The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-12-17
A VERDICT AT LAST.
THE GREAT CRONIN TRIAL,
BROUGHT TO A CLOSE.

COughIln, Burke and O'SuIIiYan
Guilty of Murder imprisonment
for I.ife-Kunze Gets Three Years
-Beggs Is Acquitted,
CHICAGO, December 16.-The Cronin
jury, as far as is known outside of the
jury room has still been unable to re- ch
a verdict. They spent the nigh In a
room i'll the criminal court b. Id. q
which they occupied continuously since
Friday, and kept light burning brightly
until after 2 O'Clock this morning. Judge
McConnell's private instructions to the
bailllts were to take the jury back to the
hotel in case they agreed on a verdict,
and that he would receive it this morn
ing. The fact that they remained in the
jury room may be taken as pretty con-
elusive contradiction of publications in
extra papers this morning that they had
come to a conclusion before 8 o'clock
last night In and around the criminal
court building at O'Clock this morning
everything was exceedingly quiet. A
few policemen patroIled the streets in the
ncighborhood, and inside all the doors
were guarded as usual by the baiitfs. At
the State attorneys Office it was stated
that not a word hes been heard from the
jury by the pros,~ ting attorney this
morning, and that all reports that they
had last night agreed were simply guess
work. All the morning papers to-day
seem to be of the opinion that a verdict
will be reached to-day, and this view of
the situation is strengthened bv an
interview with Judge Mcconnell which
was sent out in these dispatches last
~, nd -, .l,,rI tho I,,J,r,
belief that verdict would be reached,
basing his belief chiefly on the assertion
that he had received no intimation from
the jury that they had been unable to
agree.
LATER.
Judge Mcconnell at 1920 formally
announced from the bench that no YER
dict had been reached and that he would
not be in attendance again before D. m.
Once more the audience that assembled
to hear the verdict of the Cronin Jury
have been doomed to disappointment.
udge Mcconnell arrived at the court
room at about 10 O'Clock and at once
sent messenger to the bailiff in charge
of the jury room to enquire whether the
Jury had any communication to make to
the court. The answer came back
promptly and tersely that the jury was
prepared to make no return and had no
communication whatever to make to the
court. Thus all reports OF the jury hay
ing agreed upon a verdict were found to
be as utterly groundless as the hundred
that had preceded them.
Judge Mcconnell retired from theC court
with the announcement that in case the
jury should, during the day, arrive at a
conclusion he would be in attendance at
p. M to receive any return or communi-
cation which the jury might be prepared
to make.
1t is now utterly impossible that any
information of any characterca be forth
coming from the jury before p. m. Ru-
nors of purported verdcts before that
hour may be regarded as absolutely
groundless. No information whatever is
known beyond the general conclusion
that Mr.. Culver is the dissenting juror.
a VERDICT.
The Cronin trial has resulted in a YER
dict; Coughlin, Burke and O'Sullivan,
guilty of murder, penalty life imprison-
nent; Kunze, three years; Beggs, acquit-
ted,