The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-12-07

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claim THAT II wins concociod and executed aud
that these men on trial are parties TO tho coh-
spiracy. together with others who mrs not on
trial. That Is our position. We further
claim that II was q cold.bloodtd con-
splracy--a conspiracy that Is w'thouS
parallel, cold, deliberately pianned;
a conspiracy, that II true, as we understand ~
from the evidence, that would chill the blood ID
tho warmest hearts; conspiracy tia, Is most
terrible in It's effects. II this is n conspiracy,
US we contend then II has been planned for
weeks and weeks before It's execution; and II
that be true, then. gentlemen. you must notice
the line OF evidence in the case In order 10 come
TO n correct conclusion.
Mr.. Longeneckcr then reviews the evidence
In the case ut length from the beginning of tho
trial to its close to-day.
CHICAGO. Dec e.-At the opening of the Cro-
min trial Saturday evening, States Attorney
Longnecker resumed his address TO the Jury, as
follows: Yesterday morning i wanted TO cali
your attention TO what was said and done at
the meeting on the 22d OF February-thnt Is, the
reunion. You will remember that MIR. Bigga
spoke OF 1t in his letter to Mr.. Spcllman; that
he said not to forget their reunion. At that
meeting speeches were made by different par
ties, and among them Patrick McGarry made
speech and John +. Bcggs Senior Guardian OF
Camp e0 answered the speech.
Singular is 1t not that on the eighth day OF
FEBRUARY the mOtlOn WIS filiuC lot I've COHlflib-
tee in Camp 20; on the 18th OF February, Sem
ior Guardian Beggs is writing about the matter
to Edward Spellman; on the 18th he again
writes about it; on the l9th the fiat is rented at
119 Clark street; on the 20th tho carpet was
nailed down; on the 22d OF February Beggs de-
fends the Triangle, on the first day OF March
this man (Coughlin) who is on trial now Tor his
life, dcnounces DR.. Cronin rs q spy
On the Goth of April, testified to by
Beggs friend Spellman, the district member, IL
is conclusively shown TO what this committee
had reference, which was to report to Beggs
alone. What did Beggs say on that datcY He
said to Spellfnan "rhat matter has all beeuI
amicably settled" How settleds Gentlemen,
at the hour he spoke the cottage had been
rented; at the hour he spoke the final arrange.
ments had been made; at the hour he spoke the
sentence had been fixed.
(Sensation.) Tell me when II was "nmcablV
settled" What had been done in the camp,
what steps had been taken to investigate the
matterf No one knows except the Senior
Guardian and his committee as to Just what
they did do, or what they did say.
The States Attorney then road the law Of
conspiracy as developed in the Spies case
Judge Longenecker then, in simple language
and with telling force, again traced every move
in the conspiracy from the proceedings OF Camp
20, step by step, to the renting OF the Clark
street fiat the Carlson cottage and the Turing Of
the victim there.
Speaking of Burke's renting the cottage, ne
asked: what explanation is there to give for
the renting OF that cottagrf II Burke was
working at the stocls-yards, why go out to
TO keep house? :Wcn, we will see II
we can find out 10 reason for that BY follow
ing the evidence in this case we will give you
n good reason for Martin Burke not keeping
house. My opinion is that he ought 10 be COM
peled to live there all the days OF his life; that
he ought to be compelled TO wnllow there In
the blood that was drawn from the veins Of DR..
Cronin."
Going back &c what was done in the Clark
street fat the States Attorney said: There
are the two men that we first see at III South
Clark street tpointingl-Kunze, the little Ger
man, and Burke, the Irishman, Kunze had
been sleeping there"
The defendant, Kunze (excitedly)-I never
did. That's lie.
The States Attorney-As I say, Kunze had
been sleeping there. Now Burke was helping
TO move the furniture with another man. There
Is no contention here that Kunze ever helped
to move the furniture. Nobody would ever con-
tend that he would lift any furniture.
At this point KunZe made a gesticulation and
motion as II 10 again interrupt the speaker, but
he was checked by bailin behind him. who
laid his hand on the prisoners shoulder and
sternly cautioned him to silence, and the States
attorney went on with his speech.
Judge Longenecker continued to trace the
story OF the crime, dwelling upon the various
links in the chain of evidence which connected
each of the prisoners with the crime; o Sulli-
van and his contract with the Doctor; Cough
Inns known and avowed enmity to him; the
driving away to the Carlson cottage, and the
part the defendant prisoners bore in the trag-
edy enacted there, with the subsequent dispo-
sition of the body.
Continuing, the speaker said: "Dr Cronin's
asst words as he drove away on his errand Of
mercy, when Frank Seaman asked him when
he would be back, were: God knows-God
knows when will get back Well, God did
not tell him when he would get back, nor did
ne know whence he was going; yet the God
,bove stands ready to-day TO direct this prose-
cution Alright, and to see that the men who de-
stroyed the life of that man shall be punished
Tor this terrible crime.
ION the morning of the 5th OF May, ut about
O'Clock, you recollcct, this man, Steib, or
Theel, and two others who went out on that
found q trunk-acommon trunk, with
lock, unlocked, with common key,
thrown of, suppose with common hands, full
Of common blood [sensationl, besmeared with
Dlood-wiih common blood-as though q hog
lad been stuck and incarcerated In the trunk.
is II the trunk had been deluged with blood
his was the kind OF trunk they found. Then
you remember this man Coughlin, this cold
FLOODED, heartless wretch
Mr.. Donohuc dnterrupting)-We except to
hose remarks
States Attorney-I speak from the evidence.
n this evidence does not make him such, then
have no right TO say it; but, gentlemen. II you
believe that this evidence nails him to the
ross in this case, then he is a cold-blooded.
wretch. Now, what does he do during
hat search? He goes out and almost stands on
he catch-basin where the body lies, hunting,
mind you, for the body that was taken away In
hat trunk and deposited in that catch basin.
The speaker then dwelt upon the evidence
which showed the commission OF the crime in
he Carlson cottage.
The next point taken up was the expert evil
ience concerning the specimens Of blood and
lair found in the trunk and in the cottsge, and
10 argued the absurdity OF supposing that II
vas other than human blood.
He closed as follows: "When you come to
consider the verdict, think OF the 4th of May,
hink OF that man gathering his little valise
md instruments. think of him clasping to his
BOSOM the cotton with which to relieve the
OF the wounded think of the splints
n the box, think of his rushing out to the
ouggy think OF the crowded seat think OF
iini rushing north to relieve the suffering
nan, think Of him in the cottage-and when
you think OF him there, may there reverberate
through your ears the death cries OF this man,
who, in his last moments, called upSn his God
and his Jesus (sensationO think OF these men,
who, without giving him time to pronounce the
Trinity name, felled him 10 the floor with their
ieath blows. Think of the wounds in his head;
hinll OF the grave in which he was placed;
think OF nll this in making up your verdict, and
n the end ther0 will be such verdict rs. when
MS Honor pronounces his judgment upon II,
hat he, having his heart and eye to God may
Jay: May the Lord have mercy on your