The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-12-23
The Principal Witness i'm the Cough
lin Murder Trial Appears in
Court.
Judge Tuthill Decides to Admit Her
Testimony as to What She Saw
and Heard
Regarding the Conspiracy to Murder
DR.. Cronin-The Story She Told
the Jury.

10 tell In regard 10 the Cron1n murder,
wa brought into court early in the
morning. A long time was spent in
arguing whether or not her testimony
should be admitted. Judge Tuthill de-
cided TO admit her evidence as to what
she saw and heard, and her examination
was begun. During the examination
the defense interposed objections to al
most every question put by the state and
her story proceeded slowly. She stated
that she knew Coughlin, Martin Burke
and Patrick Cooney, all of them having
been at her home. Coughlin, she said,
first appeared there in March or
April, 1889. Several times she
said, Coughlin had visited her husband,
and the two talked in whispers. On
one visit, Mrs. Foy stated, she surprised
her husband and the prisoner while
reading q letter. Coughlin was reading
it aloud. AS she entered from another
room she caught the words
@Remove Him ut All Hazards,
but use you discretion" Coughlin had
stayed two hours that night, and then
went away without speaking to her.
Mrs. Foy then tolc Of two visits of
Cooney, at which he and her husband
had held conversations in low tones,
always with the door closed. The wit
ness was asked if Martin Burke had Wis
tied her husband. She replied in the
affirmative, telling Of a visit before May
4, at which Burke had talked with her
husband in the front room and in the
hall. The next appearance of Martin
Burke at her house was on the night of
May g., 1889. As the witness made this
statement Judge Wing objected. 1t was
the bitterly fought point of Thursday.
The court said: 81 have decided to
admit that evidence, but / will instruct
the jury to regard all acts of Martin
Burke after May A as tending to show
conspiracy, and not bearing upon the
guilt of Daniel Coughlin."
The witness said that on the night OF
May 12, some time after Cronin's disap!
p~earance, Coughlin called at her house
and asked for her husband. She told
Cougnlin she was afraid her husband
had been arrested, and he replied:
ooh, there is no proof against Andy
He'ssall right"
II said" continued Mrs. Foy, Cough
lin, this is an awful thing you have
done. DIR. Cronin win do you more harm
dead than alive. He laughed and said
need not worry. There is no danger
said he, but you win be taken care o
anyway. Don't worry. / asked hin
who was to take care Of me, and m,
little children. Oh, he said, don't mine
about that,
Alexander sullivan
is q good friend Of your husbands, an,
of mine, and he will take care of you.
The deep silence in court at this poin
for a moment was broken by the prose
cutting attorney resuming the examina
ton, and then o buzz of comment among
the spectators, a number of whom ex
citedly declared the woman a .straine,
witness"
"Coughlin came once before tina
time" continued Mrs. Foy, land told
my husband what luck he had in fool
|, ing Captain Setback and Captai
Schuetler about DR.. Cronin's body, an
where they had put it."
The witness said that several time
, Coughlin had assured her that there wa
no danger of her husband being al
rested, and told her that if she woul
keep quiet she would be well taken car
of. This ended her direct examination
Cross Examination.
When did you last see Mrs. T. I
Conkliny' was the first question Judg
Wing, of counsel for the defense
, launched at the witness. A marke
. change came over the expression Of MR.
Foy. To all of the prosecuting attorney
questions she had answered pleasant
and fully. Now her first words: ssLas
night" came out with an ~extraordinar
abruptness. Mrs. Foy seemed to /
! steeling herself against the attack Of til
3 defense. Her face hardened visibly, an
, she went on with an effort. The attorne
for the defense questioned the witnea
1 mercilessly upon all her relations wit
: Mrs. Conklin, the wife of the liqut
! dealer with whom DIR. Cronin boardes
{ The number of times the women ha
\ met and how recently were gone into !
detail. It was developed that the tw
women were in the habit of visiting Il
. gether regularly, and had been togeth.
Q Just before she came TO court. VIII
pressed closely to give the OF til
intimacy, Mrs. Foy declared s.She W,
the only friend / had"
r For q half hour the attorney col
y tinued 8 severe cross examination, an
was ct last reprimanded by the cour
Judge Tuthill declaring that Mrs. III
!, was being treated differently from 9TH
Y witnesses and she was not receivir
I common courtesy. The court adde,
4 II wish this performance ended"
81 object 70 the remarks Of q
z court" hotly replied Judge Wing I
!, the defense. There Il nothing d
Z courteous In my manner. and I am q
aiming the witness fairly"
Three Men KflIed.
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