The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-06-06
CLAN-NA-GAEL AND CR0NIN
Yesterdays Testimony Before the COrO-
ner Directed Against Alex. Sullivan.
Several Persons Openly Charge the Order with
Conspiracy in the Removal" of the Doctor
How the Irish Funds Disappeared.

CHICAGO, June 5.-All the evidence in
the Cronin inquest to-day was directed
toward establishing the fact that the de-
ceased was firmly impressed with the idea
that his life was endangered through the
Vaccinations of Alexander Sullivan. Maui
rice Morris, a member of the Clan
na-Gael, said that at the last con-
ventlon he had heard several delegates
say that Cronin and Dr.. McCahey. of Phil
adelphia, ought to be gotten rid OF. Cronin
had told him that he believed Mcclellan,
the Philadelphian, had come to Chicago,
at the instigation of Alexander Sullivan,
to kill him.
Joseph O'Bierne, senior guardian of Camp
No. 500. swOre that on the day before the
physician disappeared Cronin had told him
that he was badly broken up and discour-
up and let those rascals, Alex. Sullivan and
Recorder of Police Michael Boland, of Kan
sas City, complete their murderous designs
and kill him. O'Bierne went on to say that
he had heard McGeehan say that Cronln
and McCahey ought to be killed, because
they were scOundrels. He had heard that
there was a trial in Camp No. 20. but
knew nothing definite on the point. He
did not. however, believe that Gronin was
traitor. Closely pressed, he admitted that
rumors that Cronin had been tried and con-
yicted came to him through friends of the
latter.
P. McGary, Lakeview boiler-maker,
and intimate friend OF the dead man, gave
his evidence with SO much dramatic effect
that once or twice he was applauded. He
testified that Cronin had several times told
him that his life was in danger, that Alex.
Sullivan, if he was murdered, would be
found to have been the instigator, and that
there were papers in his safe which would
connect Sullivan with the deed. Witness
told how he went to Toronto and met thong,
bic BE feP0r'slh fSP The ~eG ccumssnt ''O0ss so
ries regarding Cronin. having been
seen in that city. McGary offered him
$4,000 to substantiate what he had written,
buO he could not do it. Instead, he. said:
do with this business" He had heard that
ice-dealer Sullivan. detective Coughlin
and detective Whelan were members OF
Camp No. 20. 1t was matter of daily con-
versation among the members of the Clan
that there was conspiracy to kill Cronin.
AT one meeting of Camp No. 20, when the
witness remarked that the man who gave
LIE Caron his credentials was worse than
LIE Caron himself, Lawyer Beggs remarked:
There must be union and unity among
Irishmen, even if there has to be war"
Closely questi Oned, witness said that the
man who gave LIE Caron his credentials was
Lawrence X. Buckley, of this city. This
created sensation. Responding to an
ally: Il thank God that don't belong to
any organization of which Alexander Sulli-
van is a member. for consider that man is
the cause of all the disgrace and slurs that
have been put upon the Irish people,
The last witness was Byron l.. Smith,
receiver of the Traders Bank. 1t was
shown by checks on file and ledger
entries that in the summer of
1882 Alexander Sullivan had altogether
100000 in the bank, of which $4,000 was q
personal account, and the balance credited
to Alexander Sullivan, agent" By Sept.
9, 1882, all this money had been drawn out
on checks made payable to j. T. Lester &
Co. brokers. A member of this firm will be
summoned tomorrow.
Woodruff to-day emphatically denied
that he made the confession attr1bu to
him, yesterday, by Captain Schaak. to the
effect that he saw Sullivan pay large sum
of money to two men in a saloon.
Alexander Sullivan's attention was called
tonight to the testimony of Receiver Smith
this afternoon at the inquest. Mr.. Sulli-
van said there was nothing whatever in
and would not be satisfactorily explained
whenever any proper judicial proceeding
required it. AT any time during the past
six years he could have obtained and de-
there was nothing to conceal, anybody
having any right TO an explanation can get
it, and viii do SO at the proper time.
Estates Attorney L0ngenecker, Chief of
Police Hubbard and Luke Dillon, of Phil
adelphia. were in conference tonight, from
7Oc1ock until nearly midnight. Dillon is
to be called as witness tomorrow, and
while willing to tell all that he knows con-
corning the conspiracy against DIR. Cronln,
he is anxious, at the same time, to preserve
the secrets of the Clan-na-Gael so far as its
written work is concerned. He considers
that, in measure, the oath of secrecy has
been removed from the members of the Of
| ganization, but only so far as the
doings of the particular camp that con-
| .demned the Nationalist to death is con-
| cerned. On this point the officials do not
| agree with him. and when he is put upon
| the stand tomorrow an effort will be made
| to compel him to expose the inner rami-
| fications of the organization.
The police authorities confirm late to-
night the report that the expressTnan that
hauled the furniture from the Clark-street
| fiat TO the Lakeview cottage has been
found. He will be placed on the stand to-
morrow, and his evidence will 60 far to-
| wards fastening the crime on certain sus-
| pected individuals.