the first link made by the Clan-na-Gael
brotherhood in Camp 20; to that add Beggs' letters and his
statements about the inner circle; to that add that that committee
was to report to him alone; to that add everything that Beggs did
and said; it is all hanging on that link. We find Burke renting the
cottage and saying that his sister is going to keep house with him;
we find him disappear; we find him in Winnipeg. That is another
link. Then there is the P. O'Sullivan link; you find his printed
card was presented to Dr. Cronin, and the man who presents it says,
'O'Sullivan wants you to go to his ice house.' That is an
undisputed circumstance. All these circumstances are leading you up
to the murder of Dr. Cronin. Take Dan Coughlin's statement to
Dinan; take his statement that Smith, from Hancock, Michigan, is
the man who drove the rig, the very man that Burke went to see at
Hancock, Michigan, and who says John Ryan is his friend.

"Look at it! There never was such a chain of circumstances. The
chain itself is strong, and yet all those circumstances, those
little links, are as strong--so strong that they can not be broken.
And yet this lawyer will stand up here for three days and say there
is not evidence enough to convict! Now, another thing that goes to
add to P. O'Sullivan's link and to show that he was not honest in
that contract is the testimony of this man A. J. Ford. He testifies
that he made a speech in Camp 20, in which he said that there were
men fraternizing with the deputies up in the Washington Literary
Society in Lake View, and he gave this man O'Sullivan as his
authority. There is another circumstance. Why then did O'Sullivan,
if he believed that Cronin was organizing a lodge there--if he
believed that that literary society was taking in men opposed to
the Irish cause--why did he think Cronin was a friend of his, and
why did he go and make a contract with Dr. Cronin? Now, gentlemen,
I have laid down these links; you take it in Camp 20, follow it to
117 Clark street, to the cottage, to Dan Coughlin's horse and
buggy, to the trunk, the body and the clothes. You come back to
Camp 20 and it falls at the feet of John F. Beggs. His lawyer says
that John F. Beggs is the dupe of no man. No, gentlemen; but John
F. Beggs is just as guilty, if he wa