ant you to take this case. It is a great case and
a serious case. There never was a greater nor more serious duty
devolved upon any twelve men on God's earth. It is as sacred and as
important as the duty of the soldiers who went out to fight for the
flag and maintain the unity of the States and the sovereignty of
the Constitution. I commit it to you with all its awful solemnity;
with all its awful responsibilities, feeling confident that in the
breast of every one of these twelve men beats the heart of an
honorable, honest, a patriotic and a law-abiding man; that your
verdict will be the verdict of your conscience--a verdict that your
consciences and judgments will approve and that the Court will
ratify, that God will sanctify, that will vindicate the law and
commit the guilty to a just punishment."

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FOSTER'S PLEA FOR BEGGS.

At the conclusion of Mr. Hynes' argument, Mr. Foster, who appeared
specially in behalf of John F. Beggs, claimed the attention of the
Court. Among other things he said:

"Dr. Cronin was murdered. A more dastardly and heinous murder, a
more atrocious and cold-blooded murder, in my judgment was never
perpetrated. Are the gentlemen for the State satisfied with that?
In this connection allow me to urge you to pause and consider. You
remember what it is to which I refer. Whatever you may see of error
on the part of counsel, in the name of heaven don't charge it on
the head of his client. Don't charge the forgetfulness; don't
charge the investigation; don't charge the bad judgment of the
lawyer upon the head of the client he is attempting to represent.
The man who does not say that the murderer or murderers of Dr.
Cronin ought to be punished is a man whose friendship I don't
prize, and whose citizenship, in my judgment, we can get along
better without than with. Those are my sentiments; that is my
belief; but in the name of God, gentlemen, must an innocent man
suffer because of a crime which we concede as being perpetrated in
our midst? Are the minds of men to be inflamed, are men to lose
their reason by visiting vengeance on a man who is charged of the
diabolical crime of the murder which is being investigated here?

"These are the questions to which I direct your attention to some
ext