grunt of satisfaction Carlson shook his old hat at
the pale-faced prisoner.

"Is he the Frank Williams you saw?" asked Mr. Mills.

"Yes, sir," was the emphatic reply, and the painful silence which had
prevailed in the court-room was broken by a prolonged buzz.

It was Coughlin's turn to turn pale when John C. Garrity was placed upon
the stand. This witness told how on one occasion Coughlin had asked him
if Sampson could be got to do a piece of work. When asked what it was,
he replied that he wanted to have a certain fellow "slugged." Garrity
asked what he wanted done to him, and Coughlin replied that he wanted a
man to get a club and break his nose and knock his teeth out or
disfigure him for life. Mortensen, the expressman, forged another link
in the evidence by positively identifying Burke as the man who had hired
him to cart the furniture to the cottage. When the witness pointed
directly at Burke, the latter showed more anger than at any time during
the trial. His face was flushed, his jaws set, and he glared savagely at
the Swede. Edward Spelman, of Peoria, Illinois, the district officer of
the Clan-na-gael, was another witness, but his memory was exceedingly
treacherous. In fact, he could not remember any of the circumstances to
which he had testified before the Grand Jury, and it turned out that, in
the interval, he had visited the office of, and conferred with,
Alexander Sullivan. The only fact of importance to which he testified
was that he had seen Coughlin and Kunze together in Peoria, and that
they appeared to be very intimate. The witness admitted that the
following correspondence had passed between himself and Beggs:

"CHICAGO,

Feb. 16, 1889.

"MY DEAR SIR AND BROTHER: I am directed to call your attention to
the following subjects: First, it is charged that the S. G. of the
Columbus Club (Dr. Cronin's camp) at a recent meeting read to the
assembled members the proceedings of the Trial Committee. Second, I
am directed to enter the protest of Camp No. 20 against the D.'s in
Chicago electing or initiating men until their names are presented
to D. No. 20 and the other D.'s for their consideration. The old
rule by communication has become a dead letter since the formation
of the Central Council, and I am informed that said council has not
held a legal meeting since its formation. Good discipline calls
for an investigation of the foregoing, w