Morning journal and courier., 1889-09-19
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE GROWN MURDER. The Plot as Cleaned From
 Miss Le Caron's Letters. 4 VERY FEASIBLE STORY. Interesting Races of the
 Brooklyn Jockey Club. THE HAMILTON CASE. Important Testimony
 Given Yesterday.
THE HAMILTON CASE.
IMPORTANT WITNESSES,

Le Caron, Kirby and Co0ney Ready to
 Go on she stand in the Cronin Case
 The Story or the Murder as Cleaned
 From Miss Le Caron's Letter te Her
 Amanced Husband.
 CHICAGO, Sept. 18.-Luther Lafin Mills and W. J. Haynes, the assistant of the States attorney in the Croniu trial, have won most signal victory for the people in the present prosecution. Mir. Haynes formed the plan and Attorney Mills executed it, through Pinkerton and other detectives, at an enormous cost. The result of their joint efforts will place on the stand Le Caron Beach, J. T. Kirby and Patrick Cooney.
 Cooney is already in charge of the police in worthless. Kirby is held at Niagara, Ont, and will be brought to this city at the proper time Le Caron is also in Canada and will accompany Kirby to Chicago. The three will tell the whole story of the conspiracy and murder.
 This afternoon the four jurors in the Cronin case were at last accepted by both sides and duly sworn in.
 CHICAGO, Sept. 1S-The Evening Mail tonight prints sensational article in regard to the Cronin case. The substance of the article is as follows: It Is claimed that cer- tain evidence hes come into the possession of the lawyers for the defence " mich shows that the murderers of Dr. Cronin were paid representatives of English government who had been dupsd by. Oronin, who was sup posed by the British governmental authori- ties to be one of their American spies.
 The evidence is in the form of letters written by Miss Ls Csron, daughter of the notorious witness in the London Times-Par- nell case, to her afianced husband, well known Chicago Irish-American. The letters alluded to Dr. Cromin frequently and intimate that he was the victim of conspiracy of which the writer knew. She wrote no definite information, however, un- til after Coughlin, O'Sullivan and Beggs were arrested. Then she wrote saying that one man got away who should have been ar- rested, and that if Birmingham had been ar rested great deal of information might have
 been had.
 The series of letters tell that Le Caron and Birmingham were British spies and that Dr. Cronin became intimate with them and per- mitted them to think that in order to get 8 clearer insight into thr British governments plans, he could be hiredas spy. They pro- posed him, and he, being accepted into Scotland yard, obtained 8 large amount of information without giving any in return. They became suspicious and sought to ob- tain from him certain papers which they had given him in his supposed character of spy. He refused to give them up. Meanwhile Le Caron was summoned to England to testify against Parnell. Birmingham, the other rep resentative of the British service in Chicago, was told to look out for Cronin, and obtain at any price the documents which were to have revealed the close connection between high American officials and the London de- tective system. Cronin refused to yield and threatened the exposure of the English prac. tices in America. The Scotland Yard people grew desperate. It wes resolved to rob him of the papers, and it was in that attempt that the doctor was killed, the conspirators be- lieving that he always carried the much wanted papers on his person. Birmingham sold out his drug store on North Clark and Oak streets for a very low price and disap- peared.
 The Journal has the same story in sub- stance and adds: In opposition to the above 1t is claimed that at the proper stage of the
 Cronin trial the prosecution will produce as
 witnesses J. Kirby, Thomas Le Geron and l made possible by the efforts of Messrs. Hines and Mills of counsel for the State with the | aid of the Pinkerton detectives. Kirby was agent of the British government and was in Chicago for months before the murder of Dr. Cronin prying into the secrets of the Clan l na Gael. He was very successful and return
 ed to London full of information not only about the workings of the order, but with full particulars of the plot against Dr. Cronin | and the manner in which it was to be car- ried out. It was the intention of the | British authorities to put MT. Kirby | on the stand in the Parnell case, but it was concluded that the evidence of Le Caron (or
 Beach) would be strong enough and that no
 good would come of disclosing Kirby's iden-
 tity and the nature of his errand to America
 until absolutely necessary. By keeping Kir-
 by off the stand the British authorities would | be able to use him to good advantage in oth-
 CT cases. After the trial Kirby went 10 Can
 ada and was lost sight of until located @ few
 days ago by the detective. He was told
 what was wanted of him, and for long time
 refused to have anything to do with the case.
 Finally the matter was put to him in such a light that he consented to come to Chicago
 and appear as witness for the prosecution | when required.
 LeCaron has revealed to the American dee tectives the names of certain men on whom
 suspicion has not heretofore rested, and
 likely Kirby will be on hand ready to testi- fy when wanted.