The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1889-06-12
NECKS In DANGER.
Alex. Sullivan and Four Others Held
for the Grand Jury in the Gro
min Murder Case.
Sensational Testimony of Chief Hub
bard. Detailing the Result OF an
Interview With Woodruff.
special Grand Jury Summoned by the
sherin-Arrests Made in New York
Which May Prove Important.

CHICAGO, June II.-In the Cronin in
| quest, this morning, John Garrity, sa-
loon keeper, testified that Detective Cough
lin tried to hire tough character, known
as major sampson" TO slug DIR. Cronin.
He wanted him slugged with base ball
bat and disfgured for life. II il killed him
| il would not make much difference J. ID.
| Haggerty, railroad clerk, testified after
| the trial of DIR. Cronin. Alex. Sullivan told
| him Cronin was q scOundrel ana menace
| TO the Irish cause. Ii was the impression
OF witness that sullivan said Cronin should
1 be exterminated. ffe witness WAS Of the
| same opinion at That time LaCaron. who
was a friend of Alex. Sullivan, was a mem-
| Der of the committee which tried Cronin.
| He was introduced to witness by Sullivan
at the trial as 9 man worthy OF confidence
| in the Irish cause.
one witness testified that he was sent 70
England 20 do active work, and was given
| "a and a steerage ticket. He came back
| by steerage passage without bed clothes OF
l other necessities. lie slept, he said, TN the
soft side of plank. lie went again and
| was told TO get some one 10 help him. JnO.
1 j. Maroney was one OF the men who was
| 20 help him. He was given 500, ana when
| he got to England he could get no more.
He did not use the alias given him by the
| triangle, and the intimatiOn in his evidence
| is that this was what saved him from fall
| ing into the hands of the English authori-
| ties. He and his partners performed four
i OrfTatlOI5. lHc tftuult III Nut
| convention was told about. Objection was
| made To Tim Cream and Florence Sullivan
being seated proxies for Father DOrney
and Alex Sullivan
witnesses were examined without devel-
| oping anything of Importance. Then
| Chief of Police Hubbard was sworn and
| told of the interview which he had had
with Woodruff, the horsethief. Hubbard |
| was asked if he WAS the one who drove |
| with the trunk from the Carlson cottage. |
| Woodruff said he was. and be then de- /
| scribed the cottage. "Hs SAID" continued /
the chief THAT ne took the trunk about /
| midnight on May 4. He had been given /
1 S25 by two men the day before
to do the job. AT lao on May two men,
| according 10 the agreement, raped on the
door of Dlnan's stable. He opened the
door and let out a horse with rags on its
feet and hitched II 70 wagon. They then
drove to within 100 feet of Carson's cot
tage. He was then told to wait and the
two left him and went into the cottage.
They remained there five minutes and then
beckoned him TO drive up. He did so and
the two. King and FairDurn, and a third
man, cane out with a heavy trunk. The
third man was +. .. sullivan. When the
trunk was put into the wagon
Woodruff. with King and Fairburn,
drove on Lincoln avenue 20 Fullerton ave |
nue., thence to Lincoln park. The men in |
tended to take the trunk and contents into
a boat out on the lake and sink them. but
owing TO the bright night and the presence /
of strangers they changed their minds and
drove back. When they reached the man.
hole at Fifty-ninth street they tried TO
dump the trunk into it, but failing they
kicked the trunk open. having lost the key. .
They took the body from it and threw IL
into the manhole. Woodruff was then told
TO drive off,
After reading the evidence the jury were
asked If they wanted to hear any more Z
witnesses, the coroner saying he had plenty :
of witnesses who could give 'corroborsting !
evidence - The iurE nfdu1r IN haa | :
any more, and at 4:4O O'Clock retired for /
delibeTatinn 10 the cOroner's private office. 4
AT 1913 the coroner's jury brought in \
their verdict, as follows: I
1--WE, the undersigned jury appointed to /
make inquiries according TO law as 70 how ,
the body viewed by us came to his death. Z
state as our verdict from the evidence: 4
One, that the body is that OF Patrick Gro 4
min, known as Doctor Cronin- Two, that Z
his death was not from natural causes, 4
but from violent means. Three, that said q
Il. ii. CrOnin WAS decOyed from his home I
on North Clark street on the evening | r
of May 4, 1889, by some person or persons, !
