I urge you to weigh calmly, deliberately, as cool, level-headed Canadians, the evidence produced by the prosecution.
A crime has been committed, a most revolting crime,--one man killed, another seriously wounded.

But what is the nature of this crime?
Has it been shown either to be murder or attempted murder?
You must have noticed, gentlemen, how utterly the prosecution has failed to establish any such charge.

The suggestion of murder comes solely from the man who has so deeply wronged and has pursued with such deadly venom the unfortunate prisoner at the bar.

This man, after betraying the cause of freedom, after wrecking the prisoner's home and family, after proving traitor to every trust imposed in him, now seeks to fasten upon his victim this horrid crime of murder.
His is the sole evidence.

What sort of man is this upon whose unsupported testimony you are asked to send a fellow human being to the scaffold?
Think calmly, gentlemen, is he such a man as you can readily believe?
Is his highly coloured story credible?
Are you so gullible as to be taken in with this melodrama?
Gentlemen, I know you, I know my fellow citizens too well to think that you will be so deceived.
"Now what are the facts, the bare facts, the cold facts, gentlemen?
And we are here to deal with facts.