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; American parents; married; upholsterer; Protestant. Frank Allison, 39; born in New York State; American parents; machinist; no religion. George Luther Corke, 30; born in Illinois; parents, English; married; druggist; Methodist. William Stanley North, 33; born in Cleveland, Ohio; American parents; married; manufacturer; Presbyterian. Edward S. Bryan, 40; born in New Jersey; American parents; married; law book salesman; Congregationalist. Elijah Bontecou, 35; born in Troy, N. Y.; American parents; married; salesman; Protestant. Charles F. Marlor, 30; born in New York; parents, American; married; clerk; Episcopalian. Benjamin F. Clark, 53; American by birth and parentage; married; real estate dealer; Methodist. LONGENECKER'S MASTERLY EFFORT. Breathless silence prevailed. Judge McConnell inclined his head. The gavel fell. State's Attorney Longenecker, with his hands thrust deep into the pockets of his trousers, was on his feet in an instant. Without any preliminaries, he plunged direct into his opening address. The effects of the months of hard work he had devoted to the case were plainly apparent. His face was pale and his voice weak, but he braced himself for his task, and without any attempt at oratory, but in a plain, succinct manner which indicated that he had thoroughly mastered his subject, he gave to the jury in the short space of two hours a complete and admirable statement of the evidence that had been collected and would be submitted to the body. Commencing with a review of the conception and progress of the Clan-na-Gael, he traced the movements of the organization and the extent of the active interest in its affairs that had been manifested by the murdered man. The motive for the crime, he declared, was the bold warfare which Dr. Cronin had waged against his enemies and especially against the deadly and malicious plottings of the triangle. The speaker became thoroughly aroused as he dealt with this branch of his subject, and with his right hand sweeping the air, he lashed the triangle in the most vigorous English. Mr. Forrest objected that the famous and omnipotent triumvirate had nothing to do with the case, but the objection was overruled. The State's Attorney went on to declare that the plotting against Dr. Cronin began about the first of the year. It was in Camp 20 that the conspiracy had been hatched, and of this Camp Beggs, Coughlin, Cooney, Burke and O'Sullivan were members. Here
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