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
The State's Attorney, at this point, asked the Court for an
adjournment, and intimated that he would not take more than an hour
further to conclude his address. Some suggestion as to an
adjournment until half-past one was modestly made, but on the
State's Attorney's assurance the Court adjourned proceedings until
two o'clock.
THE FATAL 4TH OF MAY.
On the assembling of court at 2 o'clock, State's Attorney
Longenecker resumed his address to the jury:
"If the Court please, and Gentlemen, as I stated in my opening of
yesterday, I do not desire to do anything but talk about the
evidence. On the 4th of May Dan Coughlin, one of the defendants
here, appeared at Patrick Dinan's livery stable. It was customary
for the Chicago Avenue Station to hire horses whenever they desired
them at Mr. Dinan's stable, which is just north of the Chicago
Avenue Station on Clark street, so that it was not an unusual thing
for Dan Coughlin to go there or for any officer to call for a horse
and buggy, and it was not customary for Mr. Dinan to inquire what
they desired with the horse and buggy. You remember Patrick Dinan's
testimony in regard to this. Coughlin said he had a friend who
wanted a horse and buggy and would call for it about 7 o'clock
that evening, showing that Dan Coughlin was an actor in reference
to this horse and buggy that was obtained from Dinan. He told
Patrick Dinan that his friend would call at 7 o'clock, and at 7
o'clock a man came. Napier Moreland, who was a buggy washer and
worked in the stable, testifies that at just about 7 o'clock a man
appeared there and called for the horse and buggy that Detective
Coughlin had engaged. Dinan was out in the barn. Just then Dinan
came back and the stranger got under the gaslight that was in the
buggy part of the stable and asked for the horse that Dan Coughlin
had engaged for him. Dinan ordered the horse called the gray horse
and sometimes the white, to be hitched to the buggy. There was a
blacksmith named Jones, there getting a horse, and the stranger did
not want the white horse, but wanted the other rig. Mr. Dinan told
him he could not have that; he did not know where it was going and
he knew what this horse was going to do, and Moreland got the old
gray horse. You remember that Dinan said that it had not been out
of the stable for quite a while and had not been driven. This was a
little after 7 o'clock. He wanted side curtains and Dinan told him
it was a warm evening and he did not need side curtains and it
would take too long to put on side curtains. The man, grumbling,
got into the buggy and they put on the hitching strap to it, and
Dinan tells you that this man had a low-crowned, narrow-rimmed
slouch hat. That he did not see his eyes, because he pulled his hat
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