have you any doubt that Tracy was seen on the boat? Hogan saw the
window and he saw a man with his face at the window shooting in his
direction. Hogan wasn't thinking of the exact angle at which the boat
was standing to the dock, but he knows he was standing at such an angle
to the boat that he could see a man in a certain place on the boat. And
he testified he did see him.
"It wasn't Thomas Tracy that was looking out of that window, it was
Martin. It wasn't Thomas Tracy dressed for the occasion, it wasn't
Thomas Tracy shaven for a picnic, it wasn't Thomas Tracy wearing a
Sunday countenance, it wasn't Thomas Tracy gazing placidly out of a mild
blue eye! It was Thomas Tracy, alias Martin, with his face drawn down
into a scowl of hatred, with his eyebrows lowering over his eyes, gazing
at John Hogan, not only gazing at him thru a window, but gazing at him
over a gun! And if there is anything that would impress itself into the
memory and recollection of a man it is the remembrance of a face filled
with venomous hatred, the eyes shooting daggers at you while he is
gazing at you over the muzzle of a gun--and you are not going to forget
that!
"Counsel for the defense says this is an important trial, that important
questions are involved, that the verdict in this case will have a great
deal to do with the ultimate future of the working man and organized
labor. I don't think that matters of that kind should enter the minds of
the jurors in arriving at a verdict, but if it does, I want to
supplement what counsel for the defense has said. I want to say that in
my mind a verdict in this case will have much to do with the future
success and the future advancement of honest labor in every line and in
all organizations. It will have much to do with clarifying the situation
insofar as this one organization is concerned. Every organization don't
preach the doctrines that are preached by this organization, and if this
jury by its verdict does not support that kind of method and that kind
of procedure it will aid in purifying an organization that otherwise
might do a world of good, but as it stands today, uttering the
propaganda that it does, pursuing the tactics that it does it, is a
menace not only to society, but is a menace to the welfare of the other
labor organizations that believe in pursuing lawful methods, in a lawful
manner. This is an important case in that regard.
"I believe that it is a fortunate thing that a jury of Ki
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