Evening journal., 1889-11-22
1INAN'S FAMOUS HORSE.
1t Was Gray, Not White, Says
a Witness.
AN ALIBI FOR THE EQUINE, TOO.

Mouis Bcidenbender, Of Hobolsen, N. j.,
swears He Saw Or. cronin Drive Away
from the Cottage Many People ran
Asleep While Doctors Testify.
CHICAGO Nov. 22.-Pat Dinan, the livery
man. was the first witness in the Crouin
trial He swore that tie white horse now
ON exhibition in a museum in this city was
his own and bis only white horse Louis
Beidendeader, a young man from Hoboken,
N. j.. testified that he had seen the herse on
exhibition at the museum, and it is not the
one driven to Mr. Carlson's residence. be
was standing in a cigar store on the evening
Of May 4, opposite DR.. Cronin's Office. He
noticed the horse particularly. 1t was gray,
not white In reply to a question from Mr..
Forrest, witness said that be saw the same
horse on the street day before yesterday.
The witness Gets Warm.
The cross-examination Of Bcidendender,
ronducted by Attorney Inghnm, was a very
searching one. The questions were put to
him with the rapidity Of trip hammer. He
managed, by great effort, to reply in calm
tone, but his appearance betrayed most
uncomfortable frame Of mind. At first a
few drops Of peIspiration appeared on his
brow, These he quickly mopped away, but
Others took their place, and still others,
until before he was through the ordeal the
peIspiration rolled down his IA &C in streams
He saw Cronin Enter.
In answer 70 the attorneys questions he
said be could not tell who pointed DR. Gro
min ont to him, but some one did, and he
was very familiar with his looks. His at
tention was attracted 10 the rig by the haste
with which tho doctor aud his companion
departed. A little further along he said
that before driving away a third person
came up and held conversation with the
doctor, who took something out of bis pocket
and gave it to him.
How long did this conversation lastgN
asked Attorney Ingham In an unconcerned
manner
"Oh four or five Minutes replied the
witness unsuspectingly.
And yet you say that the doctor came
from the house and departed IN great haste3n
The inconsistency Of hasty departure
and departure occupying five minuses was
painfully apparent TO the witness, and his
face turned very red. lie bit his lip, and
then tried to bridge over the chasn that
had suddenly opened in his testimony by
saying that he meant tho haste with which
the doctor got into tho buggy
IL Was Peculiar knowledge.
He first heard on May ID that Dr. Cronin
was supposed to have been taken away with
Dinan's horse. This was seven or eight
days before the publication of such belief
He did not tell the authorities Of what he
knew because he had no interest in doing So
He had told some Of his friends, however,
and they had probably told Attorney For
rest, who summoned him last August
The witness said he remembered that
while standing in the doorway from which
he saw the doctors two or three black horses,
three or four gray and three bays passed
The horse which took the doctor away stood
between him aud an electric light, but as il
was still daylight, no shadow was cast. Az
the witness left the court room be was sum
moned by the state e appear as a witness.
Many People Fell Asleep.
The expert testimony was then taken up,
Professor Marshall Ewell and Dr. II. M
Mayer being examined Both professed pro
bcicncy ia microscopcal observations, and
declared it TO be impossible, in their opin-
ion, 70 detect the difference between the
blood and hair Of a horse or dog and those
Of human beings
DR.. Lester Curtis. at one time president Of
The Illinois Microseopical society," wns called
70 add weight to the testimony Of Ewell aud
Mayer During his examination Attorney
Foster dropped Off to sleep, several Of tho
JHrymen yawned and nodded, and many Of
the spectators, wearied by the fetelling Of
the possibilities and limitations Of me dical
science, left the room.