Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1889 — CRONIN GRAND JURY. [ARTICLE]

CRONIN GRAND JURY.

SEVEN INDICTMENTS PR T.SKNTED AGAINST CONSPIRATORS. The Name* of Coughlin, Burke, Coone.v, O’Sullivan, Beggs, Woodruff, and John Kunze Included- No Presentment Returned by the Inquisitor* Against Alexander Sullivan. A Chicago dispatch of the Ist suys: The special grand jury in the Cronin murder case has found indictments against seven men, four of whom are now locked up in the county jail to await trial for the murder of Dr. P. H. Cronin. The men indicted are: John F. Beggs, senior guardian of the famous camp 20 of the Clan-na-Gael, who is believed to know something of the organizing of the mo k tribunal which condemned Cronin to death. Dan Coughlin, the ex-city detective, who is supposed to have found the active men for the work and to have been general director of the conspiracy. Martin Burke, the Winnipeg prisoner, who is believed to be. one of the men in the cottage at the time of the murder. Patrick Cooney, the “Fox,” who was Burke’s “paL” He is now a fugitive. P. O’SulHvan, the Lake View iceman, whose contract with Cronin male it easy for thq other conspirators to lure the doctor to'death. FranV Woodruff, alia; Black, who confessed that he had carried the butchered body to its catch-basin tomb. John Kunze, a young German. His name had not been mentioned in connection with tho case until the indictment against him was returned before Judge She pi erd.

Kunze was a henchman of Dan Coughlin’s and accompanied the detective to Peoria when the visit was made to Ed Spellman. He is brought into criminal connection with the murder through his relations with Coughlin, against whom sqme new aud startling evidence was adduced just previous to the adjournment of the grand jury, when it was gleaned that Coughlin had entered tho Carlson cottage on the night of May 4 at ju.-t about the time the murder was done. Be was driven to the place by Kunze, whose picture has been identified fully by Milkman Mertes. The same picture was also iden.ified as that of a man who had been seen around the rooms at 117 Clark street when the flat at that -number was occupied by the furniture afterward found in the Carlson cottage. Kunze had been in trouble before he became acquainted with Cough f lin, and the detective protected him aiK) made him a ready tool in his murderous schemes. There was considerable surprise expressed over the failu e of the grand jury to include the name of Alexander Sullivan in the list of indictmentvbut despite the most earnest efforts the jurors were unable to secure any evidence of a nature that would justify the return of a t-ue bill. What was heard was damning in implication, and some of the jurors were anxious to base an indictment on it. State’s Attorney Longenecker claimed not to feel disconcerted over the escape of Sullivan. There was time to take up his case yet. he said. At the same time he admitted that it would hardly be possible to show that the lawyer was a party to the conspiracy unless there should come a “squeal.’’