Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-18
EXPECTING A NEW TRIAL.
The Cronin Murderers Confident II
Will be Granted Them.

There was . sound Of weeping in the visitors
cage Of the Chicago Jail yesterday morning.
The friends Of the four men who were con-
victsd in Judged DcConnell's court room called
on them and deplored their fate. Mrs. Coughlin
leaned against the iron bars and sobbed as
though her heart would break. She kept her
handkerchief to her eyes and wept while her
tall husband whispered through the wire screen
such words OF comfort and consolation Is he
could command.
O'Sullivsn's sister paid the iceman visit
and she wept quite as bitterly as Mrs. Coughlin
over her brothers fate. She was accompanied
by her husband, and here, as in the case of
Coughlin and bis wife, the person whom fate
had struck the hardest was the one who was
doing the comforting. Kunzes sweetheart and
q lady friend visited the German suspect, and
Kunze was jocose and tried to cheer them up.
Burke was all alone. No one called to see
him and he did not seem to fell hurt at his
isolation.
The prisoners regard the sentence as very
lucky for them and have taken heart again and
look forward with hope to the possibilities of .
new trial They will not be taken to Joliet
until a motion for new trial shall have been
passed upon by the supreme court, and this
process will consume year or more.
Judge Longenecker this morning had not
sufficiently recovered from his disappoin tment
at the verdict to be able to say how soon he
would put on for trial the jury-bribng con-
spiracy cases. Should the new trial be granted
to the convicted men, he says he thinks he can
hang them, but in view of the difficulty Of Sc
curing jury the authorities will resist the ap-
plication when it is argued January Is.
Beggs, in discussing the case, said the evil
dence had convinced him that Coughlin and
Burke were either guilty or thew knew a good
deal about the crime. O'Sullivan, he thought,
was innocent.
nat.ot;vo, rohn r;H. .ra NJ
Patrolmar Redmond Mcdonald. who testified
in favor of Daniel Coughlin in the recent
Cronin trial, yesterday received notices Of dis
missal from the force for conduct unbecom-
ing an officer and neglect Of duty"
"This Is only beginning of removals." said
an Official land from this time on you can look
for the removal Of Clan-na-G Gael men and their
sympathizers daily"
HOW THE JURY pELrBERArEp.
States Attorney Longenecker after a confer
ence with one of the Cronin jury, whose name
he withholds, told how the verdict was reached
As surmised Juror John Culver, who spent
much of his spare time during the long even
ings reading the Bible, was the influential fac
tor. The first incident in this connection oc-
CURED while the trial was in progress-the
time when Mrs. Conklin testified. That even
ing Mr.. Culver notified his fellow jurors that
he solemnly believed she had committed per-
jury. Later he thought Mrs. Hoertel was
liar and was OF the opinion that Martinsen, the
expressman, did not really know Burke, while
the Carlson's were plainly telling falseboods.
To illustrate as to Expressman Martinsen, Mr..
Culver told of O mistake made by the wife of
his partner, who one day saw man riding in q
buggy whom she was sure was Mr.. Culver, when
in point of fact she was entirely mistaken.
Mr.. Culver, as the trial neared the end,
seemed to see in nearly every witness for the
state vindictive or purchased purjurer. He
plainly limited that it looked like a conspiracy
on the states part. The matter of having wit
nesses under charge of detectives was one OF
the things he thought looked bad. He was not
sure DR.. Cronin ever went to the Carlson cot
tage, and when asked "How do you account for
the bloody trunk" said: "Why, for all we
know, dog may have been taken away in it."
The cause of DR.. Cronin's death had not been
with the idea that Daniel Coughlin had
"good" face.
When the time for balloting arrived Mr.. Gull
PENDANTS He steadfastly declared that Beggs,
particularly, he would not send to Jail even for
one day. The result was a long struggle and
repeated ballots, ending in the compromise
verdict announced. Farmer Pierson had voted
steadily for the execution of all five defendants
and was the last man to yield. 1t was he who
was holding out toward the end, and not until
an hour or so before the verdict reached the
public did he give in to the entreaties Of his
comrades. The leading thought of the major
ity of the jurors other than MIR. Culver and Mr..
Pierson seemed to be to prevent a disagree
ment. They apparently believed that a mis-
trial was what had been aimed at by the de-
Tense. E.-