rly showing that he
knew what had transpired in the cottage. Another thing I want you
to remember is what Beggs said after the murder, when he said to
Maurice Morris and another person in the presence of Ward, who did
not take the stand, 'Cronin is all right; we know what we are
talking about and you do not; you are not in the inner circle.'
Whoever said it was the organization or a part of the Clan-na-Gael
which formed that inner circle? We did not, but that inner circle
was made up of members of the order, men who knew what was going
on. Foster says Beggs' remark was advertising the murder, but it
was not. It means that he and other members who were interested in
the murder of Dr. Cronin were an inner circle; that he knew where
Cronin could be found, and that he believed his remains would keep
there undiscovered until they could not be identified. You have
another link, then, in the chain of evidence, and you have to take
every circumstance in the case that leads you up to the chain, and
strengthens each link in the chain that was forged by Beggs. Then
he answers: 'Why didn't you call Tom Murphy?' We had him before the
grand jury, and we examined his books, but the idea of calling Tom
Murphy himself when his partner sits here and has sat here from the
beginning of the trial as a lawyer for the defendant! As to the
money in the camp, Tom Murphy did not have enough money in the
funds of the organization to square his own account, let alone
spending money for killing Cronin. We did not claim that he did. We
do not claim that the camp paid the expenses, but we have the right
to take Tom Murphy before the grand jury and investigate the camp
in order to discover who were the conspirators.

"Now, gentlemen, I do not propose to dwell upon their defense at
all. They have no defense. When we started in this case we groped
in the valley and you groped in the valley. When you looked for the
evidence you found it. If you are looking for an excuse to acquit
those defendants, you may acquit them either on the ground that we
have not stated the cause of death, or you can acquit them on the
ground that you do not believe the evidence. But you are not going
to do that; you are too honorable men to do so. The people of the
State of Illinois have rights as well as th