The herald., 1893-12-27
SHE HAS AN EYE FOR BUSINESS
sensational Developments in
the Coughlin Case.
Mrs. Fcy's Admissions Under Cross
Examination.
she TacitIy Confessss That She Did Not
Turn States Evidence for Her
Hsalth-The Prosecution
Embarrassed.

BY the Associated Press
CHICAGO. Dec. 26.-The Coughlin case
was resumed this morning, with Mrs.
Andrew Foy on cross examination.
In answer to questions. Mrs. Foy re-
hearssd the story OF Coughlin'a visits to
her house and his consultations with
her husband after the murder of ofCronin !;
OF Ccughlin telling her her husband was
IL, nc danger, sad that even il he were
arrested she would be we'll cared for by
Alexander Sullivan, etc.
To further questions che declared the
prosecution had made her no promises; I;
that she no longer loved her husband /;
that he left her three weeks before the
police began guarding her house.
In answer to question whether she
did not send her compliments to Cough
lin when he was in Jail she replied:
"Those were sarcastic regards"
In answer to another question she
declared it was not true she had accused
her husband of being the man who
threw the anarchist bomb at the Hay
market. or that she threatened to go to
Judge Grinnell and place her husband
beside Spies, Parsons and the rect OF the
anarchists.
The attorney for the defense then
placed before her letter which she ad-
mitted she wrote and mailed to Attor-
new Forest, one OF the counsel for
Coughlin and the other prisoners at the
frat Cronin trial. The attorney said he
would submit it in evidence later.
The attorney also submitted another
letter which she, with considerable hes
itation, admitted was in her hand
writing.
All this was Carried on amid much
excitement and chorus of strenuous
objections by the prosecution, but the
witness pSid no attention to their in
structions not to answer. After period
of comparative silence, Judge Wing OF
the counsel for the 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"
1t was discovered that the author of
the remark was John Dewey, member
of the Cronin committee and q bitter
enemy OF Alexander Sullivan. Judge
Tuthill reprimanded Dewey mildly, and
after some further talk the trial pro-
ceeded.
Mrs. Foy admitted that she was we'll
acquainted with Dewey. She also re-
lucIantly admitted that George A. Bing-
ley, detective for the states attorney,
Longenecker, the prosecutor at the
former trial, visited her twice or three
times in 1891.
The letter to Forest bears date June
%, 1892, and is unsigned. 1t says the
writer hears that Forest is going before
the supreme court in behalf OF the pris-
oners in October and tells him the whole
story will be out before that time that
she is the wife of one of the chief con-
spirators 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 sufferings
she has undergone she will expose the
whole plot. She says il Forest wants to
communicate with her he can put per-
sonal in the Daily News anu she will re-
ply.
The second letter, also TO Forest, is
unsigned, dated January 81, 1898. In it
she says satisfaction must be had at
once, and ends with the words: "Give
Dan my regards"
The cross-examination being con-
tinued, 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 besides
what she got from him. She denied
that she ever told him she had not
heard Alexander Sullivan's name men
toned in the common gossip about the
place. She also vehemently denied
that she told Martin Gsrrity that she
wished she knew something about Alex
ander Sullivan so che could bring nim
into the case, as that would be the
means of making her comfortable for
life.