to trace the wagon from the cottage, and insinuated that
the reason that they had left this phase of the case alone was
because the route of the wagon described by the witnesses for the
State did not correspond with any rational idea of what the route
would be of persons driving from the cottage to the place where the
body was finally disposed of. Mr. Forrest alluded to the testimony
of the expressman Mortensen, and referred sneeringly to his
remarkable memory by which he was enabled to remember every article
of furniture he hauled to the Carlson cottage from the Clark street
flat, although there was nothing in the particular incident to
distinguish it from others of its kind. Mortensen had been in the
custody of the police, ever since the coroner's inquest, until he
took the witness stand. He did not identify the trunk as the one he
hauled, but said it was one just like it. He pretended to identify
the other articles of furniture. It was plain he was drilled on
this point, and, great God! if they drilled the witnesses on minor
points, how did they know but they drilled them on more important
things! He drew attention to the fact that neither of the Carlsons
had said a word about seeing a trunk in the Carlson cottage at the
coroner's inquest, but this was before the Clan-na-Gael had taken
charge of this case, for when the trial came on, old Carlson was
ready to swear that he had gone out expressly one night in April or
March to see the trunk, and he peeped in through the window for
that purpose, and then he sees the trunk and nothing else. This
testimony came just before the mimic from Millbank prison came upon
the stand and gave an exhibition of his powers of mimicry in a case
in which a man was on trial for his life. "Well, did the judge in
the English court say you were a dangerous man?" Mr. Clancy was
asked, and he says, "Oh, yes, but it was only because I was a
Fenian. That's all; and they tried to arrest me for being a Fenian,
and I drew out my revolver and I deliberately tried to murder them
(two policemen)." "That's nothing, gentlemen of the jury; this
makes him a hero; this is one of the patriots who have been
betrayed and sent behind British prison bars; this man who tried to
murder two English policemen in the execution of their duty is one