so that P. H. Cronin until
1865 or 1866, when he left Canada, was a British subject, and if,
as he claims, his father was naturalized in the United States
before going to Canada, he voluntarily abandoned his American
citizenship and resumed the position of a British subject.

This P. H. Cronin voluntarily swore allegiance to her British
majesty. Yet this creature swore in his name as a voter in St.
Louis and voted in that city. He thought best not to come to
Chicago and reside one year, but sneaked down to a county in
Illinois, doubtless being afraid of attracting attention in
Chicago, and swore that he arrived in the United States a minor,
under the age of twenty-one years; that he resided in the United
States three years preceding his arrival at the age of twenty-one
years. He claimed to have been home in 1856, and not in 1844, and
even if that were true, he was only nineteen years old when he left
Canada, because he swore he was in Canada when President Lincoln
was assassinated; that he came to the United States in 1865 or
1866, and yet he swore he resided in the United States three years
previous to arriving at the age of nineteen, and thus secured his
papers on this minor petition falsely sworn to.

This side of Cronin's character, I submit, should be considered in
connection with any report his malice and prejudice may dictate. I
have not made any formal protest against the presence of Dr.
McCahey on the trial committee, but it is well known that he has
been active in publishing documents and interviews hostile to me,
and it is at least strange that one who has been so engaged should
be willing to serve on such a committee.

Very respectfully,

ALEXANDER SULLIVAN.

The protest was overruled. The charges, five in number, filed by John
Devoy, of New York, and Luke Dillon, of Philadelphia, set forth that no
active work had been performed by the "Triangle" or its agents; that
there was nothing to substantiate its claim that it had expended over
$87,000 in active work; that it had basely neglected the families of men
sent on errands of the Brotherhood; that bogus transfers had been issued
to members of the organization as coming from Ireland, and that a
district convention had illegally instituted. The trial was a heated
one. Each side went to the hall every night backed by de