Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-10-25
JOHN DEVOY AROUSED.
Attorney Forrest Accused of intimidat-
ing Honest Irish Witnesses.


court this morning. The prosecution con-
tinued the presentation of witnesses whose only
testimony was as to the identification Of the
body found in the catch-basin as that Of DR..
Cronin.
The crowd that sought to obtain admission to
the court room was even greater than yester-
day afternoon and included many ladies. Be-
fore court opened the blood-stained trunk was
transferred from the south side, where 1t had
been kept since the inquest. to the vault in the
state attorneys Office. 1t will be introduced
in evidence at an early stage of the trial.
THE TESTIMONY.
The first witness called this morning by the
state was Nicholas Waltonborn. a wholesale
liquor dealer at 3l9 East Division street He
had known DR.. Cronin for five years. He saw
the body in the Lake View morgue and recog-
nized 1t as that OF DIR. Cronin. He identified it
by its general appearance. Mr.. Forests cross
examination of Mr. Waltonborn was very brief.
L. I. Conklin, in whose house DIR. Cronin
lived, was the next witness. Mr.. Conklin knew
DR.. Cronin intimately. The doctor had been a
member of his family some ten years. Wit
ness was called to the Lake View morgue at 10
o'clock the night of MAY %, and in company
with John F. Seaman, John j. Cronin and sew
eral other friends he recognized the body as
that Of DR.. Cronin. He recognized it by the
forehead, the hair, the nose, the teeth, the
pearance. The popularity of the teeth were
they were large and wide apart; four Of his
trout teeth in the lower jaw were missing. He
had false teeth and wore plate. One tooth
on the right side was missing.
DEvoY WANTS TO SLUG A LAWYER.
CHICAGO, Oct. 25.-The Daily Ne,os publishes
the following,
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Oct. 24.-To the editor: In
an interview published in today's Morning
Ne,rs Mr.. Forrest. one Of the counsel for the
defense ir the Cronin case, Is reported to have
said among other things, There is informer
Dewey, informer McCahey, informer Luke Dill
Ion and l don't know how many other in
formers
IF Mr.. Forrest used these words he is guilty
OF a direc. incitement TO the assassination of
the three men named; If Mr.. Forrest does not
deny having used them I shall hold him
! responsible so far as they apply to me. He
cannot pretend to misunderstapd the full
meaning and Significance of the word ''in-
former" used among Irishmen, especially
among the men who pay his fees and instruct
him.
1.-The expression quoted can have but one OBJ
ject. 1t is a notice served on all Irish witnesses
for the prosecution by the chief assassins who
employ Mr. Forrest TO defend their dupes that
their testimony concerning the murder of DIR.
Cronin and the organized system OF thievery
of which that murder was the direct result,
win be given at the peril Of their lives. 1t is
part of the system OF intimidation Of witnesses
which has formed a prominent feature of the
tactics of the defense from the beginning of
the Cronin case.
IF the case were not now pending in court /
would treat Mr.. Forests statement, if lert un-
contradicted. as l would that of any other ruff
fan made out of court. As it is think it suffi-
cient for the present to call public attention to
its murderous signihcane.
lSigned) "JoHN DEyoy."
pARxELL TO BE 1NvoKlp.
A number of the friends of the late DR..
Cronin purpose to clear his memory Of any
possible aspersion by getting from Charles
Stewart Parnell and Sir Charles Russell
definite and categorical statement that Cronins
name was not one Of the four handed in by the
spy LeCaron as his confederates in betraying
the Irish movement In this country. Letters
have been already written to the other side
upon this subject, but 30 far no expression has
been received and some of DIR. Cronin's friends
propose hereafter to put the matter in such
shape that an answer and q statement must be
produced.
THEY WANT FREE TICKETS TO CHICAGO.
A dispatch from Winnipeg, Manitoba, says:
Possibly further light may yet be thrown on
the Cronin murder case from Winnipeg. Burke
while here was incarcerated in the iron cage in
the provincial iaii. whefe prisoners are kent
awaiting their trial With him were three
prisoners-R. Heffer, T. Mills and 'Slick Amer
ican" Gillette, who is awaiting trial for forgery.
For some weeks past-in fact ever since the
visit to this city of o Chicago detective-there
have been rumors that Burke had condded TO
his companions in misery particulars of the
crime. It is now said that Gillette has told his
lawyer that Burke admitted being in the Carlson
cottage on the night of the murder and aid he
witnessed the commission Of the crime, though
not actually participant This story has been
corroborsted in q measure by that said 10 have
been told to Heffer, who was released yester-
day. This man, it is asserted, told o police Of
fetal that Burke told him who proposed him
as member Of camp 20; who ordered the exc
cution; who we're present at the Carlson cot
tage when il was committed; how the body was
disposed Of; who paid him money 70 get out of
and press Of Chicago have been endeavoring to
unravel for the last six months. The police do
not place much reliance in the stories, but have
noti1ied the CHICAGO authoritiea