The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-27
THE CoUGHLIN TRIAL.
Mrs. Foy Agafn on the Stand-Devel-
opments Unimportant.

Chicago, Dec. 26.-The CoughHn
trial was resumed this morning with
Mrs. Andrew Foy on cross-examina-
ton.
In answer to questions, Mrs. Foy re-
peated the story of Coughhn's visit
to her house and consultations with
her husband after the murder of DR..
Cronin; of Coughlins telling her that
her husband was in no danger and
that in the event that he was arrested
she would be well cared for by Alex
ander Sullivan, ETC. To further ques-
tons she declared the prosecution had
made her no promise; that she no long
er loved her husband; that he left
her three weeks before the police be-
gan guarding her house. In answer
| to a question whether she had not
sent compliments to Coughlin when in
Jail, she replied: ''Those were sarcas-
tic remarks" In answer to another
question She declared it was not true
that she had accused her husband of
being the man who threw the anar-
chist bomb at the Haymarket, or that
she threatened to go to Judge Grinnel
and place her husband beside Spies.
Parson and the rest Of the anarchists
| The attorney for the defense then
placed before her a letter which she
admitted she wrote and mailed to
Attorney Forrest, one of the counsel
for Coughlin and the other prisoners
at the first Cronin trial. The attorney
said he would submit it in evidence la
ter The attorney also submitted an
other letter which with considerable
hesitation she admitted was her writ
ling
The Forrest letter bears the date of
June rs, 1892, and is unsigned. 1t says
before the supreme court in behalf of
the prisoners in October and tells him
the whole story will be out before that
time; that she is the wife OF one of
the chief conSpiratorS who has become
a drunkard and brute in his treatment
of her; that she knows and has talked
with most of the conSpiratorS and
knows the whole story; that she is
poor in purse and unless she is paid
for all the suffering she has undergone
she will expose the whole plot. She
says if Forrest wants to communicate
with her he can put a personal in the
Daily News, and she will reply.
The second letter was also to Forrest,
unsigned, and dated July 81, 1893 In
lit she says satisfaction must be had
at once and ends with the words, Give
Dan my regards"
The cross-examination is being con-
tinued and Mrs. F'oy denied she told
Bingley her husband was the only man
who trusted her and that she wished
she had some other evidence besides
what she got from him. She denied
she ever told him she had not heard
Alexander Sullivan'S name mentioned
in common gossip about the case. She
also vehemently denied she told Martin
Clarity she wished she knew some
thing about Alexander Sullivan so she
could bring him into the case, as that
would be the means Of making her
comfortable for life.
All this was carried on amid much
excitement and a chorus of strenuous
objections by the prosecution, but the
witness paid no attention to their in
structions not to answer. After a
period Of comparative silence, Judge
Wing, of counsel for the. defense, said /:
Now Mrs. Foy, didn't the prosecu-
ton give you any money!
The prosecution objected and then
deep voice at the reporters table was
heard to utter these words: Let her
give answer" 1t was discovered the
author of the remark was John Dewey.
a member of the Cronin committee and
a bitter enemy of Alexander Sullivan.
Judge Tuthill reprinanded Dewey mild
ly, and after some further talk, the
trial proceeded.
Mrs Foy admitted she was well ac-
quainted with Dewey, she also reluct-
antly admitted that George Bingley, a
detective for States Attorney Longe-
necker, the prosecutor at the former
trial. said he visited her twice or three
times in 1891.