Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-11-28
THE CR0NlN TRIAL.
Testimony Given by Witnesses In
the Murder Case.
Efforts of the Lawyers for the Defense to
Secure AIfbIs-Friends OF the Prisoners
Testify Proceedings of the
Murder Trial.
TACTICS OF THE DEFENSE.

day the first witness was Miss Kate Mccormick.
q sister Of Thomas Whalen, aged IS years. Her
story was a confederation OF that told by wit
ness Mulcahy She said she took supper
at the Whalen residence the night
OF May g. about $50 o'clock, and
remained until $50, when she went out
with her sister, Mrs. Whalen She was asked
OSullivan was in the house from the time
they sat down to supper until she left. The
question was a very important one. Were he
there he could not, Of course, be in the
Carlson cottage-as the murder occurred
between 7:30 and $50 oclock-neither
could he be watching between the Carlson
cottage and the Carlson home. She said he
was OfSullivau did not leave the room but
once when he went TO water the garden. She
saw him all the time he was in the garden and
when she departed with Mrs. Whalen OSulli-
van was sitting in the kitchen with his coat off,
The witness and Mrs. Whalen returned a
little after 10 O'Clock and were admitted
by Mnnehan, one OF OSnllivans en-
ployes Later she went into O'Splli-
vans room with Mrs. Whalen to
get cot There was lamp burning and By It's
rays she saw that oSuliivan was "a his bed.
This was TO prove that at that hour he tceman
was not drinking in Nieman's salNon with
Coughiin and Kunze. Mrs. Thomas Nvhalen
corroborated the former witness In every re-
spect.
The work then began on an aiibi for Burke.
Matt Danahy, the keeper OF a saloon al the cor
ner Of Clark and Chicago avenue, was called and
said he was on duty at his saloon on the night
Of May 4, it being his bartender's night on.
Martin Burke. William Coughlin and John f.
O'Mailey came in shortly after O'Clock, and
Burke stayed there two or three hours.
William F. Coughlin corroborated Danahy's
story OF Burkes presence at the saloon OF the
latter on the night of May 4. The witness Is
not relative OF Dan Coughlin.
In hal called
gist of Testimony being to the eject that few OF
the Clan-na Gael men knew any thing OF an in
ner circle, which witness for the State had de-
clared TO be in the knowledge OF the defendant.
Attorney Foster then called States Attorney
Longenecker TO the stand. Mr. Foster directed
his inquiries TO show that before the grand
Jury Mr. Longenecker asked most OF the ques-
tions OF the witnesses, and that there he first
learned from Beggs himself about the Spellman
correspondence and the connection OF the dis
trict member with the February meeting in
Camp % and that II was at Beggs' suggestion
that Spellman was subpmnaed TO bring this
correspondence
CHICAGO Nov. eat yesterdays session OF
the Cronin trial Louis Budenbender, Jr of Ho-
boken ~ j.. said that last spring he was living
in Chicago until May ~ when he went East.
While in Chicago Dr. Cronin had been frequent
ly pointed out to him, and by sight he knew
him well. On May l, about7 o'clock in the
evening he stood In the doorway OF
q cigar store just opposite DR.. Gro
MINIS residence, and saw the doctor &C
companied by man come hastily from his
door and get into buggy. The man with him
unhitched the horse, and while doing so some
one came up and talked with the doctor, who
just before driving away took something out OF
his pocket and gave it to the one with whom he
was talking. The witness described the horse
as a specified gRay, with dark legs. He was
.. A.,er ton,
minutes. He said he saw Dinan's horse in the
dime museum, and it was not the one | et took
the doctor away.
Marshall D. Ewell, O professor of micro scopy,
testified that so far as he knew there no
method known to science by which IL Is possible
to distinguish the difference between the blood
and hair of horse or dog and the blood and
hair OF a human being. Ex-County Physician
Meyer and DR.. Leslie Curtis corroborated the
opinion.
Woodruff has made another confession. His
last story is that he told his first yarn under
instruction from Dan Coughlin. The story he
told when first arrested was that the body OF a
woman in a trunk was put into wagon driven
by him in the rear of house on State street. A
man named Doc" by those with him said: Il
didn't think poor Alice would go this way" The
story was told, so says Woodruff, as a
part of the conspiracy to remove DR..
Cronin. The impression was to go out thas the
doctor had killed "A woman by criminal practice
and for that he had fed the country. The doc
tors pretended appearance in Canada was a
part OF the plan, and next some one was TO see
him in Europe. The finding of the doctors
body frustrated the further carrying out OF the
plot.
CHICAGO, Nov. 23.-At yesterdays session OF
the Cronn trial Mrs. Pauline Hoertel, who
testified for the prosecution to hearing DR..
Cronin's death cries while passing the Carlson
cottage on the night of May 1, called by the
defense The defense merely desired her 10 re-
peat her statement.
DR.. Edmund Andrews swore that the wounds
described by the doctors who made the post
norton examination of Dr. Cronin'S body
would not necessarily cause death.
Ex-Detective Jake Lowenstein, foT the pur-
pose Of showing that an interested motive
prompted John Clarity to testify against
Coughlin, swore 10 the existence OF an enmity
between the two occasioned by Codghlin hav.
ing frequently VIII On the force arrested him.
AS no more witnesses we're on hand court adj
journed until to-day, when Attorney Donahue
promised TO have his witnesses present II he
does so the defense will rest by the noon ad-
iournment Not one Of the defendants will be
put on the stand The rebuttal viii commence
Monday, and will not last over two days, and by
Thursday next the great batteries OF oratory
will probably be opened.
CHICAGO, Nov. 25.-As the defense was not
ready to proceed when the Cronin case was
called Saturday an adjournment was taken
until this morning at 10 o'clock. Thomas
Lynch will probably be the only witness called
for the defendants at that time. The State
will begin its rebuttal immedi 'rly upon the
conclusion of the defense's with 5ees. The re-
buttal will not take more than trG days, per
haps less, and then the defense will speedily
close the case with its sub-rebuttal. The testi
mony will probably all be In by Thursday.