Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-11-22
DEFENSE FAIL TO SCORE
The Prosecution Rattles the Pitcher
for the Defense.
Alibis Fouled Before They Hardly See
Daylight.
Yesterdays came Was a Defeat for
the Defense.

a policeman of the East Chicago avenue
station, was the first witness called in the
Cronin case this morning. Examined by
Mr.. Forrest he testified that he went to
Casey funeral on the afternoon of May 4
in a buggy with officer Richard McCOr-
mick. He went on duty as a patrolman at
Z o'clock that evening, his beat being on
the west side of Clark street and east side
of Wells street. from Oak street to Chicago
avenue. He remained on duty until 4
o'clock in the morning. He saw Dan
Coughlin that night as the latter was
going into the station about S:45
or 8 O'Clock. Witness was on Wells
street, and was just going into the patrol
house. Witness was a member of camp
20. Cross examined by Mr. Hynes. wit
ness said his number was y indicating
that he was an old member.) Witness
could not remember what he did or where
he went the day of the funeral, nor whom
he saw at the Casey funeral. He did not
go inside of the church. but stayed in the
buggy. Witness returned from the ceme-
terry about ) o'clock and went to
Gerrity's saloon. (Whalen yesterday
was positive it was 6 o'cIock.) He dii
not see Martin Burke at the funeral
nor did he see Dan Coughlin at Garrity's
saloon. Witness denied that he went to
Dinan's livery stable Saturday night to
ask if all the rigs were in. 1t was on his
beat, but he didn't go, because he knew
nothing about it. Coughlin was standing
on the station steps when witness saw him.
and he said: Good evening to hin and
Coughlin said the same.
Witness knew Coughlin was suspected
of completely in the case, because he read
1t IN the papers.
Witness upon being pressed. said that
he did know that not word had been
printed on the subject until three days
after the corpse had been found in the
Lake View catch-basin. He had told no
one but Scott because he tthe witness) was
amember of camp 20, and did not want to
get his name mixed with the case Wit
ness admitted that he had been in Dolan's
saloon last night, the questions indicating
that a small army of detectives are keeping
track of the movements of witnesses for
the defence William Mulcahey. an
employe of O'Sullivan. she iceman testi-
fled that d man resembling Coughlin called
at the iceman's residence in April and
asked him if he knew Kunze. On
his replying in the affirmative
he told him to notify him (Coughlin)
by telephone to the Chicago Avenue
station when ne turned up. Coughlin
was confronted with the witness,
but the latter would not swear that it was
the same man.
MuIcahey went on to say that in April
he was troubled with a sore leg, and that
O'Sullivan told him to go down and see
Dr. CrOnin as he had a contract with him.
He also swore that on May he was out
with O'Sullivan peddling ice until late in
the evening They went home and had
supper. O'Sullivan went to bed at 9
o'clock, the witness following soon after.
About 10 o'clock he was awakened by
hearing some of the workmen returning.
O'Sulivan went down and let them in.
He and O'Sullivan remained in the same
room for the rest of the night. Witness
had gotten 100 cards from O'Sullivan
toward the last of April and distributed
them around to stores and saloons. and he
heard old man Carlson talking to O'Sulli-
van, and the latter said ne did not know any
of the parties that had rented the cottage
On crOss-examination by Judge Longe-
necker. the witness exhibited a poor
memory. He said he had known O'Sulli-
vans brother in Iowa and had brought,
letter of introduction from him to the
Lake View man. Although he had
occupied the same room with OSullivan
he could not tell the color of his underwear,
what time he went to bed or what time he
got up. He admitted chat O'Sullivan
might have left the room without his
knowing it. The witness was piled with
questions concerning the clothes he wore
and how often he had shaved in May
which led to the suspicion that the states
attorney believes that the witness was the
man who drove the white horse. Forrest
objected to the question as insinuating,
but the court ruled otherwise. The witness
was on the stand when a recess was taken.
VIM Glenn. an Inter-Ocean reporter,
testified that one week after the murder
Mrs Conklin told him that the white
horse brought to her house from Dinan's
stable did not resemble the horse behind
which Cronin was driven away. Edward
Jones' a Daily News reporter, testified that
he and another reporter went to the
Carlson cottage after the discOv
cry of Cronin's body Many stories had
been told about the cottage and as a joke
they got some cotton batting and a piece
of liver. the blood from the latter they
smeared upon the cotton. They pat the |
blood stained batting in the cellar. Wit
ness denied he had put it there to furnish
material for a sensation in his paper.
Three of O'Sullivan's employees cOrrobor- !
ated the evidence to establish an alibi for
the ice man.
Jacob Schur testified that the trunk !
used in the evidence was made III his fac
tory. 1t was of a very common kind which |
had been on the market for years. On |
cross-examination of Patrick Brennan. an
other employe of O'Sullivan. the fact was
brought out that the lawyers for the de-
fense got a lot of their witnesses together
at O'Sullivan's house last Sunday and
went over their testimony in presence of
the entire company.
After James HyIand was sworn in the
Cronin case yesterday, his cousin, Jere-
miah Hyland, was called to the stard and
in brief examination substantiated the
testimony given by the former.
Hyland scarcely got through telling the
jury of his visit to Niemann saloon, on
the night of May 5th in company with
0'Sullivan and James Hyland. when a
young man stepped into the court room
and looked him over from head to foot.
The young man was Niemann, and he ex-
amined the witness as critical and cautious
as he did kunze and Coughlin-
That not the man at all. he said,
emphaticaly, and if it was. he added,
he hasn I told word of truth =
Both the Hylands In their testimony de-
clared that when they entered NIemann s
saloon between and 10 o'clock. there was
nobody present but Nieinanu himself
Niemann says that at the time they men
ton more than twenty men were IN his
saloon. He has given the names of sever
al Of them to the state and they viii be
called when the state opens its rebuttal
proceedings.
Policeman John Still endeayored to
prove that he, Coughlin and Whalen were
together on the night of the murder. The
chance question by Judge Longneeker:
Did you go to Pat Dinan's that night
and ask if the rigs were all IN: nit MS
evidence in the center and demolished it.
The witness at first said he did. and then
tried TO explain. though Forrest attempted
TO stop him. Still finally -aid that the
order 20 go to the stable was on ms desk
next morning after he drank with Cough
lin and Whzlen. That, according TO all
the other witnesses and the records was
Monday morning instead of Sunday, and
proved that the three were not together on
the night of the murder which was Satur
day. The alebi was completely ruined after
being built with so much care.
Jumped the Rails
PORTLAND, 0rer. Nov. 19.-The west
bound fast mail tram while running at the
average speed. thirty miles an hour, was.