Another instance of corroboration.
Q. Mr. Rehm, did Mr. Abel ever give you any money? A. Yes, sir.
Q. How many times? A. Once.
Q. How much? A. Five hundred dollars.
Q. Will you swear it was not a thousand? A. Yes.
Mr. Abel take the stand.
Q. Did you ever pay Jacob Rehm any money? A. Yes.
Q. How often? A. Once.
Q. How much? A. Two thousand dollars.
And that is another instance of the corroboration of Jacob Rehm. And when a man is thus corroborated, gentlemen, his reputation for truth and veracity "spreads like sunlight all over the city of Chicago." There was not a circumstance, there was not a statement made by Mr. Rehm except it was made in the presence of Bridges, who is in Canada; of Irwin, who is in his grave, or in the presence of the defendant, who stands here with his mouth closed—not one solitary circumstance, with those exceptions, that has not been contradicted. Can you believe this man? Can you believe this man who has been contradicted by every one brought upon the stand? Can you take his word after he has sworn as he has? I tell you, gentlemen, you cannot do it, and as Judge Doolittle told you, if there is an infamous crime in the world, it is the crime of perjury. All the sneaking instincts; all the groveling, crawling instincts unite and blend in this one crime called perjury. It clothes itself, gentlemen, in the shining vestments of an oath in order that it may tell a lie.