Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-06-20
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be Admitted 90 Bali. Becauso OF
as ansufficiencY OF hvidsnce.
CHICAGO, June IL. ALEXANDER Sullivan
declined to see any callers ut the Jail this
morning, except his law partners.
| At o'clock Alexander Bullivan's attor-
neys finished consultation, and at LIS
Mr.. Winde appeared in Judge Tuley's
court, with petition made Ont in the
regular form asking for writ of habeas
| corpus. The petitioner was Alexander
Sullivan himself. The petition sets forth
that the verdict of the coroner's Jury,
on the strength of which he was com
mitted, is insufficient to hold him and
deprive him Of the benefit of bail. The
evidence produced before the coroner's
| jury, on which the verdict was rendered,
was insufficient to justify the commit
ment on any charge. There was
no competent evidence, direct or
circumstantial, offered or admitted
against the petitioner tending TO
prove that he was guilty of Dr..
Oronin's murder, or accessory thereto, or
had guilty knowledge thereof, or knowl-
edge of any plot or conspiracy to accom-
plish the same. The coroner also per-
mitted a large number OF witnesses to
testify to statements alleged to have been
made by Oronin in his lifetime as 10 what
Orooin suspected in relation to Sullivan,
and that the coroner permitted large
amount Of incompetent and wholly irrel-
evant testimony to be introduced before
the jury calculated to prejudice the Jury
against him without shedding any light
on the question being investigated. The
verdict, SO far as It reflected on the CON
| duct Of Sullivan was the result OF passion
and prejudice created by the incompetent
and irrelevant testimony admitted by the
coroner. The testimony heard was so
voluminous that 1t lie impracticable to set
| 1t out. Sullivan says he is not guilty of
the crime with which he is charged, and
that he has had no connection whatever
with the murder Of DIR. Oronin. He asks
that he be brought into court ct A o'clock
this afternoon.
| Judge Tuley this afternoon announced
that he would read the testimony taken
before the coroner's Jury in the Cronin
murder case and decide whether or not
there was evidence enough to hold Alex.
ander Sullivan without bail. He will an
nounce his decision Friday, at 10 q. m.
The special grand jury summoned to
deal with the Oronin murder case was
impaneled this morning in Judge Shep.
ards court. in addressing the iury
Judge Shepard said that he expected
full, exhaustive, impartial investigation
of the murder Of DIR. Cronin. The en-
tire resources of the county, he said,
would be at the disposal of the Jury, and
witnesses who would not testify shonld
be made to do SO. The grand jury had
in Its possessiont the power to make them
| do 30.
Judge Shepard charged the jury as fol-
lows:
1.-THE appalling murder Of DR.. Cronin,
lately committed, demands most viqor-
GUS investigation. An American citizen
has been struck down and killed under
circumstances so horribly indicative Of
conspiracy, premeditated design and
malice as to warrant the most searching
inquiry. Fortunately the power of a
grand jury is fully equal to the emerg-
ENJOY. Men who can tell Of facts and cir
cumstanoes that will lead you to the dis.
coyery of the guilty parties can be made
to tell. II is as much perjury to falsely
deny knowledge Of fact to as falsely
affirm ifs existence. Nothing short OF
refusal to testify before you on the
ground that his testimony will tend TO
criminate himself will excuse any wit
ness, and he cannot falsely employ that
personal privilege as protestation for
another without subjecting himself to the
pains and penalties Of perjury. 1t is not
the policy of the hw that IL is better
that one or any number of guilty men
should escape rather than that innocent
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policy in such matters except that every
guilty man shall be punished. With all
the information already i'll the possession
OF the law officers Of the county at hand
it will be q blot upon this Common
wealth, severe blow to the administra-
tion of justice and frightful menace to
the safety OF the individual citizen II any
man engaged in this shocking crime, or
having any guilty knowledge Of it, shall
not be discovered. The whole power OF
the county is at your disposal. Employ
your resources, use the power vested in
you discreetly and advisedly, but cour-
ageously, without fear or favor, and the
result cannot be uncertain"
About noon The grand jury adjourned
until O'Clock. No evidence was heard,
but the jury simply organized. Efforts
to ascertain the sentiments of Messrs.
Guam and O'Neill, the two Irishmen OF
the special grand jury, were not very
productive. Well-known gentlemen iden-
titled with each wing of the Irish move
meut were questioned as TO Guam aud
O'Neill. 1t was generally agreed that
the two are Of unquestioned good stand
ing in business and social circles, and
have high regulations as men. Further
than this no one, whose opinion would
carry weight, seemed willing to say.
The panel, as whole, is an excellent
one, moat of the jurors being.prominent
business men.
A very strong chain OF circumstantial
evidence has been wound about John j.
MRroney, one of the men now under
arrest in New York on suspicion OF being
connected with the murder Of DIR. Oronin.
The story as given by the authorities is
as follows:
Photographs were procured OF Mnroney
and Mcdonald, the other man arrested at
the same time in New York. These were
mixed with o number of others and
shown, first to Salesman Hatfield OF
Reyell x Co., who sold the furniture SUBJ
sequently found in the Carlson cottage
in Lake View, in which Dr..Oronin was
murdered. Mr.. Hatfield without hesita-
ton picked out Maroney's portrait as
that Of the man to whom he sold the
furniture.
The. pictures were then mixed up and
shown to Mr.. Throckmorton, the real es-
tate agent who rented the rooms on
Clark street and opposite DR.. Cronin's
office. to which the furniture was first
csrted from Rsvsils. Mr.. Throckmorton
picked up the picture of Maronvy ss the
man to whom he rented the rooms. Once
more the pictures were shuflled and this
time they were shown to Expressman
Msrtenson, who carried the furniture
from the Ulafk-atreet rooms to the Carl.
son cottage in Lake View, where Dr.