Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-14
l
 FRON ALL QUARTERS. WHAT WILL THE VERDICT BE The Great Cronin Trial
 Comes To An End. THE CHARGE TO THE JURY. Premature Burial Results
 In A Horror.
 THE LONDON GAS WORKS STRIKE. The Pan-American Congress Takes A Long Adjournment.
THE LONDON GAS WORKS STRIKE.
THE CRoNIN TRIAL.

THE CR0NIN TRIAL.
 The Critical Time I'm she Trial Comes
 to Hand - States Attorney Longe- necker,s Closing Argument = Judge mcConnell,s Charge to the Jury -
 The Jury Retlres and Court Ad.
 tourns Till Ten o'clock This MOrn-
 Ing Waiting Anxious1y For she Verdict.
 CHICAGO, Dec. 1s.-Every available foot in the vast court room which has for four months been the scene of the Cronin trial, was thronged, to-day, to it's utmost capacity by the bustling, eager crowd that congregat- ed to witness the closing scene in this ssnsa- tional drama. States Attorney Longenecker made the closing argument on behalf of the State, owing to the illness of MT. Mills, to whom that task had been assigned.
 STATES ATTORNEY LoNaENKcKER's ADDRESS.
 He said in part: "We are met in this case for the first time after the opening ar- gument with the theory of the defense. In most all murder cases, in most all important trials, when the State, or the people repre- sented by the States attorney give an out- line of the prosecution's eide, the defendants attorney arises and gives to the jury the de fense. If not at the opening then after the evidence has closed for the prosecution; then they arise and tell us how they are going to meet this evidence. This was not done. So it remained until the last counsel for the de- fendants arose to address you in three days' argument, for the first time, you ss jurymen and we as representatives of the people, were notified of the theory of the de- fense, that is, that there was great conspir- acy on the part of the people; that there was conspiracy to hang innocent men; Q con spiracy to murder, under the guise of the law; and the gentleman was so earnest In that statement that he carried it all through his argument to the jury. Now, gentlemen, if that is your notion of this case, if you be- lieve that there is Q conspiracy to murder Martin Burke and those other men on trial, then you ought to acquit, and you ought to recommend to his honor that the counsel representing the people of this great State should be indicted and tried for murder. Mr. Longenecker took up the argument of Mir. Foster on behalf of defendant Beggs and replied to it at length, arguing that the proof | showed Beggs to be party to the conspiracy. Among other things, he said:
 "Mr. Foster said if his client is guilty, he 1 is lawful guilty That is true. insist that l this evidence here puts him into the con spiracy. If he is in that conspiracy he Is | lawful guilty.' Why did he wait from the 1 9th day of February until the 18th, because l on the 18th he presided at this meeting again where the minutes were approved, where | those who were ignorant of the object of the l appointment of the committee sat there and | approved the minutes, and then they could say we have the approval of the camp, they l can say then to their dupes, if they were duped they can say then to the man who was to l raise the bludgeon 'the camp Is behind us.' | The States attorney went on to say that the Beegs letters to District Member Spellman | aaEiny him O iUyeatiQAt0 Dr. CrOuin'9 con- I duct were to cover up the work of the secret committee of Camp 20, and that was the req son Beggs was so ready to have them made | tion of the relation which the various circum- l stances testified to have to each other, the | whole, in combination, making strong case, | as he claimed. At the close of the forenoon l session the advocate was reading from the expert testimony as to the cause of death.
 THE AFTERNOON SESSION.
 On the re-assembling of the court, Judge Longenecker continued his reply to MT. Forests argument. In answer. to the point that the prosecution had not proved the cause of death, he said that the jury were the judges of that fact and that the verdict of the jnry, should it acquit the accused,
 would be a bar to any subsequent prosecu-
 tion for the same offence, alleging death by any other means. The speaker then went on
 to array the facts as proved, drawing the
 conclusion that the cause of death was fully
 shown. The indictment, he said. charged
 death by violence from wounds inflicted 1n
 an unknown manner. The experts for the 1 State testified that death was caused by the
 wounds on the head.
 After attacking the testimony of experts
 for the defense Mr. Longeneoker made rapid running sketch of the evidence of the leading
 witnesses and the circumstances under whict
 1t was given by way of reply to MT. Forresti l charge that there was a conspiracy to convic
 the defendants, taking occasion in passing to pay his compliments to Mir. Forest rathe
 sharply for making such a charge in such | wholesale manner.
 al JUDGE LoNoRNEcKER's coNcLUsIoH. Now, gentlemen, am through. If yo, !; are settled to turn these men loose, you wil :. do 1t. If you believe that this evidence i
 not sufficient to convict them, of course yo'
 will acauis thsm. BtV want to call you
 attention to the responsibility. This, gentle
 men, is . serious matter. It has got dow n 1 to business. You have been sitting her week in and week out, hearing this undia
 puted evidence, evidence that must lea
 your minds to the conclusion that Dr. Orc
 min was murdered; evidence that must lea
 your minds to the conclusion that 1t was don
 by conspirac y; evidence that must lea your minds to the belief that it was col
 blooded murder-that it was planned i . secret; that it was done with coolness. Yo
 must have come to the conclusion, that Y ever there was murder case in which tn < extreme penalty of the law demanded . t your hands verdict of tho kind, this is ons
 Remember you are not here to convict in
 nocent men. Remember that we are here
 insisting that this evidence Is 50 overwheln
 ing that you as honest men, under you
 oaths, cannot resist this volume of proe \. that must convince you, as sensible men
 beyond reasonable doubt, that all five ( 'e these men are guilty of this crime."
 r, JUDGE MccoNNELL's CHARGE TO THE JUR, g Judge Mcconnell then delivered his chare 'e to the jury. He eaid:
 The manner or cause of death which 2. alleged in the indictment Is an essential ell A ment of the charge against the defendan
 and the law requires the prosecution to estal . fish that averment to- your satisfaction nt I
 yond reasonable doubt, as -is laid in th l. indictment, before conviction of the defen, ,r ants, or either of them, can be lawfully hat ,d But whether or not the manner or eau to of death was as laid in the indie y msnt may be established by siroumstal ot tial evidence just as any other fact essenti
 to the conviction may be. Circumstanti ds evidence in criminal cases is the proof Y such facts and circumstances connecte n. with or surrounding the commission of tl e; crime charged, as tends to show the guilt { od innocence of the party charged, and if the g- facts and circumstances are sufficient to sa to isfy the jury of the guilt of the defendan
 beyond reasonable doubt, then such g,
 dence is sufficient to authorize the jury finding tho defendants guilty.
 | It is the duty of the jury to enter upontl eonside deration of each circumstance prove Rt having in their minds the presumption tn
 the defendants are each of them innocer ! And if such fact or circumstance, when co sidered in connection with all evidence
 case can be explained consistently with t ;, innocence of the accused, 1t is their duty to explain it. In order to justify the inf,
 encs of legal guilt from circumstantial . m dence the existence of the inculpatory fa'
 must be absolutely incompatible with the A. N. nocense of the aceused and incompatible { ex planation upon any other reasonable hypotl
 sis to that of their guilt.
 the If you can reconcile the facts in this q ws- upon any reasonable theory consistent "
 the innocencs of the defendant John Kul
 Fit ia your duty to do so and find said defer