The herald., 1894-03-09

O. s. Vein berger, Frederick G. Lane.
Clark Bruce, Hiram Wadleigh, John F.
Larson, Michael Comlon, Alfred Wooard
and Oscar Benson.
Assistant Prosecuting Attorneys Bot
tum and Scanlan conducted the
case for the state, with Ex-Judge Wing
and Attorney Donahoe for the defense.
One of the most important witne sses
to appear for the prosecution was Mrs.
Andrew Foy, wife OF a bricklayer. Mrs.
Foy told OF being present at numerous
conferences between the defendant and
her husband, and claimed to have heard
numerous conversations between them
and other men which pointed to a con-
spiracv to murder DIR. Cronin, Her
story was sensational in the extreme,
but the defense introduced testimony to
show that Mrs. Foy had written to a
former attorney for the defense, threat
ening to tell damaging story unless she
be literally rewarded. Her sanity was
also called into question, and her in
tense hatred for her husband, to whom
her testimony was most damaging, was
shown. Her evidence was perhaps the
strongest Of any presented by the state,
as she told a complete story of the kill
ing. Her testimony was that Martin
Burke, now dead, and the missing
Cooney did the actual killing, while
Gormon O'Sullivan stood in the yard,
and a policeman guarded the door
Coughlin, she said, arrived at the Carl
son cottage shortly after the deed was
done.
In the attempted corroboration of
Mrs. Foy's story, Mrs. Susie Harton was
called and testified that she saw Foy
and Coughlin together on May IL, 1889,
near the Carlson cottage. The defense,
however. introduced testimony to show
that on the day in question Mrs. Horton
Was sadly intoxicated.
A new and sensational witness was in
troduced by the state in the person of
Frank Bardeen, an electrical engineer.
In May, 1889, he was employed at the
Edgewster electrical light plant, pact
which the wagon bearing the remains of
DR.. Cronin was assumed by the presecu-
tion to have gone. Bardeen said that
about o'clock on the morning of May
9th he heard a wagon passing. He
turned on an electric search light, which
was fixed above the door, and in the
glare. he saw, he said, wagon, in
which was a large chest or trunk. Be.
hind the wagon walked two men, he
claimed, one OF whom he identified as
Ooughlin. Bardeen's testimony was
savsgely attacked by the defense.
1t was clearly shown that
there was no train at the hour he said
he left Edgewster the morning after he
saw the wagon, and evidence was intro
duced to show that no moon was visible
on the night in question. although he
swore positively that he saw the men
and wagon by moonlight.
Much medical testimony was intro
duced by the defense to prove that DIR.
Cronin's death might have resulted
from disease and not from wounds
found on his body. but its principsl
effort was directed towards establishing
an alibi. Three witnessed swore to having
seen Coughlin during the evening when
he was supposed to have been engaged
in the killing, and their testimony was
unehaken.
Several days were consumed by the
state in rebuttal of evidence, and
lengthy speeches were made by counsel.
Throughout the long trial the most in
tense interest has been manifested, and
the court room has daily been thronged
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