The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-23
The Plucky Woman Takes the Stand
and Gives Evidence Against Cough
lin in the CrOnin Case.
HER TESTIMONY UNSHAKEN
Though BrOwbeaten and HarasSed
by Defendants Counsel.
Alfred j. Monsoon Acquitted of the
Charge of Killing Lieutenant Ham,
brough for Insurance Money.

est in the first trial of he 1nurderer3 OF
DIR. Cronin. When court convened Mrs.
Andrew Foy. pale and nervous and guarded
by police officer, appeared ready to tes-
tify. The letter which she is reported to
have received, warning her not to testify,
and containing dire though guarded threats.
had apparently added to her fears for her
personal safety Her husband. she said,
did not appear at her house last night,
and. guarded by detail Of policemen, she
had been undisturbed For fear that she
would be intercepted her way to the
scene of the trial. she appeared in the court
room long before the hour for converting Of
court, and patiently waited to be called
to the witness stand. The warning letter
received by Mrs. Foy, 1t is said, in SUBJ
stance is as follows:
Don't be a traitor Look out for your
self and little family Remember the fate
of Judas. who went out and hung himself.
and whose body burst open and let his
bowels be scattered on the ground
Mrs. Foy is the wife of Andrew Foy. who,
it is said, was the first man to openly de-
nounce Dr. Cronin spy after Cronin dis
appeared II was at Foys house, il is
claimed, that the alleged conspiracy against
the Doctor was Matched, and ii is the story
of the meetings of the conspirators impli-
eating Coughlin as the leader. that the
prosecution had been so anxious for Mrs
Foy if possible. Her husband has been
an Irish agitator for many years. Mrs
Foy is the daughter of a shop keeper in
Castle Mayo, County Mayo. Ireland. some
thirty miles from the city of Sligo. She
married Andrew Foy in Glasgow. Scot
land. Foy was q Fenian, it is said. dur
ing the days when the Irish republican
brotherhood almost wrecked and the
tales of informers sent many brave man
to the scaffold. Foy. it is said, saved his
neck by fleeing to America. He is a brick
layer by trade.
The court room was crowded to-day and
the officers had difficulty in keeping back
the people who surged through the CORR
doris and attempted to gain admission. After
a long consideration of the objections of
the defense chiefly that a wife could not
testify where her testimony would impli-
cate her husband as one of the conspira-
tors, Judge Tuthill said quietly:
81 have decided the matter Call Mrs.
Foy The objection of the defense is over
ruled" Judge Tuthill then turned TO at
torney Bottum. You understand said
he. that this testimony is greatly re-
stricted. Mrs. Foy can testify only to
what she saw and to what she said to any
of the conspirators."
MRS. FOY'S STORY.
When Mrs Foy was called the spectators
leaned forward iii their seats and the at
torneys crowded toward the witness stand
eager to hear her every word. During the
examination the defense interposed objec-
tons to almost every question put by the
State and her story proceeded slowly. She
stated that she new 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 Wis
tied her husband, and the two talked in
whispers. On visit, Mrs Foy stated,
she surprised her husband and the prisoner
while reading letter. Coughlin was read
ing it aloud. AS she entered from another
room she caught the words remove him
at all hazards but use your discretion"
Coughlin had stad two hours that night,
and went away without speaking TO her.
Mrs. Foy told of two visits of Cooney, at
which he and her husband had held CONVEX
sations in low tones, always with the door
closed.
The witness was asked if Martin Burke
had visited her husband. She replied in
the affirmative. telling of a visit before
May T. at which Burke had talked with her
husband in the front room and i'm the hall
ba ne b neHe aPpeaTanfSe OF Martin Burke at
As the witness made this statement Judge
Wing objected. 1t was the bitterly fought
have decided to admit that evidence. but
instruct the jury to regard all acts of
Martin Burke after May 4 as leading to
snow conspiracy, and not bearing upOn the
guilt of Daniel Coughlin"
The witness. continuing. said that on the
Ilsnt OF May Il, some time after Cronin's
dIs appearance. Coughlin called at her house
and asked for her husband. She told Cough
lin she was afraid her husband had been
arrested. and he replied:
oh. there is no proof against Andy
He's all right
said continued Mrs Foy. 'Coughlin
this is an awful thing you have done DR.
alive >'N 'ii"ii
He laughed and said need not worry.
There is no danger. said he; but you will
De taken care of, any way. Don't WORRY
asked him who was to take care of
me and my little children
" oh. don't mind about that said he.
Alexander sullivan is a good friend of
your husband and of mine, and he will
The deep silence in court at this noint
was broken for moment by the prosecnt
ING attorney resuming the examination and
the buzz CT comment among the snecfa
tors, a number of whom excitedlv dacIared
mat the woman was a trained" Witness
Coughlin came once before that time"
band what luck he had in fooling Captain
Schaak and Captain Schuttler about DIR
Gronlns body and where they had put H."
The witness said that several times Cough
lin had assured her that there was no dan
ger OF her husband being arrested and
told her that IL she would keep quiet she
would be well taken care Of This ended
her direct examination.
EXAMINED BY WING.
When did you last see Mrs. T. T. Conk-
linz was the first question Judge Wing
of counsel for the defense. launched at the
witness.
A marked change came over the express
sion of Mrs. Foy. To all of the prosecuting
a = CHI hal
pleasantly and fully Now her first words
Last night" came out with an extraorl-