The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-11-27
THE DEFENSE VERY WEAK.
o'sULLIvAN TRIES THE ALIeI DODGE.
Several of His Employees swenr That he Was
at Home and in Bed on the Night OF
the Siurder-Ihe Fool Report
eF's Little Sensation.

CHICAGO, Nov. 19.-The first witness in the
Cronin trial this morning was Policeman Red
mond Mcdonald. He testified that he saw
Dan Coughlin at the Eas. Chicago avenue
station at between S:45 and o'clock on the
night OF the murder. On crOss-examination
the witness fixed the time at 9 to 9:l5 o'clock.
On cross-examination the fact was developed
that the witness was q member OF camp 20,
Clan-na-Gael. He said that he remembered
seeing Coughlin that night About q week
after, when COughlin's name was first mixed
up in the Affair." the witness mentioned the
faet to Officer Scott who was also a member OF
the notorious camp, and said he was afraid he
would get mixed up in the matter. He
acknowledged that this fear had kept him
from speaking on the matter Notwithstanding
the peril in which his silence lett his friend
Coughlin. Ii was last Saturday that the wit
ness first told Capt. Schuetter, when the latter
asked him about it, The witness admitted that
he first said that the time at which he saw
Coughlin on that night was between $3.50 and
o'clock.
A sensation was caused on cross-examina-
ton when the witness was forced to admit that
Coughlin's name was not coupled with the
tragedy until May 25 though he had previous
ly said that he first learned COughlin was con-
nected with the murder about a week after the
doctors disappearance.
William Mulcahy swore he had known
O'Sullyan since April 4, and had worked for
him on an ice wagon When he was feeling
bad O'Sullivan had told him to 60 to DR..
CTonin as he (O'Sullivan) mad q contract with
the doctor to treat all his men, OSulivan
had told other men the same thing in the hear
ing OF witness. Witness had got fifty of OSul-
o.fu hue rAu nd lfefr tod
them. By its cross-examnatiOn the state in
sinuated that Mulcahy had driven DR.. Cronin
to his death, but this failed. Witness testified
that on the night of the murder he and O'Sul-
livan had slept together and O'Sullivan had
not been out Of the house. Witness had been
q collector for O'Sulivan but couldn't remem-
Der anyone from whom he had collected any
thing.
Thomas Whalen, O'Sullivan's cousin, swore
that O'Sullivan was not out OF the house on
the nights of May or 8.
William Glenn, a reporter, swore that Mrs.
Conklin told him that Dinan's horse didn't re-
semble the one behind which Dr. CrOnin was
driven away. This after Capt. Setback
had asked her to identify the horse.
Edward Jones, Ne1cs reporter, testified that
he went to the Carlson cottage several days
after the discovery of DIR. Cronin's body. He
went in company with another reporter
story had been told that morning in a vague
way about the Carlson cottage and, as a Joke,
and q piece of liver, the blood from which they
smeared upon the cotton, They went into the
cellar and put some of the blOod-stained bat
ting In the chinks in the ceiling and in some
rathOles in the floor. He did not put it there
TO furnish material for n sensation in his paper.
Neither he nor the other reporter put any of
the blood-stained batting in the cottage up
stairs
CHICAGO, Nov. 21.-Just as Judge McCon-
nell was about 10 enter the courtroom this
morning he was met at the door by who
introduced himself as j. s. Martin. Mr. Martin
said he had knowledge that was of value 10
one of the defendants in the Cronin case-Dan
Coughlin. lie did not want 70 he mixed up in
he case n any way, he said, and for that
reason had not spoken before. AT this stage
of the case, however his conscience would not
let him rest till he had related what he knew.
He acted only in the interest of justice, he
said. and not knowing just what to do, con-
cluded to see Judge Mcconnell. His story
was that he had seen Dan COughlin between
and 10 o'clock on the night of May at the
Chicago-ave. pOlice-statiOu. Before going
with the proceedings Judge Mcdonnell called
the states attorney and Mr.. Forrest TO the
bench and informed them what Martin had re-
lated to him. Martins story, if true, cor
roborates the testimony of Officer Mcdonald,
who swoTe he saw COughlin enter the Chicago
ave. station about O'Clock that night. Martin
will probably be placed on the witness stand
tomorrow.
When court met Liverym an Dinan testified
that the horse which was supposed 10 have
hauled Cronin to his death was now in dime
museum. Louis Budenbender of Hoboken, n.
j., testified that on the evening OF the murder
he was in JeckePs cigar store opposite DR..
Cronin's residence. He was DO sitive that he
was in the cigar store at o'clock and may
have remained there until or 9 o'clock. After
he had been there q few minutes he noticed the
horse and buggy in the front of DIR. Cronins
office. lt was an ordinary side-bar buggy. and had
the top up. He saw DR.. Cronin and another
man come from the house and start TO the
buggy. The driver started for the horse while
the doctor started for the buggy. There was
some man on the sidewalk near the house line
who called TO DR.. Cronin and attracted his
attention, for the doctor turned around, but
still kept going toward the buggy. Tnen the
driver went to the horses head and unhitched
the horse, went to the buggy and got in, and
sat on the west side; then DIR. Cronin got in;
he was talking to this man all the while, so it
seemed, because witness could not hear any
thing he said from that distance, then they
shifted their seats and this man got in front OF
the doctor and then they sat down and went
of. DIR. Cronin had what appeared to be q
small chest or box, which might have con-
tanned his instruments or medicine. The wit
ness was standing in the door of this cigar store
looking at the horse for about fifteen minutes
and saw 1t before the men came down and all
the incidents Of their departure. The horse was
a speckled gray with dark legs. The horse at
the dime museum not the horse that drove
DR.. Cronin away and did not resemble it.
Then a couple of microscopists testified that
there way OF identifying human blood
as such or human hair and court adjourned.
CHICAGO, Nov. 25.-The testimony in the
Cronin case practically ended to-day, though
the state announced that il might have wit
ness or two tomorrow. William Mertes, the
mllkman who saw Cronin enter the Carlson
cottage, admitted that he had told police Off
GERS he wasn't sure of the day and thought the
horse driven by the mnrderers was bay with
white face. Policeman Crow corroborated
the admissions. J. w. Frelck testified that
Kunze worked for him all day May and the
Monday after. Henry Mcbride and Dyer
Thompson testified that at 2:30 p. m, March
10, when old man Carlson said he heard Burke
tell O'Sullivan that he had rented the cottage,
O'Suliven was several miles away. The record
Of camp 20 for Feb. 5 was admitted for
Defendant Beggs over Mr. Forests objection.
The court ruled out the testimony of DIR.
Patrick Curran, to the effect that James Lyman
had told him the executive board had ordered
Cronn's death. Alfred Kettner testified that
he had seen Witness Koch, for the defense, in