St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-03
TOUGH MEN TO SHIELD
Counsel for the Cronin SuS-
poets Have a Hard Row
to Hoe.
Attorney Forrest Seeks to
Bolster the Character or
Dan Coughlin.
Jakey Loewenstein and HIS
Brother Selected to Do
the Sweari ng.
Lawyer Wing ShO VS. the Sill
YER Side of the Testimony
to the Jury.

CHICAGO. Dee. 2.-When Judge Nc
ronnelrs court opened this morning III
she Cronin case Mr.. Forrest proceeded
10 offer evidence cOntradicting the testl-
mony of 7. T. Conklin regarding the
knives said to be DR.. CrOnin's which
Here found in Dan COughlin'S pocket.
August LOeWenStein, a brother OF De
,ective Jake LoewenStein, and tailor
On Clark street, near Washington, was
called. he testified that April y Dan
Coughlin bought a pair of trousers at
his place. They were not fit, and one
pf his men altered them. C"ughhn
waited i'm the store for them and then
put them on. After changing his trou-
sers the eX-detectiye took all the articles
he had carried i'm the old trousers peck
cts and transferred them 10 the new
garment.
AMONG THEM WE'RE TWO KNIVES.
Witness was shown the two knives
mt in evidence Friday, and declared
them TO be exactly like those lie saw
that day. He noticed them particularly
in the store. because he wanted Cough
lin to let him take one and he would not.
Witness said 20 the best of his Judgment
they were the same knives. On the
cruSS-eXamiuaiiOn witness insisted that
the date vas April y. Coughlm'S name
was not on the books because il was
cash transaction. Ex-Detectiye Loewen-
stein. COughlin'S partner. SwOre that he
recognized one of the knives As the one
Coughlin had carried for a long time.
The other one lie was pretty sure OF bat
rot positive. CrOSs-eXaminatiOn tailed
TO shake his testimony. After slight
delay Judge Wing resumed his argu-
ment for the defense. As he had ended
SATURDAY.. 50 he began-with the danger
and untrustWOrthinPSS of circumStantial
evidence. After dwelling for some time
on this pOint.he for the first time referred
10 the testimony against the suspects.
That part of il given by SalOOnkeeper
Nieman was picked up and the side
faVOTa lie TO the defense was shown to
the jury. The reluctance Of the witness
10 positively identify COughin and
Kunze as the ones who had come into
his saloon on the night of MAY + was
argued upon at great length. And mas
much as the witness had not been GER
tain of the men there was not in the
speakers mind any reason to believe
that he was certain of the date. Con-
tinuing on this line, he argued that Me
man not being certain. and the HylandS.
on the other hand being most positively
certain, the testimony of the latter
should receive the
CREDENCE OF THE JURY.
son the night of Maya Z. O'Sullivan
was in his hOme," exclaimed the attOr-
ney in a solemn tone. IF you do not
believe it, then you must set aside the
testimony of the entire household
among whom O'Sullivan lived" AttOr-
Il, En,zr-Ilirnsc
alibi and declared it was all right, He
said that it had been charged that
the witnesses had committed perjury.
'.If such was the fact. why don't they
indict and prosecute the perlurers"
Next the speaker proceeded to belittie
the evidence of .'MaI." Sampson, offer
ing the "maior's' tough character as
his weapon. In this fashion the speaker
continued to dispose of the numerous
phases of the trial. The idea of sane
man, while suspected of murder, carry
ing for two weeks in his pocket the
knives of the murdered man, was, in
Attorney Wings mind, too ridiculous a
proposition TO be entertained for mo-
ment. The conspiracy and its relation
TO Camp 20 next claimed the advocates
attention. "A case of conspiracy must
be established by the state beyond
reasonable doubt" he said. Either
such case must be proved or this trial
must be dropped and the prisoners dis
charged And the only proof that such
a conspiracy did exist is circumstantial
evidence. and circumstantlal evidence
Of very fiimsy nature. | have heard of
MANY CASES OF CONSPIRACY,
but never have heard of a case so alb
surd as this one. There is nothing to
show that a conspiracy existed. 1t may
be true that factions existed in the So
riety-that CrOnin led one faction and
somebody else anOther-but the only
thing that can be made of it is that some
men disliked Cronin for his stana on
certain points" The assertion that the
murder of DIR. Cronin had been decided
upon at a meeting of forty persons,
many of them intimate friends of the
doctor, and tor 10 other reason than
that he had read report of trial in
another camp, the speaker character
lied as nonsense and absurdity. and
asked the jury could they as men be-
lieye it. "AS to the white horse hired
from Dinan," Attorney Wing contin-
tinued, ''is it likely that a man, con-
templating murder, would have hired a
horse from place at which he was
KNOWN? It has been frequently asked
why. if Coughlin's connection with the
white horse was innocent, why hasn't
the man been brought back? Why
hasn't the man come back? | wish ne
had come back. But the state with all
its resources has been unable to bring
him back and so also has the defense
As for the man himself. there is little
reason why he should come back. Ii
would have been too risky thing t. dc
with a prosecution able to Identity any.
thing and anybody. That man would
have been identified by Mrs. COnklin
He knew it, and staid away" At this
point court adjourned until tomorrow
when Judge Wing will conclude his adj
dress and Attorney Ingham begin for
the state.