coat of many hues
which was stained by the blood of a kid. All this was done to show
the unreliability of circumstantial evidence. Then Mr. Forrest
turned his attention to the case on trial, referring to the fact
that Klahre had soldered the box that was supposed to contain Dr.
Cronin's clothes, which, he remarked, according to the theory of
the prosecution, was to have been shipped to England and received
by some accomplice in the crime and afterward published to the
world as containing Dr. Cronin's clothes.

"You do not claim that I said that?" asked Judge Longenecker.

"No," replied Mr. Forrest, "but that was your theory and that was
the theory of the whole world. It was not only the State's
Attorney's theory, gentlemen; it was not only the theory of the
press of Chicago; it was the theory of the whole world. The whole
world has learned the proof. These clothes were never in that box.
You have since seen that the clothes that these gentlemen assure
had been sent by Martin Burke to England in that box were never
shipped over the sea. The box was never intended for an alleged
accomplice. It was never intended to contain the corpse of Dr.
Cronin. In spite of all their reasoning and of all the inferences
that they drew, by chance a workman in a sewer in the town of Lake
View turned up Dr. Cronin's clothes, which, instead of being in
England in a tin box, were in a valise buried in a sewer in the
town of Lake View.

"In all seriousness I will ask you two questions: suppose the
cleaning of that sewer had not occurred until after this trial.
Don't you know that in every speech of these distinguished orators
they would have urged that Martin Burke was guilty because he sent
Dr. Cronin's clothes over the sea? If that argument had been made
to me, and these clothes had not been discovered would not I have
given it weight? Can not you learn from that fact some lessons? You
can learn that these gentlemen for the State are no safer guides
than we are. You can learn that circumstantial evidence can lie and
mislead, and although the defendant may not be able to disprove
what they prove, as they say, it does not follow that the
defendants are guilty."

DIFFICULT PART OF THE DEFENSE.

"You see the difficulty that the defense is in when we have