the most suspicious circumstances. That man
testified that he came to Chicago a perfect stranger; that he went
to O'Sullivan--went to his house on the 31st of April--was
instantly taken in and kept and boarded there, slept in the same
bed with O'Sullivan, rolled around the street in the ice wagon and
slept with him on the night of the murder. He swears also that he
was with O'Sullivan when old Carlson claimed to have heard the
conversation between O'Sullivan and Burke; he swears also that he
heard Coughlin and O'Sullivan arrange that O'Sullivan was to keep
his eye upon Kunze and report if he saw him in Lake View. In short,
gentlemen, he was a very convenient sort of witness. What was he
doing there all the month? He was not working for O'Sullivan, yet
he slept in the same bed with him--a perfect stranger, and, strange
as it may appear, he only went into the employ of O'Sullivan a few
days before the murder. I undertake to say, gentlemen, that his
testimony is false, that O'Sullivan was not in bed, that on the
contrary he and Burke and Coughlin were engaged in the murder at
the Carlson cottage. Who is there that corroborates his testimony?
The two women, a cousin of O'Sullivan's by marriage and his sister.
Tom Whelan was too sound a sleeper to know whether O'Sullivan was
in bed or was up or out, and they ask you to believe that sort of
an alibi against the evidence you have on the part of the
prosecution."

KUNZE'S PART IN THE MURDER.

"What is the evidence against Kunze? He was the friend, the tool of
Coughlin. It is in evidence that he had been engaged with Dan
Coughlin in working up the distillery case. How much of a detective
he is I do not know, but I don't suppose he is a very great one. If
I were to guess at it I should say he was a detective's stool
pigeon.

"He had been engaged with Coughlin for months. Mertes swears that
he saw him drive their horse with a white face up to the cottage
the night of the murder, and you will remember that he picked him
out from a number of men. Mertes is a countryman of Kunze's, and
he would not be likely to testify against his own countryman unless
truth compelled him to do so. He tells you that Kunze drove a horse
and buggy up to that Carlson cottage at 8:30 o'clock on the night
of the murder