The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-11-06
THE SIXTH DAY.
How Camp No. 90 Paved the Way for tho
Murder OF DIR. Cronin.


Murder OF DIR. Cronin.
CHICAGO, Oct. 3i.-At the Cronin trial yester
day Dennis o'Connor, member OF the Clan'na
Gael for twentyone years. testified. He heard
Captain 7. +. oConnor's speech In which he
said he had been in Dr. Cronin's camp and heard
read there the minority report OF the commit.
tee which tried the executive body Witness did
not know who were members OF the executive,
It being rule OF the order that the personnel
Of that body should not be known by mem
bers After Captain 0Connor's speech o
motion was adopted TO appoint secret com
mittee 10 investigate the matter alluded TO by
the captain. He could not tell who composed
the secret committee
Patrick Henry Nolan testified that he was
financial secretary OF Camp 30. Coughlin's
number in the camp was o.; Beggs' 256 Coon
| ey's, ell; OSulliyan's, $50, and Burke's, SS In
| the camp. Witness was at q meeting on the
night OF May John y. Beggs presided Some
/ one asked II the report Of the committee
appointed at the meeting OF February had
been made, and Mr.. Beggs said that the com
| mittee was 10 report TO him alone. on cross.
examination by Mr.. Foster witness said he had
taken no deeper interest In this prosecution
| than any other Irshman should take. He had
only been member Of the Clan'na-Gael for
year. He first told OF Beggs saying that the
shortly after the disappearance OF DR.. Cronin.
He told II TO ofiicer John Collins. He did moi
know ut the time that Collins, was Interested In
the case.
Captain Thomas +. oConnor was the next
witness He hos been member OF the Clan
na-Gael for twenty-five years, and has belonged
10 Camp 20 for fifteen or sixteen years. Was al
the meeting Of the camp on the night OF Febru
aryS In December and January previous Y
that meeting he had visited DIR. Cronin's camp
Al the meeting OF Camp ~ on February VIII
ness made speech following one made b,
Andrew Foy. Foy in his remarks stnte'
that after the disclosures ofLeCaron In London
the organization, as an organization, was NJ
more; that there were four British spies. In tn
organization, and II should be organized AM
given q new name The witness continued; =
got up and said that had had positive informa
tion that the organization was run by parce
OF rogues who had been robbing US OF our FUND
10 the extent Of $4,000 and had sent some
our best men across the seas TO be In
prisoned In English iails said i could stat
that had positive Information that the exec.
tive body had done these things. Dan Coughli
moved that o secret committee be appointed
fnd out the source Of my information. Ther
was quite turmoil then, and Mr.. Beggs rappe
I the camp TO order, saying: IN hear no more
this subject, but I'll appoint the committee
. On cross.examination by Mr.. Foster the witnei
said that IN his speech he did not say II WI
, DR. Cronin whom he heard read the report. 4
I merely stated that he had heard the report In
, Cian,na, Gael camp He said there were otn
I persons in the camp that knew whore he hi
heard Il. The committee, as he understood
was not appointed 70 find out the truth Of b
~ information, but 70 learn where he had gain
! i his knowledge Of the matter
Harry Owen o'Connor gave some sensation
evidence. He swore that Friday, March \
0 the nrst meeting after the reunion meenh
i and aftcr 'Beggs McGary and Powers
o made speecheo he met Dan cougnnn. y
a took him aside and told him that informant
had been received from England that thf
vaa confeesrass In the order In oniea'