St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-01
TELL-TALE LETTERS,
Longenecker Will Submit the
Correspondence Between
Beggs and Spellman.
Dan Coughlin Shown to Have
Had It In for DR..
Cronin.
He Tried to Engage a Tough
to Slug the Fearless
Celt.
Several Witnesses Identify
the Property Found in the
Ca rlson Cottage.

nelPS court, In Whlch tile Cr0nln trial Is
in progress, was called to order nearly
half an hour later than usual this morn.
ing. Patrick McGarry, who occupied
the chair at the time of the adjourn
ment last night, was still witness. Mr..
Donahoe, of counsel for the defense,
moved to strike out all of that part of
McGarry's evidence given in yesterday.
in which McGarry described his visit to
the house of the defendant, O'SulIivan,
after DR.. Cronin'S murder, and at which
time he questioned USulliyan closely
about his contract with CrOnin. a long
argument followed. 1t was finally de-
cided to postpone a decision on the
point till this afternoon in order to al.
low counsel time to present authorities.
Pending that the cross examination OF
McGarry was also postponed, and
George Reilly. a barkeeper. was called
to the witness chair. He testified that
In the latter part of March Coughlin,
O'Sullivan and others were In the sac
loon and were talking politics, when
COughlin said that certain North Side
Catholic was talking too much, and if
he didn't keep his mouth shut he would
GET THE WORST OF IT.
James Quinn was the next witness ques-
toned about the same matter as the Wit
ness who preceded him. 1t developed
nothing new. Then the states attorney
sought to introduce the correspondence
between Beggs and Spellman. Mr..
Foster, attorney for Beggs. said he was
ready TO admit anything that Beggs
ever wrote, but that he could say moth
ing about letters written by anyone else.
So the matter went over. pending the
appearance of Spellman. w. P. Hat
field, salesman for Revelle q Co, was
then called and told of selling to man,
calling himself j. 3. SimOnds, the bill
of furniture which was taken to the fiat
at No. III Clark street, and was subse-
quently taken to the Carlson cottage,
the scene of the murder. The only new
point developed was the fact that Si.
mOnds said the furniture was ''fOr TEN.
p0rary use." After Hatfield had iden-
tilted the furniture sold to SimondS as
that subsequently seen by him in the
Carlson cottage, the trunk III which DR..
GRoNIN'S BODY WAS CARRIED
away was brought into court. Hatfield,
after examining it, testified that it was
identical with the one sold to Simonds.
On crOss-eXamination. he said that he
could not swear that it was the idt nti-
cal trunk. because the firmkept such on
hand always and perhaps other dealers
dISOs II CdlllC Jul tildt l.
of counsel for the defense. had bought
just such trunk from the witness. Is
could not be sworn to positively that
the furniture in the Carlson cottage was
the same furniture sold to SimOnds; it
was precisely like it. however. Recess
was then taken. When the court re-
sumed its session the jury was eX-
cluded and the matter of striking out
Witness McGarry'S evidence as to what
was said during his visit to U'Sullivan's
house on the Sunday follow ing the MUIR
der was taken up. The court finally
decided to exclude all of the
talk in regard to former at
tack on DIR. Cronin. This was not
satisfactory to the defense and another
flow of eloquence was the result.
Finally the croSS-eXamination of Nc
Garry was resumed. John w. Samp.
son. was next called, and testified that
about two years ago C0ughiin tried to
get him to slug" DR.. Crouin. The wit
ness, on crOSS-eXaminafion, admitted
that COughlin had arrested him three or
four times; once for robbery; that he
had been convicted Of passing counter
felt money; that he was a gambler by
profession, but denied that he followed
Mr. Blaine throu II Michigan when he
was making speeches there last fall, or
that he followed Cows. Hill, Fifer or
Thurman for the purpose of picking
pockets. He said he went 20 some OF
these places for the purpose of securing
sporting privileges. He naively eX
planned that he was
''PLAYlNG DE SHELLS"
which Is a variation of what is known
as three card monte. William Lynn,
,to hA
COughIIn and was asked to ''Slug" DR..
Cronin, testified to the fact that the two
men had conversation, the purpOrt of
which he aid not hear, at the time mem
toned. Joseph G. O'Keefe. DR.. Cr0nin'S
tailor, said at he attended a meeting
of Camp % in September, 1888. After
the meeting he had a conversation with
Defendant BeggS about DIR. CrOnin and
Alexander Sullivan. Said the witness:
I'VE were speaking first in reference to the
union OF the two rival factions of the order,
and John +. Beggs said he did not have
much confidence III the new executive that
was elected Then the trial committee came
under discussion. He said that DR.. CroniD
was not the proper man TO be put on the
trial committee to try Alexander Sullivan.
said DR.. Cronin did not have as unSavory
record as James Rogers, of Brooklyn. anoth.
er one of the trial committee. John f. BeggS
then told me that Cronin admitted Coughlin
as Menll er OF camp 10 WITHOUT IOrullI
initiation, and had furnished him with pass
words. / told him II did not believe it.
told him that Cronin was too sincere a
patriot to do anything of that kind. | told
him, furthermore, that / would ask CTonin
in reference to it and give the authority, and
then he said Cronin was not d fit man TO be-
long to Irish societies."
On crosS-examination it was brought
out that Beggs objected to CrOnin being
on the committee to try the triangle, be.
cause he was an enemy of Alexander
Sullivan. Cornelius Flynn, who was
with Beggs and O'Keefe when they
held the above mentioned conversation,
corroborated O'Keefe's testimony. Ed
ward q. ThrockmortOn, clerk in a real
estate Office, testified to the renting OF
the rooms at III Clark street to ~. b.
SimOndS." Aaron Goldman. collector
for the same firm, testified that the
rooms at III Clark street were occupied
on the 10Th of March last. but that on
the 2lst he found them vacant. James
NJ. Marshall. of the firm which con-
trolled the renting of No. III Clark
street, testified to that fact. The court
then adjourned till tomorrow. An aft
paper says that soon after the
of Dr.. Cronin the state
put spies upon Camp 20. and that a man
was concealed in the hall during some
OF its meetings and took notes OF its pro-
ceedings.