Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-30


tion of the men who are accused, must be Just
as strong, although it only takes q couple OF
hours to try the case, as if you were trying men
What am trying to have you understand is
this, that because this case is SO long, and be-
cause it has grown to be SO large and import
| ant, you must not think it requires more eVl-
dence to satisfy 70 i on that account. If the
| evidence conVinces you of the guilt OF the &C.
| cused, then it matters not whether there are
! hve men or ten men on trial, or one man on
trial The evidence necessary to convince you
beyond reasonable doubt OF the guilt OF the
men on trial should be just as strong as II ~
men were on trial, and yet need not be stronger
than II one man were on trial.
THE Law ALWAYS JUST.
The law is always Just 1t is made to protect
the innocent as well as to punish the guilty. 1t
is intended to be even-handed, and yet it is not
always the case that it is 80 administered, yet
the law itself, Irepeat is just. and in this case
after you have heard the arguments of counsel
on both sides, having heard the evidence, ana
after you have heard the instructions of the
Court, and go into your rooms to make up your
verdict bear in mind that the law is just, and II
that law compels you to infict penalty here
that you do not like to infiict remember tnat
you are not to blame, that the law is not to
blame, but the men who have violated tnat
law.
/ say this because feel desirous that in this
case We shall get at the truth, and what say
to you in this case will be said with the view
solely Of getting at truthful verdict and
nothing else. have no feeling against those
men on trial personally Why should stand
up here and ask you to convict Martin Burke,
Daniel Coughlin, Patrick O'Sullivan, John +.
Beggs, John Kunze, unless l believe the evi-
dence justified me in asking you to do 1t? II
should at this moment, or at any other mo-
ment ask jury of II men, or ask you IL men
to convict these defendants upon anything else
but the evidence presented, IWould not be Mt
to fill the position occupy.
NO GUESSING ABOUT IT.
We do not desire that these men shall be
guessed guilty. We 90 not desire that they
shall be convicted upon anything except the
law and the evidence in the case, but ifsyou,
having heard all the evidence, believe that the
law and evidence justifies you In saying they
are guilty, then we do demand at your hands
that your verdict shall be in accordance with
the law and evidence. and nothing short of
truthful verdict under the law and the evil
dence, will meet the demands In this case.
Whether that verdict be to acQuit the de
PENDANTS, or whether it shall be to convict the
defendants, with that verdict the people, rep
resented by myself and associates, must be
conteDted.
AS said, want to talk to you about the
evidence in the case, and Will do that as
speedily as possible, but bear in mind, at the
same time, that it is necessary that that evil
dence should be presented to you in such way
that you shall see the chain forged from day to
day in this case, and so that you may be
enabled, from this evidence, to come to con-
clusion- 1t is possible that in going over the
evidence, and trusting to memory may not
repeat it Just as it is, but hope you will not
charge that am trying to take advantage of
these men who are now on trial for their lives
Continuing, the States Attorney said:
We contend that the murder of DR.. Patrick
Henry Cronin was brought about by con-
spiracy. We claim that it was concluded and
executed by these men as parties TO the con-
spiracy, together with others who are not on
trial. That is our position.
STRONG LANGUAGE.
We further claim that it was cold-blooded
conspiracy; q conspiracy that is without
parallel cold, deliberately planned; a con-
spiracy, that if true, as we understand it from
the evidence, would chill the blood IN the
warmest hearts; a conspiracy that is most terri
bic in its effects. If this is a conspiracy as we
contend, then 1t has been planned for weeks
and weeks before its execution; and If that be
true, then, gentlemen, you must notice the line
of evidence in the case in order to come to a
correct conclusion. We claim that this evil
dence itself, without showing the connecting
point of itself shows that conspiracy was
concocted by these defendants on trial.
Where do we come then to start in-where
do we learn of this conspiracy? You remem-
Der that there is Camp 20 in this city. 1t is
proven here that the Clan-na-Gael organization
had Camp 20 named the Columbia Club, and
there was another camp, and they both met at
Turner Hall; and then. at the date of which
now intend to speak, you will remember that
there had been a contention or split in this
organization as it is called; that different fac
tons had arisen, and that the two factions had
divided
You remember, on the recommendation of
these two organizations, trial committee was
appointed as is in evidence, to try the execu-
tive body of this organization' the highest
power in the order. They were to be tried by
selected by the convention that met
in this city on last year in the month of June.
You remember that evidence. This committee
was appointed.
CLAN-NA-GAEL HISTORY.
On that committee, remember, was DR..
Cronin. On that trial committee DR.. Cronin
acted for one faction of the two organizations
Having united, they united the order and re-
numbered their camp. Now. l speak of that,
and want you to bear it in mind that here
was DIR. Cronin on that committee, and it was
shown that there were three men called the
Triangle, who we're being tried by the commit
tee of which DR.. Cronin was a member. Now,
we will stop there and go on to this Camp 20 on
the Sth day of February. You go into that
camp and we called the secretary here
Beginning with the Secretary's testimony,
the States attorney told in narrative form |
at great length the evidence of the ten wit |
nesses as to the row in Camp 20 growing out |
of q speech BY Cronin's friend, Captain |
E. O'Conner, and resulting in the |
of committee of three to find |
out how DR.. Cronin's camp got information |
duSdu OF OlueE cdLn pS as 10 the proceedings /
at Buffalo.
The States attorney claimed that Cough |
lin having moved the appointment of the |
committee must have been, according to
usual parliamentary practice, made a mem
Der and chairman of the committee Mr.,
also drew attention to the dis
closures of LIE Caron then being made in
London having entered into the camps dis
cussion, with talk of other spies still at
work in the order, and that it had been
shown the defendant O'SulIivan had ex-
pressed belief that Cronin as a Clan-na-
Gael organizer, was taking Deputies" into
the order.
HATCHING THE CONSPIRACY.
The admission of deputies" and the pre-
nature reading of the Buffalo minority re-
port in Cronin's camp were adverted to bv
The States attorney as having, by direction
IF the camp, been referred by Defendant
Beggs to the highest officer in the district,
Spelman, of Peoria. Having narrated the
as to this meeting OF February 8.
he States attorney declared: ''On that
hight is when the conspiracy began. The
States attorney continued:
They all knew that Dr. Cronin was on that
Buffalo committee, and that he had separate
-eport from the others. They knew that he
had protested against the report of the ma
orify; that he had a minority report; they all
Knew that he had condemned this executive
body and charged upon them the frauds that
t was reported and he insisted that they had
1erpetrated. 1t was Daniel Coughlin who was
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