Telegram-herald., 1889-12-01
ARGUMENTS BEGUN
MRS. C0CCHLIsS ls1lOUS INTEREST
The I2sf Act "a ths EriAl e fhe CrsEiu
suspects BesGa- Abstr2es of LoESs-
1eeksr's Eieeas Aaaress
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CHlcaGo. NOV. 39.-After tie iden-
Efel.a af If. lrn
a. mentioned elsewhere. the State again
ca ed Livery Stable Keeper Oleson. = 30
swore that swanson were 40 livery On
May 4, that tnere WAS noLs Ia the stable
f9r hia 90 bear. and uaul Aay ~ o. -
Iheee never lad been. lie added t4zt
Swanson was man - strict sobTlety
and nad been since hs knew him he
returned % the stable On tie night ~
Nay 4duiy sober.
The driver himself came neXt, and IN
his blalE homes. way. 80 strongly no.
tcad Ia the rebltIaL oorro oorated the
Testimony Of Oleson ana declared thaJ
no one drove hls carriage on May 4 bus
himself, and that no one wore his
clothes. Tue livery purchased week
after the murder was ten produced.
There was not brass button on it
black cloth buttons only, which had
been on j. since its purchase.
IL was exactly ten minutes OF 4o'clock
when State S Attorney Longenecker be-
gan his address 20 the jury. lie spoke
until ) o'clock, or half an hour after the
usual time for adjournment, and gave a
remarkably clear and straightforward
analysis Of the evidence SO far as he fol-
lowed IL. lie began By thanking the
jurors for the attention they had given
the case, declared he lad no po--
sonal feeling against the defendants,
and said that If verdict Of guilty was
warranted the law VAS not 10 blame, the
jury was not 10 blame, but only the
offenders. lie did not want the men on
trial guessed guilty, but only wanted a
verdict warranted by the facts. lie
did not want 10 do the men on
trial any wrong, and hoped he
would be corrected in the event
he misquoted the testimony. lie made
the general assertion that the murder Of
DR.. Cronin was the result of con-
spiracy and that the defendants and
other men not on trial were guilty.
The conspiracy began IN Camp 20 the
evening of February 5 when II was de-
clared that a report of the trial of the
triangle had been read in the Columbus
Club o. Or. Cronin's camp. He read the
testimony of the proceedings IN Camp
20, showing that every body present at
the meeting knew Dr. Cronin Was the
one who had attacked the triangle and
called attention 10 the fact that not a
witness had dared 10 say Dan Coughlin
did not move TO appoint secret
committee. As the mover OF the
motion for the secret committee Dan
- I o,afr
The prosecution did not contend that
this secret committee was appointed 10
try or investigate DR.. Cronin, because
every body in Camp 20 knew DR.. Cronin
was the man who had assailed the trian-
gle.
The learned COUNSEL" continued Mr..
Longenecker, ''says ] am tenacious of
dates. ! am. On February all the de-
PENDANTS but KunZe and OSulliyan
were there Burke was appointed a
committee on Hugh Gleason. On the
10th, 18th and 18th of February
letters containing most significant
language passed between Beggs and
Spellman. On February 10 Simonds
rented the fat at III Clark street. On
the Goth the carpet is laid down, and on
March l Coughlin told Henry owen
O'Connor that he had good authority for
saying that Cronin was a British spy.
am tenacious of dates"
Then he went on TO show how Dan
Coughlin had declared DIR. Cronin was
another lie Caron and spy; how Beggs
had written 10 Spellman about "the
penalty TO be inflicted" upon the dis
turbers" who did not agree with the
rank and file in the uselessness OF at
tacking the triangle; how O'Sullivan
had said DR.. Cronin was TAX
ing mem bers of the Order OF Deputies
into the clan; how Beggs wrote there
was no written" law for the punish
ment Of such men; how Bcggs had
actually mentioned DR.. Cronin IN con
nection with the trouble by referring &c
him as the senior guardian OF the
Columbus Club, and how the entire cor
respondence between Spellman and
Beggs must have referred to DR.. Cronin
Kunze, the States Attorney said, must
be included with the others. although
he Joined the conspiracy later. u was
the law OF conspiracy that conspirator
though he join at the eleventh hour
was as guilty as though ne had been II
Il from the first.
He read the letters written by Beggl
and Spellman and called special atten
tion 70 the fact that the very next day
after the last letter was written the ia
a. II Clark street was rented by
Simonds. At this point court adjourned
CHICAGO, Nov. 3O.-Of the many inter
estod spectators who thronged Judge
/ McConnel's courtroom at the morning
session none listened more intently 4
the earnest words OF the States Attor
ney than tho wife Of Dan Coughlin sn'
her little child. TIE two sat in the from
row. Mrs. Coughlin with rapt attention
drank in every syllable. every few mo
| ncnts looking az her husband 70 see th'
effect OF the telling points IN tho sTgu
ment upon him. The child, a to
I q not more than years looked
round the room with Vide-opel
/ eyes, wondering what it al mean
/ and Why she could not 20 70 he
PAPA. who with flushed face gard fixed
/ Il at the speaker. It wax sYnpathet
/ s. picture for those who knew the t~o
/ The States Attorney rose immediatel.
the Judge sscended the bench aa3 70
suued his speech where - hsd l-ft O.
st tbe adjournment Of the previous SIS
sion
Hs dvelt for some tine OF shovin.
the motive that actgated the co1splrs
tors % commit the crime. and tod agar
how the murdered physician "a
Openly charged tse triangle VT
10 "a appropris TIE fands Of th
order. ard for ths parp0ss q
covering the theft q tha trsnrls