you what kind of knees the horse had? Did he
tell you there was anything wrong with the horse that drove Dr.
Cronin away? No; but he says, looking from under an electric light
on the opposite side of the street, he could see that that was a
gray horse with dark legs, and therefore it was not the horse that
drove Dr. Cronin away. On the question of identifying the horse,
here are two witnesses where they could have a good view of the
horse, swear positively that that was the horse. It is true that
they brought the other man who looked across the street with
nothing to attract his attention to the horse as much as the man,
but Mrs. Conklin could not help looking to the parties getting into
the buggy.
"But lay that aside; lay aside the evidence of the identification
of the horse; when you gather up this chain from the 8th day of
February--with the renting of the flat; with the writing of the
letters; with the renting of the cottage; with the removal of the
furniture; with the fact that Coughlin hired the horse and that his
man was there at 7 o'clock on his own time--within five minutes of
the time--that he appears there with P. O'Sullivan's card in his
hand--what more evidence do you want to satisfy you that the horse
that drove Dr. Cronin to his death was any other than the one that
Daniel Coughlin hired of Dinan?
"On the 4th of May we find that about eight o'clock, or a little
after, at the Carlson cottage, a gray horse is seen coming up
Ashland avenue--the gray horse that was hired by Daniel Coughlin,
and that started from Dinan's livery stable northward at twenty
minutes after seven o'clock. Immediately after eight o'clock the
gray horse was seen coming from the north on Ashland avenue, driven
by a man whom the party could not describe. Remember that Dr.
Cronin started with a satchel and with his box of splints, and with
a roll of cotton; that he carried them on his lap, and that he wore
a slouch hat with a low crown, and a brown overcoat; and that this
horse and buggy that the man had seen coming north he observed that
the horse was gray. He saw the buggy turned round and a tall man
get out and reach in and take something out, as if it were a dark
satchel, and go up the steps into the cottage, and the man in a
brown coat with a high-crown
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