flat, and
stayed there until the night of the 20th. You will remember that
Collector Goldman, who collects the rents for this real estate
firm, went to collect the rent for the flats on the morning of the
20th of March. He didn't find any one in, but he peeped through the
letter hole and saw the carpet and furniture still there and went
away. But when he returned the next morning, the 21st of March, the
flat was vacant. And if you remember the other evidence, you will
find that they moved in the evening. Now, why was that flat
rented? Why was this furniture purchased? Is there any explanation
on earth except that it was purchased and moved in for the very
purpose for which it was used thereafter? Why they selected that
flat at 117 South Clark street is not for us to answer. Why they
should have moved the furniture in there first is problematic,
except it was for the purpose of losing the identity and stopping
the tracing of the property from where it was first purchased. That
might have been the object. It is not necessary we should account
for the reason of their having moved this furniture into that flat,
but it is one piece of evidence in this case that follows along the
line of the conspiracy.

THE MEETINGS IN CAMP 20.

"You will remember that on the 8th there was a meeting. On the 15th
they had another meeting in Camp 20, and after that meeting I have
no doubt--and I have a right to talk in this way; it is only my
opinion; it is an inference drawn from the evidence--after that
meeting, I have no doubt that Dan Coughlin, the chairman of that
committee, sat down and talked to John F. Beggs and considered that
they had better notify the district member; that they had better
fix up something to cover up matters in case anything came out
afterward in reference to the affair. So that on the 16th, the day
after their meeting up here--because they meet every Friday
night--Dan Coughlin and John F. Beggs and other committeemen talked
the matter over, and they decided they had better write to the
district officer, Mr. Spelman, and tell him they wanted to find out
something about Dr. Cronin's camp, for when Beggs writes his
letter, he gives the number of the Columbia Club, and says the
report was read in that camp. Well, they think they had better