the Clan-na-Gael organization
because of the embezzlements and the wrong doing of the triangle.
It is in evidence also that Dr. Cronin charged at the trial of that
triangle that they had embezzled over $100,000 of the funds of the
organization besides sending patriotic Irishmen into British
prisons. Whether that be true or false we have not been permitted
to show. So far as this case is concerned it is immaterial whether
true or false. You are an American jury; this is an American court;
these defendants are here under indictment, and you are called upon
to administer American law; and whether Dr. Cronin may have been a
spy or an honest man and a patriot cuts no figure whatever in this
case. One thing, however, I can say. When that sewer gave up its
dead, it opened up the sunlight of heaven on these charges. 'Cronin
was killed,' says O'Sullivan: 'he was killed because he gave away
the secrets of his order,' and I repeat the only secrets he could
have given away were the embezzlement of the funds and the
imprisonment of their brothers. His mouth was closed and his
charges were forever stopped by his death. That swollen and
distorted body, those mute lips, prove the truth of his charges
more clearly than any court or jury could possibly do, and if these
charges were not true there would have been no motive for them to
put him out of the way. Thomas O'Connor tells you he was present at
a meeting of Camp 20 when a man, Foy, arose, and said they had
better look out for spies, and there were other Le Carons among
them. He says that he made a speech to that effect, I may not give
you the exact details, and O'Connor said in reply that they had
better look out for the men who were embezzling the funds of the
organization and sending their brothers to English prisons. A storm
arose. The records of that meeting show three things: They show,
first, a resolution to the effect that hereafter no member should
be initiated whose name had not been submitted to all the camps.
They show, secondly, that a demand was proposed to be made on the
executive for information in regard to the Buffalo trial, that is
the trial of the triangle; and thirdly, that that was amended or
changed so as to read that information should be asked from the
district member.

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