St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-06-13
Judge Tuley Will Consider the
Matter and Render a De-
ciSiOn Tomorrow.
A Special Grand Jury Impan-
eled to Consider the Cr0-
min Case.
A Jealous Man Cuts OF His
Wife's Head and Then Takes
Prussic Acid.

S. Trude. w. j. Hines, Judge Gilbert
and Senator Duncan went to the court
house and held consultation with
Judge Tuley. Then the lawyers
went into private room and
consulted together until :15. when
Mr.. Hines appeared in Judge Tuley's
court with petition made out in the
regular form, asking for writ of habeas
corpus. The petitioner was Alexander
Sullivan himself. The petition sets
forth that the verdict of the coroner's
jury, on the strength of which he was
committed, is insufficient to hold him
and deprive him of the benefit of bail.
The evidence produced before the
coroner's jury, on which the YER
dict was rendered, was insufficient
to justify the commitment on any
charge. There was no competent evil
dence, direct or circumstantial, offered
or admitted against the petitioner tend
ing to prove that he was guilty of DIR.
Cronin's murder or accessory thereto,
or had guilty knowledge thereof, or
knowledge of any plot or conspiracy to
accomplish the same. The coroner also
permitted large number of witnesses
to testify to statements alleged to have
been made by Cronin in his lifetime as
to what Cronin suspected in relation to
Sullivan, and that the coroner permitted
a large amount of incompetent and
wholly irrelevant testimony to
be introduced before the jury,
calculated to prejudice the jury
against him, without shedding any light
on the question being investigated. The
verdict, so far as it reflected on the con-
duet of Sullivan, was the result of
passion aud prejudice, created by the
incompetent and irrelevant testimony
admitted by the coroner. The testimony
heard was so voluminous that it was
impracticable to set it out. Sullivan
says he is not guilty of the crime with
which he is charged. and that he has
had no connection whatever with the
murder of DR.. Cronin. He asked that
he be brought into court at o'clock.
Judge Tuley so ordered, and when Mr..
Sullivan appeared shortly after that
hour and made dignifed bow to the
bench he was as
COOL AS A CUCUMBER.
To see his calm face, his self-possessed
air. his spotless linen and faultless at
tire no one would have imagined that
he had been taken from bed the night
before, and confined in the interval in a
not over-inviting cell in the county Jail.
At the outset State Attorney Long
checker filed demurrer to the proceed
ings on the ground that the evidence
against Sullivan had not been moor
porated in the petition for the writ of
habeas corpus; but it was soon devel-
oped that the opinion he cited in SUD-
port of his position had been rendered
twelve years before the enactment of
the present habeas corpus act. Stirring
arguments in behalf of Sullivan's adj
mission to bail were then made by A. S.
Trude and ex-Senators Gilbert and Dull
can. They held that there was not jot or
little in the evidence presented at the
inquest that justified the deprivation of
Sullivan of his liberty; that dog would
not be judged on the mass of gossip and
suspicion that went to make up the case
against him, and that the verdict of the
jury lacked coherency or definite char
acter. In replying the states attorney
admitted that the case against Sullivan
was not so strong as against some of the
other prisoners. but objected to action
being taken while the grand jury was
considering the case. Judge Tuley re-
viewed the situation at length. He said
that on the facts presented he should be
inclined to discharge the prisoner, were
it not for the fact that the grand jury
had the case in hand. The verdict
was exceedingly indefinite and informal.
The states attorney he thought should
show that there was sufficient cause to
hold the prisoner. A long discussion
ensued, and finally at Mr.. Sullivan's
request Mr.. Trude agreed to join issues
with the state and let the judge read
over the testimony taken at the in
quest, Judge Tuley saying that he
would consider it legally and without
prejudice. Sullivan was then remanded
to Jail until 10 o'clock on Friday morn
ing, when the court will render the de-
cision. If the evidence is not sufficient
in the courts opinion he can discharge
the accused if no Indictment is re-
turned, and admit him to bail if there is
an Indictment.
The special venire for the jury was
returned into court by Sheriff MatsOn
in person. He stated that he chose the
Jurors by turning to the business part
of the directory and selecting the
names of men well known in particular
branches of business, with special care
that no one should be drawn who enter
tanned prejudices for or against the
Clan-na-Gael. Judge Shepard appointed
John II. Clough foreman of the jury.
Following is the roster of the jurors:
D. S. Dewey, president American
National bank; H. P. Kellogg, of Kel-
logg, johnson & Bliss. wholesale hard
ware; w. K. Forsyth, wholesale drug
gist: j. Il. Clough, wholesale PROVISIONS;
J. McGregor Adams, president Adams
& Westlake company. is also
park commissioner; Jacob Gross,
banker, has served as state treas
urer, and as clerk of the circuit court;
Francis B. Peabody (banker), was pres
ident of the Citizens association during
the "boodler" trials; W. H. Beebe (com-
mission merchanN; j. F. Wollensak
hardware merchanD; Isaac jackson
(stenographer; H. S. Peck (president
Chicago jewelers. association); w. j.
Quan Wholesale grocer; Henry
Greenbaum Insurance agent(;
G. Gilbert Wheeler president
Wheeler Chemical works.; j. G.
w. Rhode (painter); George W. Waite
(civil epgineer); Henry A. Knott (real
estate dealer); William D. Kerfoot real
estate dealer); D. A. Pierce (real estate