Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-07
The President and Ills Party on Their
May to Chicago.
THE DEFALCATION OF sILCOTT.
The Cronin Arguments Attracting
Considerable Attention-The
Cherokee Strip.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES To THE RzoORD-us1os.l
NEARING THE END.
Hynes Makes a Powerful ArgumeI
Agains. the Conspirators.

Hynes Makes a Powerful Argument
Agains. the Consplrators.
CHICAGO, December 6th.-Hynes resumed
his argument on behalf of the prosecution
in the Cronin trial this morning, deyoting
his remarks especially to showing that
Begg was a defender of the triangle and
therefore ready to think i'll of Cronin.
He dwelt on the scene in the Carlson cot
tage, and continued Gentlemen Of the
Jury, this savagery and brutality is palmed
off Oh you as patriotism. Many and many
a hot Irish act had brought calamity, suf-
fering and shame to the lace 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
them, and upon the reputation and charac-
ter and honorable generosity of the race"
Hynes graphically pictured the finding
of the corpse, and said that the finding
upon it of the Agnus Del, an emblem of
his faith and religion, indicates one thing,
that the man who killed Cronin had the
same faith for the emblem they found
around the neck of the man they murdered.
Vividly describing the supposed action of
the murderers after disposing of the body,
Hynes scored O'Sullivan, and wondered
whether, when he went to bed at night did
that ghastly picture of his dead friend,
head foremost in the sewer, his head beaten
and battered with the blows that struck his
life out, haunt him? Did the horror of that
scene ever stir his soul to one moment
of repentance?
Speaking of Burke's flight, Hynes re-
ferred his triangle of aliases in honor of
the triangle whom he was serving. He
then denounced the war on defenseless
I'D in Rrifoir1 onA
charged upon the triangle the sending of
dupes to- English prisons, that embezzle-
ment might be concealed.
At the afternoon session Mr. Foster ad-
dressed the jury on behalf of Beggs. He
denounced the murder of Cronin as the
most atrocious and cold blooded ever per-
petrated, but warned them not to let an
innocent man suffer for it. Abiding to
the large force and power of the States At
torney's Office, Mr.. Foster said the prose-
cution was not satisfied with the ability of
the States Attorney and his assistants, so
they engaged three or four OF the most
able counsel in Chicago, men whose ability
to sway iuries by their eloquence is well
known, to assist them in this case.
Foster said he had an unpleasant duty
to perform because of certain expressions
of his client during Cronin's life. THE
uldU WuO suppOScS LII. OAOhAh
while here upon earth was an angel in dis
guise, is very much mistaken" said he.
whether or not the Clan na-Gael is an
evil organization, whose purpose was to
send dynamiters to England, the most
active member in furthering the object of
that society, whatever it was, was DR..
Cronin."
The States Attorney objected to this,
and said he wanted to prove that cronin
was expelled because he had exposed the
dynamite policy, and there was opposition
to 1t at the time.
Foster then spoke of Beggs open actions
in the furnishing of the correspondence
with Spelman to the State, etc. 1t was
evident, Beggs said, Cronin had no busi-
ness to be on the committee to try the tri-
angle. 1t was at time when Cronin was
prejudiced against Alexander Sullivan,
who had caused his expulsion from the
order Cronin was an agitator, an organ
izer of rival camps and had publicly de-
nounced the triangle, yet he was selected to
act in triple capacity of witness, counsel
and Judge to try that body. Foster had
not concluded when the Court adjourned.