to cottage known as the Carlson cottage, O
situated at No. SAP North Ashland avenue. | \
in Lake View, Cook county, Ill. -Four, | :
That at said cottage said CTOnin was muir
dered by being beaten on the head with | q
some blunt instrument OF instruments in :
the hands OF some person OF persOus un- :
known TO Us on the night of said May g. OF
between May 4 and May 3, 1889. Five. q
That the body after said murder was com n
mitted, was placed in a trunk and carried o
10 the edge OF the water on a wagon by q
several persons. and by them placed in =
catch basin at the corner of Evanston ave V
nue. and Flfty-nlnth street. Lake View, +
where it was discovered May q, 1859. '
Sixth, That the evidence shows conclu- =
sively to all our minds that plot
or conspiracy, formed by a number il
of persons for the purpose of numbering e
said Cronln and cOncealing his body. said q
plot or conspiracy was deliberately con- H
trived and deliberately executed. Seven, ,.
we have carefully inquired into the rela- n
tions sustained by said Cronin to other per- n
sons while alive to ascertain If he had any il
quarrels or enmities with any persons
sufficient 10 cause his murder. Eight, it is
our judgment that no other Derson or per
sons except some of those who are or =,
society known 1.-The United Brother n
hood" or Clan-na Gael, had cause to be the n
insugators or executors OF such plot or q
TO murder said Cronin; nine. / II
many of the witnesses testifying In said
case have done so with much evident un-
willingness and we believe with
much mental reservation We flud from | A
the evidence that number OF persons
were parties TO plot and conspiracy to
murder said CrOnin and conceal his body.
and should be he'd TO answer TO the grand n
jury; we also believe that other persons L
were engaged in this plot, or had a guilty n
Of il and should be apprshend- ! O.
ed and held 10 the grand jury. We further a.
state this plot or conspiracy in its cOncep- | u
|
and brutal that has ever come to our oil
and We recommend the proper al
authorities offer large reward for il
the arrest and apprehension of all those en- | HI
gagged in it in any way. We further state W
that in our Judgment all secret societies a
whose objects are such as the evidence q
shows that OF the Clan-na-Gael or United a
10 be. are not not in harmony | o.
with and are injurious to America. We ol
hope that future yigOr and vigilance by the Il
police force will more than compensate for Ct
past neglect by portion of the force in Il
this case" p
The verdict was signed by r. 5. Critch- i
ell. Rudolph SeIfert. II. A. Haugan. Victor o.
Y. Sutton, John II. Vanhousen and Justice e
killian. N
Before the verdict was made public Cor <
Oner Hertz emerged for a moment from the "
room in which the Jury was in session He p
beckoned 70 an officer and handed him a
mitimus. The officer. with a comrade v
hurriedly left the city hall and jumped into u
a carriage and drove straight 10 the resi- II
dence OF Alex. Sullivan on Oak street d
Mr.. Sullivan had gone to bed short p
time previous, but after the object of the d
officers explained and the information Fl
given that he would not be given time for n
any purpose, be promptly and quietly Il
dressed and unhesitatiDgiy accompanied n
his visitors. The prisoners demeanor was Il
calm throughout the entire proceedings. .
Entering the carriage which brought the q
officers. the trio was driven TO the Office of n
the county jail. After the u.uM preIim- v
inaries Nj Sullivan was taken through v
the cage into the gloomy prison itself. The n
ex-presdent of the Irish League OF Amer q
lea was then Immediately incarceratsd in .
cell No. 25. in the tier known as the '-gHur- Il
derer's row. ?
Staies-At ttorney Lonz zenecker was seen in Il
reference to the arrest of the two men in e
New York in connection with the Cronin .
AT air and said: The men are arrested a
and there is nothing TO conceal now r.
Meroney Is the man who Is suspected of n
driving the doctor from his ONCE to the n
Carlson cottage About the other man. y
don't know so much. but We expect a. =
prove he was in the conspiracy. MArOuey q
Is . labOrer, l think. and Mcdonald is a y
blacksmith | got this information from I,
Dillon, and We will learn how much truth h
there Is in IL later on a
Tonight information was derived from !,
detective sources that j. J. MarOney, who B
was arrested in New York to-dav is y
member OF the Clan-na- Gael executive: 4
that Is TO say, the committee which governs I,
the whole organization and Of which Luke A