Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-09-19
WHO KILLED CRONIN i?
No End of Sensations in This
Celebrated Case.
BRITISH SPY THEORY RENEWED.
What the Defense Will Attempt
to Prove = Four Jurors
Accepted.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD. !


CHICAGO, September 1S.-A local paper
this evening prints sensational article
regarding the Cronin case. 1t says the
lawyers for the defense claim to be in
possession of evidence showing that the
murderers Of DR.. Cronin we're paid rep
resentatives of the English Govern
ment which had been duped by Cronin,
who was supposed by the British
authorities to be one of their American
spies. The form this evidence has taken
and in which it will be presented at the
trial on behalf of the defense, is num-
Der of letters written by Miss LIE Caron,
daughter of the notorious witness in the
Parnell case, to her affianced husband in
Chicago. These letters have been
written from London at brief intervals
ever since Miss LIE Caron Joined her
father in that city last winter. The
story outlined in the letters is to the
effect that LIE Caron and Birmingham,
with whom he was in partnership on the
North Side, were both British spies;
that DR.. Cronin learned their
real character, and that in or
der to maintain a fuller insight
into their plans permitted them to think
he could be hired. He apparently &C.
copied their proposition that he enter
the American branch of the English
Secret Service, and obtained all their in
formation without giving any in return.
They became suspicious and sought
to obtain from him certain papers given
him in his supposed career of spy. He
refused to give them up. Meanwhile
LIE Caron was summoned to England to
testify against Parnell. Birmingham was
told to obtain from Cronin the docu-
ments, but Cronin refused to yield
them and threatened an exposure
of English practices in America. 1t was
resolved to rob him of the papers, and it
was in that attempt that the doctor was
killed. Birmingham has since sold out
his drug store and disappeared.
SOME OF THE WITNESSES.
The Evening Journal has the same
story in substance, and adds that in OPP
position thereto it is claimed that at the
proper stage of the Cronin trial the pros.
ecution will produce as witnesses T. J.
Kirby, who was in Chicago as an agent of
the British Government some time be-
fore the Cronin murder, looking into the
secrets of the Clan-na. Gael, LIE Caron,
the spy, and Patrick Coopey, familiarly
know as "The Fox" LIE Caron, it is
alleged, has revealed to American
detectives the names of certain men on
whom suspicion has not heretofore
rested.
FOUR JURORS ACCEPTED.
CHICAGO, September 18.-Proceedings
In the Cronin case were not resumed
until O'Clock this afternoon, Judge Nc
Cornell being engaged in another matter
during the forenoon. The work of get.
ting jury was at once resumed. A
little before adjournment four Jurors. who
had been repeatedly questioned by both
sides, were pronounced satisfactory by
the defense. Counsel for the State con.
suited and then announced that they
also accepted the men, who were
promptly sworn in. Their names are
James A. Pearson, Glenwood; John
Culver, Evanston; John L. Hall, Fern
wood; Charles G. Dix, Chicago.
WHO FURNISHES THE DEFENSE FUNDs7
DR.. P. Curran, Senior Guard of one of
Chicago's Clan-na-Gael camps, resigned
his position last night because the camp re-
fused to coincide with bis suggestion that
a resolution be adopted denouncing Gen.
eral Secretary Ronayne for not having
turned over to General Treasurer Tierney
the percentages received from the camps
throughout the country since May last,
when the existing deadlock in the Exec
utive Board began. In a long interview
in local paper DIR. Curran conveys the
impression, without making the direct
charge, that Ronayne had been using
these funds, amounting to about IS 900,
in the defense of the Cronin suspects
now on trial.