Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-07-04
SEVEN INDICTED.
The Grand Jury in the Cronin
Case Makes It's Report.
True bills Found Against BegGs, burke.
Coughlin, o'SuIlivan. Cooney, woodruff
and Knnzc- The Latter's Connec-
ton with the Case.
CHARGED WITH MURDER.

CHARGED WITH MURDER
CHICAGO, July AFTER sixteen days of in
dustrious inquiry the special grand jury on
Saturday found indictments against seven
men, four of whom are now locked up in
the county jail to await trial for the muir
der of DIR. p II. Cronin. The men indicted
are:
John +. Beggs, senior guardian of the
famous Camp 20 OF the Clan Gael, who
is believed to have known something of
the organizing of the mock tribunal which
| condemned Cronin to death
Dan Coughlin, the ex-city detective, who
is supposed TO have found the active men
for the work and to have been general
director of the conspiracy.
Martin Burke, the Winnipeg prisoner,
who is believed to be one of the men in the
cottage ..t the time of the murder
Patrick Cooney, the Fox" who was
Burkes pal" He is now fugitive
r. 0Sulliyan, the Lake View ice-man,
whose contract with Cronin made 1t easy
for the other conspirators to lure the doc
tor to death
Frank Woodruff, alias Black, who con-
fcssed that he had carried the butchered
body toits catch basin tomb.
John Kunze. a young German His name
had not been mentioned In connection with
the case until the Indictment against him
was returned before Judge Shepard
The omnibus Indictment under which
the charges We're rendered against the
seven men was lengthy document in nine
counts, each eeipsing the other in redund-
ant abundance OF "wherefores,n 'afore-
saids,n and other similar terms with
which the drawers of indictments
are so prodigal The first count
charges that the seven men conspired,
fraudulently, deceitfully, maliciously,
feloniously TO murder Patrick Henry
Cronin; the second, that they did assault
and kill, with weapons unknown, the said
Cronin, and inflicted bruises, wounds,
decorations and Commissions, of which
Cronin died; the third, that they did In such
above described manner kill Cronin. In
the other counts the weapons are described
as both blunt and sharp Instruments the
wounds are minutely described, and with
much legal verbiage the charge is reiter-
ated against the seven men named in the
indictment, and loopholes of every kind
are carefully closed with adjectives and adj
verbs In great number. The form of the
indictment is such that the States Attorney
claims all the men mentioned in il will
have TO stand trial together, as in the cases
against the Anarchists and the ''boodlersn
The most startling evidence against Dan
CoughiD was reserved for the last He
was shown to be the head of the active
work done in the murder. For him was
left tho arrangement of tho details, and
by him, 1t is believed, the muir
derous blows were struck It was
shown before the Jury that he
was at the Carlson cottage the night Cronin
was murdered, and the man who drove him
there was the mysterious Kunze, who was
indicted with him Kunze has since disap-
peared, but before he left he was unguarded
in his conversation, and from his own
lips was obtained the most important
evidence so far addueed against the leader
in DR.. Cronins murder 1t il the belief of
the grand jury, after the hearing OF the ev-
idence, that Cronin was killed by Coughlin,
Cooney and Burke, and that p. O'Sullivan
was present in the cottage when the blows
wore dealt, II not actually engaged in the
bloody work.
few hours after the indictments were
returned into court Lawyer John f. Beggs
was seen. Il am surprised over my In
dictment,r he said land there must have
been wholesale perjury practiced to bring
it about. ! have told all / know in the
case and have nothing to repeat now, save
that there was never trial in Camp 90, so
far as know, and ! believe such trial
would have been impossible" Beggs is
now ip the county jail
Foreman Clough, of the grand jury, said
In an interview that more damnable con-
sptracy was never conceived and executed
All of the men named In the I'm
dictment were deeply implicated In the
murder Of DR.. Cronin. John ONeil, another
Juror, said he believed Dr. Cronin was
sentenced to death In Camp 90 of the Clan
ga-Gael. Kunze, who has hardly been
mentioned with the case until his indict-
ment, he said, was surely one of the
murderers His connection with the
murder he said can be shown by twenty
witnesses Kunze is the man suspected of
driving DR.. Cronin from his boarding place
t6the Carlson cottage.