Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-01
ADDRESSING THE JURY.
states Attorney Longenecker's Opening
in the Cronin Case.

in the Cronin Case.
CHICAGO, November 30th.-At the open
ing of the Crouin trial this morning States
Attorney Longenecker resumed his address
to the Jury. He went over the testimony
regarding the meetings of Camp 20, Clan
na-Gael at which it was charged that
Cronin was spy of Beggs of the defense
of Alexander Sullivan. of Coughlin trying
to poison the minds of patriotic Irishmen
against Cronin. Summoning this section
of the case up, he said:
singular, is it not, that on the Sth day
of February a motion was made for COM
mittee in Camp 90? On the 10th of Febru-
arv Senior Guardian Beggs is writing about
the matter to Edward Spellman, on the
18th he again writes about it. 1t is on the
10Th that the fiat is rented at 119 Clark
street. On the Goth the carpet is nailed
down Or the Odd of February Beggs de-
tends the triangle, and on the LIST day of
March this man Coughlin, who is now on
trial for his life, denounces DR.. Cronin as a
spy"
The States Attorney proceeded by say
ing that it was in evidence that Beggs re-
ported to Spellman on April Goth, saying
the Cronin matter had been amicably set
tied, and proceeded to point out that this
amicable settlement meant that arrange
ments were completed for the murder. Pro-
ceeding to trace the hiring of the flat on
Clark street, he showed the connection of
Burke and Kunze herewith.
During this Kunze arose and said: That's
a lie."
Judge Longenecker continued to trace
the story of the crime, dwelling upon the
various links in the chain of evidence
which connected the persons with it down
to the driving away of Coughlin and Cronin
to the Carlson cottage and the part the
different prisoners bore in the tragedy there
enacted and the subsequent disposition of
the body.
Coming down to the contention of the
defense that the blood in the cottage was
not human, the States Attorney said the
evidence all tended to show it was human
blood. Why was the floor painted? If it
was not he would not take up the time OF
the jury to argue that it was anything else
than the blood of DR.. Cronin.
In closing, the States Attorney said:
when you come to consider the verdict,
think of that man (Cronin) in the cottage.
When you think of him there, may there
reverberate through your ears the death-cry
of this man, who in his last moments
called upon his God and bis Jesus. Think
of those who, without giving him time to
pronounce the other Trinity name, felled
him to the floor with their death-blows.
Think of all this. and in the end there will
be such verdict, as when his Honor pro-
nounces judgment upon it, that he, having
his heart and eye to God, may say: May
the Lord have mercy on your SOUL
Judge Hing then began the address on
behalf of the defense Commencing with
Coughlin's defense, he referred to the vast
amount of evidence produced in the case,
all of it circumstantisl, and explained the
different light in which such evidence
must be considered from that accorded to
direct evidence. He dwelt upon the neces-
sity that the jurors should put aside their
natural preiudices against these men, on
account of their nationality and religion,
and remem Der that it was natural for them
to love the home of their birth.
At this point the Court adjourned until
Monday