Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-01-04
MRS. Toy.
She Testlfles Against Coughlln In
the Cronin Murder.
las TO Be GUARDED FROM CRiyKS.
She Tells OF the Meeting of the Con-
spirators and Her Accidental KnowI-
edge of what They Were
contemplating.

CmcAoo, Dec. e8--Mrs Andrew Foy,
pale and nervous and guarded by POI
&C officer, appeared in court ready TO
testify in the Coughlin case. Her hus-
band, she said, did not appear at her
home last night, and guarded by de-
tail of policemen she had been undis.
turbcd For fear that she would be in
terceptcd on her way to the scene Of
the trial she appeared in the court
room long before the hour for the con.
vening of court and patiently waited to
be called TO the witness stand. The
warning letter received by her is as fol-
lows:
Don't be a traitor Look out for yourself and
lltlc family and remember the fate Of Judas,
who went out an hung himself a d whose
b-dy burst open and let his bowels b. scattered
on the ground
When Mrs. Foy was called the spec
tators leaned forward in their seats
and the attorneys crowded toward the
witness stand eager to hear every
word. During the examination the
defense interpossd objections to almost
every question put by the state and
her story proceeded slowly. She stated
that she knew Coughlin, Martin Burke
and Patrick Cooney all of hem having
been at her homes. Coughlin first APP
pearcd there in March or April, 1850,
several times lie had visited her
husband and the two talked i'm whisp-
ers On one visit she surprised her hus-
band and the prisoner, while reading n
letter Coughlin read IL aloud. As she
entered from another room she caught
the words: Remove him at III hazard
hnt a tEnrattn.,
staid two hours that night and then
went away without speaking to her.
Mrs. Foy then told of two visits of
Cooncy at which he and her husband
had held conversations in low tones.
always with the door closed
Asked If Martin Burke had visited
her husband Mrs. Foy replied in the
affirmative, telling OF visit before May
!, at which Eurke had rullScd with her
husband in the front room and in the
hail. The neNt appearance of Martin
burES nj her house was on the night of
May D. 1889. As the witness made this
statement Judge Wing objected and
the court said: ~ have decided to ad-
NIT that evidence, but ! instruct the
jury to regard all acts of Martin Burke
after May 1 as tending to show con-
sriracy and not bearing upon the guilt
of Daniel Coughlin."
On the night of May IL, some time
after Cronin's disappearance, Coughlin
ca led at the Foy house and asked for
her husband. She told Coughlin she
WAS afraid her husband had been ar
restcd and he replied: "Oh, there IL
no proof against Andy. lie is all
right
- said" continued Mrs. Foy.
" 'Courhlin, this is an awful thing you
have done DR. Cronin will do YOU
more harm dead than alive lie
laughed and said ! need not worry.
There is no danger said he but You
will be taken care of any way. Don't
worry uslIcd him who was to take
care Of me and my little children. OH
he said, don't mind about that Alex
andor sullivan Is good friend of your
husbands and of mine and he will take
care Of you
The deep silence in court ut this
point for moment was broken by the
prosecuting attorney resuming the OK
animation and then n buzz OF comment
among the spectators, number Of
whom eNcitedly declared the woman a
trained" witness.
'Coughlin came once before that
time" continued Mrs Foy, "and told
my husband what luck he had in fool
ing Capt Setback and Capt. Schuetler
about DIR. Cronin's body and where
they had put it
The witness said that several times
Coughlln had assured her that there
was no danger of her husband being
arrested and told her that II she would
keep quiet she would be well taken
care OF. This ended her direct exami-
nation.
"When did you last see Mrs T. T.
ConlSlin?' was the first question Judge
Wing of the counsel for the defense
launched at the witness. A marked
change came over her To all of the
prosecuting attorneys questions she
had answered pleasantly and fully
Now her first words, Last
night" came out with an
extraordinary abruptness. Her face
hardened visibly and she went on with
an effort The attorney for the de-
Tense questioned her mercilessly upon
all her relations with Mrs Conlsliu,
the wife of the liquor dealer with
WYNN ~ Niphih AA'A bbdIhttls n0
number Of times the women had met,
and how recently, We're gone into de-
tail II was developed that the two
women were in the habit of visiting
together regularly and had been to-
gether just before she had come to
court the previous day.
When pressed closely to give the
cause Of this intimacy Mrs Foy de-
clared: she was the only friend /
had"
Mrs Foy is the daughter of a shop
keeper in Garth Mayo, County Mayo,
Ireland, some thirty miles from the city
of Sligo, She married Andrew Foy, In
Glasgow, Scotland. Foy was a Fenian,
1t is said during the days when
the Irish republican brotherhood was
almost wrecked and the tales of in
formers sent many brave man TO the
scaffold. Foy, it is said, saved his neck
by fleeing to America lie Is brick
layer by trade.
Mai. Forbes Men All Right