Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1889 — THE CRONIN TRIAL. [ARTICLE]

THE CRONIN TRIAL.

A jury was secured and the Dr. Cronin trial t>egun at Chicago, Thursday, before a great crowd. State’s Attorney Longonecker at once began his opening address to the jury. He reviewed briefly the long continued sifting of veniremen, defined the duties of jurymen, defined the meaning of a presumption of innocence as applied in the trial of persons charged with crime,tellingthe jury that a presumption of innocence was not a matter to weighed against evidence. The motive for the crime, as the counsel said, was clearly enough to prevent an exposure of the embezzlement of the funds for the relief of Ireland. The State’s Attorney reviewed the entire plot and the story of the murder as he would be able to prove it. » Counsel spoke at length and in detail of the conspiracy and the causes leading to its consummation. The State’s Attorney spoke of the adoption of the triangle as the symbol of the Executive Board. The membership did not know who constituted the triangle, so secret was it, but,nevertheless, they obeyed its orders and were sent on various special missions m England in the way of active work and ~undey assumed names. Nothwithstanding this secrecy, these men were betrayed by the board to the English authorities and twenty of them, he said, are now in prison. > The President has appointed Nicholas Smith, of New York, to be Consul at Three Rivers, Canada. Colonel Nicholas Smith, once known as the handsomest man in America, and said to have been described by Queen Victoria as “beautiful,” is also noted as the husband of Ida Greeley. He has attended many weddings as best man, notably that of Mr. Ovington, of Brooklyn, three years ago, out of which a suit gjv.v for the Coloners expenses.