Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-12
HIS BITTER FOE.

HIS BITTER FOE.
Or. Cronin So Considered Alexander
snllivan-He Dwelt in Daily Anticipa.
ton OF Violent Death, and Told
Friends That IT His Prophecy Should
he Realized, He Thought the RESPONSE
biiity for His Fate Would Rest will, the
Chicago Lawyer.
CHICAGO, June Gall the evidence in thu
cronin inquest Wednesday was directed
| coward establishing the fact that the de-
,eased was firmly impressed with the idea
| that his life was endangered through the
vaccinations Of Alexander Sullivan
| Patrick McGarry testified that in Septem-
rial in Buffalo, that his life was in danger
: Mac, said he, I believe that man Alex
lnder Sullivan will be the in
'tigator OF my death. There are pa
oers and atfidavits relating to this
business, and in them Alexander Sullivan's
! lame is mentioned, in Mr.. Conklin's safe,
| md If any thin : happens to me I will rely
! III you to give them to the author
| ties One day three weeks before
| Ills death. DR.. Cronin, talking of that time,
| said: 1t may have been Hateful night to
ne. took my life in my hand, but am
| determined to expose Alexander Sullivan
| md his thievery and treachery to the Irish
people,
Mr.: McGarry said that after the disappear
ance of DR.. Cronin many of the latter's
friends believed that he was alive and had
| possibly lost his reason. Witness and
others who knew the inside OF the
irish fractional troubles felt sure that
Crcnin had been murdered, and when the
Toronto story Of Cronin's appearance was
orinta6 IUitnaSS was GO MT fo Tnropto tn IN.
vestigate it. He went also to Wilmington
md East st. Louis, Ill and St Louis, Mo. AS
witness expected, he found that Cronin had
| never been seen in Toronto or any other
| olace
Why did you think DR.. Cronin had been
| nlrdered?'
II knew it from the feelings Dr. Cronin
lad borne during the last three years. |
Knew how he was trying to expose the
| ;hievery and treachery of this man Sulli-
| van, who was also trying to drive
aim from.the position he assumed OF being
IN honest leader of noble people knew
for the reason that in DR.. Crcnins paper
here appeared ever-- week articles and
'quibs which were to this man Sullivan like
sticking knife between his ribs and turn
| ng it around.
| The witness had never heard INV direct
! threats made against DR.. Cronin, but had
heard words from which Cronin's friends
| could draw their conclusions There was
/ meeting of camp 20 at Turner Hall, and
1T it john F. Beggs said: There must be
1nion and unity among Hishmen if there
las to be war; This was on the occasion
If Mr.. McGarry's saying that the man who
gave LIE Caron his credentials was worse
han LIE Caron himself.
Who gave the credentials to lie Caron:'
| When McGarry replied: Lawrence
Buckley there was a sensation in the
:ocm- John F. Beggs supposed that I
meant Alexander Sullivan I told him I
hadn't mentioned Alexander Sullivan's
same. He said l had better not because
Alexander Sullivan had lots OF friends, one
If whom he was"
Michael Barry, a carpenter who lives at
AS Illinois street, took the stand Mr Barry
g member of camp 23t, United Brother
lood. DR.. Cronin belonged to camp
"a, and two years ago he spoke to wit
| aess of the efforts OF certain persons to
| destroy his character or his life They
| ire trying to destroy my character and if
| hey can't do that they viii kill HE. They
| may kill me, but they can't destroy my
| character, which is dearer to me than my
| life
"Who DR.. Cronin say was threatening
| nj NO
alexander Sullivan was the man who
Dr.: Cronin said would be responsible for his
death if it occurred DR.. Cronin told HE
that on one occasion he was called to a
strange house to see man who was hurt
He saw a man lying on the bed and he did
It like the looks of the five OF six men he
Jaw there. and he said: My God! Did you
| oring me here to murder me?' and he went
Town the stairs in two StepS'
! At the afternoon session Maurice Nor
ris in answer to question rs TO whether
be had ever heard any threats made against
DR.. Cronin, said: Yes, I heard John F.
Finerty say last June: Those - doctors
must be got rid off, meaning Doctors
Cronin and McCahey'
Mr.. Morris knew DR.. Cronin very we'll
and the doctor had several times told him
that he expected to be assassinatcd for
The cause he was trying to better and im-
prove" He expected trouble through
Alexander Sullivan. While Cronin never
told witness that Sullivan had threatened
| would seek to have him 'Tcmoved'
because he had proof that would
convict Sullivan of erubezzling
large amount of money belonging to the
Irish cause. The doctor told Mr.. Morris
that Major Sampson had told him that he
had been hired to kill the Doctor He also
said that he believed Mcclellan, tile Phla-
delphian, had come to Chicago at the in
stigation of Sullivan to kill him.
Joseph O'Byrne swore that the Friday
night before the disappearance the doctor
said to him that ''he was tired of the
wrangling; that it was wearing him our,
and he thought he would give it up and let
the r"ecals accomplish what they wanted
to- cd him he was gone 100 far on the
| the road he replied: You know, Joseph,
that these two rascals have the power to Go
r.at injury The two rascals alluded tc
ere Michael Boland, police recorder OF
Kansas City, and Alexander Sullivan. OF
Chicago The doctor was very much de-
pressed and seemed as though some trouble
was hanging over him.
O'Bylne went on to say that he had heard
McGeehan say that Cronin and McGahey
ought to be killed because they We're
scoundrels He had heard that there was
trial in Camp -, but knew nothing def
mite on the point He did not, however,
believe that Cronin was traitor, Closely
pressed O'Byrne admitted that rumors tina.
Cronin had been tried and convicted came
to him through friends of the latter
The last witness was Byron c. Smith, re-