The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-12-04
MRS. FAY'S FACTS.
What the States Principal Witness
i'm the Cr0nin Case Is Likely
to Testify.
Cronin Was Killed With a Carpen-
toys Chisel Welded by Patrick
Cooney.
Coughlin Said Not to Have Been at
the Cottage Until After Cronin's
Death.

CHICAGO, Dec. Mrs. Andrew Foy,
who will be the first witness for the state
in the Coughlin trial, will, it 10 reported,
testify that DR.. Cronin was killed by q
carpenters chisel welded by Patrick
Cooney, the long missing suspect. The
report has it that Martin Burke, now
dead, held Cronin while a policeman,
still on the force here and whose first
name is said to be Michael, stood guard
at the door. Cooney is represented to be
the only one who struck the doctor, and
only Burke, Cooney and the anonymous
policeman suspect were in the cottage.
Iceman O'Sullivan is said to have acted
as guard at the rear of the cottage out
side. Coughlin, at present on trial, &C
cording to the current narrative of what
Mrs. Foy will testify, was not at the cot.
tage until after Cronin's death, when
Coughlin arrived in company with Mrs.
Foy's husband, Andrew Foy. The man
who drove Cronin to the carlson cottage
is said tt have been Martin Dawn of
Hancock, Mich.
Said She Learned It.
u. b. Simmons" the purchaser of the
furniture discovered in the cottage, and
who is accused Of renting the fiat at lit
Clark, was, it is alleged, James K. Cum
ney, a grocery clerk whose present
whereabouts is unknown. Mrs. Foy is
represented as having learned these de-
tails as a result of meetings held at her
husbands house. Foy is the man sup
posed to have been mistaken for the lit
tie German, Kunze, by the milkman,
Mertes.
One Joseph McKenna is alleged to be
the person who drove to the Carlson cot
tage the wagon utilized to carry away
the corpse. Much of the story Is re-
ported as having been CLEANED by Mrs.
Foy from her husband in his remorseful
moments. Mrs. Foy says that her hus-
band frequently spoke of Cronin as "a
worse spy than LIE Caron," and that on
the night of May 4 he was absent from
home, returning in the morning mud
stained and disheveled, and explainingto
his wife that he had helped remove an
other lie Caron. The wife is said to
have asked in horror if he had
Helped Commit q Murder.
Murder nothing" Foy is said to have
answered, 1--WE only killed a spy. You
don't call that murder"
Defendant Daniel Coughlin is spoken
of as the chief of the supposed expedi-
ton against the spy whose removal
was to ''subserve the good of the cause"
Coughlin is reported to have been seen
by Foy, when they entered, to kick the
PROSTATE form of the doctor, and say:
There, you won't tell any more tales
O'Sullivan, who had also entered the
house by this time, it is said, expostu-
lated, and it was also owing to the ice
mans objection, that a plan to fill the
trunk with quicklime was abandoned
and the journey to the lake front was
begun. Mrs. Foy is alleged to have
been cautioned by Coughlin some days
later, to keep her mouth shut"
and not worry about her husband;
that she and her children would be
taken care of. 1t appears, If the story
can be relied upon, that Mrs. Foy had
been upbraiding Coughlin for leading
her husband into the affair. The extent
of Cunney's alleged part in the plot was
the renting of the fiat on Clark street,
popularity supposed to be the place aban-
doned as being too public a place, at
| first decided upon for the scene of the
taking off of the alleged spy, and after
wards Andrew Foy is reported to have
told his wife that Martin Down, who
called for the doctor, was sent from
Hancock, Mich, by j. F. Ryan of that
place. Foy is said to have brought
home the chisel with which the doctor
was killed and hid it between
the mattresses of Mrs. Foy's bed. Mrs.
Foy's testimony, If given as above, will
be in the nature of heresay, and it is
probable that the defense, if she should
be a witness, would succeed in excluding
the bulk, if not all, of such q story as re-
lated. Her appearance on the witness
stand, whether this should prove true or
not, and regardless of whether the cur
rent forecast of her testimony is or is not
correct, has long been eagerly awaited
by those familiar with the case.