on had better stand and shake the hands of men who
are all over this country, and give them characters. If that is
opening up the book of a man, if that gives him a reputation and a
standing when he is charged for cruel murder, why then Mr. Harrison
ought to shake hands with a good many fellows in Chicago. That is
not it. He didn't know what might come. Providence had been causing
the sewer to give up the silent witness. Providence had been giving
up the German woman that heard the last words of the dying man. He
don't know what Providence might do before the case ended, so an
alibi must be proven for Beggs, and when he finds out that he does
not establish an alibi, then he wants you to understand that he was
practicing a fraud on you, and simply introduced it for the purpose
of showing his associations.

"Of course, take a circumstance alone, and it may be weak. But when
it stands in relation to another circumstance in the line of the
object, then it becomes strengthened. And Mr. Forrest will not find
me disputing his propositions of law. Right here let me say that
the Court will give you the law; but do not forget that you are to
try this case on the facts under the law. He may give you fifty
instructions that the law is so and so, and that if the facts are
so and so, apply them under that law and that is so and so. He will
tell you that if from all the circumstances in the case, you have
no reasonable doubt as to the guilt, then you must convict; but,
that if you have a reasonable doubt, then you must acquit. It is
you after all who become the judges of the case. Do not forget the
evidence in the case. The Court does not intend to instruct the
evidence out of your mind in giving you a long chain of
instructions which it is his duty under the law to give. He does
not intend that you shall forget the evidence that is applicable
under that law. For instance, he might give you an instruction, and
it is possible he will, that before you can find the men guilty,
you must believe beyond a reasonable doubt that Dr. Cronin, if
killed, was killed in the manner and form as charged in the
indictment, and that the cause of death was as charged in the
indictment.

"Well, now, that means you are to decide whether he was killed as
charged in the indictmen