last hour as if they went in
the first hour."

HISTORY OF THE CONSPIRACY.

"Now on this occasion, on the 8th day of February, we have Martin
Burke, Daniel Coughlin, John F. Beggs, all present at this meeting,
and on this night also Martin Burke was appointed a committee of
one, as shown by the secretary's books, to pass upon the
qualifications of Danahy's bartender (who swears to an alibi for
Burke) for admission into the order. They were getting in their
friends then. This was on the 8th of February. On the 16th of
February John F. Beggs, senior guardian of this camp, wrote a
letter to Spelman, the district officer, and on the 17th of
February Spelman, the district officer, answers that letter, in
which he says he knows of no authority under the constitution that
authorizes him to inflict a penalty on a member who has committed
the offense referred to by Beggs. Recollect, gentlemen, they talk
about penalties; that he knows nothing in the constitution by which
he is authorized to inflict a penalty. From these letters it will
be seen that Mr. Senior Guardian Beggs had directed Spelman's
attention to Dr. Cronin's camp, showing that he knew that it was in
Cronin's camp that this minority report had been read, and to
'investigate' which the secret committee had been proposed by
Coughlin. On the 18th of February John F. Beggs writes (and I will
read you the letter) that he does not know of any 'written' law of
the organization which authorizes the infliction of a penalty. On
the 19th day of February Mr. Simonds appears and rents a flat and
furniture is bought, and on the 20th the carpet is nailed down in
the room on Clark street. 'Dates will cut a figure in this case.'
This was all done in the month of February. On the night of the 22d
of February this man (Coughlin), who moved to appoint that secret
committee, already beginning his work as chairman of the committee,
tells Henry Owen O'Connor that they have another Le Caron, and he
says he has got it from good authority that it was Dr. Cronin who
was the spy among them, and Mr. O'Connor would not hear any more
and left him."

At this point Mr. Longenecker's attention was called by associate
counsel for the defense to the fact that the words of Coughlin
alluded to occurred on March 1 and