rd also shows the appointment, or passage of a resolution
for the appointment of a secret committee of three by the senior
guardian to investigate rumors afloat regarding the trial
committee. What were they? O'Connor has told you that the charges
were what he made, and he and others say that the camp where these
charges were made was known as Dr. Cronin's camp. Denis O'Connor
and others say they knew to whom Thomas O'Connor referred. To
investigate the matter of these rumors then meant to investigate
the men who put these rumors afloat. That man was killed, foully
slain, and his body thrown into the sewer. Now Beggs wrote to the
district member. Beggs asked the district member to investigate
certain charges. The first resolution of the meeting required him
to do that. The district member said he knew of no portion of the
constitution which was violated by an act of that kind, and he knew
of no section of the constitution which would enable him to inflict
a penalty. That letter of Beggs' when you study it, means this: 'I
do not want to do this, I would rather have nothing to do with it,
but I have been compelled to notice it, and these old quarrels must
stop.' And you will notice it is full of forebodings of dangers to
come.

"Again, subsequently, you will remember that Beggs replied at a
subsequent meeting that the committee--the secret committee which
he had appointed--must report to him alone. Then the practical part
of the business began with the appointment of that committee. It
was Beggs' duty to appoint that committee. Beggs did appoint that
committee. Beggs was an enemy of Cronin, as were the others. Beggs
denounced him as did the others. Beggs said after his death, 'O, he
will turn up; he is all right.' The others said the same thing.
They covered his body with the filth of the sewer and his memory
with the epithet of traitor. I said in an American court, before an
American jury, it made no difference whether the charges which
Coughlin made were true or false, it made no difference whether he
was a traitor or a patriot, but the truth of history demands that
the name of Cronin shall be vindicated, and it is vindicated more
strongly than it could be by mortal lips when you remember that
that vindication comes from the slime of the sewer on his