A jury has at last been empanelled at Chicago to
try the alleged murderers of Dr. Cronin. The unscrupulous use of the right of challenge has not helped the accused, and though upwards of eleven hundred jurymen were summoned, all selected are Protestants, and eleven are born Americans, the twelfth man being a Britisher. There is, of course, no cer- tainty that none of the jury are prejudiced, but the State's Attorney is evidently not intending to shirk his duty. In his opening speech, he charges the supreme " Triangle " of the Clan-na-Gael—Sullivan, Feeley, and Boland—with em- bezzling the funds of the Clan, the method being to send dynamiters to England, draw large sums for their expenses, and then betray them to the British Government. As they were imprisoned for life, they could not expose the frauds. His theory is that Dr. Cronin knew these facts, and was killed lest he should make them public. The Judge warned the State's Attorney that he made such statements at his peril ; but he promised to prove them, mentioning that he had in his hands the evidence taken by a secret committee of the Clan- na-Gael when " trying " the " Triangle " on Dr. Cronin's accusation. The trial, it is said, attracts intense interest in Chicago, as, indeed, it does also throughout the English- speaking world.
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