The Crime of the Century; Or, The Assassination of Dr. Patrick Henry CroninHunt, Henry M.
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The Crime of the Century; Or, The Assassination of Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin
Hunt, Henry M.
Cronin, Patrick Henry, 1846-1889; Trials (Assassination) -- Illinois -- Chicago
prove that the parties got together and talked the matter over and
arranged it; that is not necessary; the law does not require that;
we don't need to prove that they ever came together. If that was so
it would be very seldom that a prosecutor could obtain a conviction
in a conspiracy case. Remember this is a charge of murder, brought
about by a conspiracy, and we claim that this evidence shows
conclusively that a conspiracy was concocted by these defendants on
trial. Let us see where we go to start in. Where do we learn of
this conspiracy first?"
CAMP 20'S MYSTERIOUS MEETINGS.
"You remember that there is a Camp 20 in this city. It is proven
here that the Clan-na-Gael organization has a camp called Camp 20,
also named Columbia Club; that they met in North Side Turner Hall,
and that before the date of which I now intend to speak there had
been a division in this organization, and that the two factions had
united, after which the numbers had been changed, so that this Camp
96 had become Camp 20. I will also ask you to remember that before
this reunion of these two organizations, or these two factions of
the organization, a trial committee was appointed to try the
ex-executive body of this organization; that this ex-executive was
to be tried by a committee to be selected at a convention that met
in this city last year in the month of June. You will remember that
Dr. P. H. Cronin was one of the members appointed on that trial
committee, and that after that trial committee had acted, the two
factions were united and the camps were renumbered. I speak of
that, and I want you to bear it in mind, that Dr. Cronin was on
that committee, and that it was shown that there were three men
called trianglers who were being tried by the committee of which
Dr. Cronin was a member. Now we will stop there, and go to this
Camp 20, on the 8th day of February. You go into that camp. We call
the secretary here, John F. O'Connor, and he testifies that on that
occasion, the night of the 8th of February, one Andrew Foy made a
speech. O'Connor can not remember what Foy said, but he tells you
that there were resolutions passed, and that he does recollect that
Thomas F. O'Connor made a speech there. He tells you that Thomas F.
O'Connor had charged that a certain report of the trial committee,
this trial committee to which I have already called your attention,
and of which Dr. Cronin was a member, was read in another camp.
Secretary O'Connor tells you that Thomas F. O'Connor said he had
heard the report of that trial committee read. That is about all
that this man could remember, except that some one jumped up and
demanded to know how it was that some camps had got the reports of
this trial committee before others. He did not pretend to know what
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