Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.'"

"Let us talk common sense. You and I are citizens of Illinois. We
are responsible for the good name and honor of Illinois or her
shame. We know our families are here, and we are ready to stand up
for her and give our lives for her if necessary. We intend to
uphold the law, but you can not uphold the law by any such
testimony as has been introduced in this case. You laugh at my
catch-basin, some of you; I did not know what they wished these
catch-basins might be, and you don't know. They never examined into
that, and yet it is highly probable that from the condition that
body was in, from its position, with the head being down and the
feet up, and from the evidence of the men who told you that when
they attempted to pull the body up it slipped back, it is
physically possible that those very wounds on the scalp might have
been made while pulling the body out. If there had been a tin
oyster can or anything like that at the bottom of the catch-basin
when the body slipped back, it would have made just such wounds,
and in that case, or even if they were made by the bricks and hard
mortar, the skull would not have been scratched, and the skull was
not scratched."

Mr. Forrest then undertook to trace the course of the wagon from
the cottage to where the trunk was found, and said the men must
have gone over ten miles instead of going about two and a half
miles, in order that the wagon must be brought to the Carlson
cottage. Unless that could have been established in some way, one
link in the chain of evidence would be gone. The State said they
wanted to get on paved streets, yet as a matter of fact they went
on unpaved streets. After spending some considerable time in going
over the route alleged to have been taken by the wagon with the
trunk, Mr. Forrest had the trunk brought in and proceeded to point
out to the jury the defects in regard to the State's evidence in
regard to that trunk. He alleged that all the blood stains could be
made with a half a pint of blood judiciously distributed; that the
marks on the lock showed that it had been pried off from the
outside, and urged upon the jury that it would have been impossible
for the three men to have kicked open the trunk from the rear in
order to dump the body into the catc