voice, 'How do you
know, how do you know?' while the old man yelled at the top of his
voice, 'Because I know.' Yet he would have you believe he said 'How
do you know?' in such a meek and mild tone that he could not hurt
anyone's feelings. He is not sincere when he says that the State's
Attorney and Mr. Hynes and Mr. Ingham are engaged in a conspiracy,
and when he abuses the witnesses on the stand and charges them with
perjury and lying, he knows in his heart that it is not true. He
has made insinuations against that big-hearted Irishman sitting
there, Mr. Hynes, of bullying witnesses, which he knows is untrue.
There is not a man who practices before the bar of Chicago who is
more lenient with the witness than is Mr. Hynes, and there is not a
man at the bar who will get more out of him than will Mr. Hynes.
You, gentlemen, heard his cross-examination of the defendants'
experts, and his examination of the witnesses who came to the
stand, and I will leave it to you to decide, and not to Forrest, if
he abused the witnesses on the stand. For three days this learned
counsel for the defense stood before you twelve gentlemen and had
no stock in trade; not a word to say in their defense beyond
abusing and scandalizing the men who are trying this case, and who
are seeing that the people of this great State are not
misrepresented. He stood here and maliciously abused Mr. Hynes,
whose only effort and desire has been that the guilty men, if they
are guilty, shall be punished, and it is my duty as an officer of
the State, to explain this matter to you and to hurl back the
insinuations at the man who made them.

"He told you further that I had made a blunder, but he did not tell
you how many blunders he had made. He told you I had made a blunder
with the same force that he tells you that Mertes lied when he
testified that he saw Coughlin at the Carlson cottage, and when he
tells you that, his clients have not been proved guilty,
notwithstanding all our witnesses' lies. Suppose what he says about
Mertes and his knowing it was May 4th is proved, what difference
does it make whether it was on the night of May 4th or not. But he
does put this man Kunze and Dan Coughlin together at the Carlson
cottage. He puts Coughlin in the cottage and Kunze driving him
there, a