The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-01
A LURID CRY FOR BLOOD
LoNGNECKER MAKES a THRILL
ING CLOSING SPEECH.

He Takes Cp the Incidents of the
Meetings in Camp 40, and Traces
the Steps In the Alleged Conspiracy
to Murder DR.. Cron nan Appeal
for the Use OF the Gibbet as an
Avenger.
CHICAGO, Nov. 30.-In the Cronin trial
to-day States Attorney Longnecker con-
cluded his opening address. aud Judge
Wing. for the defense. began his. Judge
Longnecker took up the incidents OF the
meeting Of the Clan-na-Gael camps at the
reunion, Feb. % and reviewed the re-
marks made at that meeting by Pat
McGarry to show that members OF the clan
were at that time discussing in bitter
terms the fact which Bsggs gave to them.
Referring to Pat McGarry's speech, the
states attorney said McGarry had attacked
the triangle in the name OF
the Clan-na-GaeI He hid said
that the triangle had embszzled the funds
Of the organization aud had betrayed Irish
men TO the prison of the enemy across the
water. He said that there were worse men
than LeCaron yet in the organization. The
man who gave LeCaron his credent ais was
worse than LeCaron. There were rumors
of spies in tho camp. They were worse
than spies. The triangle was worse sthan
spies.
GAVE HIMSELF AWAY.
alexander Sullivan's name had not
been mentioned,n said Judge Longnecker.
What did Beggs dot He arose a ID at
tackled McGarry. He said IL was cowardly
to attack Alexander Suliivan's name aud
character in this way. Alexander SuIli-
van has good friends here said Begys, and
| am one OF them, said the seni II guardian
Then. on M ,rch /, this lme senior guardian,
coming home from nesting In COM
piny with Dan Coughlin, said: There
is spy here to succeed LeCaron, and
we have 1t pretty s.raigt that it Is Dr.
Cronin,' and this was on Ma ch l. The
evidence showed that the conspiracy began
in camp No. 20, in February, 1853, wneu
the motion to appoint secret committees
was made by Dan Coughlin.
singular, is it not, that on Feb. 8, mol
tlon was made for a committee in camp Mo-
90; on Feb. Is, Senior Guardian Beggs u
writing about the matter 10 Edward SPELL
man; on Feb. II, he again writes about its
on Feb. 10, fat is rented at No. ia
Clark street; on Feb. 30, carpet was
nailed down, on Feb 20 Beggs defends the
triangle, and on March This man Coughlfnl
who Is on trial now for his life, denounced
DIR. Cronin as spy.
SETTLED WITH BLOOD.
"On April 30, as testified to by BsggsF
friend Spellman, district member, 1t II
conclusively shown TO what this committed
had reference which was to report to Beggs
alone What did Begga say on that dates
lie said TO Spellman: That matter has ali
been amicably settled How sestledt
| gentemenl AT the hour he spoke the1
| cottage =had been rented; at the houi
ha na dau ha haas4
made; at the hour he spoke sentence had
been fixed. "A sensation.l Tell me wnen IL
was 'amicably settled What bad BEEN
done in the camp; what steps have beeni
taken to investi gate the matterl No one
knows except the senior guardian and his
committee as to just what they did say"
The states attorney then read the law OF
conspiracy as developed 10 the Spies cass.
Judge Longnecker then, in simple la 1guage, |
aud with telling force, again traced every
move n the conspiracy from the proceei<
Ings Of Camp 20, step by step, to the renting
of the Clark street fat, the Carlson COTTAGE
and tho Turing OF the victim there.
BURKE's PARTICIPATION.
Speaking of Burke's renting the cottage,
he asked: "What explanation is there to
give for the renti G of that cottagei Ny
opinion is that he ought to 10 compelled to-
live there all the days Of his life; that I'D
ought to be compelled TO wallow there i1
the blood that was drawn from the veins of
DIR. Cronin.n A sensationL
Going back to what was done in th9j
Clark street. fat, the stats's at orney saidsl
There are two men that we first see at No. j
III South Clark street (pointing), KunzeSs
the little German, and Burke, the Irshmana
Kunze had been sleeping there"
Defendant Kunze-(exciteily)-"I never
did. That's lie."
Judge Longe iecker closed as followssd
when you come to conider thai
verdict, think Of May All
think Of that man gathering his
little valise and his instrum ants; think Of |
him claspIng to his bosom the colton witIH
which to relieve the suffering of thai
wounded; think Of the splints in the box1
think Of his rushing out to a buggy; thinki
Of the crowded sea- think OF him rushfngl
forth to rescue a suffering man; thinh1
OF him in the cottage, and
when you think of him there may there's
reverberate in your ears the death-cries oG
this man, who In his last moments called6
upon his God and his Jesus e. sensation1a
think of these men who, without plvInd
him time to pronounce the other trinity
name, felled him to the floor with theiE
death-blows. Think Of the wounds In hisa
head; think Of the grave In which he wass
placed; think Of all this In making up your3
verdict, aud in the end there will be such q
verdict as when his honor pronounces hfS
judgment upon it that he. having his
heart and may to God, and say. May ths
Lord have mercy on your souls.'n
Judge Wing dwelt upon the neces sity4
that the jurors should put aside their nats
uraI prejudice against these men on accounts
of their nationality and religion, and re-
member that it was natural for them to
love the home Of tneir youth.
The court then adjourned till Monday.