Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1889-11-01
THE FAMOUS CAMP 70.
Unwilling Witnesses Testify Re.
garding the Proceedings or
the Meeting OF Feb. 8.
The Record of the Camp Brought
Into Court-Beggs Courts
Investigation.
Peace Must Be Had in the Order, Even
if It Has to Be Fought for
The Proceedings

CHICAGO, Oct. 3O.-John F. O'Connor
was put upon the stand to-day
and testified regarding Camp 20.
He said that Beggs was
senior guardian and Thomas Murphy
treasurer. Martin Burke, Dan Coughlin,
Patrick Cooney and Pat Sullivan were
members. He remembered the meeting
of Feb. 8. Capt. F. F. O'Connor made a
speech. He asked why it was that they
had not received a report of the commit
tee that had tried the triangle, as he
had heard it read in another camp. He
had heard it read in another camp. The
books Of Camp 20 were pro-
duced, with minutes of said meeting,
showing that motions had been
adopted calling for the report of the
committee on the triangle, to call the at
teption of the district officer to the re-
ports that were floating around regard
ing the trial of the triangle and that a
secret committee be appointed by the
senior guardian to investigate these ru-
mors. Witness was asked in a dozen
ways whether he did not make a speech
suggestin & the necessity of looking for
SPIES IN THE ORDER,
but responded each time that he Didn't
recollect anything of the kind. Cross
examined by Foster for Beggs, he said
it was q common thing to call on the Sc
nior guardians of camps for the reports
of committees. The result of the cross
examination was to bring out the fact
that the motion to appoint a select COM
mittee became imperative by a decision
of Beggs that no camp could investigate
another camp,
Anthony J. Ford, member of Camp
20 for ten or twelve years, was called.
He was senior guardian for four years,
and after the election in January of this
year held the position of past guardian.
He testified that he did not attend the
meeting of Feb. 8, but was present at the
meeting Of Feb. %, known as reunion
night. At the latter meeting, he said,
Patrick McGarry and Richard Powers,
both of them visiting members from
other camps, attacked the triangle for
wasting the funds of the Clan-na-Gael.
Beggs, in his defense of the triangle,
mentioned the name of Alexander Sulli-
van. and said peace must be restored in
the ranks. The witness memory was
very treaeherous, but from evidence both
on the direct and cross-examination it
was gathered that Beggs said, in effect,
that peace should be had if it had to be
brought about by war. 1t was charac-
teristic of Beggs, he said, to speak very
earnestly.
Stephen Colleran was the last witness
called. He is laborer by occupation,
and has been member Of Camp 20 four
or five years, but is not now a member
of the order. After a long series of ques-
tions the state elected the information
that at the meeting of Feb. 8 there was a
wrangle over the report of committee
ION some money matters or pertaining to
that" which was not forthcoming, al
though some of the members stated they
had heard the report read in another
camp.
RURKE's ALLEGED CONFESSION.
WINNIPEG, Oct. 30.--Bob Heffer, the
fellow prisoner of Burke, who says the
latter confessed to him, is indignant at
the doubts of authenticity of his story of
Burke's confession entertained by some.
He said that Burke used to, despite his
protests that he did not want to hear
them, persist in telling him the details of
the plot with the murderous outcome.
Heffer says he can give the names Of
every one who was present when DIR.
Cronin was murdered.