St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-27
GAPS MADE IN ALIblS
Furious Attacks by the State
on Witnesses for the Cronin
Suspects.
Their Unpleasant Position
Made More Awkward by
the States Attorney.
Reputable Business Men Swear
They Would Not Believe
Them Under Oath.
Court Adjourns, Owing to the
Illness Of a Jurors
Daughter.

on the night of May he was at the
Emergency hospital on the North side.
lie was also there May 5. Witness re-
membered meeting Mr.. Beggs at the
Grand Pacific hotel, when he (Beggs)
was introduced to Col. BabcOck by Mr..
Gleason, but it was on the evening of
May IL, and not May 4. This created
sensation, as it directly cOntradicts the
testimony of Francis Gleason, who
swore that he introduced Beggs to Mr..
Dawson and Col. Babcock on the night
of May at the Grand Pacific hotel.
Defendant Beggs looked very sick this
morning. and said he felt badly. 81 am
dizzy, and l feel very bad" he said i'll
reply to an inquiry. The story that
number of prominent lrishmen had
called on Dan Coughlin aud tried 10 in
duce him to tell what
HE KNEW OF THE CONSPIRACY
is denied by Mr.. Forrest, who declared
there was nothing in it. On the cross
examination by Mr.. Foster, Mr.. Dawson
was positive that he was in the hospital
from April "a to May Z. Col. BabcOck
was sworn and testified that he met
John F. BeggS for the first time on May
IL. He also testified that he called on
Mr.. Dawson at the Emergency hospital
on May 5. Niemann. the SalOonkeeper.
was then called. He said he had been
introduced to James Hyland, and swOre
that. to the best of his belief, James HY-
land was not the tall man who came into
his place Saturday night. May 4. nor
Sunday night, the 5th, as OSullivan
claims. This was considered all the
refutation the iceman's alibi required,
and the witness, after passing through
the crOsS-eXaminatiOn fire unscatched,
was permitted to depart, and Simon Ole
With Olesen and his employees the state
intended to demoliSh, or at least ma
terially weaken. Burke's alibi.
This alibi was that Burke was
at Danahey's saloon all the even
ing of May 4. William Coughlin
and John O'Malley swOre to seeing him
there, they together having stopped
there about Z o'clock on their way to a
West side saloon opening. Olesen
swOre that on the evening of May 4, at
$50 O'Clock, he sent his driver. Fred
erick Swanson, with carriage to Will
lam COughlin's saloon on John O'Mal-
ley's order. He saw 1t stop in front of
the saloon, and ten minutes after it
had driven away. The carriage re-
turned to the stable at 1890 o'clock that
night. Then the driver, Swanson, told
his story, and when he had finished
there was
BIG HOLE IN BURKE's ALIBL.
He sWOre that few minutes after stop
ping at Coughlin's saloon, OMalley and
a Young man got into the carriage. and
he drove them directly to the West side;
not even passing Danahy'S saloon; and
that neither did they do so Oh the re-
turn. which was not until after mid
in
the party. The croSS-eXaminatiOn was
very lengthy, but the witness possessed
a clear memory. and his story remained
mistaken. Suspect Burke looked
very crestfallen when the wit
ness left the stand. William
Coughlin and John O'Malley had been
very positive in their testimony about |
seeing him in Danahy's, and also that
they, the two witnesses, were together.
Robert Stanton. the printer of O'Sulli- |
vans cards, testified thatnO such man
as Witness Minnehan testified to as hav-
ing received handful of cards from in
April worked for him at that time.
Harry J. Mcmahon, Stanton's foreman,
who slightly resembled the description
given by Minnehan, and who was the
only one in the printing Office who bore
such resemblance, swOre that he never |
gave any of O'Sullivan's cards to any |
body in April. Frederick EberSold. in |
spector of police, was then asked as to |
whether Detective ROhan ever told him
in the presence of Detective Grove |
about MerteS having heard sounds of
fighting in the Carlson cottage. The
inspector had not. and thus was the UNI
pleas Mt position Grove found himself
in Yesterday made more awkward. Fol-
lowing the inspector. Mary EruntZ, the
wife of hardware store keeper. and
his assistant in the store,
BoLSTERED UP THE TESTIMONY
of Mrs. Hoertel about her being locked
out by her husband On May 4, by telling
of HOertel having bought a lock of her
the first part of May. On the cross-ex-
animation she was asked how she re-
membered the circumstance. She re-
piled it was because Hoertel said that
he wanted the lock to keep his wife out
of the house. Alfred kleineck testified
to having seen Mrs. Hoertel climb into
the window of her house because of her
inability to get in through the door.
This was the week ending May 4. He
was very sure of this incident and date,
and the defense proved unable to mix
him up. An attack on the character of
August Salzman, the witness who for
the defense Swore that Hoertel did not
purchase the lock until May 8, was then
made by the state calling several wit
nesses, all reputable business men, who
declared that the character of Salzman
was very bad and that they would not
believe him under oath. Court then adj
iourned for dinner. At the opening of
the afternoon session Frederick Hoch-
kiech testified that he would not believe
SalZman under oath. Christof Brunke
said that SalZman had the reputation of
ppTNo uEpv nan MAN
who beat his wife. Pat Oman, the
owner of the white horse, was then
called. He testified that when he was
being questioned by Capt. Setback in
the presence of Coughlin, and when
Setback asked him for description of
the man who hired the white horse the
witness replied: "You can do your own
describing. CoughlIn knows him and
saw him, and can describe him to you
better than can" Andrew B. Ander-
son testified that he was in Niemann's
saloon two or three times on Sunday
night, May ), between and 10 O'Clock.
There were ten or twelve persons there
on each occasion. This was in rebuttal
of the testimony of the Hylands. who
testified that they drank with. O'Sulli-
van there at that time, and that no one
else was in the place. Chester P. Smith
then took the stand. He testified
that he had made an examination of the
files of all the daily papers in Chicago
for the purpose of discovering on what
date the name OF Coughlin was first
mentioned in connection with the hiring
of the white horse. 1t was not men,
toned prior to May 25. This was to
contradict the evidence of a witness for
the defense, who testified that he saw
it about
TEN DAYS AFTER THE MURDER.
Edward II. Bailey. one of the editors
of the Lakeview Record, testified that
he had no recollection of anybody call
ing at his Office and getting bundle of
O'Sullivan's cards, as testified by
O'Sullivan's employe, Minnehan.
States Attorney Longeneeker then an
nounced the case for the people closed.
lanes Eeltam was then sworn in rebuff