The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-17
A TURN In THE BIG TRIAL.
THE DEFENSE BEGINS TO TELL.
ITS SIDE OF THE STORY.

Body He Refused to Look at It.
CHICAGO. Nov. 16.-There was a great
crowd at the opening of court for the re-
sumption Of the Cronin trial this morning
after she two days recess. The bailiffs had
difficult task in keeping back those who
were without tickets of admission. The
crowd surged up the stairway and pressed
about them and it was only after the most
vigorous efforts that they were enabled to
clear the passageway into the room. Be-
lated representatives of the press, finding
that it was impossible to go upstairs in the
regular way. climbed up along the outer
edge OF them, clinging to the iron hand
rail.
A CORRESPONDENT ON THE STAND.
The first witness called was James Clan
cey, correspondent of the New York
Herald, who testified on behalf Of the
prosecution. He said that he was sent here
by the Herald in May to investigate the
Cronln case. He called at OSullivan's
house on the morning of the day that DR..
Cronln's body was discovered, but before
the discovery had been made. He con-
tinued: 81 asked him if he knew
DIR. Cronin. He told me he had known him
for five years, or about five years, and that
he had met him at political meeting in
the Seventeenth ward | asked him what
he thought of the disappearance of DR..
Cronin. He said, to the best of my recol-
lection, that he would turn up somewhere; :;
furthermore that he did not believe that he
had been murdered.
HIS CONTRACT WITH CRoNIN.
II asked him about the contract he had
made with DR.. Cronin. He said In refer
ence to that contract that he had been in
troduced personally to Dr. Cronip a few
weeks before that time by Judge Mahoney.
L asked him why he made the contract. He
said because accidents had happened, and
then said something about wishing to have
physician attend to nything of the kind
that might occur in the future. The
conversation was general about DR.. Cronin,
and when stood up to go / asked him
again what he thought of the Doctors dis
appearance, and once more he said that he
would turn up somewhere all right, that he
did not believe that he was murdered.
then left.
TOLD HIM OF THE FIND.
81 called late in the evening of the same
day after hearing that the body had been
found. I asked him il he had heard the the
news. He said NO. Then there was a
pause. Then he said, There was body-I
beard when | was down town that a BODY
was discovered in the lake this morn
ing, but it has not been identi-
fed We were both standing at
this time. l said, 4 heard nothing
about that l paused and then said: Mr..
OSullivau, the body of DR.. Cronin has
been found The witness spoke very
dramatically, and continued)-he turned
pale. He said: 'Whatl the body of DR..
Cronin founds Is it true.' l SAID: 'Of
course don't know for certain. heard it
was discovered in a catch basin and is lying
at the police station about mile from here
REFUSED TO FACE THE CORPSE.
"'I have the cab at the door, will you ac-
company me and identify the body at the
morguep He shook and sank into his chair.
and said: No; could not go. could not
identify him. 1t would be useless for me to
go.' | said: Mr.. O'Sullivan, you told me
this morning you knew DR.. Cronin WELL 1t
is only short distance Come along and
identify the body. 1t may not be DR..
Cronin's body; let us make sure.' He said:
No! 1 could not CO. II 1 met him In the
street might know him, but could not
identify his body" In giving the answers
made to him by O'SulIivan, the witness
voice was in a continual tremor, and the
scene was dramatic one.
COULDN'T GET OUT OF HIS CHAIR.
81 said, 1T is strange.' 1 urged him
again, and he made an effort to move out
of his chair, into which he had sunk when
first broke the news to him."
Mr. Donohue-Did you say he moved the
chair at the time?
mo, did not 1t seemed to me that he
tried to rise out of the chair into which he
had sunk"
The States Attorney-Go ahead.
81 said | would try to get Judge Ma
honey to identify him. I said: What is
his addressP He seemed to try to recollect
and then gave the wrong address. He
called Mrs. Whalen into the room and asked
her the judges address"
she had given you the judges address
already In the morning, had be notP
"Yes; then made final effort to in
duce him to come and identify the body.
He then said: No, | CO uld not identify it.
1t is useless for me to co. Then left"
CLANcEY's ROMANTIC CAREER.
The cross-examination of the witness
then began. The cross- examination was
directed to eliciting details of the witness
life from the time of his birth, up through
his varied journalistic career in London.
Paris and elsewhere. The witness told
without hesitation the story of his connec-
tion with james Stephens, the Fenian
movement, and his arrest, conviction for
attempting to shoot a policeman who cap
tured him and sentence to penal Sc rvitude
for life. His sentence was subsequently,
commuted to fourteen years, and he was
released on ticket Of leave.
THE STATE RESTS.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Clanceys EXAM
ination the state rested. and the defense
moved on behalf of Burke, Coughliu,
O'Sullivan and Kunze, that all the evidence
regarding what the prosecution called
1.-THE Camp 20 conspiracy" be struck from
the record. The court overruled the mo-
ton, aud the defense then asked that the
pages of the United Brotherhood
record bearing the minutes of
the proceedings Of Camp 20, on the night
of Feb. =, be excluded. After considerable
discussion, and pending the writing of
certain evidence, the court said he would
rule on the motion later.
OTHER ELIMINATION ASKED.
Mr.. Forrest then moved that a lot Of
more testimony relating to Camp 20 be
excluded, but all his motions were promptly
overruled. Next the defense moved
to exclude certain portions of Spell
mans testimony and the correspondence
between him and Beggs, and then taking
up the testimony of Conklin, Ms. Conklin
aud nearly all the witnesses, asked that GER
tain portions Of their testimony be excluded.
All these motions we're overruled. Mr.
Forrest then turned his attention toward
the hair, blood stains and other physical