paint brush--these men have held his Honor and yourselves for over
three long months; and if your verdict shall be that they hang on
the scaffold they can not claim that they have had no time to call
upon the holy Trinity.

"Gentlemen, when you come to consider your verdict, when you come
to make up your minds, when, as I believe you will do, you
undertake to render a truthful verdict on the law and the evidence,
I want you to remember the facts in the case. I want you to look at
this mountain of evidence that we have been building up and up
before you until it has risen high, until it stands out with its
mountain peaks illuminated by the sunshine of truth, until all who
are not blind may see that these men are the murderers of Dr.
Cronin. These mountain peaks stand prominently forth. This
contract of O'Sullivan's, this hiring of the buggy, this renting of
the cottage, this running to Canada; all these point to the fact
that these men are the guilty ones. It stands up like a mountain
built of truth, as solid as the granite hills against which the
Coughlin, the Burke, the O'Sullivan, the Beggs, the Kunze alibis
can not prevail.

"I leave the matter now in your hands. I have had this case on my
hands for months and months. I feel now that the responsibility
rests with you. I put it in your hands, believing confidently and
expecting that you will do what your best judgment dictates. When
you come to consider your verdict, think of the 4th day of May;
think of that man gathering his little valise and instruments;
think of him bringing to his bosom the cotton to relieve suffering;
think of the splints in the box; think of his rushing out to the
buggy; think of his crowded seat; think of him moving north to
relieve suffering humanity. See him enter as a gentleman into the
cottage; hear his cries of God and Jesus when, without giving him
time to utter the other Trinity name, he was felled to the floor.
Think of his wounds in his head; think of the grave in which he was
placed; think of all these in making up your penalty, and may it be
such a verdict as when His Honor pronounces judgment on it, that
he, having an eye to God, may say: 'May the Lord have mercy on your
souls.'"

Judge Longenecker received the congratulations of his colleagues