Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-11-20
SWEARING TO ALIBIS.
0'SULLIYAN'S EMPLOYEES MAKE GOOD
WITNESSES
For ihs Cronm SusPeci-fhey Establish Strong
Case The Ice Man in His Rom all
Nigh. On May 4-Ihs Testimony
Yesterday.

CAICAGO, November 10 The first wit
ness in the Cronin trial this morning was
Policeman Raymond Mcdonald. He tesii-
fed that he saw Dan COughlin at the
East Chicago Avenue Station between s;45
and o'clock on the night of the murder.
On cross-examinatiOn the witness fixed the
time at frsm to 9;15 O'Clock. The fact
was developed that the witness was a
member of Camp 20, Clan-na Gael. He
said that he remembered seeing OOughlin
that night, abOut a week after when
COughlin's name was first mixed up in the
sffair. The witness mentioned the fact to
Officer Scott, who was also a member of
Camp 20 but did not speak Of il TO Others
for fear that, as a member Of the notorious
camp, be would get mixed up in the mat
tor.
WHY HE KEPT SILENT.
He acknowledged that this fear had kept
him from speaking On the matter, notwith
standing the peril in which his silence left
his friend COughlin in. II was last SatuT-
day that the witness first told Captain
Schuettler, when the latter asked him
about it. The witness admitted that be
first said that the time at which he saw
Coughlin on that night was between $3.50
and o'clock.
Ga oross-exsmination the witness be.
came confused, and said he first remem-
bsred seeing Coughlin on the evening OF
May 4, about week alter, when Cough
Inns name became connected with the
case. he could not explain how this was,
when COughlin was not suspected until
three weeks after the murder.
AN IMPORTANT WITNESS.
William Mulcahy was the next witness.
He testified that he had known O'Sullivsn
since April he was not q member Of
the Clan ma Gael. A few days after he
met O'Sullivan he WAS with him on an ice
wagon when they met man who resem-
bled Coughlin The latter asked O'Salh-
van if be was well acquainted at LakevieW
and be said yes Aud he asked him II be
knew young man by the name of Kunza
it be saw him, telephone 10 the Cnicsg
avenue police station aud tell him II want
to sea him. The witness mad heard
O'Sullivan speak Of his contract with Dr.
/ Cronin. The witness, who was an EN-
plOyee of O'SullivsD, eOmplsined that one
/ OF his feet hurt him. and O'SullivAn told
/ the witness TO 20 and SEQ DR.. Oronin about
| it, as he, O'Sullivan, had contract with
I CrOnin 70 take care of his men. This was
said in the presence of O'Sullivan's other
mea. O'Snlivan also told the men on
] ha h,I .f
with doctor to attend any one who Was
hurt on the ice wagon.
AN ALIBI FOR o'sULLIvAN.
IRE witness went on to say that in the
latter part of April. James Meahan, one OF
O'Sullivan's men, Weat to the Office of the
Lakeview Record and got II lot OF O'Sulli-
vans newly printed cards He gave the
witness about fifty of them and the Wit
uess distributed them. Ga the day Of the
murder, the witness further testified,
O'Sulhvan and he were on the ice wagon
together; they had supper together, both
read during the evening, going to bed At
the same time and sleeping in the same
bed. Later on two Of O'Snllivsn's men
and a carpenter who was working there,
came TO the door. They were let in.
After that Mrs. Whalen came into the
room TO get a cot bed and spoke to O'Sul-
hvan. The witness farther testified that
he heard the conversation between old man
Carlson and O'Sulhvan about the tenants
of the Carlson cottsge.
CONTRADICTED CARLSON.
The old man testified that O'Sullivan
said be knew the men and they were all
right THIS witness testified that O'Sulli-
van said he knew none of them. On cross
examination the witness said that O'Sulli-
van was not out Of the house after supper,
that he went TO bed about 9 O'Clock. The
men who were out came in at about 10
O'Clock or half-past. The States Attorney
endeavored to elicit from the witness the
statement that in his evidence before the
cOroner's Jury be had stated that he did
not hear the conversation, but when
| O'Sullivan and the elder Carlson, but the
witness persisted that be never so testified.
SENSATIONAL CROss-RXANINATIoN.
The cross examination took sensation.
al turn, the evident intention being to di
rect suspicion towards the witness as the
man who drove the white horse which
drew DR.. Oronin to his death. The wit
ness. however, denied he had ever worn a
beard similar to that of the man who was
identified as having driven the buggy.
Thomas WhaleD, a cousin OF Patrick
| O'Sullivan. was the next witness He waa
married and his wife kept boarding
house, at which O'Sullivan and his men
/ lived. He was not a member Of any Irish
society. He testified that on Sunday, May
). he returned from work. He found the
two Hylands with 0'Sullivsn at his house.
Trey also had supper. He remained
home, when the two men and OSulhvan
went out and was there when O'Sullivau
returned about half an hour later. he
remembered the night before, and that
O'Sullivsn sat next TO him at supper.
! Abou, halfpsst eight his wife and sister
went out, and O'Sullivan and some other
men were sitting in the kitchen. Soon
after the women went out, at about o
quarter to nine, O'Sullivsn went TO bed.
WAS there anything to attract your at
tention 10 that2" asked the lawyer"
''My little girl hallOed after him. She
was in the rocking chair, and be started
back, and came back and kissed nay little
oirl l went to bsd about half an hour
after O'Sullivan."
Ia the afternoon James Knight and
Jane Minnehau, two employees of O'Snlli-
van, were called and cOrroborated Null
eahy's testimony establishing OSnllivan's
alibi. On cross-txsminstion the fact was
brought out that the lawyer for the de-
fense had got a lot of these witnesses
together ct OSullivsn's house Sunday
and went over their testimony with them.
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