l search the record of the
Cronin trial and cite the witnesses for the prosecution.

"There was that man Pulaski, who testified that he sold Burke a
shirt. What an idea! That Burke had only one shirt, and that the
witness did what no other man ever did in his life to a man who
bought a shirt, asked him to take off his coat to measure him.
Burke had an abiding place, and why should he go to that store on
Sunday, the 5th of May, and buy a shirt? If anything of the kind
ever occurred it was two of those dock loafers who work around the
bridge, and who look as if they had only one shirt, and when they
make a change of it they buy a new shirt. Now he says this man came
in and bought a shirt, and that he told him to step back and try on
a nice clean shirt, and if it did not fit to put it right back in
the lot. You know as well as I do that when you go and buy a
ready-made shirt there is only one question asked you--What is the
size of your collar? But that is not all. He remembers another man
who was standing across the street, and that this man went into the
middle of the street and hailed the other man, and then they had a
whispered conversation. Now he tells you that he remembers that the
big man wore a 16-1/2 collar and the little man, who subsequently
came across the street, wore a 15-1/2 collar. He remembers it
exactly, and did not testify before the coroner's inquest. And then
they had a photograph which he identifies, but they never
introduced it in evidence, and I don't know why, but it looked to
me as if a 15-1/2 collar would go only half way round that man's
neck.

"Now comes Klahre, and he says what never occurred. That on the
morning of Sunday, May 5th, he read in one of the papers that Dr.
Cronin was a spy, and had been made away with. As we all know, Mrs.
Conklin testified that not one word was said about it until 12
o'clock Sunday, but they had to get it in quick, because Burke was
out of town on the 8th and 9th. He says that on Monday morning
Martin Burke came into his place with a box, a tin box, with a rope
around it. The expressman brought in the box, which weighed about
fifty pounds, and put it down, and we may rightly call this the box
trick. Klahre said he was going to cut the rope, when Burke called
out: 'Hold on; don't you