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
"Now, there is the value of an alibi. Knight says that the two
Hylands got there between 4 and 5 o'clock on Sunday afternoon, and
were in the house and did not leave until about 10 o'clock. The
tall Hyland said nothing about their leaving O'Sullivan's house in
the afternoon. Recess came, and I wondered where the memories were
put together, and the fact was recalled that it had already
appeared in the evidence that O'Sullivan was down at the Conklin's
house at those hours. When the Smaller Hyland went on the stand in
the afternoon he said they went there between 4 and 5 o'clock. He
said O'Sullivan was not at home and they went off to a ball game
and did not return until about 7:30 in the evening. Others of
O'Sullivan's household testified to the same state of facts. Knight
swears that the Hylands never left the house that Sunday
afternoon--that they were there all those hours and he was in the
parlor talking to them. Menahan swears that the Hylands came there
about 5 o'clock, and that he did not believe he was out of the
house except a few minutes when he was only around the yard. Every
time he went back to the house the Hylands were there, and he said
he knew they did not leave the house except to step out of the door
for a moment. But were they at O'Sullivan's that afternoon? There
is the value of their alibi. Would not the alibi for the Hylands be
just as good as their alibi for Saturday night? Would not their
alibi for that Sunday afternoon when O'Sullivan was down at Mr.
Conklin's with Detective Murray, be just as good as the alibi for
Saturday night? An alibi defense! But there is nothing tells better
upon the alibi than O'Sullivan's own testimony. Those people swear
he was home, covering the time when old man Carlson testified that
voices were heard in the Carlson cottage at 7 o'clock. Mr. Carlson
said he saw Martin Burke come out of the door at 5 o'clock on
Saturday afternoon and spoke to him, and Burke said: 'I guess it is
not too early to fix up,' and old Jonas said: 'I guess not.' Burke
went in, and he came out again at 7 o'clock, and old man Carlson
heard the voices of some men inside the cottage. And it was old
Jonas who testified that Patrick O'Sullivan admitted to Captain
Schaack that he got home about 7 or half-past 7 o'clock that
evening. He did not get home before that, and he (O'Sullivan) took
his supper and went to bed.
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