t, not as testified by any particular
doctor on the stand. Why, this counsel undertakes to tell me what
my duty is as State's Attorney. This man, who says there was a
great conspiracy here; that Ingham and Hynes and Scanlan and the
Clan-na-Gael got up a conspiracy here to murder innocent men, and
I, W. S. Forrest, have discovered it. This man argues this point,
that it was not the cause of death, with the same force and
strength that he does any other point in the case, and yet he knows
in his soul there is nothing in it. Why, he tells you that I made a
blunder in that indictment. Why, gentlemen, if that indictment had
charged that this man was killed and that the cause was unknown,
with all these wounds on his head, with all this blood in the trunk
and in the cottage, wouldn't you have a right to take that into
consideration, the blood in the cottage and on the sidewalk and in
the trunk, and the condition of him when he was found? If I had
drawn such an indictment, he would have a reason to say that. I
don't know what effect their argument has had upon you, whether you
think you know more about drawing an indictment than I do, or Judge
Baker, who has drawn them for years and years, and hence I am going
to read to you just what the doctors say on that proposition.

"But recollect that that can be proven the same as any other
circumstance. But before going into that, gentlemen, I like to talk
when I come to a fact and not leave it for some other time. Mr.
Culver, you buy a wad, you buy a pistol, and you buy a bullet. Now
Culver may intend to have that pistol to shoot somebody. It was
known that you were going to shoot him. Then you are just as guilty
for buying the wad, and you the bullet, and you the powder, as he
is for doing the shooting, fully so. Now, Martin Burke held the
pistol, wad, bullet and all. He hired the cottage, he moved the
furniture, he was present when it was ordered. But if he only did
all that, just as I say, it must be a criminal intention. Suppose
you said you didn't buy that powder at all, had nothing to do with
it. Well, we find out that when you bought the powder that you said
you were going to give it to Culver, and Culver was going to shoot
Longenecker for talking so long about this case. That would nail
you. The same way