Principal of the North Division High School in this city.
The record is that at a meeting of the City Council on the evening
mentioned, when the report of the Committee on Schools was
submitted, it was accompanied by two letters written by Mr.
Hanford, one of which made this statement: "The instigator and
engineer-in-chief of all the deviltry connected with the
legislation of the Board of Education is Mrs. Sullivan, wife of the
Secretary of the Board of Public Works."

The letters further accused Mr. Sullivan's wife of bringing
editorial and Catholic influences to bear upon the Board of
Education, and of conspiring with Mayor Colvin and others to have
J. L. Pickard, Superintendent of Public Schools, superseded by
Duane Doty. Duane Doty and Mrs. Sullivan, it was further averred,
were a "mutual admiration society."

Sullivan was present in the Council when these reflections on his
wife were read. He went home, and, after narrating the case to Mrs.
Sullivan, took her and a younger brother in a carriage to Mr.
Hanford's house, and, meeting Hanford on the sidewalk in front of
his house, demanded a retraction of what he had written. Hanford
refused to give it. Sullivan struck him, and a general squabble
ensued, during which, it was alleged, Hanford pushed Mrs. Sullivan,
and thereupon Sullivan shot him. Hanford died in thirty minutes.
Sullivan was indicted for murder and tried twice. The first trial
began Oct, 17 and ended Oct. 26. The jury disagreed. It stood
eleven for acquittal and one for conviction. The second trial began
Feb. 27 and ended March 10. Sullivan was acquitted.

At the time there was some talk of indicting the jury, a strong
belief prevailing that their verdict had been bought. The jury,
however, were never molested. Since his acquittal Mr. Sullivan had
been practicing law in Chicago and gathering unto himself that
influence with Irish secret societies, notably the Clan-na-Gael,
which resulted in his election and re-election as President of the
new Land League, which consolidated the Irish-American societies of
all kinds. His power and influence was phenomenal, and he ruled
every organization with which he was connected, with an iron hand.
As a result he made many warm friends, and just as many inveterate
enemies, some of whom hat