The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-08-23
PREPARING EVIDENCE
Attorney L Longenecker Work
ing Night and Day on
the Cronin Case.
The Case Is an Intricate
One Compared to the
Anarchists Trial.
'fAnsono is Convicted 1t Will Be by
Purely Circums, antial Evi-
dence-The Trial VIII Be
A Difficult One.
Getting Ready for the Trial.

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CHICAGO. Aug 17.-States. Attorney
Longenc3ker, with large corps OF as
sistants, is working night and day upon
the preparation Of the evidence to be
given in behalf Of the state in the ab
pIoaching trial of the murderers of De
Cromn. The task is one of no ordinary
magnitude. Compared to it the labor
expended on that other celebrated cass
in the legal history of the city, the
anarchist trial, pales into insignifi-
canoe. In that case the crime was
committed in broad daylight, the
indicted men were on the platform
in full view Of thousands Of people,
and the printed hand bills distributed
over the city, the advertisements in the
columns OF the Arbeiter zeitung, and the
seizure of bombs and dynamite in half a
dozen different places made such com
plete chain of evidence that the state
could have gone to trial a week after the
usymarket massacre with full confidence
IN the result. But the present case is in
tricate beypnd conception. About the
only direct evidence extaht is that which
proves that the unfortunate Irishmah was
assassinqtea and his body foapd in the
Lake View mahhole. against the
prisoners SO far at least as is knewn out
side of the states attorneys Office, the
evidence ia but eircumstsntiaL, There is
no confessions to work on. Every link
in the chain, which one Of the prisoners
bought the furniture, which one hired
| The fat drove the buggy, opened the cot
tage door. which one felled the man who
had been summoned on what he supposed
to be mission Of mercy, all these links
in the chain must be forged from
circiimstantial material. 1t Is a stupep.
dous task, and tsnderel ,he tnath diM::
! cult, not only on account OF the wide
ramiicalions of the conspiracy, but IS
well from the thousand and one OBJ
structions that have been encountered by
the representatives of the law. 1t is an.
ticipated that the triel will occupy six
weeks, and III thai period SCORES Of wit:
nesses will go on the stand in fear
and trembling, anxious to tell the truth.
but yet in morta! terror that for 30 doing
they may be marked by the triangle.
The whdlesale terror With which this
body is regarded would not be believed
by anybody that has not gone through
| the experiences of the states attorney for
| the past month
Meanwhile the defense is not inactive:
| Where il comes from is a mystery to all
but few, but the fact remains that
thousands of dollars have already been
expended in placing stumbling blocks in
the way of the prosecution, and that the
word has gone out that all the funds
needed will be forthcoming The
partisans of the triangle have great fol
lowing behind them. Many of their most
| prominent emissaries are men who
have been identified in the past with
what was referred to In the
Buffalo trial of ale sander Sullivan
as Operations" snd which required
the exercise of diplomaty, cunning, craft
and that indestribable combination Of
gifts that Philadelphia politician ha.
immortalized under the designation OF
addition. division and silence" 1t will
be hard fight and bitter one, but the
states attorneys are confident that the
law will be yindicated and the crue
crime avenged. At any rate the trial will
nc one Of the most sensational in the lie
gal history of the universe.
What arrangements have been made
foT legal advisers for the men indicted
for completely in the crime has not beer
made public. Stales Attorney Longe
nccker will it is understood have the as
sistarce of two leading members of tn
local bar. 1t seems hardly possible tina
The defence VIII be satisfied to reply upol
the qnarIette Of very ordinary lawyers b.
whom the defendants have SO far beel
represented. II cannot be learned how
ever that any overtures have been mad
10 any practitioners of high profefsiona
standing in this city or elsewhere to be
come identified with the case