this senior guardian alone.'"

JUDGE LONGENECKER CLOSES.

"Gentlemen, I have finished. I hope you will pardon me for having
detained you so long. I know how anxious you are, while you may be
ever so willing to sit here for weeks and months if necessary, yet
you can not help but be anxious to be with your families. Yet, as a
duty you owe to the public, as a duty you owe the defendants, as a
duty to society, you must be patient until you hear what the others
have to say in this important case. For three long months my
associates have held up my hands; they have been with me night and
day. They have encouraged me. It was necessary to have assistance
in this case; able counsel as they are, it requires it. No one
knows unless he has had the experience what it is to be left with a
case of this character on his hands. No one knows unless he has had
the experience, what is it to get at the bottom of a conspiracy of
this character. Therefore, I have felt the necessity of these men
who have sat by me for the last three months, and I want you, no
matter what may be said, to feel that the people of the State of
Illinois have as much right to demand the best talent the city
affords, as due to men that come up out of the sewers. While these
men are able, men of ability, men of standing, men of reputation,
understand that this was a terrible crime; understand that this was
a terrible conspiracy; understand that the very men, the officers
of the law, who ought to have held up my hands, were divided
against me; understand that in this case men drawing their salaries
from the police department of our city stood in league with the men
who struck out the life of Dr. Cronin. And while I compliment, not
as a compliment, but as well deserved on their part, these
associates of mine for their ability, don't understand that I
under-estimate Judge Wing and Mr. Forrest and Mr. Donahoe and Mr.
Foster. On the other side sit as good talent as was ever brought
into a court-room. I say it without flattery, that if these men
hang for the murder, they could have asked for no better men to
have defended them than the gentlemen on my left. Coming out of the
sewer, coming out of the chilly ice wagon, coming from the
pay-rolls of the city, coming from the bar room, coming from the