A Chicago Court has released Mr. A. Sullivan, accused of
complicity in the Cronin murder, on bail to the amount of .R4,000, and the Governor of New York has refused to surrender two other of the accused for trial in Chicago, alleging that the evidence was insufficient, a curious illus- tration of one of the difficulties of Home-rule. No Court in Ireland would venture to surrender an Irishman accused of crime in England, unless he happened to be unpopular. The Chicago police think that a man named Burke, now in Winnipeg, is one of those immediately guilty, and have applied to the Canadian Government for his extradition. It is said that Burke has confessed ; but this is incon- sistent with the report that he is resisting extradition. When Americans are in earnest, their slow methods generally leave the accused little hope of escape if guilty ; but their earnestness is in this case not yet proved. It is said that the Archbishops of the Catholic Church in America intend to con- demn the Clan-na-Gael by name ; but they cannot as yet have the evidence before them. It is unfortunate for the accused that the Presidential election is four years off ; but on the other hand, Irishmen are numerous in the police, and have a heavy vote in the election of Judges. The richest Irishmen in Chicago offered bail for Sullivan.
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