They didn't know whether more than one man was seen or not. At any
rate, there is a confession that at that time Patrick O'Sullivan
was out of the house."

The speaker went on to consider the testimony of Nieman, the
saloon-keeper, and said that it was proven beyond a doubt that
Coughlin, O'Sullivan and Kunze were in the saloon late on the night
of May 4th. There was no earthly doubt about it. If there were, he
would ask that the defendants be acquitted. All the facts and all
the evidence tended to show that the saloon-keeper was accurate in
his dates and correct in his statements, and there could be no
mistake about it. The counsel went over Kunze's connection with
Coughlin, Coughlin's alibi so far as it related to the night of the
murder, the peculiar circumstances surrounding the curious Smith,
the identity of Burke with the man that rented the Carlson cottage,
and the connection of Kunze as a tool of Coughlin with the
conspiracy, and urged that every circumstance pointed conclusively
to the guilt of these defendants. The identification of Coughlin by
Mertes, the milkman, was beyond peradventure, while the telephone
messages that had passed between Coughlin and O'Sullivan showed the
extent in which they had been in commadeation. Numerous exceptions
to the statement of the speaker were made by Counselor Donahoe and
other attorneys for the prisoners, but the speaker proceeded
without paying apparent attention to these interruptions. The alibi
provided for Burke was shown to be unreliable, and the charges
against the triangle, the row in Camp 20 and the appointment of a
secret committee to try the physician were dissected at length. The
evidence of witnesses regarding the memorable meetings of that
body, taken in connection with Beggs' mysterious actions and his
correspondence with Spellman, of Peoria, showed beyond a shadow of
a doubt that the conspiracy to accomplish the ends of the opponents
of Dr. Cronin had existed.

Mr. Hynes proceeded to contend that "the trunk was bought and the
valise was bought, the scheme was designed of stripping the clothes
from the body for the purpose of hiding the corpse and of raising
the cry to satisfy those to whom Dr. Cronin had been denounced as a
spy that he had taken his leave and gone away to the other