New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-01-13
crONIN'S KNITES N COUGHLIN'S POCKET

sTp0XG POINTS AGAINST TIE EN-DETECTINE
BROUGHT OUT AT HIS TRIAL.
Cblcaro Jan. 12.-Judge Tuthil adjourned the
Coughln trial suddenly this afternoon and, telling
the Jury to remain seated walked into his cham
hers \ few minutes passed. ana Juror MT
Eulsman. n administered. mddleag real estate
aasler. was called into the Judges private room.
7. vas nearly half an hour before the rest of the
.,rors received marching orders from the baillffs
Judge Tuthl relieved the general curiosity by
saving that he had received a letter from Mrs
uulsnan full of hysterical fears and foreoodings
:, regard to her husbands personal welfare and
business affairs. He sent word 10 the jurors wife
IN come to court and she came. accompanied by
,h iurors brother who had in the meantime sue
coded in allayng her fears. 1t developed that the
woman had been worked up into that frame OF
mind by foolish neghbors, who told her they were
clad their husbands not on the jury. but Judge
Tuthill assured her that her husband was SAFER OH
the jury than anywhere else.
Mrs T r Conklin. who has just recovered from
on Illness returned to the witness stand at the
openng of the trial to-day, in order TO allow Judge
Wing TO finish his cross-eXaminatlon on her I'M
portant testimony relating TO the taking away o.
The Doctor by the stranger the identification OF the
white horse and her interview May with L. OSul-
Ivan. Mrs. Conklin preserved her composure. being
.ve~ ready with an answer and making the I'M
nression that she possessed unusually retentve
memory
After Mrs Conklin had been told she could so
the prosecution called Bartholomew Flynn, police
man He testified that he saw the defendant Inc
,a,to~ mart OF May at the City Hall. CouShlin was
then under arrest and Lieutenant Elliott, CHER OF
detectives placed him in his Flynn's) custody
In searching the prisoner Flynn took from MN u
revolver and two pocket knives. MI Hottum thoH
nroduced the two knives. which were identified by
T. T. Conklin as similar to those carried by Dr'
Cronn and offered them in evidence ......
nd
ignored the theory OF the STATE that 'VusiIiiii
robhsl the corpse Of CrOnin Of the two kni'ss
tons were put to give the jury the impression
that the state introduced the evidence TO Snow
the detectives TAurderOus disposition IN carrying
small jackknives well aS the regulation TrNOiNei.
The prosecution. was called upon 10 produce, Tor
the benefit Of the defence transcript OF me s"Io
graphic notes taken Of a conference hr4u III CIV
CIV Hall, Just before Coughlins arrest by nn-
nciDal officials and prominent lrshmen. Inc pHoS,-
cutting attorney said the notes had been destroyed
and he did not know where copy was to be FOUND
a subpoena was issued for cG-MayoT Cregler. wao
called the conference at which Cough.ins arrest
decided on.
T + Conkin was recalled 10 tel about the knives
put in evidence. lie explained that the larger one
with a pearl handle. had been carried by him for
carried Il year before his death The other with
handle of tortoise shell. found by the witness
m North Clark-st.. and also given 10 the doctor.
The knives produced were said by the witness 10
had in the Doctors possession shortly before
he disappeared.
Among the documents now in Chicago bearing
the Is "A formal statement by Sir Charles Russell
the list OF British detectives. which handed TO
the Parnell Commission By the iHformcr lie Caron
a. the trial In 1889 II has repeatedly been said that
Cronin was assassinated because he was British
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