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
"He swore to it in this court," retorted Mr. Hynes, "and I will
read you his testimony. It is perfectly proper, gentlemen,"
continued Mr. Hynes, addressing the jury, "for Mr. Donahoe to
challenge my statements. I invite him to do it--first, to correct
myself if I am in error, and, secondly, to show that I am right if
I make a statement of that kind. Here is Captain Schaack's
statement. Captain Schaack says: 'There is one thing I forgot; in
conversation with O'Sullivan I asked him where he was on the 4th of
May. He said he was on the ice wagon all day. I asked him what time
he came home in the evening, and he said 7 or 7:30. He had his
supper and went to bed about 8 or 8:30, and about 9:30 some men
came home, and he got up and let them in and went to bed again. I
asked him if he was positive that he was not away from his house,
and he said he was positive he was not; that he was in the house
all the evening. After he was in the jail he sent for me and I came
down to see him in the jail. He told me he had forgot to tell me he
was out of the house that night in the rear of the shed.'"
Here Mr. Donahoe objected, saying that nothing was said about
O'Sullivan's being in the alley. Mr. Hynes said that if he was
beyond the shed he was of necessity in the alley. A short dispute
followed, in which some testimony was read, which was finally won
by Mr. Hynes, who then continued:
"There is no more point about his being on one side of the shed
than on the other; the point lies in the value of the alibi. They
put young Knight on the stand and there is nothing that better
illustrates the value of an alibi than his testimony. They put on
Menahan and they both swore that the two Hylands came there on
Sunday afternoon about 5 o'clock. Knight swears that O'Sullivan was
in the house from a point of time between 4 and 5 o'clock on the
afternoon of Sunday, May 5, and that when the Hylands came in he
shook hands with them, and he was not out of the house from that
time until he went out at 10 o'clock that night, when it is
conceded that O'Sullivan was down at Mrs. Conklin's at that time,
and did not get home until half-past 7 or 8. And yet they could put
Knight on the stand--honestly swearing, because there was no proof
that he was swearing falsely--honestly swearing and insisting,
under Judge Longenecker's cross-examination, that O'Sullivan was
not out of the house from 4 or 5 o'clock until 10 o'clock that
Sunday night. But everybody knows he was out. He was with Detective
Murray down at Mrs. Conklin's. Everybody concedes that he did not
get home until half-past 7 or 8 o'clock.
WORTHLESSNESS OF THE ALIBI.
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