Gentlemen of the jury, when a man arrested for any crime dif fers in his story, when he tells one thing at onetime and another at another, slight credence or attention is to be given to his statements ; but in this case the contrary is the fact, for from the commencement to the end of his statements made on different occasions to different persons his story remains the same. When he was first arrested he said at once that he was a reporter to a newspaper, and nothing else. If he had said that he had not been near them at all, then that would suggest to every man that he was guilty. When one makes an admission against him self then the whole of what he then said is entitled to every credence ; it is a circumstance to prove that he was telling a correct story ; for he held to this account from the beginning to the end. Now let us take the evidence irrespective of the side upon which it was called. It was proved that he was seen in Buffalo, and, being on that side, he had no reason to disguise his intention, being among his friends ; but a man, if he be what is alleged of him, would rather boast and seek to curry favour by holding out that he was a Fenian, that the crowd might pat him upon the back j if he were engaged with the Fenians he would then have been swaggering about, telling them to do this or to do that ; but the very reverse was the case. He said over there that he was among them merely to report. Nothing is more common than for every great news paper to send a reporter wherever anything of im portance is likely to occur, yet no nation would think of hanging a reporter who was found with an army for the purpose of telling the inquisitive pub lic the details of the occurrences of a war. xou remember the great war between the Northern and Southern states. Reporters were there for every paper of importance. The leading papers of EDg land had reporters there. 