hn F. O'Connor, and he testifies that on that
occasion, the night of the 8th of February, one Andrew Foy made a
speech. O'Connor can not remember what Foy said, but he tells you
that there were resolutions passed, and that he does recollect that
Thomas F. O'Connor made a speech there. He tells you that Thomas F.
O'Connor had charged that a certain report of the trial committee,
this trial committee to which I have already called your attention,
and of which Dr. Cronin was a member, was read in another camp.
Secretary O'Connor tells you that Thomas F. O'Connor said he had
heard the report of that trial committee read. That is about all
that this man could remember, except that some one jumped up and
demanded to know how it was that some camps had got the reports of
this trial committee before others. He did not pretend to know what
Foy had said in his speech, but he did recollect that some
resolution was passed in regard to the matter.

"We next called Andrew J. Foy. Andrew J. Foy testifies here that he
did make a speech; that he did say that he understood there were
parties getting into the camp who were other Le Carons; that there
were other Le Carons in this country; that there were spies in this
country and in the organization. He admits that in his testimony,
and he further said that they ought to be more careful in admitting
members into the organization and not to admit parties of this kind
into the organization. Then it was that Thomas F. O'Connor made his
speech and said they had better look after the ex-executive if they
wanted to find out the traitors who had been squandering the funds
of the order and sending honest, patriotic men to English prisons.
And thereupon you are told four or five men jumped to their feet
and a motion or suggestion was made to have a secret committee
appointed. What for? [State's Attorney Longenecker paused when he
asked this question and for a moment gazed silently and earnestly
into the jurors' faces.] What for?" he repeated. "Not to get a
report of the trial committee, not to find out what it was that was
contained in this report, but to see why this report was made in
this other camp and who it was had made it. We called Michael J.
Kelly, another member of that organization, a junior guardian in
Camp 20, and