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
Cronin alive he was sitting behind that horse that had knees that
were wabbly. No wonder she remembers that horse, because she saw it
in the same uneasy appearance that it had the night that Dr. Cronin
was driven away. She identifies the horse from the knees and from
the uneasy appearance, quite as much as if it was white or gray."
The State's Attorney then reviewed Captain Schaack's testimony as
to how he had driven the horse around in front of Mrs. Conklin's
house and as to the question of identification, and repeated his
arguments that it was not the position in which the horse stood,
but its peculiar, uneasy motion that enabled her to identify it. He
considered that the identification of the horse by Mrs. Conklin was
a fact that could not be disputed. The undertaker who arranged for
Cronin's funeral and Mr. Scanlon had also observed the same horse,
and he considered the identification complete.
THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE HORSE.
"They bring a man from New Jersey who stood here across the street,
and the only reason why he says it is the same horse is because the
horse that drove Cronin away was a gray horse, and this horse of
Dinan's is a white horse. Did this man who traveled all the way
from New Jersey tell you what kind of knees the horse had? Did he
tell you there was anything wrong with the horse that drove Dr.
Cronin away? No; but he says, looking from under an electric light
on the opposite side of the street, he could see that that was a
gray horse with dark legs, and therefore it was not the horse that
drove Dr. Cronin away. On the question of identifying the horse,
here are two witnesses where they could have a good view of the
horse, swear positively that that was the horse. It is true that
they brought the other man who looked across the street with
nothing to attract his attention to the horse as much as the man,
but Mrs. Conklin could not help looking to the parties getting into
the buggy.
"But lay that aside; lay aside the evidence of the identification
of the horse; when you gather up this chain from the 8th day of
February--with the renting of the flat; with the writing of the
letters; with the renting of the cottage; with the removal of the
furniture; with the fact that Coughlin hired the horse and that his
man was there at 7 o'clock on his own time--within five minutes of
the time--that he appears there with P. O'Sullivan's card in his
hand--what more evidence do you want to satisfy you that the horse
that drove Dr. Cronin to his death was any other than the one that
Daniel Coughlin hired of Dinan?
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