The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-09-19
THEY TAKE A new TACK
Cronin's nurder Charged to English
Spies by the Defence.
what They will Try to Prove at the Trial
letter. said to Have Iscen Writ
ten by IeCaron'~
nnUghter.

CHICAGO. Sept. ia local paper this
evening prints n sensational article RE-
gar,iing the Cronin case. IL says that the
lawyers for the defense claim to he i'm pos
session of evidence showing that the muir
hercrs of DIR. Crorin were paid rcprs'son-
tatives of the English government which
had been ,lupcd by Cronin. who was sup
posed by the British authorities tn be oil.
of their American spies. The form this
evidence has taken and i'm which il will
bc presented at the, trial on behalf Of the
defense are "a number of letters written 10y
Miss LcCaron. daughter of the notorious
witness i'm the Parncll ease to her affi-
ancetl husband i'm Chicago. These letters
have been written from London at brief
intervals ever since Miss Lsa'aron joined
her father I'm that city last winter.
The story outlined i'm the letters il to
the effect that LsCaron and Birmingham.
drug store on the North side, were both
British spies and that DIR. tronin
| learned their real character and i'm
order to maintain fuller insight in
to to think he could bc hirad. He appar.
emily accepted their proposition that he
enter the American branch OF the English
secret service, and obtained all their in
formation without giving any i'm return.
| They became suspicious and sought to
i, i" his s,,n'os,I ,n . chnrnct.r ns spS. H. % re-.
| fused tO give them up. Meanwhile Lc
Caron was summoned To England To t.--
|
| to obtain from Cronin the documents, hut
| Cronin refused tn yield them and threat
! encd exposure, of English practices in
| America. IL was proposed To rob him OF
| the papers, and il was i'm that attempt
| Cronin was killed. Birmingham has since
| sold out his drug store and Disappeared.
| The Ereniny Journal has the same story
| in substance, and adds that i'm opposition
| thereto il is claimed that at the proper
stage of the & 'onin trial the prosecution
, will produce IA witness 4. J. Kirby, who
was in Chicago as am agent Of the British
| government before the Cronin murder,
| prying into the secrets of the (lan-na-
| Gael, La caron, the spy and Patrick !
| Cooney, Familiarity known as "Thc Fox.
| Le Caron, il is allowed, has revealed Ia
| American detectives the names of certain
men ON whom suspicion has not hereto
| fore fastened.
| Proccctliugs i'm the CroIlin ease. not
| proceeded with until o'clock this after
other matters. The work Of getting jur.
was at once resumed. A little before ad
journment four jurors who had been ~
| peatetlly questioned 10y both sides. were
| pronounced satisfactory.
| Industrious researches by IvIDOrtc
produced the correspondent of Miss L.
Caron. His name il George r.. May.
| clerk in sporting goods establishment
Mr.. May admitted that he had been tn,
LIE Caron. He said: ~ hate to have my
name brought into this thing. hut plcdg'
my word there il not IA word in reference
| to DIR. Cronin in all the letters" Mr.. Ma.
was certain Miss Lc Caron had no oths.
| gentleman friend i'm Chicago with whom
she correspontlcd, although he was awar
she was writing to "a young lady.