Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-07

ter responded on behalf of the prisoner. The
latter attorney made an attack upon the
character and actions of the murdered
doctor.
CHICAGO, December 6.-Prosecutor
Hynes devoted large portion of his address
to-day to the case of Senior Guardian
Beggs. He said thai the evidence did moi
show, as claimed, that Beggs was simply in
an attitude of waiting and deprecating any
discussion until the report Of the committee
to try the Triangle was made; it was moi
merely that DR.. Cronin was premature in
his report to his camp. Beggs' objection
was against any uncovering Of the alleged
frauds at all. He announced himself a
friend of Alexander Sullivan and he wanted
the question of the frauds dropped.
Mr.. Hynes added on this point: "Beggs
insisted that there was no use in opening
old scores; that they were the enemies Of
Irish unity; that the men behind him, the
men who bad the power, as he says here, OF
the men who are the, power, will in time
realize the motives Of those who are con-
tinually creating disorder in the ranks, and
a day of punishment will come. am very
much discouraged at the present outlook,
and hope no trouble will result.
SIGNIFICANT MEANING.
HE did not mean trouble that had been
going on in the camp-the mere discussion
of it. Trouble had more significant mean
ing than the mere acrimony of discussion;
than debate and ventilation in mans mind
on the subject IN the camp. People were
talking to Beggs at that time about trouble
Of course, in writing to Mr.. Spelman he
would not disclose any more than his
anxiety that Mr.. Spelman should take some
action, and, as said yesterday, perhaps the
scheme was under the cover Of that-the
secret committee that had been already ap-
pointed was to do its work. Who was
breathing threats of trouble into the ears of
Beg"s at that timer"
Referring to the acts of Coughlin and
BeggS. Mr.. Hynes said: "These men, who
were determined to wreck DIR. Cronin, these
men who were determined to have his life
and silence his tongue, knew that they could
go around and breathe suspicious in the
ears Of men vino. they felt, held the posi-
bilities of murder, on their parts, and this
was the reason why Coughlin said that "a
confederate of LIE Caron is among u.s.
Turning toward the prisoners the speaker
continued: ST do not know how these men
have been imposed upon, if they were i'm
posed upon; / do not know what villainous
means were employed for the purpose of
producing the conviction in the minds of
some of them that they were dealing with
British spy.
A CONFESSION NECESSARY.
"We will never know the history of their
purpose until some putrid conscience shows
forth its phosphorescent light in the dark
shadow of the gallows and tells the inner
truth from man about on the verge of the
grave. 1t was after the first of March.
after the fiat had been rented and all prepar-
ations had been made for the murder of DR..
Cronin, that Coughlin whispered into the
ear of Harry O'Connor that there is in
formation in the city that DR.. Cronin is an
other lie Caron. It was for the purpose of
preparing his mind for the Doctors dis
appearance that he said this. If the men
who inspired the murder of Cronin believed
him a spy they would have sent him across
the water-but it was not the spy they were
after. They were endeavoring to cover up
their own frauds"
In concluding his remarks concerning
Beggs, Mr.. Hynes said that the significance
of all the testimony against Beggs was thor
oughly appreciated by his counsel; if it
were not, they would not have gone to the
trouble of endeavoring to prove an alibi for
him on the night of May 4.
Mr.. Hynes dwelt on the scene in the Carl
son cottage, and continued: Gentlemen Of
the Jury, this savsgery and brutality is
palmed off to you as patriotism. Many and
many a hot Irish act has brought calamity,
and shame to the face of the Irish
people, but in all their history in the past,
and in all the history they can make in the
future, this will stand out as the one con-
spicuous monument Of shame against these
Irish people, and upon the reputation, char
acter and honorable generosity of the race.
A GRAPHIC PICTURE.
Mr.. Hynes graphically pictured the find
ing of the corpse. He said: '"The naked
body of DIR. Cronin, stripped, it was be-
lieved, of everything that could identity
him, nothing upon him except a towel
around his naked body, that was probably
used for the purpose Of lifting his bloody
body, reeking with blood. The only other
thing that was found upon him was the
Agnus Del, an emblem of his faith and of
his religion, around his neck, and this in
dicates one thing-thst the men who killed
DR.. CroniL had the same faith for the en-
blem that they found around the neck of
the man they murdered. 1t simply helps to
identify the men who committed the MUIR
der"
After vividly describing the supposed ac-
tions of the murderers after dlsposing Of the
body, the speaker said: ooh, think of this
man O'Sullivan, with his knowledge, when
k.I III; md
and when, as he says, he was
drinking with his friend, when be went to
his bed at night, leaving the lamp lighted in
the room. Did that CHASTITY picture of his
dead friend, head foremost in the sewer, his
head beaten and battered with the blows
that struck his life out, covered with blood
as he lies in the sewer. Oh, did the picture
of the body in the sewer ever
haunt him when he went to bed?
Did the horror of that scene ever stir
his soul to one moment of repentance, to
make a clean breast Of it as the last refuge
of guilty soul?"
AN EVIDENCE OF GUILT.
Mr.. Hynes scored Burke's flight and his
triangle OF aliases in honor of the Triangle
whom he was serving" He then denounced
war on defenseless men and women in Great
Britain, charged it upon the Triangle, and
the sending of dupes to English prisons
that embezzlements might be concealed. In
a deeply impressive conclusion. Mr.. Hynes
asked the jury for a verdict of their con-
science, verdict their judgment would
approve, the Court ratify and God sanctify
to vindicate the law and commit the guilty
to just punishment.
At the afternoon session Mr.. Foster i'd
dressed the jury on behalf of John F.
Beggs. After alludlng to the Importance
of the case and the responsibilities which
rested with them all, Judge, jury and law
yers, Mr.. Foster denounced the murder of
DR.. Cronin as the most atrocious and cold
blooded ever perpetrated, but warned them
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