lid was
evidently broken off from behind while the hasp and lock remain
intact. This is evidence which in itself contradicts the theory of
the State that the top of the trunk was torn off in order to get
the body out of it. Gentlemen, this is an attempt to counterfeit
the truth, but it is hard to counterfeit truth. God Almighty has so
made it that it is hard to counterfeit it. You can not sink the
truth. You can not cover it up. It is like a buoy in the water. It
may be sunk under the surf ace for a short time, but when you come
to stir the water by cross-examination, it will surely come to the
surface again. It is hard to counterfeit the truth."

PERHAPS THE POLICE KILLED CRONIN.

"If Dr. Cronin was killed in there, in that cottage, and his body
placed in the trunk, and if his murderers afterward painted that
floor, they must have found that key there. They must have known
that the key was lost; they must have been desirous of finding it,
and if they had painted that floor, and the key was lying there,
they must have found it. They would have looked pretty carefully
for it and yet, lo and behold! there, right in the middle of the
floor, it is found by Officer Lorch. But remember Schuettler had
been there, Wing had been there, the whole Carlson family had been
there, from the 21st to the 24th of May, three whole days before
Lorch found it. Do you think that the Carlson family went around
there and never touched any thing? I don't know; I hardly think you
do. Now, right in the middle of the floor, under a washstand or
some other piece of furniture, the key was found, and of all the
men in the world to find it who should it be but an officer who had
been a trunkmaker who found it. Lorch, whose business is
trunkmaking, was the man who found it. He had worked in a trunk
factory, and when he found the key, as he says, he worked for some
time in order to get it to fit. Of course a carpenter might have
found it, a molder might have found it, a stone mason might have
found it; but of all the suspicious circumstances in the world, the
most suspicious in connection with the finding of this key was the
fact that it was found by a trunkmaker."

DID NOT TRACE THE WAGON.

Mr. Forrest alluded to the fact that nobody from the State had
attempted