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The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], The battle at McDowell. (search)
ion on the charge of having murdered Henry Cronan, by stabbing him with a knife, on the 17th of last September. The principal witnesses to the affair were one James Clancy, a soldier, and another man whose name we did not get. They testified positively to the commission of the offence by the prisoner.--The affair occurred at the house of Mrs. Driscoll, on Cary street, and ended in the murder of Cronan, who, with Clancy and Coyne, had been drinking and got into a dispute as to which one of them should pay the bill Coyne ended the matter by thrusting his knife several times into Cronan's abdomen and breast. When the latter in his death agony staggered off Driscoll's house, Coyne called to him and said if he did not have enough he would give him more. He fell dead in a moment afterward. Coyne absented himself, and Clancy, making no attempt to escape, was examined for the murder, but the Coroner's jury exonerated him. He left town without the opportunity of pointing Coyne out to th