ively by the
distinguished gentleman who represents Mr. Beggs. One thing I want
to call your attention to and pass it. These gentleman have said,
'What difference does it make whether that remark of Beggs' that
the committee reported to him alone was made May 3 or May 10.' Why,
it makes all the difference in the world to all the defendants
except Beggs, if you believe it was the appointment of a secret
committee to kill Dr. Cronin. It makes all the difference in the
world to them, and the gentleman that asked the question well knew
it. It was made after May 3, and, therefore, if made, it is
evidence against nobody but Beggs. If it was made before May 3, it
would be evidence against everybody on trial, if you believe that
conspiracy was entered into between them. That is the reason why
these witnesses were prevailed on to swear that it was made May 3
instead of May 10. Every one of them, I believe, swore that it was
May 3, but on cross-examination it turns out that it was May 10.
O'Connor says that it occurred on a certain night when he was
appointed on an auditing committee, and the record shows that that
motion was made on May 10 and that was the only time he was there.
So you see that somebody had a motive to change that from May 10 to
May 3; and the motive was to make it evidence against all instead
of evidence against only one."

Mr. Forrest went on to say that it was a remarkable thing in this
case that the State had just one witness to every matter of
importance. There was just one witness who heard Burke say that
Cronin was a British spy and ought to be killed. They had just one
other witness who heard Coughlin say it was rumored that Cronin was
a spy; then they had just one other witness who heard O'Sullivan
say, on the 22d of May, that Cronin was a spy, and is it not
remarkable that there should be just one person who heard those
gentlemen make such remarks? If they were in the habit of making
those remarks, is it not highly probable that they made them more
than once, and that they made them to more than one person, yet why
was only one produced? It looks as if they were going out into the
highways and by ways of the world, searching for witnesses, and had
found only one.

ATTACKING THE PROSECUTING WITNESSES.

"Now I shall