, 1889-11-20
PROBING limo IT.
The Cronin Investigation Still
Goes on.
San Francisco is Reached by
the Fast Mail.
The Great Minneapolis Forger
Gets Another Chance.

CHICAGO, Nov. l9.--The first witness
in the Cronin trial this morning was Po-
lice mar Redmond Mcdonald. He testi-
fed that he saw Dan Coughlin at East
Chicago avenue police station between
S:45 and 9 o'clock on the night of the
murder. On cross examination witness
fixed the time at 9 to 9:45 O'Clock. Fur
Their cross-examination developed the fact
that witness was a member of Camp 20,
Clan ma Gael. Witness did not speak of
the fact to anybody but Officer Scott. who
was also a member of Camp 20, until last
Saturday, when he tod Capt. Schuettler.
Witness said fear OF being mixed up in
the matter kept him from speaking of it
sooner.
The witness being asked when he first
learned of the connection of Coughlin' s
name with the horse and buggy in which
Cronin was driven away, stated it was be-
fore the body was found. There was a
sensation when the counsel for the prose-
cution asked the witness if he did not re-
member that Coughlin's name was never
connected with the house in any manner
in the public press until three days after
the discovery of the doctors body.
William Mulcahy, an employe of
O'Sullivan's, testified that he heard
O'Sullivan speak of the murder. The
witness further testified that O'Sullivan
and he were on the ice wagon together.
They had supper together, both read dur
ing the evening. going 10 bed at the same
time and sleeping in the same bed. O'Sul-
livan was not out of the house that night.
The witness also said that he had heard
conversation between old mau Carlson
and O'Sulliyan about the tenants of the
Carlson cottage. The old man testified
that O'Sullivan said he knew they were
all right. This witness testified that
O'Sullivan said he knew nothing of them.
The ground work was laid in the cross
examination for connecting the witness
with the driver of the white horse, who
deceived Cronin to his death, but the
witness denied that he let his beard grow
at that time or wore a different overcoat
from the one brought by him to the court
room.
Mulcahey knew of O'Sullivan's con-
tract with Cronin, having spoken once to
his employer about his lame foot and be-
ing told to go to Cronin who was under
contract to treat all of his men.
Thomas Whalen, whose vile kept the
boarding house where O'Sullivan and the
men lived, was quite sure the woman was
not put of the house the night of the
murder.
William Glenn, an Inter Ocean re-
porter testified hat one week after the
murder Mrs. Conklin told him the horse
brought to her door from Dinan's stable
did not resemble the horse behind which
DR.. Cronin was driven away
Edward Jones, a Daily Ne,1s reporter,
testified that he and another reporter
went to the Carlson cottage after the dis
covery of Cronin's body and as as joke
they got some cotton batting and a piece
of liver. smeared the blood from the latter
upon the cotton and put the blood stained
cotton in the cellar. The witness denied
that he put it there to furnish material for
a sensation in his paper.
Three of O'Sullivan's employees corrob-
Grated the evidence to establish an abb for
the iceman. One of them told about dis
tributing a number of O'Sullivan's cards,
which had been produced in evidence,
with a view OF working up trade.
On the cross examination of Patrick
Brennan, another employe of O'Sulli-
vans, the fact was brought out that the
lawyers for the defense got a lot of their
witnesses together at O'Sullivsn's house
last Sunday and went over their testimony
in the presence of the entire