The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-12-30
Observation-Disclosures. A


the defendant on the stand in this CON
nectiOn,
A Sensational Incident.
A sensational incident happened
while Mrs, Foy was being questioned
about money Inducements.
"Let MS hear her answer" said John
Dewey, head of the Cronin prosecution
committee and a we'll known figure in
Irish nationalist affairs.
"Do you know this mau?" Attorney
Wing asked the witness, pointing to
Devay.
slightly
You know him we'll, don't you, as
the private prosecutor in this case?"
II have met him good deal lately"
Attorney Bottum got excited and
protested against bringing Devoy's
name into the case. Only few min
utes elapsed before another exciting
scene occurred,
Mrs. Foy had been denying that she
swore at her husbund and qnurreled
with him She admitted that she
had said she knew all about the mur-
der to outside persons and that she was
quite as pure as the Virgin Mary.
Didn't you say on the 5th of May
that you did not believe Cronin was
murdercd?"
The state demanded that the cues
ton should be specific as to names and
the judge sustained the objection. At
torney Wing declared that his reason
for not mentioning names in his question
was that Joseph McKenna, one of the
men he had in hand. was being bounded
by the police because it was known he
would give evidence favorable to the
defense. He accused the police and
Seaman, the prosecuting lawyer,
OF snbjecting Mckenna to illegal
arrest, and of keeping him in
the sweat box" for hours Mt
the Chicago avenue station and said
the same Russian outrages We're being
perpetratcd on other witnesses for tho
defense.
ut is an outrage on this .prosecu-
tion," shouted Attorney Bottum, inter-
rupting. 81 call on Mr.. Scanlan to re-
pei this attack upon his honor" The
young lawyer accused had arisen with
flushed face and angry eye MS soon
He flashed out his statement to the
court, saying that McKenna had been
charged with the murder of Cronin
with others and it was.his duty as an
attorney for the state to interview him.
He had q right to do that and he noti-
fed the defense that he would talk to
more witnesses for the defense like Nc
Kenna in the same whenever he
pleased.
Strong Poiat for the Defense.
Then came the biggest play of the
defense. Mrs, Foy was shown three
letters which she acknowledged had
been written by her. At the conclusion
of her examination Attorney Wing put
them in evidence and read them to the
jury. They showed that Mrs. Foy
had offered her story first to the de-
fense, had threatened that she
would tell all to the state If she didn't
get rewarded, and put the witness be-
fore the jury in the light of disap-
pointed, revengeful woman who had
peddled murder story for money i'm
plicat,ng her husband and told it in
court after four years silence. The
letters were addressed to WIS. Forrest,
who was leading counsel for Cough
lin, Burke and O'Sullivan at the first
trial. They were written at the time
the appeal for new trial was being
heard before the supreme court. On
the redirect examination Mrs. Foy
swore that when she visited Forrest at
his Office Attorney Wing was called in.
She denied that she evor asked for
money. She appealed TO Mr. Wing to
admit that she said to him, I'VE didn't
get much money ourselves" Mrs Foy
directed her testimony at the senior
lawyer for Conghlin and placed him in
peculiar position. The situation be-
came novel and complicated, and Attor-
ney Bottum wanted Mr. Wing
to take the stand nt the proper
time. Mrs. Foy was anxious
to make the jury believe
she was actuatca by love for her hus-
band in wanting to make deal with
the state or defense and that his re-
formation was her only desire in life.
"If you don't charge my husband will
make public statement" were the
words she swore she addressed to
Forrest and Wing in the
formers office. She swore that
she told them very near
the same story she did in
court, when she visited FORESTS Office
THAT is not true. exclaimed Attor-
ney Wing.
do you expect to get n divorce Mrs
Foy?" asked Wing, knowing what her
answer would be-
we Catholics never get divorced"
"You want to accuse him of murder
and get rid of him that way"
"1tsis an outrageous accusation, y
shouted Attorney Bottum, on his feet
like flash.
That is all. Mrs. Foye," reioined
Attorney Wing, and the most sensa-
tional chapter in the history of the sec
ond trial of Daniel Coughlin was
closed.
Francis oyster industry Is the larg.
est Of its kind in Europe.
Proposed Yankton Bridge.
YANKToS. S. D., Dec. 2s.-W. H.
Young, representing the Missouri River
Bridge and Iron company of Leaven:
worth, was in Yankton to make the
preliminary arrangements for building
the iron railroad and wagon bridge
across the river. He said the site was
one Of the best on the river and that
the bridge could be built for less thar
100000. Mr.. Young will return tc
Yankton January IL with corps of en-
gineers for the purpose of making the
soundings for the piers. This company
intends to build tho bridge and foa,
the bonds themselves, &c they have
done with many other such structures