. The attorneys for the defense will insist
that this is absurd, that it is ridiculous and not reasonable.
Gentlemen, there it is, there is the evidence undisputed."

MAJOR SAMPSON'S PART IN THE SCHEME.

"Now, I don't care what you may think of Sampson. Sampson told you
that he played with the shells. He told you he had been in the
bridewell, but never in the penitentiary; he told you he had
followed gatherings and made money in a crooked way--he as much as
said all that. But who was it that was familiar with all this? and
where did the learned counsel who cross-examined him for the
defense learn the man's record, except from Dan Coughlin? How did
they know the history of this man Sampson unless they got it from
Coughlin? How did they know what he had done in Michigan? They
didn't happen to ask him if he was ever in Hancock, Mich. But they
knew all of his doings in Michigan and southern Illinois, when he
was following James G. Blaine. If Sampson was a crook, a thief and
a robber--if he were the man they would have you believe--Dan
Coughlin, in the pay of the city, and not doing his duty in this
respect, was not fit to be on the police force. He must have known
of this. The attorney could not have dreamed or guessed it, because
Sampson says it is so. With all their cross-examination they didn't
even impeach him on these questions. Then how about Garrity.
Garrity says he was arrested for selling liquor without a license,
but the case was dismissed, and Dan Coughlin had charge of it."

"The evidence is that Captain Schaack had charge of the case,"
interrupted Forrest. "Coughlin swore out the warrant."

"But the lawyer insisted," responded Judge Longenecker, "that Dan
Coughlin was the man who got Garrity's license revoked. If this man
was violating the law, and Dan Coughlin swore out the warrant, it
was his duty to prosecute; but they bring Loewenstein on the stand
and he tells you that Garrity's saloon was a place for thieves and
robbers. If that is so, then what is the duty of those police
officers; what was their duty as men put on the force to look after
the interests of this city? It was their duty to forever shut up
the doors of this saloon--forever blot it out of existence, this
robbers' roost, and not to come here and try to break down the