The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-07
Cronin Case Arguments.

CHICAGO, Dec. 6.-Hynes resumed his ar
gument on behalf of the prosecution in the
Cronin trial this morning, devoting his re-
marks especially to showing that Beggs
was defender of the Triangle, and there
fore ready to think i'll of Cronin.
Hynes dwelt on the scene in the Carlson
cottage and continued; Gentlemen of the
jury This savagery and brutality are
palmed off on you as patriotism. Many and
many hot Irish act has brought calamity,
suffering and shame to face the Irish peo-
pie, but in all the history of the past, and
IN all the history they can make in the fu-
ture, this will stand out as the one con-
Spicuous monument of shame against these
Irish people and upon the reputation and
upon the character and the generosity of
the race" He graphically pictured the
finding of the corpse and said that the find
ing upon it of the dgnuS del, an emblem of
his faith and religion, indicates that the
men who killed CrOnin had a simple faith
for the emblem they found around the neck
of the man they had murdered. After WV
idly describing the supposed action eff the
murderers after disposing 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 club which struck
his life out, haunt him. Did the horror
of that scene ever stir his
soul to one moments repentance?
Speaking of Burke's flight, Hynes re-
ferred to his aliases in the Triangle whom
he was seeking then, and denounced the
war On defenceleSs men and women in
Great Britain, and charged upon the
Triangle the sending of dupes to English
prisons that their embellishments might be
concealed
At the afternoon session Mr.. Foster adj
dressed the jury on behalf of Beggs. He
denounced the murder of Cronin the most
atrocious and cold blooded ever perpetrated,
but warned them not to let an innocent
man suffer for it. Abiding to the large
force and power of the states attorneys
office, Mr.. Foster said that not satisfied
with the ability of the states attorney and
his assistants, those interested in the
prosecution must engage three or four of
the ablest counsel in Chicago, men whose
ability to sway iuries by their eloquence is
well known, to assist them in this case.
Foster said he had an unpleasant duty to per
form because of certain expressions of his
client during Cronin's life. 1.-THE man
who supposed that DIR. Cronin while here
upon earth was an angel in disguise is very
much mistaken" and, whether or not the
Clan-na- Gael is an evil organization whose
purpose is to send dynamite to England,
the most active member in furthering the
object of the society, whatever it was, was
DIR. Cronin."
The states attorney objected to this and
said 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 40
tions, the furnishing of the correspondence
of Spellman to the state, etc. In it was
in evidence that Beggs said Cronin had no
business to be on the committee of the
Triangle. True, Cronin was preiudiced
against Alexander Sullivan, who had
caused his expulsion from the order. Gro
min was an agitator and 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.