Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-27
A BATTLE FOR LIFE.
Continued from. First Page.

claimed, drove Coughlin to the slaughter
house on Ashland avenue before the MUIR
der was committed, looked like one of the
Anarchists during the last days of the
famous trial of 1886. His hair was pIas-
tered over to one side of his small head, and
in one of the buttonholes of his coat was a
bunch of blood-red geraniums.
DIFFERENT. NT.CHARACTERIsTICs.
Not one of the prisoners looks like the
other. Burke is stolid and Indifferent.
Woodruff is cunning and nervous. : Cough
lin is man of iron nerve, with a heavy jaw
and deep set eyes. Beggs is handsome and
confident. O'Sullivan is serious and pain
fully attentive. Kunze is giddy German,
who runs to pomades, grins and flowers.
Back of the six prisoners were six big bailifs.
The lawyers were next to gather within
the railing. Attorney Foster, who made
such gallant fight for the lives of the An
archists, sat down beside Senior Warden
Beggs. The vitriolic Donahue and his busi-
ness partner, David, who are to defend
Kunze and O'Sullivan, lugged in great
stacks of law books. Grim William For
rest Is the heaviest gun the defense has set
up to resist the fire from Hynes and Mills.
Judge Mcconnell took his seat shortly
after 10 o'clock. He wore fancy waistcoat
and natty neck scarf. He looks like a
prosperous business man. As soon as court
was formally opened Attorney Donahue
slowly arose and began an earnest plea in
behalf of Kunze, who he said had been de-
MED list of the witnesses who testified
against the prisoners before the grand jury.
Kunze, Mr.. Donahue declared, was fighting
for his life in the dark. A transcript of the
evidence taken by the jury had also been de-
MED the prisoner.
AwFULLY INNOCENT.
Kunze had never seen DR.. Cronin. He
had not even heard Of him until after the
Doctors disappearance. He had been taken
from Jail to jail, but when he had asked the
reason for his incarceration the States At
torney had always told him that he was all
right and that he would be set free as soon
as he told what he knew about the rest OF
the defendants. Kunze, Mr.. Donahue con-
tinued, had never spoken to the rest of the
prisoners. He had been snapped up by the
States officers, indicted on testimony which
he now knows nothing about and practically
abandoned to fight his own battle for life.
Then Judge Wing, assisted by Attorneys
Donahue and David, began the seemingly
hopeless fight to get separate trials for their
clients. The afidavits of Coughlin
Then came the affidavits of Q'Sul-
of O'Sullivan and Coughlin showed the fear
those prisoners have of Woodruff. In each of
the afhdavits of Coughlin and O'Sullival
were extracts from Woodruff's confession.
One of these extracts bore upon WoodrufFs
story that Coughlin had paid him S25 to
drive the wagon and the dead body to the
catch basin; another extract was Woodruff's
declaration that Coughlin and O'Sullivan
wrote to one another in cipher. To all these
charges, and many more besides, the prison.
ers entered the most sweeping denials.
A SMILE OF CONTEMPT.
While the extracts from Woodruff's con-
fession were being read, Coughlin and
Beggs smiled contemptuously. Even
Burke showed his disgust for the man
beside him by looking at him with savage
leer. The confessor grew white, il that
were possible, during the reading of the
affidavits. He slid down into his seat,
sprawled his legs out in front Of him and
buried his head in the palm of his right
hand. Finally he became so nervous that
he unbuttoned his vest and loosened his
neckte. His mother looked at him con-
stantly.
Not muscle in O'Sullivan's face moved
during the reading of the interesting docu-
ment, yet if the confessor's story is to be
believed, the iceman plotted up to the hour
of the murder. Burke's affidavit was not
read. Judge Mcconnell announced that he
would listen to the arguments for separate
trials Wednesday morning. The prisoners
were led back to the Jail and the room
quickly cleared.