ese defendants. I would
not ask you to convict the men unless you feel that the evidence
justified you in doing so, but their defense, what is it? It is
shorter than the defendants can cover themselves by lying upon it,
and, as a covering, it is narrower than they can wrap themselves
in. There is no defense. Since we were groping in the valley we
have piled up a mountain of evidence, until you have the mountain
peaks, which stand out so clearly, that all of you can not fail to
see them, and there stands the evidence, irresistible,
unimpeachable and indisputable. Gentlemen, let us see what we have
got.

"Let us start in on this chain. Go into Camp 20 and see what there
is there. You find that there was a committee appointed; you find
that charges were made about spies; you find there was a circle of
brothers banded together. Take in the 22d of February; take in the
speech of Beggs; take in the letters of Spelman. There you have got
a link. You start out from Camp 20 with that link. You go over to
117 South Clark Street; you go to Revell; you take the buying of
the trunk and the buying of the valise and the buying of the
furniture; the putting of it into 117 Clark street, and Kunze is in
there as a man to throw the public off as to the cause of the
occupancy. There you have a second link. The trunk, the valise, the
strap and the furniture form a second link. Put that on and follow
it up. These two links are undisputed and undenied. There is no
dispute as to that second link; you find Martin Burke taking the
furniture and putting the trunk and valise into that cottage. There
is a third link undisputed; no question about it, unless you want
to disbelieve the five witnesses as to the identification of Martin
Burke. You go on and you find Patrick O'Sullivan contracting with
Cronin, that is the fourth link. There are four links established
by evidence and undisputed leading up to the murder of Dr. Cronin.
You come to Dan Coughlin; he has the horse and buggy; that is the
fifth link. These five links are as solid as the rocks--as solid as
iron; five undisputed links in the chain. You find, further, on
Evanston road, the trunk, the body and the clothes. That is another
link. There are six links that lead from Camp 20 to the grave of
Dr. Cronin. We have