The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-11-20
SOMEWHAT MIXED.
WHAT MIGHT HE TERMED A
VERY S WITT WITNESS.
A Newspaper Reporter says That
Another Reporter and Himself
Put blood on the Cotton and Put
Il in the ChinIxS for Fun.

II in the ChinIxS for Fun.
CHICAGO. November 19.-The first wit
ness in the Cronin trial to-day was PO-
liccman Redmond Mcdonald. He testi-
fed that he saw Dan Coughiu
at East Chicago avenue station be
tween s. 45 and . O'Clock on the night OF
the murder.
On cross examination The witness fixed
the time at 8 to 9.l5 O'clock. On cross
examination the fact was developed that
the witness was Il lnc.nbcr of Camp 20
| Clan-na-Gacl On cross examination the
witne S was asked:
"When did You first learn that Dan
| COughlin'S name was connected with the
horse that drove DR.. Cronin away"
81 think about a week after, when
they first got to writing it in the news
papers"
Nov. in what paper did you read
about Coughlin being connected with the
horse and buggy"
81 do not know
WAS that before the body was
found"
Eyes sir"
"Now, do you not remember that it is
fact that Coughlin's name was never
connected with that in any manner
whatever until the 25th OF May, three
days after the discovery of Cronin's
| body :" (SCnSatiOn.I
CHe>itatinglyl-"I was written i'll the
papers about him i'll connection with the
rig from Dinan's."
William Mulacy was the next witness,
He testified that he had known O'Suli-
| 4 4 l lat.
of the Clau-na-Gael The witness teSti-
fed that that he had heard a conversa-
ton between old man Carlson and O'Sul-
| livan about the tenants OF the Carlson cot
tage. The old man testified that O'Su-
livan said he knew them. and that they
were all right.
This witness testified that O'Sullivan
said he knew none OF them.
On cross examination the witness said
| Sullivan was not out of the house after
supper, and that he went 10 bed about
8 O. clock. The men who were out came
i'll at about 10 or 1890 o'clock.
The States attorney cndeavored to
elicit from the witness the statement
| that, in his evidence before the coroncr's $
jury, ne had stated that he did not hear
the conversation between O'Sullivan and
the elder Carlson, but the witness per
sisted that he never so testified.
Then the cross examination took a
somewhat sensational turn, the evident
intention being to direct suspicion to-
wards he witness as the man who drove
the white horse which drew DR.. Cronin to
his death. The witness, however, denied
| that he had even worn beard similar to
that of the man who was identified as
having driven the buggy.
| Thomas Whalen, cousin of Patrick
O'Sulivan, lived at his house. He testi-
fed that O'Sullivan, at about 9.l5, Sat
urday, May o. went to bed.
"Was there anything to call your at
tcntion to that :" asked the lawyer.
"My little girl halloed at them. She
was in rocking chair and he came back
and kissed my little girl. went to bed
about half an hour after O'Sullivan."
The witness was then subjected to a
long cross examination, after which the
court adjourned.
w. Glenn, areporter for the lntcr-Ocean
testified that one week after the murder
Mrs. Conklin told him that the white
horse brought to her door from Dinan's
livery stable, in no way rescmbled the
horse behind, which DR.. Cronin rode on
the fatal night.
Edward Jones, Il reporter on the Daily
News, testified that he went to the
| Carlson cottage several days after the
discovery of Cronin's body. He went i'll
company with another reporter. \
story had been told that morning i'll a
vague way about the Carlson cottage
and as Joke on the way there, they got
some cotton batting and piece of liver
the blood from which they smcared upon
the cotton. They went into the cellar
and put some of the blood stained bat.
ting in the chinks i'll the ceiling, and
some in rat holes in the floor. The wit
ness denied that he had put it there to
| furnish material for a sensation in his
paper
On cross examination, the witness
said, neither he nor the other reporter
put any of their blood stained batting i'll
the cottage up stairs.
Jacob Schuer, the trunk maker, testi-
fed that the trunk which is supposed to
have contained DR.. Cronin's body was
made in his factory. 1t was, he said,
common kind Of trunk which has
been on the market for years, and is sold
| 10 uC6lGlS liz lONh "''S
| of the kind which he was in the habit OF
buying by the hundred dozen. 1t had
been on the market eighteen or nineteen
years at least.
Patrick Brennan, an employe OF O'Sul-
livan, elaborated further the ice man S
defence.
On cross-examination the fact was
brought out that the lawyers for the
defence got lot of their witnesses to-
gether at O'Sullivan's house last Sunday
and went over their testimony in the
presence of the entire company.
The court then adjourned till to-mor-
row.
Mrs Conklin this afternoon saw wit
ness Melcohy, but failed to identify him
as the man who drove the white horse.
CreditabIe to AsheViIIe.
We publish with real pleasure the fol-
lowing from the News-Obseryer of the
10th. Both of the young men are North
Carolinians, one from the East, one from
the West, both emulating each other in
carrying the flag of their States honor.
| Honor to both OF them. Ofcourse our
sympathies are with our peculiar repre-
sentative, Robert P. Johnston, and we
know we express a general sentiment
when we are proud of him. May he and
his gallant peer continue through the
course before them with the same bril-.
liancy that has distinguished their be.
ginning:
George P. Howell, of Goldsboro, and
Robert p. Johnston, of Asneville, late oi
our University are, we are glad to learn
near the head of their class at West
Point Both have good prospects o
coming out among the first five, and
Howell of being No. l. 1t is very rare