St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-11
The Assassins of DR.. Cronin
Fly in the Face Of
Fortune.
Having Escaped the Gallows
By a Scratch They Want
to Go Free.
Footpads Relieve the City
Treasurer of a Big
Roll.
EVietions of Strikers at PUNK
satawney Almost Result
in a Riot.

CHICAGO, Jan. 10.-Late this after
noon Attorneys Wing, Donahoe and
Forrest filed motion for new trial in
the cases of Coughlin. Burke, O'Sulli-
van and KunZe, convicted of the murder
of DR.. Cronin. The motion was filed
to-day in accordance with the order of
Judge Mcconnell, before whom the
arguments will be made Monday. The
motion assigns thirty-nine causes of
error in the rulings of Judge McCon-
nell during the trial of the case. These
grounds OF alleged error embrace every
point contested by the attorneys for
the defense. and range from an Objec-
tion to the courts Overruling
the motion to quash the indict-
ments up to the assertion that
the defense has, since the trial. discov-
cred new evidence which entities them
to a new trial. The first error alleged is
that the court erred in everything the
motion to quash the indictment made on
behalf of each of the defendants. The
denial of Coughlin's motion for sepa-
rate trial is made the basis of four of the
alleged errors, there being separate
count for each of the defendants. The
refusal of the court to permit the de-
fense to show that MesSrs. Mills, Ing
ham and Hynes were employed in the
prosecution by private parties who were
ACTUATED BY IMPROPER MOTIVES
is alleged to have been preiudicial to
the defendants. The courts allowing
these three lawyers to assist in the
prosecution is said to be an error. Mr..
HYnes is made subject of special
count in the motion, in which he is said
to have been moved by spirit of per-
sOnal hostility toward Coughin, Burke
ri Stfl t,aEf %Oo
a prosecuting attorney. The overrul-
ing of the challenge for cause, preferred
by the defendants to long list of
veniremen whose names are given in
the motion, is further alleged to be an
error. Side remarks made by the states
attorney while examining Jurors are
charged to have been improper. Judge
Longenccker'S opening statement to
the jury is C ted as an error, and char
acterized as improper and Illegal and
prejudicial to the rights Of the defend
ants. 1t is also alleged to have been an
error in the case for the failure of the
court to enforce the rule excluding wit
nesses for the state from the court room
during the trial. 1t is charged that i'm
proper remarks of the counsel tor the
state excited the
PASSIONS AND PREJUDICEs
of the jurors against the defendants. 1t
is charged as error,t that the prosecution
was permitted to introduce as evidence
and exhibit to the jury the clothing, in
struments and hair of DR.. Cronin, the
false teeth, the trunk, and all the ma
terial evidence in the case. The intro
duction of DR.. Cronin's knives, after the
state had closed its case, is said to have
been in error. Objection is made to
number of the instructions given to the
jury by the court The verdict is pro-
nounced as contrary to law and not
justified by the. evidence, and finally it
is said that ''the defendants and each
one of them have discovered evidence
which entities them to a new trial."