h to say that John F. Beggs said: 'Tell everything you
know.'

"Where was the concealment then? When the men who are interested in
the prosecution of the murder of Cronin, when the men who have
devoted the energies of their lives to the prosecution of these
defendants, in the finding out, the spying out and determining of
the guilty parties, go to the senior guardian, and say: 'What shall
we do when summoned before the officers of the law in regard to the
secrets of the society?' they are met with the prompt response:
'Tell everything you know.' No concealment. No covering. No
destruction of record. 'Tell everything you know.'

"How was it with Luke Dillon, who came from Philadelphia,
interested in the prosecution of this case, going home, whining
like a sick child, squealing like a stuck pig, because
investigation was going too far, and giving to the public the
secrets of the organization. But Beggs says: 'Tell everything you
know.'

"Gentlemen, my client has already suffered too much in this case.
He is ruined. A young man who has blossomed out in a noble
profession is forever ruined. It requires but a charge of this
kind, it matters not what your verdict may be, and the stain is
fastened upon his skirts and there it must stay forever. He has
already suffered too much, I have no peroration to make. I demand
your cool, deliberate judgment, and that is all I ask. I make no
appeal to your sympathy. On behalf of myself, and on behalf of
Beggs, and of my associates, I extend to you thanks for the kind
and patient manner in which you have listened to the testimony and
listened to my efforts at an argument.

"I hope the time is short when he will be able to thank each one of
you, to take each one of you by the hand and in person thank you
for his deliverance, and then may you be returned to the loved ones
at home, and may he be returned to the bosom of his loved wife, for
love makes the world so small that all the beauty is in one face,
all the music in one voice and all the rapture is in one kiss.
Gentlemen, I thank you."

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FORREST'S ABLE PLEA ON BEHALF OF HIS CLIENTS.

"If your Honor please, and you, Gentlemen of the Jury, you sit in
judgment on the lives of your fellow-citizens. You act, you look,