Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-09-10
DOOMED TO DEATH.
Other Men Said to Have Been Intended
for the Same Fate as Cronin.

A Chicago special to the New York Tribune
today says: DIR. Cronin and the informer
Carey. who was shot by Patrick O'Donnell, are
not the only men who were condemned to
death and executed because they we're sus-
pscted Of disloyalty to the Irish cause" said q
former Clan-na-Gael man to q reporter today
TT Ii not generally known, but it il q fact,
that p. W. Dunno, now living in Peoria, who
has been prominent in this Cronin matter was
once doomed to q traitors death by the L R.
B., that is, the Irish Republican Brotherhood.
Why the sentence of death was never carried
into effect in DUNES case 1 do not know.
Patrick J. Meehan, now, as then, editor Of the
Irish American of New York was accused
OF the same crime and was tried Jointly
with Dunno by court-martial of the
military department of the Irish Re-
public, and was likewise condemned to death.
An effort, desperate but unsuccessful, was
made to execute the judgment Of the court
martial on Meehan. The crime for which
Dunno and Meehsn were tried and condemned
to death, much as DR.. Crouin was tried and
doomed, was that Of losing some valuable pa
pers entrusted to their care by James Stephens.
the head center of the Fenian organization in
America, for delivery to the men on the other
ide. These papers would be Of the greatest
value to the British government, and when
Dunno and Meehan called at the seat Of gov
eminent Of the Irish republic, which was then
In tailor shop in Dublin. Meehan, who car
ned the documents, discovered to his conster-
nation that he had Lost them The
cry OF treason vent up against the
United States, and they were tried by
court-martial. o. have already told you. The
episode 10 one Of the most interesting of all the
wiIdr thrilling events in the long struggle of
tne Irish ievolutionists and il known in their
historical annals as the lost documents Incl
dent Meehan and DUNES story of the way
the documents were lost was considered salts
factory by their friends, but the other side
never forgave them, nor believed them guilt
less. Dunno and Meehan say that the latter
mad she papers pinned to his underclothes,
but that the pins cut through. and the docu-
menfs, falling to the street, were found by
some one who handed them over to the police.
ExPEcrED TO GO TO IRELAND.
II remember the fall before this P. W. Dunno
came 20 st. Louis and swore thirty-ope of ma.
all young fellows, into the service of the Irish
republic. We expected to be ordered to Ire
and at any moment and all Of rs were ready
70 start at an hours notice. The arrest in Ire
land that fall spoiled that plan and most Of us
went to Canada Many OF the men whose
names have been SO often heard since the be-
ginning OF the Cronin sensation held q promi-
nent place In Irish affairs then In the senate
party John +. Finerty was an organizer. So
were z. W. Dunno and John J. Corydan, who
afterward turned informer. W. ]. Hynes. nov
OF counsel for the state in the Cronin trial, was
another organizer. Red Jim McDermott,
ven known to Chicago, who turned in
former In the Phoenix park murder cases. was
smother organizer, and so was Gen. p A. Col
Inns Of Boston, who was permanent chairmen
OF the last democratic national convention A
I. Morrison. formerly Of Chicago, but now Of
now in San Francisco; John F. Seaman and his
brother Mortimer, Frank Gallagher Of Buff
falo and Jas. Gibbons of Philadelphia were
prominent members. B. Doran Killian, ]. ].
Rogers Of New York, who won't believe that
Or. Cronin Is dead; ODonovan Rossa, Edward
Duny and John Dolan were leading lights in
tne O'hahoney party. The crowd that has
oeen trying TO run things recently had not then
Deen beard OF IN connection with Irish Affairs
Probably p. W. DUNES experience has helped
70 make him particularly anxious to zee the
nurdsrers Of DR.. Cronin punished.