chased each
other down his cheeks as, with clasped hands and a look of unutterable
agony upon his face, he ejaculated again and again, "My God! My God! God
knows I am innocent! I never was in Lake View that night! Oh! God knows
I am innocent, gentlemen!"

Very different were the feelings of John F. Beggs, who occupied the
extreme right of the line. No sooner had the last words of the verdict
been read than in a single bound he was before the jurors. Shaking each
by the hand he thanked them cordially, and then, addressing them as a
body, said: "Gentlemen, I thank you. I trust that the future may confirm
your judgment upon me, and that you will never regret that you found me
not guilty of this terrible charge."

O'Sullivan was the only one of the other three prisoners who gave vent
to his feelings in tears. They trickled down his cheeks for a moment,
but he brushed them away and soon recovered his self-possession.
Coughlin looked defiantly around the court-room but did not betray any
emotion, while Martin Burke looked more cool and unconcerned than any
man in the room. The formal motion for a new trial was entered and
recorded, the iron doors revolved on their hinges, the four prisoners
passed to the jail beyond, the great trial was at an end, and with three
men condemned to a living death and the fourth incarcerated for a period
commensurate with his crime, the murder of the Irish patriot was
avenged.

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Transcriber's note:

Text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_).

The following misprints have been corrected:

"portait" corrected to "portrait" (page xii)
"Identifed" corrected to "Identified" (page xiii)
"forthought" corrected to "forethought" (page 17)
"confidental" corrected to "confidential" (page 17)
"physican's" corrected to "physician's" (page 22)
"Captains" corrected to "Captain" (page 31)
"the the" corrected to "the" (page 35)
"miscroscope" corrected to "microscope" (page 36)
"pecular" corrected to "peculiar" (page 47)
"PHYSICAN" corrected to "PHYSICIAN" (page 57)
"Presdents" corrected to "Presidents" (page 58)
"exept" corrected to "except" (page 62)
"orginization" corrected to "organization" (page 70)
"Main" corrected to "Maine" (page 70)
"h m" corrected to "him" (page 74)
"generel" corrected to "general" (page 74)
"represenative" corrected to "representative" (page 78)
"purjurer" corrected to "per