The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-09-09
THE CR0AIN CASE AGAlN
Detective Dan coughlin Will Soon
Appear in Court.
He Is the Last Of tho Convicted conspira.
tors..Dinan's CELEBRATED White Horse
Discov.red..Hynes and Forrest
viii Not Appear.

CHICAGO, Sept. 6.-The last scene in
the sensational Cronin conspiracy and
tragic drama is about to be played, and
when it is over it will be n respite to
many on both sides who are tired OF
the bitterness and heart burnings
which it has created and keeps nctive.
The state and the council for the dc.
Tense, it is understood, have agreed to
take up the case of Daniel Coughlin,
the ex-detective and last survivor OF
those who were SEM to Joliet for life
terms for the murder of DR.. Cronin in
the Carlson cottage at Lake View May
4, 1889. Several months ago., through
the untiring efforts and exhaustive pre-.
s%entation of the legal arguments of w.
A. Forrest, who was leading counsel
for the defense, the supreme court of the
state granted n new trial to Coughlin.
lie was the only n of the accuscd left.
Martin Burke and Patrick O'Sullivan,
the Lake View iceman, who were sent
to the pcniten:iary with him, died
there and the secrets of the crime
which they were expected to reveal,
were buried with them. Irish political
criminals scarcely ever squeal. John Il.
Beggs, the senior guardian of camp 20
when, it is said, the murder of DR..
Sronin wa decided upon, was &C.
quilted Mt the trial, but has since died.
He caught a fatal cold on st. Patrick's
day parade,
Exactly what day or before what
it,1ra tho o,en 1.,;Jl 1n ,,JJal =. - -.
determined, but Stnte's Attorney Kern
thinks that despite the crush of Grim.
inal business the trial will be prose.
cuted this month.
The friends of Cronin seem to know
nothing about this latest step of the
states attorney, but they express nc
surprise thereat.
1t is believed that much new evidence
is in the hands of the states attorney,
but what will be done with it and
what its navure only the trial will dis.
close.
The wagon in which the dead body
of the doctor vas hauled to the catch
basin has been long since located on
the South side, and the MAJ who drove
1T is now said to be well known and
can be reached. The weapon that
dealt most of the cruel blows to the
doctor is also said to have been found
after some wanderings and screenings,
and can be absolutely identified. II
was not an icepick, but u stonecutter's
chisel. There are also rumors of "a
great deal being known about decoy
letters, who received and wrote them,
and about numerous attempts to find
II kill the famous white horse of Di,
man,, the liveryman. This white horse,
1t appears, was sent away from here
after the death of Mr.. Oman, but
where Mrs. Oman would not tell. Why
anybody should be particularly inter-
ested in the animal is not known, but
it is related as certain that it was
sought for On a farm near Waukesha
n other places, and that two white
horses, each supposed to be the quad
ruped OF CIonin %notoriety, were Sc.
cretly killed. The real white horse,
however, is said to be still living anc
growing fat on the hay of western
prairies.
What new evidence is to be intro
duced the states attorneys office OF
course will not tell, but Cronin's friends
think there are some people still living
here who could tell a great deal in as.
sisting to unravel the mystery of the
murder.
Hynes and Forrest, the two great op
ponents in the case four years ago, will
not appear this time, and SO nothing
like intense interest in the case will
appear. Hynes is away from the city
on a vacation, and Mr.. Forrest says he
has not been retained in the case. He
was requested to take charge of it, but
he could not neglect his business fol-
the fee offered. Judge Wing and Mr..
Donahoe, however, who were associated
with him in the case, will conduct this
new trial, and their familiarity with
all the previous evidence, facts and ar.
guments abundantly equip them for
the trial. Neither Mr.. Bottom nor the
states attorney had anything to dc
with the previous trial. and if they con.
duct it unaided and win their credit
will be the greater.
But the belief Of the partisans on
both sides is getting to be that Dan
Coughlin will escape conviction and
hanging. Coughlin wa seen in the
county Jail, but he refused to say any
thing about the case. He said he had
heard nothing definite about a new
trial, and anyway he had nothing to
say to reporters about it.
Dan looked as hearty and muscular
as when he used to walk as a ely cop
down Clark street from the East Chi
cago venue station. He looks a little
paler, but that is about the only diff.
ference in his appearance.
WILL SIT ON THEIR COFFlNS.