Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-30
one THING SEEMS SETTL Ed.
Liveryman Dinan's White Horse is
W nsr Guilty.
The TRIAL OF THE TRIANGLE.
All About the Stir 1t Made in the
Cian-na-Gae1 Camps-Beggs' De-
fcnsc Being Con Quoted
1 -gsw ses.,a independently.
A Division of interests.

division OF interests in the defense In the
Cronin case and tnat Senior Guardian Beggs
is having his case conducted independently
pfthe others was shown to-day when For
rest, on behalf of the defendants, objected
to the admission of O'Connor's testimony.
MIR. Foster, counsel for Beggs, said on tn q
latter's behalf that he wanted the records 10
show that no objection Is made on his part
to the introduction of this testimony. He
invites the fullest and clearest investigation
of his connection with the Clan Gael,
and objects to the introduction of no testi-
mony that will forward such an investi-
cation.
At the opening of Judge McConnels
court this morning Mrs. Wnifred
Dnan, wife of Patrick Dinan, the liv-
eryman who owns the famous white horse,
took the stand as a witness. She testified to
the facts about the white horse being taken
and driven north on the night of May T. and
his return at $3.50 o'clock. steaming with per-
spiration as If he had been driven hard.
John +. O'Connor, a member of tho famous
Camp 20, of the Clan-na- Gael, of which
Beggs, Burke, Coughlin and other suspects
were members, was next placed on the stand.
O'Connor was recording secretary of the
camp when Beggs was senior guardian.
After numerous details as to tho various
ways and methods OF transacting business,
the witness testified that on February s
last Thos. F. O'Connor at q meeting of the
camp asked il the report of this trial CON-
mittee that tried what Is now known as the
triangle had ever been heard. Beggs said IL
had not. O'Connor then said II was strange
that the camp never got report when
he heard it read in another camp in the city.
Tho name of the man who read it in the other
was understood by OConnor as DR.. Cronin.
After long wrangle between the lawyers
the court admitted the record of the proceed
ings of Camp 20 on February s, made by the
witness at the time, and he proceeded to read
1t, subject to many interruptions in the way
of questions aud objections. Generally, in
referring to individual members of the camp,
numbers instead of names were used, and in
one case in which il was noted that certain
numbers were appointed committee to in
vestigate the qualifications of an applicant
for membership, the state attorney said he
proposed to show that one of them was a
number borne by one of the prisoners al the
bar.
Coming down to the matter of the camp s
action on the supposed allegations against
DR.. Cronin in connection with the trial of the
triangle in Buffalo, the witness read as fol-
lows
''Moved and seconded that an imperative
demand be made on the executive committee
at once for the immediate information of the
trial committee. Ii was amended that the
senior guardian notify the district member
of the report that is going around regarding
the report of the trial committee IN one OF
the camps of this city. The motion was car.
rled "A motion was made and seconded that
u secret committee of three be appointed by
the senior guardian to investigate the ru-
mors atioat regarding the Trial Of the eX-
executive body Carried"
THE senior guardian mentioned" the
witness said, was John +. Beggs, one OF
| the men now trial.
| ! The examination then proceeded as fol
| lows:
Q.-What occurred there before the mo-
| tons were made on this committee.
| A.--As | stated before, il was Tom O'Con-
| nor's remarks and asking if we got the re-
| port of the committee that tried the triangle,
| as II is now called. Beggs said that we hadn't,
| and O'Connor said it was strange that our
| camp never got it: that he heard it read in
| another camp in this city and that he could
| tell the name of the man who read 1t and the
camp be heard it in, if it was desired.
An effort was made to show by the wit
ness that there was q consultation between
| himself and Michael j. Kelly, A. j. Ford
| and p. III. Nolan about the advisability OF
| destroying the books of the camp, but the
| defense objected and the court sustained the
objection.
The witness further testified that the trial
| of the triangle, as he understood the matter,
| took place in Buffalo in October, 1888, and
| that the members of the triangle on trial
| were Sullivan, Feeley and Boland.
The cross examination OF the witnesses
| then began.
| After the afternoon session Andrew Foy,
| a member of Camp 20, was put on the stand
| as witness. He was very non.committal,
| and with the greatest pertinacity avoided
giving a positive answer even to the most
| innocent question. Finally he was brought
| TO admit that he made speech at Camp 90
| when the matter of the report of the triangle
| trial committee came up. He made several
which he made the speech and got badly
| tangled up. Finally he said
''As far as | remember Captain O'Connor
| made the statement that LIE Caron was the
| paid agent of the executive body Of the Irish
organization IN tins country
| He also said: 81 think there were S5S, 0OO
| of the funds of this organization given to lie
| Caron for some object in England or Ire
! land.n
Foy also said O'Connor spoke of having
heard the report of the trial committee re-
| ceived in another camp. This caused much
| excitement and was the cause of the wit.
| ness speech His anger was caused, he said,
| by the thought that lie Caron got and of the
| Clans funds for any purpose. and also TO
| learn that the report of the trial committee
had been gwen out in other camps sooner
! than in camp 20.
| Michael J. Kelly, junior guardian of camn
his memory was deficit as to details. He
| sand the demand for the report OF
| the trial committee grew out of O'Connor's
| statement to the effect that he had heard the
| report of the committee read in the camp OF
| which Cronm was a member, 10y Cronin him
| self. This statement by the way, is in con-
| tradction of the evidence on this subject
| heretofore given and of all the statements
| which have agreed in saying that O'Connoi
| did not mention Cronin's name.
Ihe cross examination OF Kelly brought
| out the fact that although he knew of the
| trial of the triangle ne did not know who
| constituted that body until their names were
| published in the newspapers.
Anthony j. Ford, past guardian of camp
| 70, testified that at meeting of camp 20, on
! February -, Patrick McGarry and Richard
| Powers made speeches denouncing the trian
| gle, and that Senior Guardian Beggs replied
defending Alexander Sullivan, one of the
| trangle's members. 1t was warm dis
| cussion and Beggs said it would have to be
| peace or war, or words 10 that effect.
| Stephen Colleran, a laborer, was the last
| witness, An attempt was made TO get q
| statement of the proceedings of camp 20 on
| The night of February from him, but with
| poor success. He was questioned sharply
| by the prosecution as to what he kuew OF
| the relations of the various defendants With
| each other and their movements. IL was
| developed that Martin Burke aud COlleran
| had gone to Beggs' Office twice. in January
| and once In February. Witness said they
| went there TO secure Beggs' aid in getting
| work.
/ nnGEnnrp .l.RIII.