Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-01

several times by the defense. AT the close
of his speech Judge Wing commenced
plea for the prisoners. He based his argu-
ment upon the frailty of circumstantial
evidence.
CHICAGO, November 30.-The address Of
Prosecuting Attorney Longenecker to the
Cronin jury to-day was of the most sensa-
tioual character. With earnest and eloquent
words he connected the links in the chaIn'of
evidence against the prisoners charged with
the murder conspiracy. A number OF the
statements made were of the dramatic order,
and several times the advocate was inter
rupted by the counsel for the defense, who
objected to his vigorous language. Judge
Longenecker commenced by saying:
want to call your attention to what was
SAID and done in the meeting on tne Rarod "a Oa
spoke of it in his letter to Spelman, and tnat
he said not TO forget their reunion: AT that
meeting speeches were made by alnerent par
ties. and among them Patrick McGarry made
speech and John F. Beggs. Senior Guardian OF
Camp 20, answered that speech. 1h1s is Wnat
McGarry said: Il was called on. There were
three other gentlemen that made speeches
before me. One had referred to the unity that
ought to exist among the members and among
the Irish generally particularly and alto
eether 1t was about the time that LIE Caron
had testified before the forgery commission in
England. and the other gentlemen had referred
TO spies getting into the organization"
A POINT TO BE MARKED.
Mark that gentlemen. The other gentleman
had referred to spies getting into the organlza-
tion on the Sth day of February of this same
month. On the occasion of moving the appoint
ment of the committee you will remember that
Foy talked Of spies getting into the -organiza.
tion. McGarry further says: 'And how Irish
men coming TO this country and becoming
American citizens ought to educate their chill
dren." That was good. Ought to educate
them first in the principles of American insti-
tutions." That was good. Educate them,
also, to have q love for their fathers and
mothers and their forefather's home. There
was nothing in the Irish race or Irish
history that Irishmen ought to be ashamed
of in America That IS true. fI said
agreed with what all three gentlemen had
said. sai0 that it was all very well to talk OF
unity. and that myself wanted to see unity
among the Irish people; but that there could
not be unity while the members of this organ
lzation were meeting in back alleys and on
dark corners and villifying and abusing man
that had the courage to stand up and attack
the treachery and robbery Of the Triangle.
told them that they ought to be about getting
members into the organization; that had been
inouiripg into LIE Caron's record. and said
that there were men in this organization that
were worse than lie Caron. i said that th }
man who got LIE CarOn bis credentials, that got
him into the convention was worse scoundrel
than LIE Caron ever pretended to be-"
Now, did Beggs make speech following
thisP Yes. What did he say? Hear McGar-
RVS testim ny: Il remember that Alexander
Sullivan's name had not been mentioned. The
Triangle had not been mentioned. Beggs said
that visiting members were coming in there.
and they would speak It wasn't right he said;
ft was not fair, and I wanted to interrupt him,
and the Chairman at that time wouldn't allow
mel wanted 20 o-fneerfupt him when he used
the word 'cowardly.' He said they came in
there talking about Alexander Sullivan, and 1t
was cowardly, he said, to talk about man be-
hind his back Why didn't they say it to his
face, and then he slapped his breast and said
Alexander Sullivan had plenty Of friends and
he was one Of them"
SOME IMPORTANT DATES
Then YOU find that on the end day of Febru-
ary this same Senior Guardian was called upon
TO appoint q secret committee to investigate
the action Of DR.. Cronin in charging Alexan-
Ger Sullivan with embezzlement of the funds
of the order OF rather the ex-Executive, better
known as the Triangle with that offense. The
triangle mas been guilty of embezzling the
funds of the order and putting men into En-
glish prisons yet, without having mentioned
his name in his speech, McGerry merely re-
peated the charge, and this man Beggs said he
would not submit to it. that it was cowardly
for him to make an attack on man in his
absence.
Now. gentlemen, remember this was on the
22d day of February, two days after the carret
was nailed down in the fat at III Clark street.
five days after the notorious letter that the
SeniorG uardian had written to Spelman under
the pretext of finding out something he knew
all about What else? We find that at the
following meeting, on the first day of March, it
is in evidence from Henry Owen 0'Connor
that, as be was leaving the hall, Daniel Cough
lin, chairman of the committee,
followed him into the ante-room.
and said to Henry Owen O'Connor that
there we're other LeCarons there. Singular, is
it not that on the eighth day Of February the
motion was made for the committee in Camp
20 on the 18th of February, Senior Guardian
Beggs is writing about the matter to Edward
Speman; on the 18th he again writes about it;
on the 18th the fiat is rented at ll9 Clark
street; on the 10th the carpet was nailed down;
on the 22d OF February Beggs defends the
Triangle, and on the first day of March this
man Coughlin, who is now trial for his life,
denounces Dr.4Cronin as a spy.
HOW IT WAS SETTLED.
On the 2sth OF April, as testified to by Beggs
friend Spelman, the district member it is con-
clusively shown to what this committee had
reference, which was to report to Beggs alone
What did Beggs say on tl.at day? He said to
Spelnan: THAT matter mas all been amicably
settled" How settled? Gentlemen at the
hour he spoke the cottage had been rented; at
the hour he spoke the hnal arrangements had
had been fixed. tSensation.l Tell me when 1t
was amicably settled? What had been done in
the camp-what steps had been taken to in
,restiCate the matter? No one knows excent
the Senior Guardian and his committee as 10
lust what they did say.
The States Attorney then read the law of
conspiracy as developed in the Spies case,
He then in simple language and with tell
ing force, again traced every move in in the
conspiracy from the proceedings of Camp
90 step BY step the renting of the Clark
street fat, the Carlson cottage and the lur-
ing of the victim there. Speaking of
Burke's renting the cottage, he asked:
What explanation is there to give for the
renting of that cottage? If Burke was working
at the stock yards, why go out to Lakeview to
keen house? Well. we will see if we cannot find
q reason for that. By following the evidence in
this case we viii give you a good reason for
Is that he ought to be compelled to live there
ali the days of his life; that he ought to be CON-
PEELED to wallow there in the blood that was
drawn from the veins OF Dr. CrOnin [Sensa-
toni
Going back to what was done in the Clark
street fat, the States Attorney said: ''There
are the two men that we first see at III
South Clark street (pointing), Kunze, the
little German, and Burke, the Irishman
Kunze had been sleeping there"
The defendant Kunze (excitedly)- )-I never
did. That's lie.
The States Attorney-As 1 say, Kunze
had been sleeping there. Now Burke was
belning to move the furniture with another
man There is no contention here that
K1uze ever helped to move the furniture.
NoboSv would ever contend that he would
lift any furniture,
Al this point Kunze made a gesticula-
sfon and motion as If to again interrupt
the speaker, but he was. checked by
bailifF behind him, who laid his hand on