se men
swear to that fact, men who were not willing witnesses for the
prosecution; they swear that they understood it was to investigate
Dr. Cronin and his camp as to why he in that camp had read a report
of that committee before which the charges had been tried before
the ex-executive body. That is from the mouth of Denis O'Connor.
But he tells you that he did not understand it to be a secret
committee, but we called other witnesses on this same point."

Mr. Foster at this point broke in with an interruption. He called
the State's Attorney's attention to the fact that the record will
show that Denis O'Connor had not said that the committee had been
appointed to investigate why the report had been read, but to find
out if a minority report had been read there, and, if so, what it
was.

State's Attorney Longenecker asserted that he was correct in his
statement of the evidence. Mr. Foster, no doubt, on
cross-examination had made a speech to Denis O'Connor, and asked
him if that was not so, and Denis said yes; but he had stated
directly the testimony of the witness on direct examination. "After
Denis O'Connor testified," continued State's Attorney Longenecker,
"we called to the stand Henry Owen O'Connor. He testifies that he
was there, and heard a discussion between Captain O'Connor and Foy,
and he tells you that there was something said about a committee,
and that he offered an amendment thereto. We have the resolution
read here before you by the secretary. Henry Owen O'Connor says,
however, that he left soon after, and he did not know that a
committee had been appointed until afterward. I shall speak of the
evidence of this witness in relation to another matter, and to
other meetings, later on. I shall now read to you the evidence of
the next witness whom we called in the case, Thomas F. O'Connor."

The State's Attorney then read the evidence of Thomas F. O'Connor,
as already published, relating to a speech made by Andrew Foy in
Camp 20 on the night of February 6, and his reply thereto, in which
he had made the now famous assertion that he had heard the report
of the Buffalo trial committee, and that he knew that the
ex-executive had squandered the funds of the organization and sent
its members to prison, and finally Coughlin's motion to appo