Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-06
EAST OF TEE ROCKIES.
Jimmy Hope, The Bank Breaker, is Free
Again.
HE Is COMING TO CALIFORNIA.
Lengthy Argument of the Prosecu-
ton in the Celebrated
Cronin Case.
(aPEo1AL DISPATCHES TO THE BEcoRp-Ur1oN.j
EAST OF TEE ROCKIES.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE BEooRp-uv1oS. j
CRONIN CASE.
The Prosecution Argues that the Defense
Was Cut and Dried

The Prosecution Argues that the Defense
Was Cut and Dried.
CHICAGO, December 5th.-In the Croniu trial
to-day, A. J. Hynes of the prosecution addressed
the jury. He began his argument by arranging
the facts to show that the line of the defense
was organized before the murder was commit
ted. Then followed review of the expert tes-
timony as TO the blood stains, and like evi-
denee of O'Sullivan and Coughlin.
Hynes proceeded to show the inconsistencies
in the abb evidence and after reviewing the
ma ter at length, said: "All this aside, it
makes no difference whether Coughlin or O'Sul-
livau were ever at the Carlson cottage, or
whether either of them struck blow at Cronin,
the ground was conspiracy to murder, and that
tRegarding the testimony for Coughlin, given
by his brother policeman, HyneS said it was
strange that they should have kept the knowl-
edge to themselves until they came upon the
witness stand. Regarding the man Smith, who
drove the white horse, Coushlin not only al
lowed him to get away. but deliberately gave a
false description of him to Captain Setback.
II Smith was innocent he would come forward
and tell the truth and vindicate Coughlin.
In reviewing the circumstantial evidence
against kuuze, Hynes outlined the belief of the
prosecution regarding that prisoner He is
thought to have guilty knowledge of the con-
spiracy, but 10 have taken no active part in the
tragedy. Hynes discussed the question of the
association of Coughl Il and KunZe KunZe and
0'SulliYan and Beggs and Burke as matters
lending probability to their connection in the
conspiracy. heferTing 10 the lonely situation
of the Carlson cottage, he said that 10 connect
any one with entering it within week of the
murder, either before or after, was to connect
him with the crime. Concerning the knives
found on Coughlin, he did not suppose he
would be arrested and thought thai his pocket
won d be safe place to hide them in. There
was, he said, only one chance in a mil ion that
any man would be found carrying two knives
like those of Cronins.
Hynes then took up the alibi of Burke, and al
length dissected the evidence of the array of
saloon-keepeIs who testified in that regard
drawing the conclusion that it was inconsistent
and insufficient.
Referring to the row in Camp 20, Hynes said:
"Ihey were ready to accept the testimony of an
English spy, lie Csron, who had been spy for
years. ready to accept that statement that there
were spies aud that DR.. CTonin was one of them
according to Dan Coughlin"
Hynes insisted that the proof showed the ap-
pOintment of a secret committee, and the sur
roundings, he said, showed it was appointed for
an illegal purpose. He proceeded to argue that
the fact OF a conspiracy and murder showed
the truth of Cronin's charges against the Tri-
angle.