re we find this senior guardian"--and the State's
Attorney turned round and pointed to Beggs--"on the 22d of February
defending them and saying that they had friends and he was glad to
say that he was one of them. Now, gentlemen, remember that this was
on the 22d day of February, two days after the carpet had been
nailed down in the flat at 117 Clark street; five days after the
notorious letter that the senior guardian had written Spelman to
find out something that he knew all about--writing to this district
member to investigate a matter that he knew all about."

THE CONNECTION WITH THE MURDER.

"What else? We find that on the following meeting on the 1st of
March--it is in evidence here by Henry Owen O'Connor--that as he
was leaving the hall, Daniel Coughlin, the chairman of the
committee, followed him into the ante room, and said to Henry Owen
O'Connor, 'there are other Le Carons here among us.' He knew how
Henry Owen O'Connor's heart went out to Ireland. He knew how
patriotism burned in his heart; he knew that Henry Owen O'Connor
was loyal to his people. He thought by prejudicing him in that
direction he would surround their action with another friend. What
does he do? He says 'it is rumored around that there is another Le
Caron, and we have got it pretty straight that it is Dr. Cronin.'
This was on the 1st day of March, on Friday night.

"Singular, is it not? Here on the 8th day of February, the date on
which the motion was made for that committee--on the 16th of
February the senior guardian writing about it and on the 17th
writing about it; on the 19th renting the flat; on the 20th nailing
the carpet down, and on the 22d defending the triangle, and on the
1st of March this man, who is on trial now for his life, says that
Dr. Cronin is a spy. Why was this done? Why should he tell that he
was a spy? Following along on the same line it was uttered on
February 8 that there were spies in the camp; on the 22d they
talked about spies, and now it was whispered into the ears of Henry
Owen O'Connor that this man, Cronin, was a spy. They knew how the
Irish people despised a man who was pointed out as a spy,
therefore, he began his work of prejudicing the minds of those
Irishmen who were in earnest in reference to the freedom of
Ireland, and tel