St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-12
FoRREsT's STORY IS TOLD.
Counsel for the Cronin Suspects
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Counsel for the Cronin Suspects
Concludes His Long Harangue.
CHICAGO, Dec. 1L-Mr. Forrest re.
sumed his address to the jury in tho
Cronin murder case this morning by q
discussion of the question, 'Was the
horse DInan's horse?' Mrs. Oman, Mr.
Forrest said, described pecaiiarities
about the horse which Mr. Diran had
never SEEN. Mrs. Cenkiin described q
peculiarly about the horse, the swing
ing OF the front legs, that was a physical
imposSibility, and which she never
thought of when talking 10 Capt.
Setback. She did net remember them
even when she was describing the horse
to Frank Scaiilea, one of tho as
seeiate counsel for the prose.
cution. Mr.. Forrest entihued his
argument against the probability of
Mrs. Conklin's ability to identify any
horse after only the very brief inspec~
ton she had of it while looking out OF
the window. Mrs. Conkiin. continued
the attorney, testified that the coat
wOrn by the driver of the white horse
was a dirty, rnsty-iookiug coat, that
seemed too long and too large for him.
while Frank Scanlon, who saw the man
on the sidewalk, said the mans coat
was short and seemed too small for him.
The accusation of the state that Dan
Coughiin had a motive in killing tho
doctor was then considered, the test.
mony that Coughlin once said that uu.
less a certain North Side Catholic kept
his mouth shut
HE WOULD JET DONE UP,
being discussed first. That the reraarf:
was true the speaker did not deny, but
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the last municipal campaign, and that
no weight should be attached to il, ey-
cept to show how hard the state was
straining to fiud a motive. AS for the
testimony that Cougflin e~Rdeavored to
hire Sampson to do up DR.. CTeniR, why
that testimony was given by disrepu-
table characters, and that, too. was uet
worthy of censideration-eXcept to show
the state straining for q motive. Here
the hour for the noe recess called q
halt and court adjourned.
At the afternoon session Mr.. Forrest
rave his attention to the cause of Mar.
tin Burke. There vas nothing suspi-
cious i'm Burke'S movements subsequent
to May 4. Not a word of evidence had
been introduced at the trial to show
that Burke was in the Carlson cottage
on the night Of May 4. The method of
Identification of Burke In Winnipeg, he
said, was unfair, and showed that the
state had no hopes of his really being
the man that hired MarteRsen to haul
the furniture. OF ever that it was Burke
who rented the cottage. O'Sullivaa's
reported declaration that CFonin was a
British spy and ought to be killed
might have been made. the attorney
continued. What of it? Would not
every true Irish patriot who believed a
man to be a spy make such a remark?
He might no commit murder. but he
would very freely give utterance to
such O declaration, and therefore there
was nothing significant ia the deeiara-
ton if 0'Suilivan made it. Mr.. Forrest
closed his speech with an appeal to the
jury to aeqnit his clients, because Moth
ing had been proved against them be-
y0nd a reasonable doubt. Judge Nc
Connel said that to-morrow being etec-
ton day a recess would be taken TO FRI
day morning at 10 o'ciock. Luther Laf-
lin Mills viii then begin.