to the 4th of May Dr. Cronin still lived, but all the
arrangements were 'amicably settled.' 'The matter I was writing to
you has been amicably settled,' wrote Beggs. I want to call your
attention to another thing: You remember that about a year ago last
September, about the time that Beggs was talking about Cronin not
being a good Irishman, about that time Dan Coughlin was trying to
get some one to 'slug' Dr. Cronin. Now you must believe that
statement. Here were three witnesses. They did not all swear to the
same point, but all directed to the same thing that Sampson swore
to. You remember that Garrity testified that this man Coughlin told
him he would like to see Sampson, as he had some work he wanted
Sampson to do--that he wanted him to 'slug' Dr. Cronin. Now, if
Garrity is the kind of man that Dan Coughlin's learned attorney
would have you believe, and I don't say he is not, Garrity then is
the kind of man that Coughlin would talk to about this, is he not?
If this man Sampson is in the habit of loafing in Garrity's saloon,
Garrity would be the man that Coughlin would go to in order to get
a word to Sampson; and in order to get Sampson from running from
him, Coughlin told Garrity he wanted to see him. Garrity said he
told Sampson. Sampson took this man Lynn with him. The
conversation, of course, is not in evidence; it was not competent,
but Lynn stands across the street. Sampson didn't know but what
maybe this man Coughlin wanted to run him in; he didn't know but
what it was a job put up on him. You don't suppose that Coughlin
would have sent for a class leader in a Methodist church to do this
job, nor would he send for a banker or a lawyer or a doctor to it.
But he picked up Sampson. He thought Sampson was void of all
respect, and he said: 'Sampson, I want you to slug a man.' It was
just before election, and he said: 'You can catch him some night
when he is coming to his house, because he is out attending
political meetings. I want you to mark him.' He is pretty good at
leaving his mark," exclaimed the State's Attorney, "and he wanted
Sampson to mark Dr. Cronin. What does that show? It shows an ill
feeling, it shows a hatred in this man's heart. That something was
moving in Dan Coughlin's heart that caused him to make this
proposition to Sampson