The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-03
Fresh Fuel Added to the Never-Ending
Sensation by the Wife of One Of
the Conspirators.
REAL MURDERER AT LARGE
The Spy" Killed by Pat COOney,
Who Is Still a Fugitive.
Part Taken by Andrew FOy, Daniel
COughlin, Burke, OSullivan, Dawn
and Others.

CHICAGO, Dec. 1.-The Coughlin case
came to the front with its daily sensation
to-day when it was announced that the
prosecution is preparing TO ask for the dis
missal of another juror. The suspected man
is Henry T.. Taylor, and it is claimed that
during his examination some of his sworn
statements were not in accordance with
the facts. Af1davit regarding Taylor's
case will, it is said, be presented to Judge
TuthiIl on Monday. Meanwhile the yenire-
men are being examined, but as yet no jul
rors have been accepted to fill the vacan-
cies.
Mrs. Andrew Foy, who's will be the first
witness for the State in the Coughlin trial,
will, it is reported, testify that DR.. Cronin
was killed by a carpenters chisel welded
by Patrick Cooney, the l-ong-missing sus-
pect. The report has it that Martin Burke,
now dead, held Cronin while a policeman,
still on the force here. and whose first name
is said to be Michael, stood guard at the
door. Cooney is represented to be the only
one who struck the Doctor. and only
Burke, Cooney and the anonymous police
man suspect were in the cottage. Iceman
O'Sullivan is said TO have acted as guard at
the rear Of the cottage outside.
Coughlin, at present on trial, according to
the current narrative of what Mrs. Foy
will testify, was not at the cottage until
after Cronin's death, when Coughlin ar
rived in company with Mrs. Foy's husband,
Andrew Foy. The man who drove Cronin
to the Carlson cottage is said to have been
Martin Dawn. Of Hancock, Mich. u. B.
simmonds,' the purchaser of the furniture
discovered in the cottage, and who is ac-
cused of renting the fat at No. III Clark
street was it iS allpOod IamaS Cunupv q
grocery clerk, whose present whereabouts
are unknown. Foy is the man supposed
10 have been mistaken for the little Ger
man, Kune, by the milkman Mertes. One
Joseph McKenna is alleged to be the person
who drove to the Carlson cottage the
wagon utilized to carry away the corpse.
% TO HIS WIFE.
Mrs. Foy says that her husband frequent
ly spoke of Cronin as "a worse spy than
lie Caron,'' and that on the night of May
4 he was absent from home. During the
morning, mud stained and with hair dis
heveled, he returned, and explained to his
wife that he had helped remove another lie
Caron- The wife is said to have asked in
horror If he had helped commit a murder.
Murder nothing" Foy is said to have an
sNered. I'VE only killed a spy. You don't
call that murder"
Defendant Coughlin is spoken of as the
chief of the supposed expedition against the
spy whose removal was to ''subserve the
good of the cause" Coughlin is reported
to have been seen by Foy. when they en-
tered. to kick the PROSTATE form of the
Doctor and say: There, you won't tell any
more tales O'Sullivan, who had also en-
tered the house by this time, it is said, ex-
postulated, and it was also owing to the
ppman'C ohiacfinnS tbof N ,Jo, o. an A.
trunk with quick lime was abandoned and
the journey to the lake front was begun.
Mrs. Foy is alleged to have been eau
toned by Coughlin, some days later. to
keep her mouth Shut and not worry
about her husband; that she and her child
rem would be taken care of. 1t appears. if
the story can be relied on, that Mrs. Foy
had been upbraiding Coughlin for leading
her husband into the affair.
The extent OF Cunney's alleged part in the
plot was the renting of the fiat on Clark
street, popularity supposed to be the place
at first decided on for the scene OF the
taking off of the alleged spy, and after
wards abandoned as being too public n
place. Andrew Foy is reported to have
told his wife that Martin Dawn, who called
for the Doctor. was sent from Hancock.
Mich. by j. f. Ryan, of that place. Foy
is said to have brought home the chisel
with which the Doctor was killed and laid
it between the mattresses of Mrs. Foy's
bed.
THE CONSPIRATORS.
Burke and Cooney are said to be the
persons who rented the Carlson cottage.
Coughlin, according to the alleged forecast
of Mrs. Foy's testimony, was one of the
three men on the wagon that carried the
1o.tnrf- ~o~fp rro-, tIo 80 F:1r--r
Dawn. of Hancock. Mich. who to-day for
the first time is mentioned in the case, is
a laborer. He and Andrew Foy, who is a
bricklayer. are supposed to be in seclu-
sion. Grocery clerk Quincy. stonemason
Cooney and the man McKenna have also
long since disappeared. OF McKenna's &C.
cupation or identity little is known. La
borer Martin Burke and iceman O'Sullivan,
the others mentioned, have died, so that
Coughlin, now on trial. and the alleged
suspects still on the police force, are APP
parently the only ones on the list within
reach.
Foy is said TO have been chosen by lot
as one of the executioners of the supposed
spy, but Martin Burke objected on the
ground that Foy's family might suffer,
Burke volunteering for the place himself
instead. Foy's first explanation to his
| vile regarding the secret meetings. in FOy'S
house. was that DIR. Cronin. who was
active in politics. was trying to have de-
teetive Coughlin discharged from the police
force. and that some of Coughlin's friends
were privately devising means to save the
detective. So many alleged disclosures
in the case. have petered out on investiga-
ton. that the opinion is divided as to how
much basis there is for the present story,
but OF it's general FEASIBILITY there is lit
tie doubt.
Mrs. Foy's testimony, If given as above,
will be in the nature OF hearsay, and it is
probable the defense, If she should be a
witness. would succeed in excluding the
bulk. if not all of such a story as related.
Her appearance on the witness stand.
whether this should prove true or not. and
regardless OF whether the current forecast
of her testimony is or is not correct, has
long been eagerly awaited by those IA
miliar with the case.
Young Stevenson and His Bride.