Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-03
EAST OF TIE ROCKIES.
Further Particulars Concerning the
Minneapolis Fire.
ANOTHER ARKANSAS OUTRAGE.
Jefferson Davis Nearing the Grave
Women and Children Burned TO
Death in Philadelphia,
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE EEcoRD-UNoN.l !
THE CRoNIN CASE.
Testimony in Rebuttal Regarding the
Doctors Knives

Testimony in Rebuttal Regarding the
Doctors Knives.
CHICAGO, December 2d.-At the opening
of the Cronin case this morning, testimony
in rebuttal was presented regarding the
knives, said to be Cronin's, found on Cough
lin when he was arrested.
Antoine Lowenstein, q tailor, said he saw
Coughlin have knives similar to them on
April 9th.
Jake Lowenstein, Antone's brother and
Coughhn's partner on the detective force
swore that Coughlin owned two sSch
knives.
Judge Wing then resumed his argument
to the jury on behalf of the defense.
Wing continued his review of the evi-
dence. and coming down to the two knives
supposed to be Cronin's, said this question
is very easily disposed of by two PROPOSE
ton. First-Coughlin is either guilty or
innocent. He could not have had those
knives if they were Cronin's. If guilty he
would not have had them if they were
CroniDs.
Those two plain propositions in the
mind of any reasoning man would be the
end of that knife episode-the last and
grand climax that the State gave to the
case of suspicion against these men.
Judge Wing then took up the question of
alleged conspiracy in Camp 20. The State,
he said, had to make out conspiracy be-
cause this case could not be maintained in
any Court of Justice against defendants un-
less the fact of conspiracy was established
beyond all reasonable doubt.
Speaking of the ways in which to estab-
lish conspiracy, he said: You can consider
all the proven facts, and from that infer
the conspiracy, if the conspiracy is proven
by that process beyond all reasonable
doubt. 1t is fair and it is right under the
law that when you are weighing any cir
cumstance against Coughlin you should
look at that circumstance in the light of
the law, but not in the light of the facts
proven against the other men.
l object to this jury or Court taking
partly proven conspiracy, and from it CIV
ing color and character to the individual
circumstances and acts proven against my
client.
Wing then went on to say that he never
heard presented so ABSURD theory of con-
spiracy as the State presents in this case.
The State pretends, he said, that there are
a multitude of circumstances which, if con-
sidered, lead to conclusion of conspiracy
independent of Camp 20. That is not ma
terial. The question is, whether the acts
proven against the men on trial indicate
that they were criminal participants in the
same conspiracy which resulted in Cronin's
death.
1t may be his death did result from con-
spiracy, but that is not what you are here
to try. If it is uncertain, then there must
be an acquittal; and that there is uncer-
tainty about it, from its inception to its end,
is most conclusively demonstrated
The speaker then went on to argue that
tha uariors pirpu ms otanpps a1duaad in tho
evidence to show Coughlin's connection
with the crime were consistent with the
theory ofinnocence. As to the noted white
horse, even if it were the animal which
drew Cronin to his death, still Coughlin
might be innocent. He might not have
known what the man from Michigan
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