t its color was and just how long it
had been growing, in every detail," said Mr. Forrest.

The counsel then went on to give some of his college experience
where a professor told him the great argument of the truth of the
gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John was that each one of them
differed in the circumstantial details of each transaction but all
agreed in the essentials of every transaction. "That is the
argument which can not be answered, whereas if they had agreed in
all the details, the argument would be conspiracy, collusion and
fraud."

RIDICULING THE PROSECUTING WITNESSES.

Counsel then criticised the testimony given by Carberry, whom he
designated as the impecunious and modest man, and who fixes the
night of May 4th by his giving a large order to his grocery, and
then considered what he was pleased to call the remarkable story
given by Dinan and his wife and Moreland regarding the horse and
the buggy which it was alleged the Doctor was driven away in. He
remarked that the horse left the stable at 7:30, not at 7:20, as
had been testified to, and then proceeded to review Mrs. Conklin's
identification of the horse and buggy. He ridiculed the testimony
of the witnesses who were able to say that there was a dim light in
one room of Mrs. Conklin's house and a bright light in the other,
and argued that because they all agreed on that point, therefore
there was something suspicious about that testimony. "She says she
observed more about that horse, with a mosquito screen behind her
and an electric light in front of her, than the owner of the horse,
who has had it for seven years. Why, if you sent a veterinary
surgeon to look at that horse, he could not, after looking over the
horse, give you a more exact description of its peculiarities than
Mrs. Conklin learned through that screen.

"Now comes the knife transaction. Mr. Flynn appears. Mr. Flynn is a
remarkable policeman. See if he did not do a more remarkable thing
than Dan Coughlin did. He is ordered to arrest Coughlin, and he
takes from his pocket a revolver and two knives--two knives not
worth 10 cents, both of them. He takes the two knives to his desk
at the Central Station and locks them up, and then it occurs to him
that they will not be safe there and he puts them in the Fid