h-basin without bending the
hasp in front. The key, he insisted, was found by a trunk-maker,
and that the whole thing was a fabrication by men who had been
employed to get up a plausible story.

THINKS THE EVIDENCE WAS MANUFACTURED.

"And bear in mind, gentleman, that the men who had control of the
lock, the Lake View men, were in the house--were in the Carlson
cottage before Lorch. Schuettler enters the house, examines it and
leaves it; Wing enters there, 'examines' it and leaves it, and then
they send Lorch there, and they tell him to look about the cottage.
Gentlemen, mark you, they tell him to look, and there right in the
middle of the cottage, under some kind of furniture, they find a
key. Now he tries to correct himself; he sees it is a most
important matter; he tries to correct himself as to dates. Now
then, gentlemen, there was a pot of paint in the house, and the
paint is daubed on two or three inches thick. There is the paint; a
whole pot of it right in the house. The pot of paint in the house
of course accounts for the daubing on the floor; that is why it was
put there.

"Then we have the trunk question; the key must be lost in order to
account for the breaking open of the trunk. But, gentlemen, that
trunk might easily have been broken open by simply throwing it down
on the sidewalk, without any force at all, and it would have broken
open of itself without being kicked open at all. But, gentlemen,
for finding the key which fits the lock on the trunk, that,
gentlemen, may account for the fact that the top of the trunk was
broken off. Mr. Foster alluded to the confused way in which Officer
Lorch fixes his dates as to the finding of the key, and to the fact
that while Lorch could tell what he was doing on half a dozen days
on both sides of May 25th, he could not tell what he was doing on
May 25th. Now, as regards the paint upon this key. Just take a look
at it, examine both sides of it, and you will see from the even
edges of the paint that it was held by one end and the other dipped
in. This side is rubbed off a little, you see, but it is evident it
was dipped in. Dipped in, gentlemen. Well, did the police do it? I
don't know, you don't know. But there is one circumstance that can
not fail to strike you forcibly, namely, that the