The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-12-27
MRS. FOY DIsCREDITED.
She Had Previously Negotiated Wi
Counsel for the Defense.

CHICAGO, Dec. 26-The Coughlin trial
was resumed this morning with Mrs. An
drew Foy on cross examin alton. In an
swer to questions Mrs. Foy rehearsed the
story of Coughlin's visits TO her
house and consultations with her
husband after the murder of DR..
Cronin: of Coughlin's telling her
that her husband was in no danger, and
that in the event of his being arrested she
would be we'll cared for by Alexander Sui
livan, etc. To further questions she de-
clared the prosecution had made her no
promises; tina. she no longer loved
her husband, and that he left
her three weeks before the police began
guarding her house. In answer to the
question whether she did not send compli-
ments to Coughlin when he was in Jail she
replied: "Those were sarcastic regards :"
In answer to another question she
declared 1t was not true that she
had accused her husban! of being
the man who threw the anarch-
ist bomb at the Haymarket riots, or that
she threatened to go to Judge Grinnell and
place her husband besides Spies, Parsons
and the rest of the anarchists. The at
torney for the defense then placed before
uSE letscI WHICH sue duHltteQ
she wrote and mailed to Attor-
ney Forrest. one of the counsel
for Coughlin and other. prisoners at the
first cronin triai The attorney said he
would submit il in evidence later. The at
torney also submitted another letter,
which with considerable hesitation
writing. All this was carried on amid
much excitement and chorus of strenu-
Gus objections by the prosecution, but tho
witness paid no attention to their instruc-
tons not to answer.
After period of comparative silence,
Judge Wing. for counsel for defense, said !:
Now. Mrs. Foy, didn't the prosecution
give you any money!" The prosecution
objected. Then a deep voice at
the reporters table was heard
to utter these words: "Let her
give an answer" Ii was discovered that the
author of the remark was John Dewey. a
member of the Cronin committee and . bit
ter enemy OF Alexander Sullivan. Judge
Tuthili reprimanded Dewey mildly, and
after some further talk the trial proceeded.
Mrs. Foy admitted that she was we'll ac-
quainted with Dewey. she also reluct-
antiy admitted that George Bingley, q
detective for States Attorney Lopgnecker,
prosecutor at the former trial, had visited
her two or three times in 1891.
Mrs. Foy denied that she told Bingley her
husband was the only man who trusted
her and that she wished she had some
other evidence beside what she got fror.
him. She denied that she ever told him she
had not heard Alexander Suilivan's name
mentioned in common gossip about the
case. She also vehementiy denied that
she told Martin Clarity she wished she
knew something about Alexander Sulli-
van. so she could bring him into the case
as that would be the means of making her
comfortable for life.
Mrs. Foy's first letter 20 Forrest bears
date OF June -. 1s92, and is unsigned. 1t
saws the writer hears Forrest is going be-
/ fore the supreme court. in behalf of the
prisoners. in October, and tells them
the whole story will he out
before that time; that she is the
wife of one of the chief con-
spirators, who has becoms irunkard and
brute in his treatment of her; that she
knows and has talked with most OF the
eonspiraiors, and knows the whole
story; that she is poor in purse,
aud unless she IS pad for ali
the suffering she has undergone she
will EXPOSE the whole plot She says
/ IT Forrest wants TO communicate with her
| he can put personal in the Daily Ne,rs
| aud she will reply. The second letter.
| also TO Forrest, was unsi gned. and dated
/ January Il, 1888 In Ii she says satisfac-
| ton NUT be had at once, and ends with
| the worts: "Give Dan my regards