I wash my hands of this iniquity.

I would have compelled these culprits to expose their guilt, but support failed me where I had most right to expect aid and encouragement.

And I was confronted by a law made in the interest of crime, which protects the criminal from testifying against himself.
Yet I had precedents of my own whereby I had set aside that law on two different occasions and thus succeeded in convicting criminals to whose crimes there were no witnesses but themselves.

What have you accomplished this day?
Do you realize it?
You have set adrift, unadmonished, in this community, two men endowed with an awful and mysterious gift, a hidden and grisly power for evil--a power by which each in his turn may commit crime after crime of the most heinous character, and no man be able to tell which is the guilty or which the innocent party in any case of them all.

Look to your homes--look to your property--look to your lives--for you have need! "Prisoners at the bar, stand up.