The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-06-12
The Cronin Inquest.

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would not make much difference.
j. ID. Haggerty, a railroad clerk, gave
testimony that after the trialOf DR.. Cronin,
he said that Alexander Sullivan had told
him that Cronin was a scOundrel and q
menace to the Irish cause, and 1t was the
impression of witness that Sullivan said
that Cronin should be exterminated. The
witness was also of the same opinion at
that time that LIE Caron, who was friend
of Alexander Sullivan, was member OF
the committee which tried Cronin. He was
introduced to the witness by Sullivan at
the trial as a man worthy of confidence in
| the Irish cause.
The police say that the men arrested in
New York are not important witnesses.
At the afternoon session n nHmber of
witnesses were examined without develop
ing anything of Importance. Then Chief
of police Hubbard was sworn and told of
an interview which he had had with Wood
ruff, the horse thief. Woodruff was the
one who drove the trunk from the Carlson
cottage. Woodruff said he was, and he then
| described the cottage. He said" con
tinucd the chief, ''he took the trunk about
midnight on May i, and that he had been
| given $25 by two men to do the job. At
l1.30 on May 4, the two men, according to
their agreement, raped on the door of
Dinan's stable. He then opened the door
tLilu 4tI Jul JIG IlOISC WIN rags Oil us lGtJ
and hitched it to a wagon. They then
drove TO within a hundred feet of Carlson's
cottage. He was then told to wait and the
two men left him and went into the cot
tage. They remained there five minutes
and then bec5Oned him to drive up. He
did so and the two men, King and Fair
burn, and third man came out with a
trunk. The third man was p. o. Sullivan.
"When the trunk was put in the wagon,
Sn1liyr15t y,at1 n tba bOnSn IEpoIr.r1If
with King and tairburn, drove on Lincoln
avenue to Fullerton avenue, thence to Lin
coin park. The men intended to take the
trunk and contents into boat ont in the
lake and sink them; but owing to the
bright night and the presence of strangers,
they changed their minds and drove back.
| When they reached the man hole at Fifty
ninth street, they tried to dump the trunk
| into it, but failing, they kicked the trunk
open, having lost the key, and took the
| body from it and threw il into the man
hole. Woodruff was then told to drive off. y
The chief then produced the papers of
DR.. Cronin which were turned over to him
iby Saloon Keeper COnklin, with whom
Cronin lived.
Conklin identified the papers as being in
the handwriting of DR.. CrOnin and the
coroner read the documents to the jury. 1t
was decided by the jury that the names of
the parties mentioned in the documents
should not be made public, except those
already brought into the cBse.
The first paper was a telegram from !.
d. Mcmahon calling the doctor to meet him
at the Windsor hotel, New York. By order
of the committee, June IS, loSS. There
was another telegram from =. II. Ronauiue
calling for the doctors report on Sullivan's
trial. To this tue doctor replied. as Il copy
of the letter showed, that he would vote
again rs he voted at the trial. Then the
coroner read the minority report of the
trial committee dated January Is, 1889, and
signed byJ. II. McCahey and 2. H, Cronin..
The report blames Alexander Sullivan
for neglccting the family of Mackey
TOmasey, and scores Sullivan, Bolard and
Feely for excluding G. II. McCarty from
the Boston convention, and also for eXclud-
ing the delegate Of the home organization
from the same place. 1t was alleged that
the report of the Boston convention
showed deficit of Sl3, 900, at the instance
of Sullivan when there was really
balance: that Slll,0O0 was improperly
spent and not accounted for by
the triangle; that the men sent
to England ION missions were not
sufficiently supplied with money, and the
agent of the triangle was responsible for
this: that SS1, l9l were drawn from the
treasury for ''active work. which was
not used for that purpose by the triangle,
but put with the surplus money which was
in the hands of the triangles agent
The report was signed by McCahey and
CrOnin, with the recommendation that it
be printed and sent to each camp.
The coroner then read Dir. CrOnin's notes
taken at the trial. The objection that
Alexander Sullivan made to Dr. Cronin's
sitting on the committee are stated at large
and also that they were Oyerruled by the
votes of Burns, Roger, McCahey and
CrOnin.
One witness testified that he was sent to
England 10 DO active work and was given
% and u steerage ticket. He came back
by steerage passage without bedclothes or
other necessities. He slept ne said, on the
soft side OF 4 plank He went again and
was told to get some one to help him. John
j. Maroney was one Of the men who We're
sent to help him. He was given 500, and
when he got to England he could get no
more He did not use the alias given him
by the triangle, and the intimaUion in his
evidence is that this is what saved him
from falling into the hands of the English
authorities. He and his partners ''per-
formed four operations. !"
The trouble IN the Pittsburg convention
was told about. An objection was made to
Tim Green and Florence Sullivan being
seated as proxies for Father Dorney and
Alex Sullivan. After reading the evidence
the jury were asked if they wanted to hear
any more witnesses, the coroner saying
that he had plenty of witnesses who could
give ''corroborating evidence" The jury
did not want 70 hear any more and at 40
o'clock retired for deliberations to the cor
oner's private Office. At o'clock the jury
sent out for supper which was brought into
them.
At lQ:l5 p. m, after being out five hours
and half. the Jury came into court and
commenced reading their verdict, long
document, but which was listened to with
marked attention. The following is the
full text:
1--WE, the undersigned jury, appointed to
make inquiries according to law as to how
the body viewed by US came to his death.
state as our verdict from the evidence:
"l-That the body is that of Patrick H.
Cronin, known as DR.. Cronin.
''2-That his death was not from natural
causes, but from violent means.
'3-That said p. H. Cronin was decoyed
from his home on North Clark street on the
evening of May 1, 1883, by some per.
son or persons, to the cottage known
as the Carlson cottage, situated at
No. 1872 North Ashland avenue, in
Lake View, Cook county, Ills.
II That at the said cottage the said
Cronin was murdered by being beaten on
the head with some blunt instrument OF in |
struments in the hands of some person or |
persons unknown to us on the night of said |
May 4, or between May and May 5, 1885, |
.'5-That the body, alter the said murder |
was committed, was placed in trunk and |
carried to the edge of the water on a wagon |
by several persons and by them placed in !
a catch basin at the corner of Evanston /
avenue and F'ifty-ninth street, Lake View, |
" bpfsa II IUaG diGTOVp1.a6 Nav % 1890