Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-06-12
HIS LOSSES WERE SMALL.

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Although Alexander Sullivan Invested .
Large Sum In Stocks. He Was Only
Caught to tho Extent of Sb,OOO-A witt
ness Who Declared He Could Put His
Hand on Cronin's Murderers, Fails to
Throw Any Light on the Crime When
Placed ON the Witness-Stand.
CHICAGO. June 1.-THE Cronin inquest
was resumed at 1915 o'clock a. n Thursday
}. W. Moore, cashier for j. r. Lester, pro-
duced statement showing the cash trans
actions OF Alexander Sullivan with J.
Il. Lester g. Co., from June 1, 1882
to April 10, 1883 The amount paid
in was $l33,SJ0. The total amount drawn
out by him from June ID, 1882, to June %.
1883 was $l15, 3lH0S in checks or cash and
5OO shares OF stock which were good for
$4,000 Sullivan's loss was $5,C0O. These
amounts were paid, principally in checks,
to Alexander Sullivan. From June ] to
October, !, 1882, Sullivan paid to the firm
about So, 900, and drew out about $4,000.
Thomas T. O'Connor testified that he had
been told by DIR. CrQnin several years ago
that he was afraid OF his life on account of
certain exposures he had made against
some local societies. Witness told him TO
take no chances. but to 90 armed He did So
Witness said he had been asked to do
some secret work for the order He didn't
know who it was that wanted him to do
the work He got the order one morning
from man who came into his Office. He
said that some men were going over the
water and he wanted witness to 60. too.
Witness promised to think over the matter
Witness talked with Cronin about the
order, and the latter said that there
were enough good honest men behind En-
gllsh bars now; that he didnt believe in the
policy of dynamite, and for witness not to
90 It, Witness didn't Cronin said that
those good Irishmen behind En-
glish bars had been given away az
soon as they had touched the shore
He said that he believed some one had be-
trayed Them but he mentioned no names
Witness knew Alexander Sullivan, but did
not know that he had any thing to do with
giving me the dynamite order Had heard
that Sullivan was then a member of the
executive body which governs the order.
but OF that was not certain
OCOnnOr said he was present at the trial
OF DR.. Cronin, but to his mind there was no
evidence to warrant his expulsion from the
organization. He was positive in his own
mind that the jury was packed. The circu-
lar was merely cloak to get him expelled
1t was alleged that the circular con-
tanned ideas antagonistic to the spirit of
the order. His expulsion was desired be-
cause of his possession of facts showing
the misuse of the funds of the organiza-
tion
The coroner concluded the examination
OF Witness O'Connor by saying to him that
the jury would be glad to hear from him
any thing that might throw any light on
the manner of Dr.. Cronin's death This
question was intended to give O'Connor a
chance to lay his hands on the men who
killed the doctor, as be promised to do soon
after the doctors disappearance. In an
swer Captain OConnor said Il wish to
God could throw some light on this ques-
tion"
At the afternoon session A. J. Ford, who
was senior guardian of Camp %, Gamma
Gael, previous to the election of John F.
Beggs, was called. Coroner Hertz has been
trying to locate some one from
whom he might force an account
of the alleged trial held in Camp 20.
or old Sc, at which DR.. Cronin
was tried as British spy and condemned
to death, in pursuance of which sentence
the doctors dead body was thrown in the
Lake View catch-basin. The persistence
with which the coroner put questions on
this point to the W theses Wednesday and
positive proof that such a trial was had,
and, as consequence of it, Dr.. Cronin was
murdered.
Mr.. Ford said that no order for any trial
was received, nor was any trial so held
while he was senior guardian of Camp 20.
None such had been held since his with
drawal from office, neither had there been
any private trial, nor any meeting of set
or clique OF the camp to try Dr.. Cronin
after manner of their own DR. Cronin
was tried and expelled from Camp 96 some
years ago on a charge of treason The
treason consisted in his reading docu-
ment which was forbidden to be read, and
Ford was there as a witness for DR.. Cronin
He was friendly and intimate with Cronin,
but never heard him speak as though he
thought his life was in danger Had never
heard any members of Camp 20 talk hos
tilely of Dr. Cronin. The latter never
spoke to witness about Alexander Sullivan.
John F. Finerty declares that he never
at any time referred to DR.. Cronin or DR..
McCahey in the language attributed to him
by Maurice Morris in his testimony on
Wednesday.