e State was determined to push
the remainder of the proceedings with all possible speed. The prisoners
looked anxious; the vast audience expectant.

"You may proceed," said Judge McConnell, and clearing his throat, the
State's Attorney commenced a memorable address.

He spoke as follows:

"If the Court please, Gentlemen of the Jury, I want to talk to you
about this case, about the evidence which you have been hearing
from the witnesses. I shall not attempt to talk to any one except
you twelve men, because you are now interested in the case and it
is your duty to come to a correct conclusion. The responsibility
rests upon you after we have done our work. I have no doubt that
you twelve men are competent to render such a verdict in this case
as will meet the demands of the law. I have no doubt that you are
prepared on this evidence to render such a verdict as the evidence
warrants you in rendering. Now, I say to you this, that I shall
confine myself to the evidence in the case. My associates will
attend to the arguments and make the speeches. I want now to
express my feeling of gratitude to you for your patience during the
hearing of the evidence. It is due to you, gentlemen; it is a
sacrifice that you, I hope, will never be called upon to make
again. To be taken from your homes and be shut up for weeks and
months is no little sacrifice. You have had reason, perhaps, to
complain of us; you have had reason to complain because of the
slowness of the case; and yet, after all, we felt it our duty to do
what we have done. We felt that we could not in any way shorten the
proceedings and yet do justice to the case. I hope that none of you
will harbor any feeling against any one in this case on account of
delays.

"Again, gentlemen, you are twelve men here listening from day to
day to the evidence; this case has strung out from day to day and
from week to week, until it has become a great case. It has become
a noted case to you--a case that you will never forget. It has
grown as the days have passed by. Very often jurors, courts and
lawyers, when a case grows and there is evidence piling up, forget
that it requires some evidence to reach a conclusion, more of it
than if it was a small case. Do not be led into this error of
determining what you shall do. The evidence of