not on February 22, and he made
the necessary correction.

THE BEGGS-SPELMAN LETTERS.

"Now," continued Mr. Longenecker, "let us see whether there is
anything else shown by these letters that passed between Beggs and
Spelman. In the first place let us ask ourselves what was there to
write about to Spelman if the object of the whole 'investigation'
arising out of Thomas O'Connor's speech was to find out 'why'
Cronin had read that minority report. There was no need to make any
fuss about that. But suppose they wanted to create the belief that
there was in the organization a man who was a spy or traitor, and
that they wanted an excuse for killing him--that would be a very
different matter."

The State's Attorney then proceeded to read to the jury the first
letter written by Beggs to Spelman, dated Feb. 16. In this letter
Beggs says: "It is charged that the senior guardian of Columbus
Camp, at a recent meeting, to the assembled brothers read the
proceedings of the trial of the executive at Buffalo." Mr.
Longenecker compared this passage of Beggs' letter with the motion
of Henry Owen O'Connor, carried by Camp 20, directing the senior
guardian to notify the district officer "of the report going around
regarding reports of the trial committee being read in one of the
camps of this city."

"That motion was carried by the camp," said Mr. Longenecker, "but
it seems that Mr. Beggs had found out what camp that report had
been read in and all about it before he wrote as directed to Mr.
Spelman."

Having alluded passingly to the passage in Beggs' letter protesting
against the initiation of members into camps before their names
were presented to Camp 20 and the central officers for
ratification, which he said was in line with O'Sullivan's charge
that U. O. D. men were being admitted to Cronin's camp, Mr.
Longenecker took up Spelman's reply to this letter of Beggs. In
this letter, which was dated Feb. 17, Spelman asked Beggs to refer
him to that section of the law by which he was empowered to inflict
a penalty on a senior guardian for disclosing the proceedings of a
trial committee.

In this letter also Mr. Beggs refers to "certain men who want to
lead in Irish affairs" as "scamps," and says he "is disgusted with
their conduct." The r