DR. CRONIN'S 'MURDER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9423, 22 July 1889, Page 6

DR. CRONIN'S 'MURDER.

VERDICT OF THE JURY. j SULLIVAN AND PARNELL. The coroner's jury in the inquest on the body of the late Dr. Cronin on Tuesday, June 11, gave their verdict. They hold Alexander Sullivan, P. O. Sullivan, Daniel Coughlin, and Frank Woodruff to be the principals in or accessories to the murder. The verdict denounces the murder as a most foul and brutal crime, and the authorities are solicited to offer a reward for evidence tending to unearth the conspiracy. The verdict further declaries that the Ciaii-na-Gael and similar societies are injurious to American institutions. Many of the witnesses gave their evidence with considerable reluctance and evidently with mental reserve. The testimony given before the coroner's pury brought out several startling points. ' Detective Coughlin approached me," said John Garrity, " and asked me to get Major Sampson to do the job for him. He said he wanted to have that fellow done up. I asked him how he wanted the fellow done up, and he said he might get a baseball bat and break his nose, or knock out his teeth. I said, ' Suppose he should kill him ?' and he said it would not make much difference. Anyhow, three days after, Sampson came to me and said, 'Do you know that fellow wanted me to do up Dr. Cronin?' Coughlin mentioned the matter to me once or twice after that, and he asked me to try and get Sampson to do the job for him. Sampson testified that policeman Coughlin had tried to hire, him to kill Dr. Cronin." Sergeants Hoofig and Montgomery, of the Chicago Avenue station, testified as to the telephone message which passed between Coughlin and Sullivan. Chief of Police Hubbard added to the interest by revealing Woodruffs conduct with the plot. Woodruff's story to the chief of police varied a little from the confession he made recently, but almost directly connected Sullivan with the trunk business. The police were also stated to have evidence that Sullivan bought some paint corresponding exactly with that with which the bloodstains in Carlson cottage were obliterated, and he also used a portion of the mixture to paint the hall in his own house. Among Dr. Cromn's papers produced in court was the evidence given at his trial by the various uynamitors sent by the Clanp, i-Gael to England. A witness, whose name was suppressed,'testified that he was sent to England on a mission of " active work," and was given only his steerage ticket and £4. When he came back ho was given £10. One of the men who were to help him in the dynamite crusade —alias active work—was John Moroney. Previous to the verdict being given, the New York Herald said : —A large amount of ill-feeling has been roused in Irish-American circles by the statement given in the press that Alexander Sullivan is forced to Keep silence regarding the use made of the £25,000 said to have been stolen by him, because this money was sent to Mr. Parnell, for use, it is alleged, in dynamite and other terrorising schemes. The explanation given would inculjj pate Mr. Parnell, it is said ; hence Sullivan must bear alone and silently the burden of the accusations made against him.