The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-25
THE JURY CHARGED.
What the State viii Endeav0r
to Prove.
TAKING OF TESTIMONY BEGUN.
Several Witnesses Examined, but Nothing OF
Importance Elicited-Was Cronin
One of the -Four?

Feager ones who demanded to be passed. At
10 o'clock the court was called to order.
States attorney Longnecker began the op-
ening address to the jury.
He reviewed briefly the long continued sitting
of yenremen which resulted in the selection OF
the twelve before MIN. He defined the duties
Of the iurymen and defined the meaning OF the
presumption OF innocence 1t was he said, the
mere negative which stood in the way of con-
VictIOn in the absence OF evidence, but IL must
not be allowed to weaken the force Of evidence
given. de next defined the meaning OF reaS-
enable doubt, which, he said, must not be so
stretched as 10 permit juryman to avoid doing
his duty.
The states attorney then proceeded to define
murder, and set forth what were the material
allegations IN the Indictment which II would be
necessary to prove. They were that DR. Cronln
was killed; that the killing was done IN the alb
Sence Of adequate proVocation, and that these
defendants did 1t. Then he defined direct and
circumstantial evidence; then he spoke of the
disappearance Of DR.. CTonin and the finding of
his body eighteen days afterwards and said The
state proposed to prove II was murder as the
result of u conspiracy.
The states attorney then proceeded TO speak
OF the motive for the crime. He said that in Or
der to show what that motive was, II became
necessary to examine into III history in this coun
try Of an organization known as brotherhood
commonly called Clan-na-GaeL Before doing
this he reminded the jury that they were not
trying the Clan-na-tiael. He said the Triangle
was supreme and that the oath of the members
"a
the nation.
Forrest objected to this statement as in
admissible in advance OF prof. Judge Mcconnell
said he did not know what would be proved, but
warned the states attorney that he was making
theSe statements at his own peril. The states
attorney said he would prove what he said and
aacJepted the responsibility.
a He proceeded to say that when Sullivan, NJ.
tFeely and Boland got control of the executive
board they changed the plan of work OF the
organization, inaugurated dynamite policy and
implanted in the constitution a clause requiring
perfect and unquestioned obedience 10 the com
mgndS OF the board.
fThe defense again prayed an objection TO this
line OF statement.
The states attorney then went on to say that
the membership did not know who constituted
the Triangle, 50 secret il was. But nevertheless
they obeysd its orders and were sent on various
missions 10 England in the way Of active work
ana under assumed names, Notwithstanding
these men were betrayed by the board TO the
English authorities and twenty Of them We're
now in prison. This was. he declared TO enable
the board TO steal the funds, and when at last a
showing was made. the board claimed they
treasury when they took charge.
At this point the states attorney introduced
DR.. Cronin into the order and proceeded to de-
scribe his fight against the Triangle. He told Of
Oronin'S expulsion; the subsequent union con
venJon ana trial OF Sullivan, Feely and Boland
by secret committee of which DR.. CrOnln was
member, in Buffalo a year ago last August.
The states. attorney went on TO say the com
ulittee was IN session three days hearing eYl-
Qence, which he would introduce during Inc
trial. Cronin wanted tnis evidence published to
Gil the camps of the order with the report OF the
committee. The report was not made to the
camp sill q day or two after Cronin'S death, and
even then Cronin's part suppressed. II was sent
out in this shape in the beIes that his body would
never be found 1t was not sufficient to make
way with DR.. Cronin- but the same unseen hand
that regulated the conspiracy from sltS lncep-
ton had TO make 1t appear also that Cronln was
d traitor for IL Cronin had published his evil
oence againstJhe Triangle, as he was about to
do mt Tha min If q
Irish people, and to have it published to all the
camps was to convict them of embeZzling these
funds that had been accumulated for years.
NWould have proved them traitors 70 the irish
SauSe; not only embeZZlerS, ViOlatorS of the laws
OF two countries. traitors to the cause in which
they enlisted and instead OF doing that which
was to benefit poor old ireland. 1t would brand
them as having the worst men on the earth
among the Irish people. That was the object.
