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When this witness went off the table, Mr. Allewinde declared that the case for the prosecution was finished stating at the same time that he abstained from feelings of delicacy and respect from putting the prisoner's sister into the witness box; and that he should trouble her with no questions unless she were placed there by the counsel for the defence. Mr.
Allewinde readily assented; but Mr. O'Malley declared that though he was most unwilling to detain his lordship and the court at that late hour, he must request permission to be allowed to examine one of his witnesses, as otherwise his caution in having had him ordered out of court, would have been in vain. It was most essential, he said, that his examination of Mr.
Allewinde, as on behalf of his client he ingeniously attempts nay, as he himself afterwards boasts to the jury, succeeds in making that disconcerted young gentleman in the witness chair commit perjury. Mr. Allewinde is a most erudite lawyer. He has been for many years employed by the crown in its prosecutions, and with great success.
O'Malley finished by stating that as far as he was concerned the case was ready to be submitted by his lordship to the jury. Mr. Allewinde, however, still had the right of reply, and he was not the man to allow any chance circumstance to prevent him making use of it. He accordingly again got up to address the jury.
"You said just now," said Mr. Allewinde, "that the prisoner agreed to join the men assembled at Mrs. Mehan's in ridding the country of Captain Ussher; now what was meant by ridding the country of him?" "Why isn't it ridding the counthry of him? yer honour knows what that means as well as ere a boy in the barony." "Perhaps I do; but you must tell the jury what you mane by it."
This was all very well, as long as the questions were put to him by Mr. O'Malley; but he was forced to tell a somewhat different tale when examined by Mr. Allewinde, by whom he was made to own that there had been projects abroad for murdering Ussher, though he still maintained that none of them had been alluded to by the party at Mrs. Mehan's.
In the barristers' mess-room all the feuds of the day were forgotten, and a most jovial party was assembled. As each bottle of claret succeeded the other, fresh anecdotes were told, and innumerable puns were made. Mr. Allewinde was quite great; his forensic dignity was all laid aside, and he chatted to the juniors with most condescending familiarity. Mr.
"Well," said Mr. Allewinde to the witness, "tell the jury at once what was the thing that had been talked over." "Why, yer honour knows well enough. Shure weren't you saying it yourself, only the gentleman here wouldn't let you." "Well, now do you say it." "Say what?" "Say what was the thing that had been talked over." "Talked over when, yer honour?"
Allewinde assures this recusant or the other that he has no doubt but that he will make a most eligible juror; and at last, with considerable delay, a little trial takes place in each case, and two other jurymen have to decide on their oaths, whether Terence Murphy stands indifferent between our Lord and Sovereign the King and the prisoner at the bar; and to enable them to decide, they have to hear all the evidence in the case.
Allewinde, and at last he was sent off the table. The next witness called was McGovery, who had been summoned on behalf of the prosecution.
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