Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1893-11-09
DAN COUGHLIN.

of Daniel Donahoe and ex-Judge
Russell NJ. Wing. The defendant was
not brought into court until the law
yers were ready to proceed. He was
brought over from the Jail by Bailiffs
Curley and Cool Coughlin looked in
splendid physical condition.
When the court adjourned at 10
o'clock ten talesmen had been exam
ined by the states attorney, of whom
nine were excused for cause, each lav-
ing admitted that he held an opinion
amounting to a prejudice as to the
guilt or innocence of the accused, to
whom he could not give a fair and
impartial hearing One juror, John E.
Parr, painter, Of LOT Morgan street,
an Englishman by birth, answered
Mr.. Bottum's questions satisfactorily
and was accepted temporarily by the
state. A notable feature of the session
was the fact that of the ten talesmen
examined five were Irishmen, all of
whom confessed to prejudice so
strong as to disqualify them rs jurors.
In view of the answers given by the
talesmen the prospect is that the trial
will be long. The regular jury panel
was exhausted at IL o'clock and Judge
Tuthill issued special venire for $50
Jurors, returnable at 10 o'clock Satur-
day.
The trial will be very tame COM
pared with the exciting event of four
years ago. So crippled is the prosecu.
ton in the matter Of witnesses and ev-
idence that when the state closes the
court may take the case from the jury
and order an acquittal. Such result is
looked for by the defense and would
not surprise the state.
Many of the important witnesses for
the state in the former trial are dead
and the whereabouts of others are un-
known, and the difficulty of securing a
conviction is recognized. Their testi-
mony, of course, remains in the
record, and this will be put
in by the state by placing the
official stenographers on the stand
and having them identify the
documents containing the testimony as
the official record of the case, but this
at the best will be unsatisfactory. The
few witnesses who are available will
be sworn and examined. Not single
new witness will be examined, however,
States Attorney Kern being absolutely
without particle of additional proof
to that presented by the state at the
previous trial. The ruling of the SUI
preme court in granting the new trial
will also seriously embarrass the state
in it's presentation of the case.
[The crime for which Daniel Coughlin is
again placed on trial was the murder of DR..
P. Fl. Cronin. Dr. Cronin was prominent In
Irish societies und had incurred the en-
nifty OF Camp 20. Clan-na-Gale. Of which
CoughIln was q member. On the night Of
May 4. 1889, Dr. Cronin was enticed from his
home on North Clark street by q message that
| q man had been injured in Patrick O'Sullivans
icehouse in Lake View. Prior to this time
O'Sulltvan had made contract with Dr.. Cron-
IN to attend any Of his men who were injured
1t was Saturday evening when DR.. Cronin en-
tered the buggy drawn ty white horse. Not
having returned bv the following morning, II.
T. Conklin, with whom DR.. Crontn lived. nott.
fed the police and o search for the missing
man was begun A few days later the police
discovered the blood 'Smeared cottage at 1879
North Ashland avenue. which was only few
steps from O'Sullivan's residence.
The search for DR.. Cronin's body was con-
nnued and on the afternoon Of May 81 sewer
workmen found the body OF the MUIR
dured doctor doubled up and iammed in
u ul3uuOl0 III tue uOEGu COTu6T OL
Fifty ninth place, and Evanston avenue,
Lake View. About this time it was discov
cred that the white horse which had
| driven DR., Cronfn to his death had been
cured from p. Dinan's livery stable on North
Clurk street, near East Chicago avenue, and
only few steps from the police station where
Coughlin was attached as q detective. 1t was
also learned that Coughln had made arrange
| ments for the horse. which was supposed to
have been driven by Cooney, 1.-The Fox" who
| has never been arrested.
| Daniel Coughlin, Patrick O'Sullivan and
Martin Burke were finally tried and convicted
| of numbering DR.. Cronin in the Carlson cot
| tage and were sentenced to life Imprisonment
! at Joliet O'Sullivan and Burke died in
| confinement and Coughlln was finally
granted new trial. John F. Beggs, John P.
Kunze, who were also tried for murder, were
acquitted, and Beggs died short time later.
Knnze is still living in Lake View and, aside
| from Coughlin is about the only prominent
actor in the great crime who has not died or
left the city,