be accepted as juror in any
civil case in which Sullivan had any
Sullivan says: 81 charge that the brand
of perjury is so burnt into the scoundrel's
brow that all the waters of the earth
would not remove the brand"
CRoNIN's CHARACTER CUT UP.
He was delegate to the district con-
vention at Chicago on March 23, 1884.
to which two delegates we're elected from
each district, yet Cronin, after officially
reporting the election, circulated the re-
port that only one delegate had been
elected, and added that he would not be
permitted to speak or present any sug-
gestion from his district. Every other
delegate testified that every delegate not
only could speak, but was actually
called upon, and that every one, includ. |
ing Cronin, did speak. "Cronin was
expelled as a convicted liar, who had
added perjury to his SANDER" adds Sui |
Ivan. The protest then went on to |
show that Cronin was perjurer in civil |
matters as well, as record obtained |
from Ireland showed that Cronin was /
baptized at Buttevant, April 90, 1884. !
He has sworn that he lived at st. Cath
crimes, Canada, until after the assassi-
nation of President Lincoln, April IA,
1865. The records Of Company 2, Nine
teenth Battalion, Canadian Militia, show
that Cronin joined that company at the
time of it's organization in 1862 or 1863, j
and took the oath of allegiance to ti,,e
Queen. The official records ehew that
Cronin's father was British subject. so
DR.. Cronin, up to che time he left Gan
aoa, was Hrftish subject, and if, as he
sGateo, hls father was naturalized in the
y ME d States before going to Canada, he
Voluntarily abandoned his American
citizenship just as his son swore
allegiance and became a loyal Briti
militiaman. "Yet," adds Sullivan, "this
creature in his name as legal voter in
st. Louis and voted. After coming to
sneaked down to Macoupin county, Hi
nois, and swore that he had arrived in |
the United States minor under the age |
of 81, and secured his papers on this |
minor petition thus falsely sworn to.
This much of Cronin's character, sub |
NIT, should be considered in connection
with any report his malice and prejudice
may dictate"
MISSING WITNESSES.