y card will be presented to you if I am out of town.' Take that
circumstance and what have you got? You have men who identified the
horse that Dan Coughlin hired; you have that man driving north on
Clark street in the direction of the Carlson cottage; you have that
man presenting Patrick O'Sullivan's card and demanding the
attention of the Doctor under the contract that Patrick O'Sullivan
had with the Doctor, and you have them driving in the direction of
the Carlson cottage. But that is not all the evidence we have on
that point. Suppose that this is an ordinary horse that can not be
identified, yet Mrs. Conklin tells you that that horse is a horse,
that she remembers it not simply because it was a white horse and
because it came from Dinan's livery stable, but she describes it
from its uneasy motion; she remembers its legs and its knees. She
says it has big knees, and Captain Schaack says it has big knees.
And Mrs. Conklin, looking out of the window on that fatal night saw
those knees. Why does she say that? The last time she saw Dr.
Cronin alive he was sitting behind that horse that had knees that
were wabbly. No wonder she remembers that horse, because she saw it
in the same uneasy appearance that it had the night that Dr. Cronin
was driven away. She identifies the horse from the knees and from
the uneasy appearance, quite as much as if it was white or gray."
The State's Attorney then reviewed Captain Schaack's testimony as
to how he had driven the horse around in front of Mrs. Conklin's
house and as to the question of identification, and repeated his
arguments that it was not the position in which the horse stood,
but its peculiar, uneasy motion that enabled her to identify it. He
considered that the identification of the horse by Mrs. Conklin was
a fact that could not be disputed. The undertaker who arranged for
Cronin's funeral and Mr. Scanlon had also observed the same horse,
and he considered the identification complete.
THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE HORSE.
"They bring a man from New Jersey who stood here across the street,
and the only reason why he says it is the same horse is because the
horse that drove Cronin away was a gray horse, and this horse of
Dinan's is a white horse. Did this man who traveled all the way
from New Jersey tell
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