Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-30
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this secrecy, these men were
betrayed by the board to the English
authorities, and twenty of them, he
said, are now in prison. This was, he
declared. to ena le the board to steal
| the funds, and when, at last a showing
was made, the board claimed that the
order owed them $4,000, when there
was $3.50. 1000 in the treasury when they
| took charge.
At this point the States ATTORNEY in
| troduced DR.. Cronn in connection with
| the order, and proceeded to sketch the
story of his fight against the triangle;
told OF Cronin's expulslon; the subse-
| quent union convention; the trial of
Sullivan, Feeley and Boland by a secret
| committee, of which DIR. Cronin was a
member. in Buffalo last August.
1.-THE committee was there in session
for days and days." said Mr.. Longe-
necker, "hearing evidence. That evil
dence, as we have it, will be introduced
here. Dir. Cronin took the evidence
fully, and witnesses and facts were pro-
duced to show what they had done in
the old country, what had beer done
across the water under the direction of
this triangle-all their active work was
shown. That was all being investigated
there; and the committee had not made
| it's report, but DIR. Cronin had taken
| full notes of that trial committee. He
had taken down what each witness had
said about certain things"
The States Attorney went on to say
that pr; Cronin insisted that all of tho
but, up to the time of DR.. Cronin' o
death the report had not been sent out.
1t would have shown that they had not
/ only violated the laws of the order and
Of this country, but also those OF En-.
gland, and had robbed the order o. its
funds and the men Of their liberties.
Only day or two after Dr. Cronin's
death, however, the report of the trial
was sent out. DR.. Cronin's part OF it,
however, was rejected. and that part
which accused Cronin of being a traitor.
Mr.. Longenecker claimed that they
would show that all this denunciation
OF DR.. Cronin was sent out over Alex
ander Sullivan's signature, and that it
was sent out after DR.. Cronin had disap-
peared and in the belief that his body
would never be found. It was not suffi-
cient to make way with DR.. Cronin but
the same unseen hand that regulated
this conspiracy from its inception had
to make it appear also that Cronin was
q traitor. For if DR.. Cronin
had published his evidence against
the triangle, as he was about to do, it
meant the ruin of the triangle with the
Irish people, and to have it published
to all their camps was to convict these
men of embezZling these funds that had
been accommodating for years. It would
have proved them not only traitors to
the law of two countries, but traitors to
the cause in which these people had
enlisted; and instead of doing that
which was to benefit poor old Ireland,
it would brand them the worst men on
the earth among the Irish people. That
was the object.
The States Attorn ey then went on to
show how Coughlin had begun denounc-
ing CrOnin as spy way back in Feb
ruarv; how Beggs at certain meeting
of Camp 20 had said that DIR. Cronin's
denunciation of Sullivan and the TRAN
gle had to be stopped, eff it took blood"
Finally after several weeks delay Beggs,
as guardian of Camp 20, announced
that the charges against the triangle
would have to be investigated. The
next day the fiat at III Clark Street was
rented, the trunk and furniture, which
was afterward moved to the Carlson
cottage, bought, and the preparations
began for the murder.
The States ATTORNEY then went over
the whole story of the conception and
execution of this plot, which has so Of
ten been told.
At the afternoon session Judge Longe.
necker concluded lis address. Then
all the lawyers of the defense waived
the right to address the jury, and ex-
Capt. Villiers, of Lake View, was put
on the stand to tell what he knew of the
trapedy