Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-12-07

spiracy-Will Testify at the Trial
Gives the Details of the Cronin
Horror
Chicago, Dec. 2.-The Post prints in
detail the testimony which will be
given by Mrs. Andrew Foy, Who will
be the first witness presented by the
state in the Coughlin trial. The facts,
Mrs Foy AYERS, were told her by her
husband ut times when remOrSe for
his part in the crime would overcome
him.
These parts OF the evidence. while
not admissible against Foy, are COM
petent against either of the other men
mentioned i'll her story. In substance,
according to the Post, Mrs. Foy'S eyi-
dence viii be as follows:
DR.. Cronin was killed in the Carlson
cottage by repeated blows on the head
with Il heavy carpenters chisel in the
hands of Patrick CoOney, While Martin
Burke held the struggling victim help
less i'll his strong grasp and Michael
-, now Il member of Chicag COS
police force, stood guard at the door.
No one but Cooney struck the doctor,
and only Burke, CoOney and Michael
were in the cottage.
Patrick O'Sullivan stood outside at
the rear OF the cottage watching ana
guarding against possible interference.
Dan CoughIin did not reach the cot
tage till after the murder, when he
came accompanied by Andrew FOy.
The man who called at the COnklln
residence with Dinan'S white horse
for DR.. CrOnin was Martin Dawn, of
Hancock, Mich.
j. 3. SimOnds,' who bought at
Reyell's the furniture found in the
cottage. and who rented the fiat at
III Clark street, was James Guinea,
on TWenty-SecCnd street aud Indiana
avenue and now Il fugitive. Burke and
Cooney were the persons who rented
the Carlson cottage.
Coughlin was the head and front of
the conspiracy, which included the fol
lowing men, who held secret meetings
almost nightly for some time prior to
the murder: Daniel COughlin, detec-
tive, to whom all others reported for
instructions, who hired the white horse
from Oman and who was one Of the
three men in the wagon that carried.
the trunk containing the doctors mu-
tilated remains: Andrew Foy, at whose
house the cOnSpirators met and planned
their work and who accompanied
Coughlin to the Carlson cottage tn,
night of the murder and was mistaken
for John Kunze by the milkman; Mar
tin Burke, laborer, who rented the
Carlson cottage and was one of the
three men to whom fell the lot OF
killing Cronin, and who held the doctor
while COoney beat out his life with the
chisel: Patrick O'Sullivan, ice man,
who. according to instructions given,
made the agreement with the physician
regarding the presentation of che card
which was used successfully as II
means to get DR.. Cronin to the place
of murder; James Guinea. who rs
u. b. SimondS,' rented the place al
III Clary street and bought the furni-
ture and trunk; Patrick Cooney, brick
layer. the actual slayer of DR.. CroniIi
Martin Dawn, laborer, of Hancock,
Mich, brought to Chicago to decoy the
doctor from home and selected because
no one who might see him with Cronin
would recognize him; Joseph McI<enna
who drove to the Carlson cottage from
the south side, the wagon used TO haul
away the corpse in the trunk; Michael
-, now a city policeman who Was
deputcd to aid CoOney and Burke III
the killing. and who opened the dOol
Of the cottage to admit the doctor
and held it closed while the murder
was being committed.
This mans name is suppressed here
as his early arrest is probable Two
other men, one in Chicago and one il
Hancock, Mich, were spoken Of by the
conspirators by name and in such 6
way as to leave no doubt that they
were parties to the plot
The story above outlined is practi
cally that related to the police by Mrs
Foy. When questioned about it the
states representatives declined to tall
about the matter but virtually admitted
the correctness of The Evening Posts
information by requesting that the
name of the policeman mentioned as
Michael -- be not published.
ANOTHER SUSPECT
1t is said that still another CoughIir
juror has given cause for suspicion
| States Attorney Kern admitted as
much this morning but refused to dis
close the name of the suspected juror
Promptly at 10 o'clock the work Of Sc
curing three jurors to fill the vacancies
caused by the dismissal of Gates, Viii
son and Rehm was begun on behalf OF
the state by Attorney Bottum and was
continued all day without result.