The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-06-06
Later. ph.,. Of IL. croa,n n,rl.r.

Extraordinary efforts are apparently being
made to extort q statement from Detective
Daniel Coughlin, the imprisonment suspect
of the Cronin mystery. His jailers said that
no person whatever, except his wife, had
been allowed to communicate with the officer
sincehis incarceration. No one questions that
he is being treated to q taste of the 'sweat
box" theory, and Others arts of which he
was SO long himself a disciple. The outcome
OF putting such an expert against others oi
tried ability is awaited with keen interest.
Capt. Bartram was asked:
HAS Coughlin been allowed to see a law.
yer?"
"He hos no lawyer, and says be does not
want any," was the reply.
Capt. Setback, Capt. Wing and ieut.L
Wing were in conference at the Lakeview sta
ton and when the conference was finished
Capt. Setback announced that the policeh had
r. u. Sullivan, the ice man, under arrest.
The conference at the Lakeview station was
conducted in great secrecy. The officers met
in the front room of the station and pulled
down all the curtains and locked the door.
Sullivan was admitted through the captains
office. but remained q very few minutes. The
detective officers from the Larrabee street
and East Chicago avenue station we're sum-
moned separately.
The following sensational story is pub.
far more startling than was ever expected
concerning DR.. Cronin's murder. Ithas been
clearly shown by the dead mans friends that
his removal was ordered by a committee in
some way representing the Can.na-Gael So
ciety. Charges of a traitorous conduct were
preferred against him at a meeting of a Clan.
na-Gael camp; he was found guilty and his
removal nr6oro6 Tho ri, roo u,oo hovoI m
the statement of the British lie Caron that
there vert four more spiesi in America. When
LIE CarOn made that statement on the stand
before the Parnell commission he was ordered
to state the names of the spies. He said he
dared no do it., because if they were
known they would be murdered. Pre-
siding Justice Hammer then took him into O
closed ante room, and in the presence of Mr..
Richard Webster, the attorney general, who
Is conducting the prosecution, and Sir
Charles Russell, ParnelPs attorney, LIE Caron
stated the names. Within forty: eight hours
after this news was cabled across from Eu-
rope nearly every Clan-na-Gael camp in
claring in favor OF q rigid hunt for the four
spies. The finger OF suspicion, justly or un-
justly, was pointed among others at Cronin.
A committee was appointed to try him. He
was convicted without being given a chance
to make q defense, and his assassins were
Drough6 from outside polnt to carry out
the mandate ofthe committee. The latter
was chosen by secret ballot. 1t is claimed
that the murder conspiracy would
not have ended with DR.. Cronin
had not his body been found so
OPPORTUNITY in the Evanston manhole.
There were other Irishmen on the execution
lists list, and they should nave oil shared
Cronin's fate had the chance to dispose of
them safely arisen. 1t is claimed that w. J.
Hynes, AL attorney; Father Tuohy; O prom
inent Catholicclergyman, Capt. Dan Gleason,
Capt. T. I. OConner, John Dewey and one
or two Others had been convicted of certain
charges and orders for their removal" sign
ed, In the case of Hynes and Dewey it was
alleged that they were careless in letting LIE
Caron make away with the Clan-na-Gael
records, which formed the basis of his testi-
mony before the Parnell commission. lie
Carron, Hynes and Dewey were the recognized
leaders OF the order, and to them was in
trusted the care of all it's records. These
records disappeared the day lie Caron start
ed for England.