ottage; she hears the blows and
hears the cries of 'God!' and 'Jesus!' and hears the dying moan.
And yet she never says a word to any body. She is locked out and
sits on the steps all night, and she goes to her husband's partner,
with whom she is apparently on good terms, and does not tell her
story."

EXPERTS ON THE CAUSE OF DEATH.

"Now, we go to their experts on the cause of death. How can they
tell the cause of death? I have heard of men giving extraordinary
opinions, but their experts can tell you what killed the man, and
still they can not find any evidence of it. If the public
prosecutor had put in his indictment 'cause of death unknown,' it
would not have been necessary for them to say he died from some
kind of violence, but the jury is prejudiced against these men
because they said the death is due to that particular thing."

Mr. Forrest went on to review the testimony of the experts as to
the hair and blood, and ridiculed the testimony of Professor Tolman
in regard to his microscopical examinations of what he called
lanugo. He said, "don't you see the Clan-na-Gaels at work? Let the
two wings of the Clan-na-Gaels alone and they will make a laughing
stock of American juries. You and I have got to stand between them.
Everything that they introduced respecting the hair was introduced
for the purpose of misleading you. The testimony of Tolman was
introduced to show by the diameters of hairs that were alike that
they were Dr. Cronin's hair, so that you should not be mislead. 'A
little learning is a dangerous thing.' A great scientist can take
an Irish setter and get two locks of hair from him and examine
them; the hairs are of the same diameter; can he swear that they
came from the same dog or no? The hairs of dogs are alike, and
human hair is as much alike as the hair of horses or of sheep is
alike. Only think of taking a bit of wool from one sheep and
comparing it with the wool of another sheep to see if they came
from the same sheep! We are like the animals in structure: our
bones are alike, our hearts are alike, our viscera are alike; there
is no material difference, and it is just as impossible to tell
whether two locks came from the same human head as it is to tell
whether wisps of hair came from the same horse's tail."