Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-06-06
Dr.. Croniin' 5 Friends.
They Testify Directly Against
Alexander Sullivan.
CLAN-NA GAEL MEN ON THE STAND.

The Threats Against the Doctor Common
Talk Among the CIansmen-The Victims
Repeated Assertions That His Lie Was
Sought-SulIivan's Bank Accountable
Money Drawn Out on Checks in Favor
of a Brokers Fran.
Cronin inquest yesterday was directed
toward establishing the fact that the de-
ceased was firmly impressed with the idea
that his life was endangered through the
Vaccinations of Alexander Sullivan. Maui
rice Morris, member of the Gamma Gael
said that at the last convention he had heard
several delegates say that Cronin and DIR.
McGahey, of Philadelphia, ought to be gotten
rid of. Cronin had told him that he believed
McGeehan, the Philadelphian. had come to
Chicago at the instigation of Alexander Sui
Ivan to kill him
A Clan-na-Gael Official.
Joseph O'Byrne, senior guardian of Camp
3G6, swore that on the day before the physi-
clan disappeared Cronin had told him that
he was badly broken up and discouraged,
and that he believed he would give up and
icb tuoSt idscdiS, AftNdIiuef SULLIVAN ana
Recorder of Police Michael Boland, of Kan
sas City, complete their murderous design
and kill him. O'Byrne went on to say that
he had heard McGeehan say that Cronin and
McGahey ought to be killed, because they
were scoundrels. He had heard that there
WAS trial in Camp 20, but knew nothing
definite on the point. He did not, however,
believe that Cronin was a traitor. Closely
he aAp tad hot A.
had been tried and convicted came to him
through friends of the latter
Cronin's Charges Repeated.
T. McGary, Lake View boilermaker, and
intimate friend of the dead man, gave his evil
dence with SO much dramatic effect that once
or twice he was applauded. He testified that
Cronin had several times told him that his
life was in danger; that Alexander Sullivan,
if he was murdered, would be found to have
been the instigator, and that there were pa
pers in his safe which would connect Sullivan
with the deed Witness told how he went to
Toronto and met Long, the reporter who was
responsible for the circumstantial stories re-
garding Cronin having been seen in that city
McGary offered him $1,000 to suhstantiate
what he had written, but he could not do it.
Instead he said: Il wish to God | had never
had anything TO do with this business"
The Common Talk in the Clan.
He had heard that Ice-Dealer Sullivan.
Detective Coughlin and Detective Whalen
were members of Camp 20 1t was mat
ter of daily conversation among the men,
bers of the Clan that there was a conspiracy
to kill Cronin. At one meeting of Camp 20,
when the witness remarked that the man
who gave LIE Caron his credentials was worse
than lie Caron himself, Lawyer Beggs re-
marked: There must be union and amity
among Irishmen, even if there has to be
war"
Closely questioned, witness SAID that the
man who gave lie Caron his credentials was
Lawrence r Buckley, of this city. This
created a sensation. Responding to another
question the witness said, dramatically: 81
thank God that / don't belong to any organi-
cation of which Alexander Sullivan is
member, for l consider that man is the cause
of all the disgrace and s!urs that have been
put upon the Irish people"
Sullivan's Bank Account
The last witness was Byron l. Smith, re-
ceiver of the Traders bank He showed by
checks on file and ledger entries that in the
summer of 1882 Alexander Sullivan had al
together 500. 600 in the banks, of which 80
600 was a personal account and the balance
credited to alexander Sullivan, agent. n
By Sept 6. 1882, all this money had been
drawn out on checks made payable to j. T.
Lester q Co, brokers A member of this
firm will be summoned
Woodruff Denies Schaack's Story.
Woodruff yesterday emphatically denied
that he made the confession attributed to
him Tuesday by Capt Setback to the effec,
that he saw Sullivan pay a large sum of
money to two men in a saloon.