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The coroner's jury brought in a verdict of death by means of a stab from some unknown weapon in the hand of a person also unknown, but no weapon was ever found, nor was it ever settled how the attack could have been made or the murderer escape under the conditions described. The woman was poor, her friends few, and the case seemingly inexplicable.
In former times the attendant placed a small bunch of herbs and aromatic flowers on the judge's desk, and glasses of the dried bouquets remained in a row for long periods. Hygienically considered the courts are unsanitary. If the windows are opened the cold air is apt to draw directly on the heads of the jury and the stenographer.
"What the deuce was it you did say, then?" "Faix, I don't know that I said much, at all." "Didn't you say, Mr Moylan, that Martin Kelly was talking to you about marrying Anty, some six weeks ago?" "Maybe I did; he was spaking about it." "And, if you were in the chair now, before a jury, wouldn't you swear that there was a schame among them to get Anty Lynch married to Martin Kelly?
Though they seemed to listen, and indeed endeavoured to do so, yet at the close of each trivial case that was tried, they had no idea impressed upon them of what had just been going on. One o'clock struck two three four five and yet they remained in the same position; and still the jury who had been considering the subject remained undecided.
In the height of the proceedings a man entered from outside and took his position leaning against the rail of the jury box. That he was a stranger was evident from the glances of curiosity, cast in his direction. He was tall, strong, young, bearded, with a roving, humorous bold eye. The last word was spoken. A rather bewildered-looking jury filed out. Ensued a wait. The jury came back.
"I guess I was thyar," said a voice behind the judge, who shifted uneasily. McLaughlan went into the jury-box with a meaning look at Robinson, but without another audible word. "Mercy! mercy!" cried Walker. "You must not interrupt the proceedings," said Judge Lynch. "Haud your whist, ye gowk. Ye are no fand guilty yet," remonstrated a juror. The jury being formed, the judge called the plaintiff.
The unhappy object of this remarkable disturbance had been that day delivered from the apprehension of public execution, and his joy was the greater, as he had some reason to question whether Government would have run the risk of unpopularity by interfering in his favour, after he had been legally convicted by the verdict of a jury, of a crime so very obnoxious.
BURGE-LUBIN. But the Habeas Corpus Act! CONFUCIUS. The English always suspended it when it threatened to be of the slightest use. BURGE-LUBIN. Well, trial by jury: you cant deny that we established that?
He understood, however, quite clearly, that under no circumstances should money have been paid by an accused person to witnesses while that person's guilt and innocence were in question. In his summing-up he had simply told the jury to consider the matter; but he had so spoken the word as to make the jury fully perceive what had been the result of his own consideration.
Farnaby placed in me," he said to the coroner, "was a confidence which I gave her my word of honour to respect. When I have said that, I hope the jury will understand that I owe it to the memory of the dead to say no more." There was a murmur of approval among the audience, instantly checked by the coroner.
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