Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18
Beggs Tries Once Again to Secure
a Trial on Habeas Corpus
And Charges in His Application that His
Indictment was Secured to Make
Him Confess.
Also that He was Offered Employment By tbs
States Attorney IN Working up the
Case-Burke's Intentions


CHICAGO, Ill, July ia somewhat
sensa ionaI move was made in the Cronin
case to-day. John F. Beggs, the i'm
prisoned senior guardian Of Camp 20,
Clan a-Gael, fled a new petition for s
writ of habeas corpus, giving as & rea-
son why he should be set at liberty that
he has been jailed and indicted solely in
hope that he would thus be forced to
turn states evidence. The testimony
expected of HIM, he says, has no founda-
ton in fact Beggs, in his petition,
further says that while he was Illegally
imprisoned and seereted from his friends
Immediately preceding his Indictment,
he was taken before the state
attorney who tried to induce him
to make certain statements, the facts
so desired not being within the knowl-
edge of Beggs, and that in the eOnversas-
ton the state s attorney said in sub
stance: By newspapers you are already
condemned; the only way or best way
out of it is for You to stanu with US,
meaning thereby to stand with the prose-
cution, and further stating in converse
ton, eff you will accept employment
from US we viii pay you for it. We shall
give YOU testimony uy WHICH any ptISuu
or persons might be convicted of the
murder of DR.. Cronin and I can
not do without yonr employment
for the reason that have no facts which
would tend TO convict or even cast suspi-
cion upon any person of causing the
death of DR.. Cronin.
''Soon after the conversation with the
states attorney an Indictment against me
was returned, - says the petition, and
there has been persistent and determ-
ined effort on the part of police officers
and states attorney officers to compel this
relatOr to divulge certain alleged facts
stated in the anonymous letter tending TO
show that some action was taken IN camp
20 which resulted in the death OF Cronjn,
with alleged facts the letter has failed to
give for the>Teason that same do not ex-
list -
Beggs takes up - detail the statements
in the ANONYMOUS Litter as tolloYs:
Your petitioner TSost So hafnd. He
sincerely afirms that th6Ee but the bullet
nor has there been, what isead of that Of
designated as an inner circle Sr~e-.vs
na-Gael society, and that there Is no.
now nor has there ever been an fpner
circle, second circle or any subdivision
of said Camp 20 of said society, nor
was committee ever appointed
by said camp to try any al
legged charge against DR.. Cronin
to the knowledge of this reIator, and
certainly not during the time in which
this relator was senior guardian, which
was for a long time prior to the 4th OF
May, 1889, and this relator says that it il
not true as stated in the anonymous let
ter that he appointed a committee OF
seven consisting of l.. r. Buckley, HaF-
~ Jordan, Dennis O'Connor, John
o 'Malloy, John F. o 'Mally, Thomas
Murphy and Daniel Coughlin or any
other persons for the purpose of trying
any charges preferred against Cronin or
any persons; that it is not true that said
committee, or any other committee, ever
investigated, to the knowledge Of this re-
lator, any charge preferred against said
CrOnin in camp 20 at any time whatso-
ever, and that such facts could not have
existed for a long time prior to May
without this relator . knowledge.
Wherefore this relator states that all
of the material facts in the anoay nous
communication which he believes was
added as a sole pretext for his indiet-
ment, are untrue IN fact and cannot be
sustained by any proof whatever.
The state s attorney having stated that
he did not desire at the present time to
make public his case. Beggs offers to
have the hearing take place ia private
Judge Patton agreed to hear arguments
on the petition Tomorrow.
BURKE WILL TRY HABEAs CORPUS
WINNIPEG, NAN, July L. Isaac
Campbell, counsel for Burke, says the
prisoner win be brought up on a writ of
habeas corpus one day this week, when
the whole case viii be reheari before
another judge.