will show you something about that key. We shall show all there is
about that key. We never pretended that it was anything but a
common key. It is a common key to unlock a common lock. You
remember that evidence, the lock was hanging onto the hasp, showing
that they had not a key to unlock it. It does not matter whether it
was a common lock or a common key or not. The key that unfastened
that lock had blood upon it and it was found in the Carlson
cottage, with paint upon it, or what seemed to be paint, of the
same color as the paint that was upon the floor. Do you want
anything else in reference to that key and lock? That was found in
that cottage and that key unlocked the lock; and that lock was on
that trunk that Simonds purchased at Revell's, and which was found
on Evanston road within three-quarters of a mile of the place where
the body was found, and within a quarter of a mile of the place
where the clothes were found that were worn by Dr. Cronin on the
night he left home.

"What other evidence do you want to show that that trunk came out
of that cottage? In that trunk was found hair. I will not exhibit
it; other counsel in the case may; but there was hair there and
there was a man came here, who has got bald on the hair question,
and says he can not tell human hair from dog's hair. Why a man
should waste the better part of his life looking at hair and then
can not tell one kind of hair from another is more than I can
understand. Why he should go over the country lecturing about hair
and giving instructions about hair, and then, coming here to give
testimony, to say that he doesn't know anything about hair, is more
than I can comprehend."

This sally of the State's Attorney seemed to amuse some of the
audience, and the Judge again threatened to clear the court-room if
any more levity was indulged in.

Judge Longenecker proceeded to ridicule the testimony of the expert
on the question of hair and blood corpuscles. "You, gentlemen, are
the judges of the evidence as to whether that was human hair and
human blood, and you are to take and determine whether that body
that was in the trunk, whether the blood and the hair that were in
that trunk were human hair and human blood. These men called to the
stand as experts give their opinions as e