Daniel Coughlin and
Martin Burke. The same remark applies to the other men, but chiefly
to those two. For example, it is worth $100 a week to Patrick Dinan
to have it established that his horse took the Doctor away. He told
you that. He told you that his horse is in the museum, and if that
fact is not established then he will lose $100 a week. Now, what
effect do you suppose that will have upon his zeal in giving
evidence? Again, old man Carlson was in very needy circumstances;
his boy had not been living with his wife for four years. He had
been traveling around the country while his wife was living out as
a servant, and it was obviously to their advantage and pecuniary
interest that the statement should be established that the murder
was committed in that cottage. How that might tend to affect his
testimony and lead him to imagine what never took place, you will
decide. It is an unfortunate circumstance, and may have made him
remember things which never occurred, especially as he is an old
man, and the wall between memory and imagination is nearly broken
down, owing to old age. Of course this is peculiarly unfortunate to
my client.

"Another circumstance. It is proved that the Clan-na-Gael in the
city of Chicago and throughout the United States is divided into
two wings. It is proved that a division exists right through the
country. One wing of this Clan-na-Gael exists in the prisoner's
bar, the other wing sits in the witness seat. How does the wing
that sits in the witness seat conduct itself? It involves the
entire prosecution, and how does it feel toward my client? What do
they say? They say your wing are robbers, betrayed their comrades
to the British and sent them to British prisons by telling the
British government who they were. One of the witnesses, Captain
Thomas O'Connor, told you that he worked every day through May,
June, July and August as a detective in this case for not one
dollar, and you find there are other persons who gave their money
and collected money to aid the prosecution. We have a split in the
Clan-na-Gael throughout this entire country, and it is a matter of
public notoriety and history that 15,000 Clan-na-Gaels were in the
prosecution. Don't you know it is the same old cover of Irish
slander? It is the Irish lead