Telegram-herald., 1889-11-22
NOW LONCENECkER
AS a Witness Tesflfies IN Behalf
OF Defendants.
AZ lLIBI PROVED FOR The HORSE
TIE Witnesses for the Defendants MAKE =
Better showing Than al the start
Practice Makes Perfeet-Anothsr
witness for Dan.

CHICAGO, Nov. 2l-The principal
witness in the Cronln case yesterday
Was Mr.. Longenecker, the States attor-
ney. and he testified for the defense.
He vas called a a witness on heRalf
0f Nh. Beggs. When ne took the stand
MT. Foster asked
"Were YOU present AZ the coroner ;
inquest .n this casey'
eyes, sin"
"Nou heard Beggs' testimony on that
OCCASION
~ did"
DO you subsequently cause to be
brought before the grand jury the de
tcndant Reggs a. a wltnessE'
Il did"
"D.d YOU examine him before the
grand iuryy'
Mr. Mlil,-We object.
The Court want 70 know what you
mean by this line you are going on, Mr..
Foster.
Mr.. Foster mean 10 show, If your
honor please, that Mr.. Beggs yoluntar-
lly told the states attorney, when a
witness before the grand jury, IN re-
gard 10 th.s CrOnin sDOndencc and
the acton of Camp 20 In tins matter. |
propose TO show that the first informa-
ton came from John +. Beggs tOJudge
LOngenccker of the matter being re-
fcrred TO the district officer, Mr.. Spell
man; he informed Judge LOngenecker
as 10 what correspondence they had,
and further, through Chief OF Police
Hubbard, presented TO Judge LOnge-
necker the correspondence IN his own
behalf. | further offer to prove that
after that examination and IN pursu-
ance of what Beggs stated under oath,
Spellman was suhppnaed as witness
before the grand jury, and he was IN
terrOgatcd and furnished letters which
Beggs had written 20 him, IN pursuance
Of the voluntary statement of Beggs IN
this matter, which then the States at
torney knew nothing about.
This testimony was gradually brought
out in the usual way, when the States
attorney was allowed to retire. Chief
of Police Hubbard also testified TO sub
stantallv the same matter.
sensation is promised today. The
new feature will be evidence that the
horse which conveyed Or. Cronin from
his office Nav was not white at all =,
and therefore could not have been Pat
Dinan's livery animal for the hire of
which Daniel COuehlin was to be re-
spOnsible The testimony on this point
is expected to be gwen by Louis Buden-
blder, of HObOkcn, y. j. His evidence,
it is understood, Will be that he was
standing in front of CrOnin's Office and
saw the doctor drive of. The horse
that pulled the buggy was not white,
but black.
Just before court opened this morn
ing III the CrOnin case, Judge McCOn-
nell called Judge LOngenecker Mr.. For
rest and Mr.. Mills to the bench and IN
formed them that he had received a
letter from a man who claimed TO have
seen Dan Coughlin at the Chicago-ave-
nue. station about O'Clock on the
night of May 4. Mr.. Forrest took the
address and the man Will be called as
witness. Pat Dinan was the first witness
called when court opened. lie swOre
that the white horse now on exhibition
in a museum was his own and only
white horse. Louis Buidender, young
man from HobOken. y. j., was then
called. He said that he has seen the
horse on exhibition at the museum,
and II Is not the one that was driven
to Mr.. COnklln's residence. He was
standing in a cigar store on the even
ing of May t. opposite DR.. CrOnin's Office.
He noticed the horse particularly. 1t
was gray. not a white horse. In reply
TO a question from Mr.. Forrest, witness
said ne had seen the horse since; that
he saw him IN the street day before yes
terday.