The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-06-16
The Grand Jury's Investigation.

TIL Grand Juryis investigation.
CHICAGO. June 15.-The special grand
jury in the Cronin case began its fourth
days session this morning, and the indica-
tions are that several days yet will be con-
sumed ere the jury is prepared to make its
final report. A long array of witnesses
have been subpenaed, and the jury evinced
a determination to inquire into the most
minute details of the case. Dan Brown,
the ~Stanton-avenue officer, who preferred
the charges of treason against Cronin, for
which the latter was tried and expelled
from the Clan-na-Gael. was the first
witness called to-day. He was subjected
to q most rigorous examination as to the
details of the workings of the Clan-na-Gael
or United Brotherhood, and required to
give his reasons for having originally sus-
pected CrOnin Of treason to the cause. The
witness denied that he had been actuated
by undue malice against Cronin, and in
sisted that he had preferred his charges
against the latter entirely upon his own
motion. and had been in nOwise influenced
by Alexander Sullivan.
John w. and Stewart l.. Moore, of the
firm of J.T. Lester q Co., brokers, were
again called upon to explain certain de-
tails in the matter of Sullivan's specula-
tiOns on the Board of Trade.
faUr1ck MCGary anu his WIG were the
next witnesses. called. McGary was q
warm, personal friend OF DR.. Cronin,1andp
was one of those to whom the latter so
frequently expressed fears of personal
violence at the hands of opposing factions
of the brotherhood. McGary's evidence
was voluminous, but rather devoid of spe-
cial interest. He gave the name of the
committee before whom CrOnin was tried
and by whose verdict the Doctor was ex-
PEELED from the organization, and recited
so far as his information permitted the nat
ure of the evidence adduced on that oc-
c%asion, and the part taken by Sullivan in
the prosecution. ,McGary also detailed
Canada for the purpose of investigating
the Toronto story, and ascertaining wheth-
er any collision existed between reporter
Long and w. j. Starkey. The witness was
unable to reveal anything new in this mat
ter. repeating substantially the same story
told before the corOner's Jury and several
times published. Mrs. McGary's testimony
was quite unimportant, she being only able
to cOrrObOrate her husband in regard to
DR.. CrOnin frequently expressing fears for
his life.
At II O'clock officer Palmer submitted to
the jury DR., Cronin's secret papers. and
they were filed away for future examina-
ton.
Thomas Murphy, treasurer of camp mo.
90, Clan-na-Gael, to which DR.. Cronin be-
longed, was called upon and produced the
Papefs a and a Rarslaat geeS Miss Of a fhae oIsE urn6H.
$500 NAAoo 1aaAN NAoAH hIt
reiterated to the jury her Oft-told story
| about having seen DIR. CrOnin on the street
car, and apparently bound for the depot, at
q time, as subsequent events prove. he was
cold in death. Miss Murphy still insists
that the man she saw was Dr.. Cronin, or
his ghost, and adheres emphatically to all
the details of her original story. Hardly
did she admit the possibility of it having
been q case of mistaken identity. She was
cross-questioned. somewhat vigorously by
the jury, but maintained the stubborn posi-
ton which she has assumed ever since the
discovery of DR.. Cronin's body.
COrnOner Hertz was called upon during
the forenoon to aid the jury in the way of
suggestions as to any avenues of information
toward which inquiries might well be di-
rected.
noon when Thomas c. Windes, Alexander
Sullivan'sl aw-partner, mounted the steps
and entered the grand jury room. Mr..
Windes was detained by the jury for nearly
an hour, and great speculation was INDUCED
in as to the nature of his testimony.
1t finally transpired that Mr.. Windes had
been questioned infinitely as to his inform
alton regarding Sullivan's speculations on
the Board of Trade, and whether the money
used by the Irish leader was the funds of
the Clan-na-Gael organization. The wit
ness knew but little regarding Sullivan's
private speculatiOns. and, it is stated. was
unable to give the jury any valuable in
formation.
The only other witnesses were Thos.
Tierney and Kitty Murphy. Tierney is the
emplOye of the ice man, O'Sullivan, and is
the person arrested last night as a suspect.
Kitty Murphy is the domestic in the ice
mans home. So far as known when the
grand jury adjourned their testimony was
unimpOrtant.
Tierney was released from custody this
evening.
l.. ID. Parker. superintendent of the
Postal Telegraph Company. was in the
grand jury room for a short time during the
day. He was questioned regarding tele-
grams which it was thought might have
passed between Chicago and Hammond.
Ind, the place where the suspects are said
to have stopped over after leaving Chicago.
Argument in the New York Cases.
NEW YORK, June 15.-Judge Andrews, in the
Court of Oyer and Terminer heard arguments
to-day upon the writs of habeas corpus in the
the cases OF Maroney and Mcdonald. The court
was crowded with spectators. Assistant District
Attorney Macedonia read the returns to the writs,
including the telegram from Chicago, and an Aft,
davit made thereon by detective Won Gerichten,
together with the subsequent commitment by
the police magistrate. Counsel for Maroney pro.
ceeded to read a statement against these
proceedings as a traverse, but the Judge
told him IL was a demurrer. Then
counsel for Mcdonald read a demurrer on behalf
of his client. In IL Mcdonald denies that he is
guilty of or had any completely In the Cronin
murder, and denies that on or about May 4,
1870 or at aDy time. he fed from the State OF