Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-07
CRIMINAL CALENDAR.
Another Day in the Cronin
Trial.
ATTORNEY RYNEs' ARGUMENT.
Fosters Defense of Beggs--Tragedy
in Texas COurt-The Ripper
in New Jersey.

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD
CmcAeo, December 6.--Hynes re-
sumed his argument in behalf of the
prosecution in the Cronin trial this
morning, devoting his remarks espe-
cially to showing that Beggs, as defender
of the "triangle," was therefore ready
to think ill Of Cronin.
Hynes, dwelt on the scene in the Carl
son cottage, and continued: Gentlemen
Of the jury, this savsgery and brutality
is palmed off on you as patriotism. Many
and many hot Irish act has brought
calamity, suffering and shame to the face
of the Irish people, but in all their his
tory in the past, and in all the history
they can make in the future, this will
stand out as the one conspicuous monu-
ment OF shame against these Irish
people and upon the reputation and
character of the honorable generosity of
the race"
Hynes graphically pictured the finding
of the corpse, and said the finding upon
it of the Agnus Del, an emblem of his
faith and religion, indicates one thing
that the men who killed Cronin had the
same faith, for they left the emblem
they found around the neck of the man
they murdered. After vividly deecrib-
ing the supposed actions of the murderers
after Gisposing of the body, Hynes
scored O'Sullivan and wondered whether
when he went to bed at night: "Did
that CHASTITY picture of his dead friend,
head foremost in the sewer, his head
beaten and battered with the blows that
struck his life out-did the picture of that
body in the sewer ever haunt him? Did
the horror of that scene ever stir his
soul to one moment of repentance ?"
Speaking of Burke's flight, Hynes
referred to his "triaugle of aliases in
honor of the Triangle whom he was
serving" then denounced the war on
defenseless men and women in Great
Britain, and charged the Triangle with
the sending of dupes to English prisons
that their embezzlements might be con-
cealed.
AT the afternoon session, Mr.. Foster
addressed the jury on behalf Of Beggs.
He denounced the murder of Cronin as
the most atrocious and cold. blooded ever
perpetrated, but warned them not to let
an innocent man suffer for it. Aliuding
to the large force and power Of
the States Attorneys Office, Mr..
Foster said: ''Not satisfied with
the ability OF the States Attorney
aad his assistants, those interested in
the prosecution engage three or four OF
the most able counsel in Chicago, men
whose ability to sway juries is well
known, to assist them in this case"
Foster said he had an unpleasant duty
to perform because of certain express
sions of his client during Cronin's life.
"The man who suppoees DR.. Cronin >.
| while here on earth, was an angel in diH-
guise, is very much mistaken," said he.
Whether or not the Clan-na Gael was,
an evil organization whose purpose was
to Bend dynamite to England, the most
active member in furthering the object
OF that society, whatever it was, was DR..
Cronin.
The States Attorney objected to this,
and said that he wanted to prove that
Cronin was expelled because he exposed
the dynamite policy, and was opposing
it at the time the circular was issued.
Foster then spoke of Beggs' open &C.
tions, furnishing his correspondence with
Spel)man to the State. It was in evi-
dence that Beggs said Cronin
had no business to be on the
committee to try the Triangle. 1t
was true that Cronin was prejudiced
against Alexander Sullivan, who had
caused bis expulsion from the order
Cronin was an agitator, the organizer Of
rival camps, and had publicly denounced
the Triangle, yet he was selected to act
in the triple capacity of witness, counsel
and judge to try that body. Foster had
not concluded when the court adjourned,