St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-25
THEAWFUL TRIANGLE.
States Attorney Longnecker
Makes a Great Address TO
the Cronin Jury.
He Gives the Clan-na-GaelS
Leading Men a Stunning
Roast.
The Figure the Triangle Cut
in the Century's Greatest
Murder.
No Addresses by the Defense
--Several Witnesses Ex-
amined.


States Attorney Longenecker made
mastery address. He said: THE state
proposes to prove 1t a murder as the re-
suit of conspiracy. These men are
charged with having murdered DR..
CrOnin. The evidence we shall intro
duce will be to show conspiracy to
murder DR.. Cronin. The evidence that
we shall introduce will be that in the
conspiracy which was formed and car
ried into execution, terminating in the
killing of DIR. Cronin, all the consplr-
ators are liable for murder, and that the
punishment for conspiracy ends in the
punishment for murder. That is the
position we take in this case. The
states attorney then proceeded to speak
of the motive for the crime, and
said that in order to show what that
motive was, it became necessary to ex-
anime into the history in this country OF
the organization known as the United
Brotherhood, commonly known as the
Cian-na-Gael. Before doing this he re-
minded the Jury that they were not try
ing the Clan-na-Gael, but the prisoners
at the bar. Mr.. Longenecker then pro-
ceeded to sketch the history of the Clan
na-Gael in this country, saying that it
was made up of patriotic lrlshmen,
lrishmen who went into it for political
effect, and Irishmen who went into it
for the money there was in it, and that
its object was to free Ireland
BY FORCE OF ARMS
as soon as a favorable opportunity
should offer. He declared that the tri
angle was supreme; that the oaths of
the members made their commands su-
perior to the laws of the nation. Mr..
Forrest objected to this line of state
ment as inadmissible in advance of
proof. Judge Mcconnell said that he
did not know what would be proved,
but warned the states attorney that he
was making these statements at his
peril. The states attorney said he
would prove what he had said and he
accepted the responsibility. He pro-
ceeded to say that when Sullivan, Feely
and Boland got control of the executive
board, they changed the plan of work
of the organization and inaugurated the
dynamite policy and implanted in the
constitution the clause commanding
perfect and unquestioning obedience to
the commands of the board. The de-
fense again prayed an exception to this
line of statement. The states
attorney then spoke of the adoption
of the triangle as the symbol of
the executive board. The membership
did not know who constituted the tri-
angle, so secret was it; but, neverthe-
less, they Obeyed its orders and were
sent on various special missions i'll Eng
land in the way of active work, and
under assumed names. NotwithStand-
ing this secrecy. these men were be-
trayed by the board to the English
authorities, and twenty Of them, he
declared, to enable the board to steal
the funds, and when, at last, showing
was made, the board claimed that the
order owed them $4,000, when there
was $3.50. 600 in the treasury when they
took charge. At this point the states
attorney introduced DR.. CrOnln in con-
nection with the order, and proceeded
to sketch the story of his fight.
AGAINST THE TRIANGLE;
told of CrOnin's expulsion; the subse-
quent union conventions; the trial of
Sullivan, Feely and BOland by a secret
member, in Buffalo. last August. t'The
committee was there in session for days
and days." said MIR. Longenecker,
''hearing evidence. That evidence, as
we have it, will be introduced here. DIR.
Cronin took the evidence fully, and wit
nesseS and facts were produced to show
what they had done in the old country.
what had been done across the water
under the direction of this triangle-all
their active work was shown. That was
all being investigated there: and the
committee had not made its report,
but DR.. CrOnin had taken full notes
of that trial committee. He had taken
down what each witness had said about
certain things" The states attorney
went on to say that DR.. CrOnin insisted
that all Of the evidence be sent out to
all the camps; but, up to the time of
DR.. CrOnin'S death the report had not
been sent out. 1t would have shown
that they had not only violated the laws
of the order and of this country, but
also those of England, and had robbed
the order of its funds and the men of
their liberties. Only day or two after
DR.. Cronin's death, however. the report
of the trial was sent out. DR.. Cronin's
part of it, however, was rejected, and
a traitor. He claimed that he would
show that all this denunciatiOn of DR..
Cronin was sent out over
SULLIvAN'S SIGNATURE
and that it was sent out after DR.. Gro
min had disappeared and in the belief
that his body would never be found. 1t
was not sufficient to make way with DR..
CrOnin, but the same unseen hand that
regulated this conspiracy from its incep-
tiOn had to make it appear also that
had published his evidence against the
triangle, as he was about to do, it meant
the ruin of the triangle with the Irish
people, and to have it published to all
their camps was to convict these men of
these funds that had
been accommodating for years. 1t
would have proved that traitors
of the law of two countries, but
traitors to the cause in which
these people had enlisted; and instead
of doing that, which was to benefit poor
old Ireland, it would brand them the
worst men on earth among the Irish
people. That was the object. As I
stated, this was conspiracy. Any one
who looks at the facts, or the evidence,
can see very readily that the acts COM
mitted of themselves are conclusive that
they are the result of conspiracy. Now
a conspiracy is made up of certain acts
by individuals, either together or separ-
ately, and every act that was done by
either Of those parties, that WIS neceS-
sary to be done to carry ~ she object
of the conspiracy binds each of the
others who was in the conspiracy.
For instance, if conspiracy existed,
then the act Of Coughlin in hiring