ever, which more than
outweighs all the alibis they can bring here.

"The saloon-keeper came upon the stand here and plainly and clearly
told you that on the night of the 4th of May, about half-past 10
o'clock, three men entered his saloon. He tells you he is positive
one of them was Patrick O'Sullivan. He knows him, buys ice of him,
and has no earthly reason to give evidence to injure him unless it
was true. He says also that the other was a taller man, and in his
opinion he believes that man was Coughlin; further, there was a
little man who spoke with a German accent, and that man he says he
is sure was Kunze. Now, you will remember he had only bought that
saloon a few days before, and he can hardly be mistaken in the
night, because he tells you he knows it was on the Saturday night,
because on the night following, the Sunday night, he had an
opening, and, like other Germans, he never had less than fifteen to
twenty-five men at his bar. What object could he have in testifying
against Patrick O'Sullivan, Coughlin and Kunze, and saying they
were the men who drank wine and took cigars at his bar? Is he
corroborated? Let us see. The saloon-keeper is admittedly as honest
a man as there is in Chicago. No attempt has been made to impeach
his evidence, and I ask you to consider whether or not he is
corroborated. Let me draw your attention to the evidence given by
the German gardener named Wardell. They left the saloon about 11
o'clock or a quarter after, the saloon-keeper says, and you will
remember that Wardell says he left a saloon near by about twenty
minutes after, and just at that time he happened to raise his eyes
and saw in front of him two men, whom he describes, and believes to
be O'Sullivan and Coughlin, and he saw them walk down to and enter
the Carlson cottage. Where was the third man? Do you remember that
about a half hour after that time, about half a mile south of the
Carlson cottage, a wagon was seen with a trunk in it? The two men
who went into the Carlson cottage went in there to help carry out
the trunk containing Cronin's body and the clothes, while the
third man went down and got the wagon that was to take the body and
the clothes away.

"Now, how is that met? We are told that the saloon-keeper is
mistaken, that this man never