That the murder was in cold blood, deliberate and without provocation; that it had been long premeditated and threatened; that she had followed the deceased-from Washington to commit it.

All this would be proved by unimpeachable witnesses.

The attorney added that the duty of the jury, however painful it might be, would be plain and simple.

They were citizens, husbands, perhaps fathers.

They knew how insecure life had become in the metropolis.