The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-12-04
KUNzE DECLARES HIS INNOCENCE.
Words Which Caused a
CommotionHin the Court.
Attorney ingham Points Out How
the Secret Came Out,
And the Murder Of Or. Cronin Led to
Arrests and Trial.

CHICAGO, December 3.-Before Attorney
| Wing finished up:the "odds and ends" of his
| address to the jury in the Cronin case, At
| torney Donahue introduced again the witness
Boynton. one .of O'Sullivan's employees, to
show the location Of lamp post on the
corner near the Carlson cottage.
The evidence.was undoubtedly introduced
to show it would be difficult, 1t not impossi-
| BILE, for Mrs. Hoertel to have seen DIR. Cronin
| enter the cottage, or for Milkman Mertes to
see Coughlin and Kunze drive up to the front
of the cottage in buggy.
To rebut this, however, the State will
bring forward the testimony of several wit
nesses and Signal Service Officer Franenfield
| that the evening was clear and starlight,
| Attorney Wing then took up the thread OF
| his discourse where he left off last evening
| The companionship of Coughlin and KuEze
| prior to the murder, and their Tip together
| to Peoria, were touched upon. The State
| had not shown the companionship was a
guilty one, nor was an attempt made SO 70 40.
| The benefit of the doubt must then be given
| to the circumstance
The testimony in relation to Coughlin tel
| ephoning O'Sullivan during April was not a
| guilty circumstance Any man OF ordinary
sense knows the telephone is not conveyor
| was shown in the testimony that the tele-
phonng was mainly in relation to the where
abouts of Kunze. What was there criminal
about that? 1t could not prove more than
that Coughlin and Kunze were acquainted,
and the defence willingly acknowledge the
fact
The manner of the death of DR.. Cronin was
point which the State had mott proved. IL
might readily be that DR.. Cronin was muir
dersd it was not for the defence to prove
to prove the fact. The State has failed to
prove beyond reasonable doubt that Dr.
Cr0nin was murdered by the defendants.
The manner of death must be proved by
expert medical testimony. No man, how
ever talented, without expert medical knowl-
edge. would be allowed by Judge Mcconnell
or any other judge to testify as to th' manner
of death. The best physicians and surgeons in
Chicago, men in whose knowledge the whole
city took pardonable pride. have come upon
the stand and sworn they could not tell now
DR.. Cronin met his death.
The experts could not tell /, then how pre-
sumptuous it would be for laymen to attempt
decision.
Attorney Ingham, for the State quietly
toook the place of Attorney Wing, and be-
gan what everyone knew in advance would
be the best effort in the life of a born orator.
DIR. Cronin on the, night OF May 4, was
struck down and f0ully murdered In
slaughter pen prepared for the butchery.
E16 tldu Utt1l luEtu ltOul LID uOlhO ou oi Va
Not content with the fou. murder, the bru-
tai criminals. with fiendish malice, put tie
crowning indignty on the dead body by
buryng it in the filth and slime OF the sewer.
The law and all the law in the case was
embraced in the statutes covering the
charges of murder and conspiracy. Any
man who strikes down another in tbes peace
of the state is murderer Any man who
aids or assists, or even any man who aids or
hnQ an
murder. is equally guilty with the man who
struck the fatal blow.
Attorney Wing. the speaker continued,
had taken one fact of the states evidence af-
ter another, and had shown it did not prove
the defendants were guilty OF murder. OF
course they did not prove it singly.
The State did not expect con
viction because Coughlin had shown emnity
to DR.. Cronin, that Burke had hired the
Carlson cottage or any other single fact in
the testimony. 1t was the complete rounded
whole on which the conviction was asked.
Mr.. Ingham opened the afternoon session
with review of the events at the Carlson
cottage He said the conspiracy included
more men than those on trial, but to the dis.
appointment of the audience he mentioned
no names. The acts of the conspiracy. he
declared, were not buried forever. only be-
cause, as in all large conspiraeies, the heart
who had been entrusted with the charge of
bringing boat 10 carry the body out into
the lake was terrified and unable
to carry out his part. The
conspirators were therefore compelled to
dump tne body into sewer. The speaker
then attacked the alibi of O'Sullivan. The
men who had furnished it with life were
men whose livelihood had depended on the
prosperity of the iceman, and it was but
natural that they should desire to assist him.
He then referred to the part taken by Kunze
in the conspiracy, and asked why it was the
suspect admitted to a witness that he ex-
Cronin murder. Red in the face, Kunze
sprang from his chair and shouted in an
swer: because Coke told me-" Two bail
ifs tried to quiet him, but he kept on his
eet for moment, and raising his hands on
"God knows, am innocentr' Mr.. Ingham
ended his address with brief admonition to
to the jury to do its duty. The court then
adjourned until tomorrow morning.