The Dickinson press., 1889-06-15
CwLAN-NA-GAEL DID IT.
The COrOner's Bury I'm the Gro
min Murder Case Renders
Its Verdict.
It Finds that the Clan.na.Gael Was
at the Head of the Conspiracy
to Remove Cronin,
And that Societies Like the Clan-na-
Gael are Not in Accord with
American Institutions.
Alexander Sullivan Placed Behind the Bars
Thirty Other Warrants to Be Issued
The Verdict.

CHICAGO, June lS.-lntereStlnS teStl-
mony was plentiful on the last day
If .he coroner's inquest in the Gro
lin murder case. Hakan Martini
sen. the Swedish eXpressman who
hauled the furniture from the Clark
street flat opposite Cronin's office to the
Carlson cottage, told his story as it has
already been published. Officer Moore
told of q conversation he had had with
Cronin, in which the latter said that
Sullivan had threatened to kill him and
that he knew that there was Il conspir-
acy to put him out of the way.
The next witness was
Chief of Police Hubbard,
who repeated the story told by Wood.
ruff, as heretofore given. DIR. Cronin's
private papers were next put in evil
dence, duplicating Alexander Sullivan,
John L. Maroney, and several others.
Had Heard Enough
1t was 1870 p. IN. when the reading of
the private papers Of the murdered man
was finished. Coroner Hertz faced the
jury, and said impressively: Gentle
men, do you want to hear any more w.t.
nesses: have plenty more if you do"
Quick as Il flash came the reply from
the foreman: 81 think we have heard
enough. We would like to retire."
His colleagues nodded assent and at
4:45 the six men filed into the %coroner's
private office. The doors were closed
and guards placed on the outside as a
bar against eavesdroppers. AT 6 o'clock
a request came out for supper and it was
served from a %neighboring restaurant.
II was within a few minutes of 10
o'clock when the foreman intimated that
the jury had agreed upon a verdict.
Only Coroner Hertz and a small knot of
spectators We're in the room.
' The Verdict.
We. the undersigned, a jury appointed
to make inquiry us to how the body
viewed by us came to his death state as
Jul verdict from the evidence:
1. That the body is that of Patrick II.
Cronin. known as DIR. Cronin.
\. That his death was not from nat
ural causes, but from violent means.
3. That the said Patrick II. Cronin
was decoyed from his home on North
Clark street on the evening of May 4,
1889, by some person or persons to the
cottage known as the Garrison cottage
situated al No. 1872 North Ashland ave.
nue..
4. That at said cottage the said Gro
min was murdered by being beaten on
his head with some blunt instrument in
the hands of some person or persons to
us known.
S. That the body after said murder
was committed was placed in a trunk
and carried to Edgewater on a wagon
by several persons and by them placed
in a catch basin at the corner of Evans
ton avenue and Fifty-ninth street, Lake
View, where it was discovered May g..
6. That the evidence shows conclu-
sively to u minds that a plot or con-
spiracy was formed by a number Of per-
sons for the purpose of numbering said
Cronin and conccaling his body: said
plot or conspiracy was deliberately con-
trived and cruelty executed.
q. We have carefully inquired into
the relations sustained by said Cronin to
other persons while alive to ascertain if
he had any cause or enmity with Ely
s. 1t is our judgment that no other per-
are or Ind been members of ~ certain
ASSANN SAS INV" 10 OIllGcN DI(lus
erhood," or ''Clan-na-tiael," had any
cause to be the instigators or executors
OF such plot or conspiracy to murder
sand Cronin.
.. Many of the witnesses testifying in
the case have done so with much evil
dent unwillingness and. as we believe,
with much mental reservation.
We find from the evidence that a num-
Der of persons were parties to this plot
and conspiracy to murder the said Gro
min. n that Daniel Coughlin. Patrick
o. Sullivan, Alexander Sullivan, and
n Woodruff, alias Black, were either
principals, accessories, or had guilty
knowledge OF said plot and conspiracy
to murder said Cronin and conceal his
body, and they should be held to answer
to the grand jury.
we also believe that other persons
were engaged in this plot or had guilty
knowledge Of it, and should he appre-
hended and held to the grand jury.
We further state that in our Judgment
all secret societies whose objects are
such as the evidence shows that of the
Clan-na-Gael, or the United Brother
hood, to be are not in harmony with'and
are injurious to American institutions.
Thirty Warrants to Be Issued.
1t is reported in police circles that no
less than thirty warrants are beng made
out for suspected accessories. all of
which will be served within twenty four
hours. The list is said to include John
+. Beggs, Officer Dan Brown, Harry
Jordan, Michael Boland, Lawrence Il.
Buckley, Peter McGheehan. ID. c. Fee
ley, Frank Murray, J. j. Bradley, j. j.
Guinea and John Moss. 1t is also re.
ported that a warrant will be issued for
the arrest of Henry LIE Caron, the Eng
lish spy, and his %extradition demanded.
The majority of those named are proml-
nent officers of the Clan-na Gael.
Alexander sullivan in Jail.
Immediately upon the verdict being
rendered Deputy Sheriffs Palmer, Brod.
erick and Williams drove in a carriage
to the residence of Alexander Sullivan
on Oak street in the North division and
arrested him. The party was rapidly
driven to the county Jail, where, aftel
the usual forms had been gone through
Sullivan was placed in a cell on tn,
ground floor rear where the anarchist.
were incarcerated.
LEONARD SWEET DEAD.
The Chicago bar Loses One of its Ahles
and Most Talented Members.