The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-30
CLAN-NA-GAEL SECRETS.
ITS SECRETARY ON THE STAND IN
THE CRONII CASE.

9egzs It's Senior Guardian-He De
MED Having Received the Report
of the Trial Committee that Investi.
gated the Triangle The State to
Disclose the Hatching of the Con
spiracy to Murder.
CHICAGO, Oct. ga local paper says:
.'Tbe attorneys for the prosecution deter.
mined last night, after a good deal of con.
sideration, to take up the subject of Patrick
O'Sullivan's business card for the purpose
Of proving that the particular form the
stranger offered DR.. Cronin had been
printed only two days before the doctor
was murdered. The attorneys for the
prosecution believe this to be the strongest
evidence they have against O'Sullivan, not
even excepting the testimony of Carlson,
who saw him in daily communication with
the murderers, who occupied the cottage on
Ashland avenue. Besides this testimony
it is the intention of the lawyers to intro
duce new evidence sustaining the belief that
a conspiracy in camp No. 20, with DR..
Crouin's death as a result, existed.
INFoRMERs GIVING OUT SECRETS.
"Upward of thirty young Irishmeu, all
of them members of the notorious camp.
were in the states attorneys Office last night,
and every one of them tes flied to the main
facts that have already been published.
The stories that they will tell will prove be-
yond doubt that conspiracy to get rid of
DR.. Cronin was formed in the camp and
was carried to a successful issue. Following
At,s II -
concerning the finding of the bloody trunk
on Evanston avenue, and from this point
che whole conspiracy will beexposed in de-
tail"
MRS. OMAN ON THE STAND.
At the opening of Judge McConnell's
court this morning Mrs. Winifred Oman,
wife of Patrick Dinan, the hveryman who
owns the famous white horse, took the
stand as witness. She testified as to the
facts about the horse being taken and
driven north on the night of May 4 and his
return at $3.50 O'Clock, streaming with
perspiration as If he had been hard driven.
CAMP TwENTY's SECRETARY.
John G. O'Connor, a member of the
famous Camp No. 30, of the Clan-na-G
of which Beggs, Burke, Coughlin. and
other defendants were members, was next
placed on the stand. O'Connor was record
ing secretary of Camp 20 when Beggs
was senior guardian. After numerous de-
tails as to the m settings and methods of
transacting business, the witness testified
that Feb. last, at a meeting of the camp,
Thomas E. OConnor asked if we had ever
heard the report of the trial committee that
tried what is known as the Triangle.
BEGGs DENIED RECEIVING IT.
"Beggs said he had not. O'Connor said
it was strange that our camp never got the
report when he heard it read in another
camp in the city; that he heard a man read
it, and would state the name Of the camp
and the man who read it if we demanded it.
Then somebody asked who it was. did
not hear who he said read it, but there was
some member there who did hear, and
asked him: What did you sayp and un-
derstood him to say DIR. Cronin."
DIDN'T REMEMBER FoY's SPEECH.
The states attorney was evidently of the
opinion that the witness was an unwilling
one, and sought to have him detail at
greater length the proceedings Of the camp
at that time, but without success. The
witness said he had no recollection that
man named Foy had made a speech in
which he said the camp had better investi-
gate the Triangle, because he had heard a
report charging its members with wasting
the funds of the order.
After a long wrangle between the lawy ers
the court admitted q record of the proceed
lngs of Camp 20 on Feb. 8, made by the
witness at the time, and he proceeded to
read it, subject to many Interruptions in
the way of questions and objections.
KNOWN BY NUMBERS.
Generally, in referring to individual
members Of the camp, numbers instead of
names were used, and in one case, in which
1t was noted that certain numbers were ap-
pointed a committee to investigate the
qualifications of an applicant Cor member
ship, the states attorney said he proposed
70 show that one of them was the number
borne by one of the prisoners at the bar.
THE DEMAND FOR INFORMATION.
Coming down to the matter of the
camps action on the supposed allegations
against DIR. Cronin in connection with the
trial of the Triangle, in Buffalo, the wit
ness read as follows: "Moved and seconded
That an imperative demand be made upon
the executive comn14ttee at once for imme-
ate information of the trial committee.
guardian notify the district members
OF the report that is going around
regarding the report of the trial committee,
right in one Of the camps in this city. The
motion was carried.
A motion was made and seconded that
secret committee of three be appointed by
tne senior guardian, to investigate the
rumors afoat regarding the trial of the
executive body. The motion was carried. +"
BEGGs THE SENIOR GUARDIAN.
The senior guardian mentioned, the wit
ness said, was John F. Beggs, one of the
men nov on trial.
An effort was made to show by the wit
ness that there was consultation between
himself and Michael J. Kelly, A. j. Ford,
ana r. II. Nolan, about the advisability of
destroying the books of the camp, but the
uelense t objected, and the court sustained
the objection,
A. The cross-examination of the witness was
then begun.
BEGGs OBJECTED.
- The witness further testified that when
Sapt. OConnor moved for the appointment
VI VI committee to investigate the report
suat the report of the trial committee had
psen ~ read in another camp, Senior Guardian
Deggs said the camp had no power to in
,te teesugate another camp, and that the proper
SSIlhg to do was to refer the matter to che
oI eIsIrlct officer. The witness had no knowl-
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