The states attorney then went on to show how
Coughlin began denounclng CrOn1n as spy way
back in February; how Beggs, at meeting OF
Camp 20 said Cronns denunciatiOn OF Sulli-
van and the Triangle had to be stopped If it
took blood.
1.-THE states attorney then went on to talk about
the charges made against Cronin in Camp 20 on
the 18th OF February. Senior Guard BeggS
wrote to District Officer Specimen, ofPeor1, that
he was directed to investigate the matter and
wanted the district officer 10 do SO. Later, on
the 18th OF February, he wrote that he knew OF no
law provision Of the constitution, and refusing
to investigate unless the charges were made
directly To him. Beggs, on the 18th, wrote back
that while there was no written law for this,
there was a law, and the matter had TO be lnves-
y tlgated or there would be trouble.
ON the following day man, giving the name
of Simons, rented fiat III, Clark street. oppo-
site DR.. Cronin's Office, and bought furniture
and large trunk and moved in. On the 10Th OF
March Martin Burke appeared at the Carlson
cottage under the name OF Frank Williams, and
rented the cottage, and after talking with
O'Sulavan went TO III Clark street and moved
the furniture to the cottage.
Some time in April O'Sullivan made arrange
ments with Cronin by which, II the latter re-
Ceived one OF O'SulliYan'S cards, he was 10 ac'
company q messenger in order to attend profes-
sionally upon any Of O'Sulliyan's men who
might be hurt in the handling of ice for him.
The states attorney pointed out that this
seemed queer contract, Tor up TO this time
there never had been an accident 10 one OF
O'Sullivan'S men and there were many doctors
nearer than Cronin.
Before that Daniel Coughlin had declared in a
saloon that there was a certain North Side man,
leading Catholic, who would soon bite the
ground, or something to that effect. O'SuLllFan
-Asas with Coughlin that night.
Longnecler told about Coughlin's arrange
ment with Livery Stable Keeper oman, ana
said the state would prove that Coughlin was
seen going into the Carlson cottage the night OF
the murder. and that the horse and buggy pro
cured at Dinan's stable were the horse and buggy
which drove DR.. CroEin to the cottage. At a
meeting ofCamp 20, on the night OF May - some
one INQUIRED whether that secret committee had
reported, whereupon Begg5 said: THAT com
rnittee is to report 10 me ana not 70 the camp:
v
that Cronin was spy, and that the year be-
fore he had tried to hire man TO slug DR..
CrOnin.
We will prove that C'Sullivan was seen at a
certain point on the night Of Nay !, showing he
was in the neg hborhoOd and not in his house at
the time. ,, ~,
ON the 9th of May Martin Burke had a box the
contents OF which were not seen, SOluered up
with tin. What the contents were, or where the
box is no one knows, but il is an important clr-
cumstance in the case.
We will prove that KunZ was seen in the nat
on Clark street at the time 1t was occupied; Ihat
he had been intimate with Coughltn; that he and
Coughlin were at Peoria together; that kunZ
. STAGED to a man, when the papers were talking
about the Cronin disappearance, that he (llunz)
knew that Cronin was murdered. After the dls
coFery and identification Martin Burke left the
CITY under an assumed named, and was arrested
in Winnipeg, having in his possession ticket TO
Liverpool.
MIR Loncnecker went on TO say that any one
who looks at the facts or evidence can see very
readily that the acts committed are OF them
selves conclusive that they are the result of a
conspiracy He then went on at considerable
length 10 define the nature Of a conspiracy and
the liability of the assassins. He added that the
,sslste would present its evidence as speedily as
&ossible
Counsel for defense then, one by one waived
their right to make each an opening address, and
The taking OF testimony began.
The first witnesSwaS France V1llars, eZcaptaln
OF the Lake View police. HIS testimony was I'M
important except the one fact that he knew DR..
Croain in his lifetime, and that as the body was
being conveyed from the catch basin TO the
norgue, he had identified 1t as that OF the dead
doctor.
James F. Boiand, cashier in the coal dealers
ONCE and an associate OF DR.. Cronin IN various
s,acret societies, also gave his testimony as TO
fhe Identification Of the body, and TO the loca-
<ion of Cronln's office.