had driven Cronin away.

"But here is a significant fact to which I wish to direct your
attention. Why should Dan Coughlin, on the Monday morning, before
any one had charged that Dr. Cronin was murdered, when Captain
Schaack said he would turn up all right, when he was not uneasy,
when he told Mrs. Conklin to wait until night, when the world and
every one almost had accepted the statement that the trunk had
contained the body of a woman, on account of the statement made by
a certain man, why should Dan Coughlin be so anxious about the
horse his friend had driven? No one had told him that any one drove
a white horse, and why should he say to Dinan, 'Don't mention it,
because Cronin and I were not friends?' Gentlemen, at that time
Coughlin knew that Dr. Cronin was murdered, and he knew that the
white horse and buggy had carried him to his death. Think of the
matter, and remember that it was on the Monday morning before any
one had charged that anything had happened to Dr. Cronin that he
was so anxious to have the matter concealed. Why was he induced to
believe that that horse had taken Dr. Cronin to his death? No one
had charged that he had anything to do with it; no one believed the
poor woman, and why should Coughlin be so ready to believe it when
Captain Schaack did not believe it, when the chief of police did
not believe it, when the public prosecutor did not believe it, and
when the community were led to believe that Dr. Cronin was alive? I
ask you again, why should Dan Coughlin, on the 6th of the month,
the second day after the murder, and before anything had been
discovered, tell Dinan to keep still.

"This man, Forrest, tells you that because we have only one witness
to a fact, therefore, it is put up and is a lie. He goes on to tell
you about Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and that is about all he
knows about the Bible. He says Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are not
agreed, and he quotes that to show that Mrs. Conklin and the two
Miss McNearneys when they gave a description of the man who called
for Dr. Cronin lied, because, as he says, they agreed in their
description. The trouble with him is they didn't tell the story all
alike, but the material part of it they did tell alike. All that
leads up to the identification of the man who drove Cron