Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-06-07
THE CRONIN INQUEST.
hut Little Light Thrown ON the
Mystery.


Co.'s bookkeepers was put on the stand
st the Cronin inquest, to-day, and pro-
ceeded to read an abstract of the trans
actions in stocks which Sullivan had
with the firm during certain time. The
list was quite long and was not all read.
Witness said: "Mr. Sullivan never
drew a check in favor of any syndicate
of bucket-shop men for any sum until he
had money in hand from them to meet
it. Coincident with the time when he
was thus acting as agent for the bucket
shop men, he received from Patrick
which he was custodian. The fund
and thence to Chicago, where it was de-
posted in the Traders Bank. Sullivan
knowing that no loss would occur to him
personally from Lester & Company's
transactions, it mattered little what
bank he drew the money from. He al
ways had syndicate money in hand before
drawing check to the order of their
broker" Mr.. Trude said further that
Mr.. Sullivan had Mr.. Egan's receipt in
full for the whole sum intrusted to his
keeping, vnd can trace all Of the channels
through which the money was finally
disbursed.
Capt. Thomas F. O'Connor, member
of Clan-na-GEel said that, in 1885, man
came to see him. This man. he be-
lieved, lived in Philadelphia, but he
could not remember his name. The
man told him that some men were
going across the water, and that
the chances were that he (wit-
ness), would be called on to go.
O'Connor mentioned this to his friend,
DR.. Cronin, who advised him not to 60,
saying that there were enough good,
honest Irishmen behind English bars
who have been given away as soon as
they arrived, and that he did not believe
in the dynamite policy. The stranger
saw witness in DIR. Cronin's company
and did not see him again.
The only other notable witness of the
witness OF the day was John F Biggs, a
lawyer, Senior Guardian (presiding
officer of Camp No. 20, Clan-na-gael.
Biggs was cross-examined in way that
for freedom and scope could
scarcely be surpassed. He tes-
tilted that Sullivan, the ice.man, is a
member of Camp 20. Other than this,
the relevancy OF the bulk of the wit
ness's testimony was not apparent at
this stage of the proceedings. Witness
declared himself a friend of Alexander
Sullivan.
The Daily News to morrow will say
"It does not appear that the Irish cause
lost any money by Alexander Sullivan's
banking operations"
Mr.. Sullivan, when asked what bank
his account was transferred to from the
Traders, promptly replied, the Chicago
National.
Lawyer A. S. Trude, speaking for Sui
Ivan, in an interview said: "Mr. Sulli-
van was simply the agent of persons or a.
combination desiring to operate on the
Board Of Trade and his re-
ceipts all show the word agent
Sullivan did not know anything
about speculations of this character, and
probably could not tell "put" from
"call." His name was simply used on
Lester & Co.'s books by syndicate OF
bucket shop men in order that they
might do business on the Board of Trade
when their orders made it necessary for
them to do so. The syndicate was mad
up of such firms as Murphy & Co. Mr..
Sullivan met some Of these parties in his
law practice, and was given large sums
of money with explicit written directions
what to do with them. They or their
customers were the gamers or losers
by the transactions made by Lester
& Company, not Alexander Sullivan.
The public knows very we'll that the
Board of Trade would not sanction Lester
& Company, or any other firm doing an
open business for bucket shop, and this
was the reason for the concealment and
use of Mr.. Sullivan's name.